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Roanoke
On July 4, 1584, an expedition led by Phillip Amadas and Arthur Barlowe landed on Roanoke Island, after other ships arrived, the men began exploration of the local area, including the mainland and the villages located along the coast.After exploring the area, Grenville returned to England for supplies and more men. when they returned they found the abandoned ruins of their settlement and the word "croatoan" carven into a tree.
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jamestown
Jamestown was established by a group of about 100 settlers, who were part of a joint venture company called the Virginia company, on May 14, 1607. the settlement was the first permanent north American settlement, it sat on the James river. the first two years of the settlement were rough due to all of the disease and trouble with Indians, but the city eventually recovered. The town became one of the largest exports of tobacco in the world.
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Salutary Neglect
In the 18th century the British crown had a policy that avoided the strict enforcement of the parliament laws that were meant to keep the colonies obedient to England. this became known as salutary neglect. there were multiple periods of salutary neglect From 1607 to 1696, From 1696 to 1763, Lastly, from 1763 to 1775 Britain began to try to use a coherent policy.
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House of Burgesses
---The House of Burgesses was an assembly of elected representatives from Virginia that met from 1619 to 1776. it was a democratically elected legislative body that was the first of its kind in the north Americas. each elected member would represent small land owners and tenant farmers through the colonies. https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/House_of_Burgesses -
Mayflower/Plymoth/Mayflower Compact
in September of 1620 a group of protestant separatists went aboard a merchant ship called the mayflower and headed out for the port city of Plymouth, which was in the north Americas. The ship held about 102 passengers including the separatists. when they arrived at Plymouth they set up their form of government called the mayflower compact, which eventually set up the framework for our government today. http://www.history.com/topics/mayflower -
New York
New York was founded by the dutch in 1624. they first established the towns of New Amsterdam and Manhattan island which are on the Hudson river. new York was one of the original 13 colonies, it was established by peter Minuit, and the original name was new Netherlands, but the name changed when king Charles named it after his brother, the duke of York. it played a crucial political and strategic role during the American Revolution.http://www.history.com/topics/us-states/new-york -
Carolina
The Province of Carolina was an English and later a British colony of North America. Carolina was founded by Virginians who were sent by king charles in what is modern-day North Carolina. Carolina expanded south and, at its greatest extent, nominally included the modern states of North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee and Mississippi, and parts of modern Florida and Louisiana.
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Great Migration
to escape both religious and economic ruin, many puritans decided to move to the colonies. in 1630 about 60,000 people left England for the Americas. most people went to Massachusetts and the West Indies, especially Barbados.
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Massachusetts bay colony
Massachusetts was one of the first English settlements, settled in 1630 by a group of about 1,000 Puritan refugees from England under Governor John Winthrop and Thomas Dudley. In 1629 the Massachusetts Bay Company had obtained from King Charles I a charter that allowed the company to trade and colonize new England which was between the Charles and Merrimack rivers.
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Maryland
In 1632, King Charles I of England gave a charter to George Calvert giving him proprietary rights to land east of the Potomac River in exchange for a share of the income derived from the land. The territory was named Maryland in honor of Henrietta Maria, the queen consort of Charles I.In March 1634, the first English settlers a carefully selected group of Catholics and Protestants arrived at St. Clement’s Island.
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Maryland Toleration Act
for those who believed in Jesus Christ the Toleration Act, passed on April 24, 1649, stated that "no person or persons whatever within this Province, or the islands, ports, harbors, creeks, or havens belonging to it, who professes to believe in Jesus Christ, shall from henceforth be any way troubled, harrassed or embarrassed for his or her religion"
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Bacons rebellion
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Salem Witch Trials
The Salem witch trials began during the spring of 1692, after a group of young girls in Salem, Massachusetts, were found dancing in the woods naked and claimed to be possessed by the devil, then they accused several local women of witchcraft. As a wave of hysteria spread throughout colonial Massachusetts, a court started in Salem to hear the cases. More than 200 people were accused of doing witchcraft and about 20 people were executed. http://www.history.com/topics/salem-witch-trials -
Great Awakening
he Great Awakening or First Great Awakening was a Protestant religious revival that swept Protestant Europe and British America in the 1730s and 1740s. An evangelical and revitalization movement, it left a permanent impact on American Protestantism.The revival preachers emphasized the “terrors of the law” to sinners, the unmerited grace of God, and the “new birth” in Jesus Christ.
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Albany plan
the Albany plan was a form of government aimed at creating a more centralized government, for the British north American colonies. On July 10, 1754, representatives from seven of the British North American colonies adopted the plan. Although never carried out, the Albany Plan was the first important proposal to conceive of the colonies as a collective whole united under one government.
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french indian war
the war started when France’s expansion into the Ohio River valley brought conflict with the claims of the British colonies, a series of battles led to the official British declaration of war in 1756. after the battle was fought there was a peace treaty signed in 1763 that stated that British received Canada from France and Florida from Spain, but permitted France to keep its West Indian sugar islands and gave Louisiana to Spain. http://www.history.com/topics/french-and-indian-war -
proclamation of 1763
In 1763, at the end of the French and Indian War, the British issued a proclamation ,mainly intended to conciliate the Indians that drew up a border before the Appalachian mountains that was for the native Americans preservation of their land. , it has become one of the cornerstones of Native American law in the United States and Canada.
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Pennsylvania
One of the original 13 colonies, Pennsylvania was founded by William Penn as a haven for his fellow Quakers. Pennsylvania’s capital, Philadelphia, was the site of the first and second Continental Congresses in 1774 and 1775, the latter of which produced the Declaration of Independence, sparking the American Revolution.
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Connecticut
The founding of the Connecticut colony began in 1633 when the Dutch established the first trading post on the Connecticut River Valley. in 1639 Thomas Hooker settlers adopted the fundamental orders of Connecticut which some regard as the first constitution of the colonies.http://www.history.com/topics/us-states/connecticut and page 72 -
Rhode island
Rhode Island was founded by Roger Williams in 1636, who had been banished from the Massachusetts colony for religious reasons and the separation of church and state.During the colonial period, Newport, which was a port city in Rhode island, was a major hub for shipping and trade, and in the 19th century Rhode Island was a huge center for the industrial revolution with its power driven textile mills.
http://www.history.com/topics/us-states/rhode-island
