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Churches
King Henry VIII started the Church of England while John Calvin started the Reformed churches for protestants -
King James made it a crime to not become part of the Church of England
After the queen died, King James ascended to the throne, and he ordered all private religious services to stop and made it a crime to not become part of the Church of England -
English People In North America
104 English men and boys arrived to North America to start a settlement. -
The Pilgrims
The Pilgrims set up on foot across 60 miles of open countryside beginning an amazing journey that ended 13 years later in America -
The pilgrims in Holland
The pilgrims made it to Holland, but they never felt like home, so they moved nine years later to Virginia to have freedom on religion -
Mayflower
A ship called the Mayflower was docked at the English court of Plymouth loaded supplies for a long voyage, to take 102 people across the Atlantic Ocean to America. Half of these people were pilgrims. -
Thanksgiving Day
The Plymouth colonists celebrated their crops and the colony’s great progress with at three days festival which is now known as Thanksgiving Day -
The puritans and the pilgrims
The puritans join to the pilgrims -
Young girls accused some women to spell on them
A group of young girls accused some women of casting a spell on them, hundreds of people were accused during April 1692 - September 1692 -
The two Carolina´s
The two colonies separated and became North Carolina and South Carolina -
Pennsylvania scam
Land swindle perpetrated by Pennsylvania authorities on the Delaware Indians, who had been the tribe most friendly to William Penn when he founded the colony in the previous century. -
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The seven years war
The French and Indian War also known as the seven years' war -
Edge inspection
Two English mathematicians, Charles Mason and Jaremiah Dixon began surveying the border between Pennsylvania and Maryland. -
Tax Stamp
Requires that many printed materials carry a tax stamp -
Thirteen Colonies
Thirteen colonies had admired the colonists in America who were citizens of Great Britain and subject to King George. -
Crispus Attucks
A crowd abuses British troops and throw small objects. 5 men are killed, one of them is Crispus Attucks, who is mixed-race -
Attack three ships
Some colonist dressed as Native Americans attack three ships carrying tea -
American Revolutionary War
The beginning of the American Revolutionary War -
Common Sense
Thomas Paine publishes a pamphlet called “Common sense” -
American Independence
The declaration of Independence was ratified by Congress. -
Ends the conflict
After a siege, the British Army surrenders this effectively ended the conflict