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Oct 12, 1492
Columbus Discovered America
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Virgina
Jamestown was founded and it was the first settlezation in Virgina -
Jamestown
Jamestown was the first permiment english settlement in the U.S.. People form britian had come to american for reglious freedom and the promise of finding gold. Most of the colonists died in the first years. -
House of Burgesses
This was the first meeting where the people speaking were eclected or choosen to speak on the behalf of others. -
Mayflower Compact
While on the boat to Plymouth, the passengers on the Mayflower created the first form of self-goverment called the mayflower compact. -
Massachusettes
The pilgrims landed on Plymouth, Mass. after signing the Mayflower Compact. Puritans founded the Massachusetts Bay Colony in Boston. -
First Thanksgiving
Plymouth, Massachusettes, after the pilgrims arrived, the indians and them had been fighting, but once they started helping each other, they became friends and to show their gratitude to the indians for showing the pilgrims how to plants corn and grow things the pilgrims held a dinner/party and invited the indians and everyone had fun and were thankful for each other :) -
New Hampshire
N.H. was the first state to break away from Britian in 1776, and was the 9th state to retify the constitution which let it pass. and was the first state to have a state constitution. -
Maryland
2nd Lord Baltimore -Chatholics -
Connecticut
C.T. was first settled by Dutch as many of its neighbors and they had a small short lived village in present-day Hartford. But the first major settlements happened when C.T. became part of the colonies. Tomas Hooker led people from Massachusetts, and then later wrote the first writin goverment, The Fundementles of Connecticut. -
Providence
Roger Williams founded Providence to protect Chatolics -
Rhode Island
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Delaware
Dutch -
Pennslyaina
William Penn and the Quakers -
Fundemental Orders Of Connecticut
Tomas Hooker -
Maryland Toleration Act
guaranteed religious tolerance to settlers, as long as the religion was a sect of Christianity. -
North Carolina
"lost Colony" -
South Carolina
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New Ansterdamn is founded
The dutch settled in this area and when Britan took over they changed it to New York, which was and is one of the biggest cities in the U.S.. -
New Jersey
Im the early 1700's the dutch and the sweds conolnized New Jersey but then later britian seized N.J. and it became part of the colonies -
Pennsylavaina
Ben Franklin founded this place for Qackers . -
Georgia
James Oglethorpe
