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Roanoke colony
Roanoke was settled in August of 1584 by Sir Walter Raleigh. Later another Man named John White settled the area in 1587. After leaving for a supplies run, he was slowed by the Spanish Armada and returned 3 years later to find everyone gone.http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/roanoke-colony-deserted -
Jamestown
In 1607 a group of a 100 settlers of a joint venture company settled Jamestown. It was the first English Permanent settlement in North America. -
New York
"New York, originally called New Netherlands, was so named in honor of the Duke of York and Albany, England, to whom the territory was granted on its conquest from its first settlers, the Dutch."On September 13th 1609, a vessel called the Crescent came to anchor within Sandy Hook. Within 17 miles of New York. -
House of Burgesses
The first assembly of the House of Burgesses. The assembly happened in Jamestown and was the first of its kind in the New world. The meeting accomplished little and was cut short by an outbreak of Malaria. http://www.ushistory.org/us/2f.asp -
Massachusetts Bay Colony
The Massachusetts Bay Colony was a colony located near modern-day Boston and Salem Massachusetts. It was founded by the investors of the Massachusetts Bay Company and its colonists were mainly puritans. https://www.britannica.com/place/Massachusetts-Bay-Colony -
Mayflower Compact
The Mayflower Compact, signed by 41 English colonists on the ship Mayflower in 1620 was the first written framework of government established in what is now the United States. The compact was drafted to prevent dissent amongst Puritans and non-separatist Pilgrims who had landed at Plymouth a few days earlier.http://mayflowerhistory.com/mayflower-compact/ -
Puritan Migration
The peak years of the Great Migration lasted just over ten years — from 1629 to 1640, years when the Puritan crisis in England reached its height. In 1629, King Charles I dissolved Parliament, thus preventing Puritan leaders from working within the system to effect change and leaving them vulnerable to persecution.https://www.greatmigration.org/new_englands_great_migration.html -
Connecticut colony founding
The founding of the colony was in 1633 when the Dutch established the first trading post in the city which is now Hartford.https://www.thoughtco.com/connecticut-colony-103870 -
Maryland colony
The Maryland Colony was one of the original 13 colonies located on the Atlantic coast of North America. The original 13 colonies were divided into three geographic areas consisting of the New England, Middle and Southern colonies. The Maryland Colony was classified as one of the Southern Colonies.https://www.thoughtco.com/facts-about-the-maryland-colony-103875 -
Rhode Island
Rhode Island was founded by Roger Williams in 1636, who had been banished from the Massachusetts colony for his advocacy of religious tolerance and the separation of church and state. http://www.celebrateboston.com/history/rhode-island.htm -
Maryland Toleration Act
The law provided that ‘‘noe person or persons whatsoever within this Province . . . professing to believe in Jesus Christ, shall from henceforth bee any waies troubled, Molested or dicountenanced for or in respect of his or her religion nor in the free exercise thereof.’’ http://www.uscivilliberties.org/legislation-and-legislative-action/4106-maryland-toleration-act-1649.html -
Carolina Colony
In 1663, Charles II was king of England. He gave the land south of Virginia to eight proprietors. These men founded the Carolina colony. They named it after the king’s father, Charles I. This new colony included what is now both North and South Carolina.. -
Bacon's Rebellion
A armed Rebellion led my Nathaniel Bacon against Governor William Berkley. https://www.nps.gov/jame/learn/historyculture/bacons-rebellion.htm -
Pennsylvania Colony
The Pennsylvania Colony was one of the original 13 colonies located on the Atlantic coast of North America. The original 13 colonies were divided into three geographic areas consisting of the New England, Middle and Southern colonies. The Pennsylvania Colony was classified as one of the Middle Colonies. https://www.landofthebrave.info/pennsylvania-colony.htm -
Salutary neglect
Salutary neglect was Britain's unofficial policy, initiated by prime minister Robert Walpole, to relax the enforcement of strict laws and regulations imposed on the American colonies late in the seventeenth and early in the eighteenth centuries.https://www.landofthebrave.info/salutary-neglect.htm -
Salem witch Trials
The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693. http://www.history.com/topics/salem-witch-trials -
Great Awakening
The Great Awakening was an evangelical and revitalization movement that swept Protestant Europe and British America, and especially the American colonies in the 1730s and 1740s, leaving a permanent impact on American Protestantism. http://www.great-awakening.com/basic-concepts-of-the-first-great-awakening/ -
Albany Plan
Was a plan to placed the North American colonies under a more centralized Government.On July 10, 1754, representatives from seven of the North American colonies adopted the plan. https://history.state.gov/milestones/1750-1775/albany-plan -
French Indian War
Also known as the Seven Years’ War, this New World conflict marked another chapter in the long imperial struggle between Britain and France. When France’s expansion into the Ohio River valley brought repeated conflict with the claims of the British colonies, a series of battles led to the official British declaration of war in 1756. https://history.state.gov/milestones/1750-1775/french-indian-war -
Proclamation of 1763
In 1763, at end of the French and Indian War, the British issued a proclamation mainly intended to conciliate the Indians by checking the encroachment of settlers on their lands. In the centuries since the proclamation, it has become one of the cornerstones of Native American law in the United States and Canada.http://www.history.com/news/remembering-the-proclamation-of-1763 -
The Great Migration
The Great Migration was the relocation of African Americans from Rural Southern cities to The Midwest, North, and West which lasted until the 1970s. http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/great-migration
