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Vrignia was founded
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Massachuttes
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New Hampshrie was founded
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First Puritans arrived
Came to practice religious beliefs, but didn't want to break away from the Church of Englandlike the Pilgrims. They wanted to make the chruch more pure, so they were called the Puritans. They bulit Salem, a village on Massachusetts Bay. -
John Winthrop arrvies
John Winthrop leads 2nd group of Purtians to Massachusetts Bay colony.
Wintrop's group named their selletment Boston, after a town in England.
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Maryland Founded
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disagreements with church and goverment in Massachusetts
Anne Hucthinson and Roger Williams were two people who believed the Puritan church should be separate from the colony goverment.uritan leader voted to expel Williams from Massachusetts.
Connecticut is founded
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Purtarvans founded Harvard Collge
First college in English colonies.
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Anne Huctison forced to leave Massachusetts
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Delware was founded
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Toleration Act
Maryland passed the Toleration Act. This act gave religious freedom to all Christians. -
New York and New Jresey is founded
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King Phillip's War
Disagreement over land led to war between the colonists nd Native Americans.
Metacomet or King Phillip, the leader of the Wampanog, untied many trbies to fight against the colonist.
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Pennsyvania is founded
William Penn, an English Quaker, got approval start a colony. He named it Pennsylvania.
He also became the owner or proprietor of Delaware.
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MIddle Passage
Trading ships carrying goods and raw materiakls also carried enslaved people frrom central and western africa.
Middle Passage -MIllions of enslvaed Africans were placed on ships and forced to travel across the Atlantic Ocean from Africa to English colonies. -
North and South Carolina
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Great Awkening
New religious movement begins. It "awaken, or renewed, many people 's intersted in religon.
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Georiga was founded
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Fort Mose
Fort Mose was the fee African settlement n North America.
Some were set free by thier owners; others bought thier freedom.
