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Virginia is founded
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Massachusetts is founded
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New Hampshire is founded
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The First Puritans Arrive
Came to pratcie religious beliefs, but didn't want to break away from the Church of England like the Pligrims.
They wanted to make the church more pure, so they were called Piritans.
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John Winthrop Arrives
John Winthrop leads 2nd group of Puritans to Masschuestts Bay colony.
Winthrop's group named their settlement Boston, after a town in England.
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Maryland Found
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Disagreements with church and government in Massachusetts
Anne Hutchinson and Roger Williams were two people who believed the Puritan church should be separate from the colony's government.
Puritan leaders voted to expel Williams from Massachusetts.
Connecticut is founded. -
Puritans founded Harvard College
Harvard is also known as Harvard University.
First College in the English colonies.
Rhode Island is founded. -
Anne Hutchinson
Anne is forced to leave Massachusetts.
Both Williams and Hutchinson started settlements that joined to form the Rhode Island Colony. -
Delaware is founded
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Toleration Act
Marland passed the Toleration Act. This Act gave religious freedom to all Christians. -
New York and New Jersey is founded
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King Phillip's War
Disagreements over land led war between the colonists and Native Americans.
Metacoment or KIng Phillip, the leader of the Wampanoag, united many tribes to fight against the colonists.
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Pennsylvania is founded
William Penn, an English Quaker, got approval to start a colony.
He named it Pennsylvania. He also became the owner or proprietor of Delaware.
Penn wrote the Frame of Government of Pennsylvania. It gave poeple freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and the right to trial by jury. -
Middle Passage
Trading ships carrying goods and raw materials also carried enslaved people from central and western Africa.
Middle Passage- Millions of enslaved Aficans were placed on ships and forced to travel acroos the Atlantic Ocean from Africa bto the English colonies. -
North and South Carolina
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Great Awakening
New religious Movement begins. It "awakening", or renewed, many people's interest in religion.
Poor people, women, and enslaved people even started taking part in religions gatherings. -
Georgia is founded
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Fort Mose
Fort Mose was the first free African settlementin North America.
Some were set free by their owners: others bought their freedom.
