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Sent 100 men to establish a colony in Maine, but failed within a year.
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The London Company established Jamestown in May of 1607
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First representative Assembly in the New World. The House of Burgesses was established in the colony of Virginia.
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Plymouth became the first permanent settlement of Europeans in the New World.
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The colonists who first established the Plymouth colony wrote the Mayflower Compact which effectively became the first official constitution in the New World.
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Virginia was a cooperate colony from 1607 until the King terminated its charter and Virginia became a royal colony in 1624.
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Settled in 1630 by Puritan settlers organised by John Winthrop
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Maryland was designed as a safe haven for Roman Catholics. Cecil Calvert (Second Lord Baltimore) petitioned the king for the land for Maryland colony. Leonard Calvert (Third Lord Baltimore) became Maryland's first Governer.
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"Sewer of New England"
Founded by Roger Williams who was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for his beliefs. Rhode Island was governed by principles of religious liberty and separation of church and state. -
The New Hampshire colony was a planned colony granted to Captain John Mason.
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Founded by Thomas Hooker, who disagreed with the Massachusetts Bay leaders. He convinced his family and 100 others to move with him to establish Hartford.
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Defined 100 liberties commonly held by citizens of the Massachusets Bay Colony. Considered to be the precursor to the General laws of Massachusetts and state Constitution.
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Became the basis of civil and criminal law in Massachusetts until the 18th century.
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Goods may only be imported by English ships
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Certain goods/resources from English colonies must go to England or other English colonies
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Virginia recognized slavery
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Anything coming to the New World must go through England with the exception of horses, salt, and wine
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The colony of Carolina was granted to 8 proprietors in 1663.
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Maryland First Slave Legislature - declared that "All Negroes or other slaves hereafter imported into province shall serve for life as should their children"
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The colony of New York was originally a Dutch colony known as New Netherlands until the King of England granted New Netherlands to his brother the Duke of York, catching the Dutch off guard.
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New Jersey was ceded to Sir George Carteret and Lord Berkely in 1664. New Jersey later became a Royal Colony under the Charter of Liberties and Privileges in 1684.
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Charles II established the Joint Council for Trade and Plantations in 1672.
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placed a tax on goods from one colony to another colony
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Charles II established the Committee of the Privy Council on Trade and Plantations in 1675.
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Metacom (King Philip) was a Native-American chief that led an armed conflict against the New England colonists
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Governor Berkely believed that Virginia needed to be friendly to tribes. However, corruption created a tension and social divide between a small elite vs many poor workers in Virginia, and colonists were becoming more and more resentful. In an act of rebellion, Nathaniel Bacon organized a militia to attack Native Americans indiscriminately.
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William Penn used the King's debt to his father to receive a patent for a Quaker refuge in the New World. The colony was intended to be a utopia. Philadelphia (the City of Brotherly Love) was the first planned city in the English colonies.
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The Dominion of New England was created in 1685. It united the New England Colonies into a single administrative unit.
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Viginia banned interracial marriages
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Changed Massachusetts status to a royal colony
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Virginia slaves accused of capital crimes are denied the right to trial by jury or right to appeal a conviction
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Betty Parris and Abigail Williams started having fits, and accused Tituba of witchcraft
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Special court of Oyer and terminer formed
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By October 1692, 140 were indicted with witchcraft, of whom 50 confessed, 26 were convicted, 20 were executed, and 1 was crushed to death by stones
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The special court of Oyer and terminer was dissolved. And courts refused to hear any further charges.
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established admiralty courts to enforce the previous acts