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The English tried to colonize Roanoke Island in present day North Carolina but failed.
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Led 130 indian and mestizo soldiers and their families along with some 20 missionaries north into New Mexico with the intent of mining both gold and souls.
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a group of London investors known as the Virginia Company sent ships to the Chesapeake Bay region where 100 men built a fort named Jamestown which became the first permanent English settlement in North America
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The daughter of Powhatan that was sent on a diplomatic mission to Jamestown where she was converted to christianity and married the leading settler John Rolfe.
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The first elected lower house in the legeslative assembly in the new world. Established in the colony of Virginia in 1619
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A pilgrim that led 102people to North America from Plymouth, England, on the Mayflower
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Was the first document of self government in North America.
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Fur traders lived on the great lakes as early as the 1620's. By the 1670's traders were exploring the reaches of the upper Mississippi River.
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King Charles I granted the Calvert family 10 million acres at the north end of Chesapeake Bay because they were important supporters of the monarchy. The Calverts named their colony Maryland.
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The first American-English publicaton printed in 1640.
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In 1644 he recieved a charter creating the colony of Rhode Island which provided a refuge for religious minorities.
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A book written in 1644 by Roger Williams that caused one of the first formal arguments for religious toleration.
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Created the legal and institutional structure of Britain's eighteenth century colonial system.
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An agreement of 1662 people who had not been converted could join as "half-way" members restricted only from practicing communion.
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Puritan colonies and indians of southern New England faught for control of the land.
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Backcountry settlers attacked indians and colonial authorities attempted to supress these attacks.
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Backcountry men in the Albemarle region of North Carolina overthrew the proprietary government in an episode of violence.
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A book written in 1682 by Mary Rawlandson, was the first "captivity narrative" ever written.
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Colonists in Massachusets, New York, and Maryland rose up against the colonial governments of King James II.
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Written by John Locke, argued that churches were voluntary societies and could only work through persuasion.
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England's government became a constitutional monarchy in 1689.
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Was the first of a series of colonial struggles between England and France. These conflicts mainly occured in northern New England and New York.
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A series of hearings to prosecute people accused of witchcraft in Essex, Suffold, and Middlesex counties of Massachusets.
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Forbade american production of wool because England was afraid that they would compete with those at home.
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Spanish declared Florida a refuge for escaped slaves from the English colonies, offering free land to any fugitives who would help defend the colony and convert to catholicism.
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Enlightenment thinkers in Britain and on the continent argued that the universe was governed by natural laws that people could understand and apply to their own advantage.
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Battled the French and their Indian allies in King William's War, but in 1701 they signed a treaty of neutrality with France that kept them out of the next round of conflicts.
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Puritans in Conneticut, believing that Harvard was too liberal, founded Yale College in 1701.
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England fights France and Spain in the Caribbean and on the northern frontier of New France. Part of the European conflict known as the war of the Spanish Succession.
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Churches of Conneticut agreed in 1708 and enacted a system of goverance by councils of ministers and elders rather than the congregation.
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Great Britain won the exclusive right to supply slaves to the Spanish colonies in the Americas. A result of Queen Anne's War.
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In 1721 he was considered to be the first Prime Minister of England
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A huge religious movement that challenged the rationalist approach to religion.
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Forbade american production of hats because England was afraid that they would compete with those at home.
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English Parliment created the colony of Georgia and under Oglethorpe's influence, Parliment agreed to prohibit slavery in Georgia.
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An almanac written by Ben Frankiln from 1732 to 1757. The author used this new literary form to promote enlightenment.
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West indian planters placed a prohibitive duty on sugar products brought from foreign colonies to North America.
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A evangelical minister that made a tour of the colonies in 1738 and was the source of the local revivals that became an intercolonial phenomenon
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A group of 20 Angolans overtook the armory in Stono, North Carolina and began marching towards Florida and freedom. However, they were overtaken by the militia and destroyed.
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Great Britain vs. Spain in the Caribbean and Georgia. Part of the European war of the Austrian Succession.
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Greab Britain and France fight in Acadia and Nova Scotia. The second American round of the European War of the Austrian Succession.
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A school in Pennsylvania to train like-minded men for the ministry. It ultimately evolved into Princeton University.
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Forbade american production of iron because England was afraid that they would compete with those at home.
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In 1752 James Ogelthorpe and Georgia's trustees abandoned their experiment, and the colony was opened to slavery.
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Last of the great colonial wars. Pitted Great Britain against France and Spain. Known as the 7 years war in Europe.