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Roanoke
The Roanoke was also known as the lost colony. Roanoke was established in 1585 on Roanoke island in what is known today as dare county. -
Salutary Neglect
Salutary neglect is an American history term that refers to the seventeenth- and eighteenth- century British crown policy of avoiding strict enforcement of parliamentary laws meant to keep American Colonies obedient to England -
Jamestown
The Jamestown settlement in the colony of Virginia was the first permanent English settlement in the Americas. it followed several failed attempts, including the lost colony of Roanoke. Jamestown served as the capital of the colony of Virginia for 83 years, from 1616 to 1699. -
House Of Burgesses
The house of burgesses was the first legislative assembly of elected representatives in North America. The house was established by the Virginia company, who created the body as part of an effort to encourage English craftsman to settle in North America. -
Mayflower/ Plymouth/ Mayflower Compact
The Mayflower Compact was the first agreement for self-government to be created and enforced in America. On September 16, 1620 the Mayflower, a British ship, with 102 passengers, who called themselves pilgrims. -
Great migration
The great migration was the movement of 6 million African Americans out of the rural southern United States to the urban northeast, Midwest, and west. blacks moved from 14 states of the south, especially Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas. -
Massachusetts Bay Colony
Massachusetts Bay Colony, one of the original English settlements in present day Massachusetts, settled in 1630 by group of about 1,000 puritan refugees from England under Gov. John Winthrop and Deputy Gov. Thomas Dudley. -
Maryland
The Providence of Maryland was an English and later British colony in North America that existed from 1632 until1776, when it joined the other twelve of the thirteen colonies in rebellion in rebellion against Great Britain. -
Rhode Island
The colony of Rhode Island and providence plantations was one of the original Thirteen Colonies established on the east coast of North America, bordering the Atlantic Ocean. -
Maryland Toleration Act
The Maryland Toleration Act, also known as the Act Concerning Religion, was a law mandating religious tolerance for Trinitarian Christians. -
Connecticut
The U.S. state of Connecticut began a three distinct settlements of the puritans from Massachusetts and England. They combined under a single royal charter in 1663. -
Carolina
The Province of Carolina was an English and later a British colony of North America. Carolina was founded in what is today North Carolina. -
New York
New York was founded by the Dutch New Amsterdam in 1624 and given its present name on its capture by the English 1664. -
Bacon's Rebellion
Bacon's Rebellion was an armed rebellion in 1676 by Virginia settlers led Nathaniel Bacon against rule of Governor William Berkeley. The colony's dismissive policy as it related to political challenges of its western frontier. -
Pennsylvania
The Province of Pennsylvania, also known as the Pennsylvania colony, was founded in English North America by William Penn on March 4, 1681. -
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. The trials resulted in the executions of twenty people, fourteen of them women. -
Great Awakening/enlightment
The Great Awakening or first Great awakening was a Protestant religious revival that swept Protestant Europe and British America in the 1730s and 1740s. An evangelical and a great movement gave great impact on American Protestantism. -
Proclamation of 1736
Proclamation of 1736 was issued in October 1736, by King George the third following the great British acquisition of French territory in North America. -
Albany Plan
The Albany Plan of union was a proposal to create a unified government for the thirteen colonies, then a senior leader and a delegate from Pennsylvania, at the Albany Congress in July 10 1754. -
French Indian War
The French Indian War comprised the North American theatre worldwide seven years of war of 1756 to 1763. It pitted the colonies of British Americas against those of New France.
