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The Virginia Company was being assigned land rights to colonists for the purpose of propagating Christian Religion.
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Decided on location of first permanent British settlement in North America, Jamestown, in Virginia
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First representative assembly
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Early form of colonial self-government
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King James I granted royal charter to puritan leaders of the New England Company, incorporating them as the Massachusetts Bay Colony
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This is when they received recognition from the king.
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provided royal recognition to the colony of Rhode Island
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England was ruled as a republic following the end of the Second English Civil War
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Designated to tighten the governments control over trade between England and the colonies.
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it gave the people of Connecticut a clear legal basis for their colony
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Charles II issued a new charter to a group of eight English noblemen, granting them the land of Carolina.
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To attract settlers, both proprietors made generous land offers and allowed religious freedom and an assembly
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Rebellion against Barkley's government because they resented the economic and political control exercised by a few large planters
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Royal charter by King Charles II
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People living in the Massachusetts, (mostly women) were being accused of doing witch craft, and that got them to be executed
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Defensive buffer to protect South Carolina
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Act of Parliament of Great Britain which imposed a tax of six pence per gallon on imports of molasses in non-English colonies
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Started because both the French and British wanted to extend their North American colonies into the land west of the Appalachian Mountains
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It as a meeting of representatives sent by the legislators of seven of the thirteen colonies (Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island
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It was a number of tribes against the British and the colonists