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He was the first king to rule over Scotland and England.
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Decided on location for first permanent settlement in North America, Jamestown in Virginia.
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After a failed attempt to colonize Virginia, permanent English colonization began in Virginia with Jamestown, in 1607.
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It became the House of Burgesses. It was the first legislative assembly in the American colonies. The first assembly met on July 30, 1619, in the church at Jamestown.
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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, aboard sailed from Plymouth, England. They were bound for the New World.
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The son of James I and Anne of Denmark, Charles believed that he ruled by Divine Right.
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One of the original 13 colonies located on the Atlantic Coast of North America. The original colonies were divided into three areas them being, the New England, Middle, and Southern colonies.
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John Haynes of the Massachusetts Bay Colony led 100 people to Hartford in 1636. Thomas Hooker and Haynes would be the original founders of Connecticut.
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The colony that became the state of New Hampshire was founded on the division in 1629 of a land grant given in 1622 by the Council for New England to Captain John Mason (former governor of Newfoundland)
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Founded in 1638 by Peter Minuit and the New Sweden Company. It was named after the Delaware river from Sir Thomas West who was Virginia's first governor.
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Founded in 1653 by the Virginia colonists. (Lords Proprietors and the charter of Carolina. State was named in honor of King Charles IX. of France.
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Son of Charles I, also known as the Merry Monarch. After the collapse of the Protectorate following the death of Oliver Cromwell and the flight of Richard Cromwell to France, the Army and Parliament asked Charles to take the throne.
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Products not produced by the mother country, such as tobacco, cotton, and sugar were to be shipped from the colonies only to England or other English colonies.
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Part of the original Province of Carolina, it was founded when King Charles II gave land to 8 noble men who were known as (Lords Proprietors)
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Roger Williams founded the colony. He had promised political and religious freedom to all who joined. Many joined from the Massachusetts Bay Colony, to then Rhode Island became the most liberal colony.
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Founded by Sir George Carteret and Lord Berkeley, the colony was originally named "Province of New Jersey".The colony was surrendered to the English and had been ruled by Swedish and Dutch.
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King Charles granted the land to south of the Potomac River to George Calvert and Lord Baltimore.
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Bacon's Rebellion, a popular revolt in colonial Virginia in 1676, led by Nathaniel Bacon . High taxes, low prices for tobacco, and resentment against special privileges given those close to the governor, Sir William Berkeley , provided the background for the uprising, which was precipitated by Berkeley's failure to defend the frontier against attacks by Native Americans
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Founded in 1681 by William Penn, who was issued a land grant by King Charles II. by a debt owed to Penn's father. The Pennsylvania was the largest area known of that was owned.
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The second surviving son of Charles I and younger brother of Charles II.
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William and Mary were to reign jointly, and William was to have the Crown for life after Mary died in 1694
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William and Mary were to reign jointly, and William was to have the Crown for life after Mary died in 1694
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The Massachusetts Bay Colony was an original settlement in Massachusetts, settled in 1630 by a refugee group of Puritans from England.
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A series of hearings and prosecutions of where people were accused of witchcraft in Massachusetts.
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The corporate charter which was granted by General James Oglethorpe on April 21, 1732, by George II. The colony was also named after George II.
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An act of Parliament which inflicted taxes on six pence per gallon on imports of molasses for non- English colonies
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The French and Indian War resulted from ongoing frontier tensions in North America as both French and British imperial officials and colonists sought to extend each country’s sphere of influence in frontier regions.
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The Albany Congress was a meeting of representatives sent by the legislatures of seven of the thirteen British colonies in British America which were Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island.
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a loose confederation of elements of Native American tribes, primarily who were dissatisfied with British postwar policies in the Great Lakes region after the British victory in the French and Indian War.