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The 'Charter of 1606', also known as the First Charter of Virginia, is a document from King James I of England to the Virginia Company
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Virginia received three charters, one in 1606, another in 1609, and the third in 1612. The differences between the three charters lies primarily in the territorial jurisdiction of the company, not in the right to govern the colony.
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the House of Burgesses is important because the ideas and leaders from this House helped bring about the American Revolutionary War.
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The Mayflower Compact was the first governing document of Plymouth Colony. It was written by the male passengers of the Mayflower
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In 1629 King Charles I granted a royal charter to Puritan leaders of the New England Company, incorporating them as the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
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The Privy Council persuaded Sir George Calvert that he be granted a charter for lands north of the Virginia colony, in order to put pressure on the Dutch settlements further north along the Delaware and Hudson Rivers. Calvert died in 1632 so the charter was granted to his son.
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North Carolina and south Carolina where one colony until 1729.It was founded by eight English nobles as Carolina.
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A long series of English laws that developed, promoted and regulated English ships, shipping, trade, and commerce between other countries and with its own colonies.
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Connecticut’s leaders feared that the new English government would attempt to assume absolute control over the Puritan colonies in New England. John Winthrop sailed to England in July 1661 and succeeded in securing a charter for the colony in 1662.
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Roger Williams was an
outspoken Puritan who believed that church and state should be completely separate. He was ordered to return to
England, but instead joined with the Narragansett Indians to found Providence, Rhode Island in 1636. Roger Williams received the charter for this colony in 1643 but it received a royal charter in 1663 -
The Rhode Island Royal Charter was a document providing royal recognition to the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, approved by England's King Charles II in July 1663.
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He granted the Rhode Island charter.
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Charles II issued a new charter to a group of eight English noblemen, granting them the land of Carolina.The eight English noble man were called Proprietors. North Carolina and south Carolina where one colony until 1729.
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its first charter contained a clause on religious liberty similar to that in the Rhode island charter of 1663.It also became a royal colony in 1702.
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Nathaniel Bacon led Virginia settlers against governor William Berkeley.
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Charles II issued a colonial charter for the province and appointed John Cutt as President of New Hampshire in 1679.
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King Charles II granted a royal charter to William Penn
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The Charter of Liberties and Privileges was an act passed by the New York colonial assembly during its first session in 1683. It was made to lay the political organization of the colony
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The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts
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In 1701 Delaware was given the right to its own assembly. It was sharing the same governor as Pennsylvania. Until
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England's King George signed a charter establishing the colony and creating its governing board on April 21, 1732.The reasons Georgia was founded was for charity, economics, and defense.
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An Act of the Parliament of Great Britain, which imposed a tax of six pence per gallon on imports of molasses from non-English colonies.
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The British wanted to settle in the Ohio River Valley and to trade with the Native Americans who lived there. The French built forts to protect their trade with the Indians. In 1754, George Washington led an army against the French.
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A meeting of representatives sent by the legislatures of seven of the thirteen British colonies in British America
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Chief Pontiac led a loosely united group of American Indian tribes against the British in a series of attacks, referred to as Pontiac's Rebellion.