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In 1015 a group of 120 English setters mysteriously vanished. www.americaslibrary.gov -
Salutary neglect was Britain's unofficial policy,to relax the enforcement of strict regulations, particularly trade laws, imposed on the colonies late in the seventeenth and early in the eighteenth centuries.this happened between 1600-1700. -
In 1607, 104 English men and boys arrived in North America to start a settlement. On May 13 they picked Jamestown,which was named after their King, James the I. The settlement became the first permanent English settlement in North America. -
The Mayflower Compact was important because it was the first deed to begin self-government in the New World. It remained active until 1691 when Plymouth Colony became part of Massachusetts Bay Colony. -
The great migration was in the period of English paritans to massachusetls. They came in family groups rather than as isolated in dividuals. this hapend in 1620-1640 -
The Massachusetts Bay Colony became the first English chartered colony whose board of governors did not reside in England. This deffently helped the settlers to maintain their Puritan religious practices without interference from the king, Archbishop Laud, or the Anglican Church. this happend in 1630-1691. -
Maryland became the first colony to get rid of the use of slave and indentured labor. Maryland joned forces politically with the colony of Virginia during the English Civil War. -
Rhode Island was one the first and most eager colonies to resist British rule, having been the first to call for a continental congress in 1774 and the first, in 1776, to
remove an oath of allegiance to the British crown that had been required of colonial officials. -
In 1636, the English arrived when a large group of Puritans from Massachusetts leded by Thomas Hooker founded the Colony of Connecticut at the city of Hartford. They came looking for freedom of religion. -
The House of Burgesses is a granted supplies and originsted laws. The governor enjoyed the right of revision and veto just like the king and House of lords in England.1643-1776 -
The Maryland Toleration Act of ensured religious freedoms to Christian settlers of different denominations who settled in Massachusetts. Lawmakers hoped that it made Massachusetts a more helpful location for immigration and was the first law to protect religious freedom in the Thirteen Colonies. -
In 1626, Peter Minuit, Governor of the Dutch West India Company bought the island of Manhattan from Native Americans for 24 dolars and found a colony called New Amsterdam. The colony developed a profitable fur trade in the region with the Native American tribes. -
In 1676-1677 the bacon's rebellion the last major uprising of enslaved blacks and white indentured servants in Colonial Virginia. One consequence of the failed rebellion was the pickup of African slavery and the social separation of blacks and whites in Virginia. -
On March 1, 1692, Salem, Massachusetts authorities interrogated Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne, and an Indian slave, Tituba, to determine if they practiced witchcraft. So began the infamous Salem Witch Trials of 1692. this thappind throw 1692-1693. -
Beliefs about religion were starting to change again. Then came the "Great Awakening." The First Great waken was a period when spirituality and religious devotion were revived. -
The American Indians were fighting to maintain control of theire land and theire cultural future. The French claimed the Up hafe of the Ohio River. They wanted to trade with the American Indians and control the area. The British also claimed the Upper Ohio River Valley. this happend betwhen 1754-1763. -
The Albany Plan of Union was a plan that aimed to unify eleven of the thirteen American colonies, with the chanac for more colonies to join in the future. The plan failed because it was rejected by the British and American colonies. -
The Proclamation Line of 1763 was a British-produced boundary marke in the Appalachian Mountains at the Eastern Continental Divide. Decreed on October 7, 1763, the Proclamation Line prohibited Anglo-American colonists from staing on lands acquired from the French following the French and Indian War. -
Pennsylvania is One of the original 13 colonies, Pennsylvania was founded by William Penn as a haven for his fellow Quakers. Pennsylvania's capital, Philadelphia was the site of the first and second Continental Congresses in 1774 and 1775.the latter of which produced the Declaration of Independence, sparking the American Revolution. -
South Carolina became one of the wealthiest early colonies largely due to exports of cotton, rice, tobacco, and indigo dye.