Colonial America

  • Roanoke

    Roanoke

    Who: Island colonists
    What: The first permanent English settlement in North America.
    Why: They wanted to establish a permanent settlement with a purpose to discover a passage to the Pacific Ocean.
    Where: Now, North Carolina
  • Salutary Neglect

    Salutary Neglect

    Who: It was initiated by Robert Walpole.
    What: An unofficial British policy.
    Where: It was imposed on the American colonies.
    Why: It enabled all the American colonies to be able to trade with non-British people.
  • Jamestown

    Jamestown

    Who: 104 English men and boys.
    What: The first English settlement in America that stayed.
    Why: They wanted success of the Jamestown colony
    Where: Virginia
  • House of Burgesses

    House of Burgesses

    Who: Hundreds of people that were members of the House of Burgesses.
    What: It was an assembly of representatives from Virginia that met to make laws.
    Why: It was the first elective legislative body in the British-American colonies.
    Where: Williamsburg Jamestown, Virginia
  • Great Migration

    Great Migration

    Who: About 6 million colored people.
    What: One of the largest movements of people in the history of the United States.
    Why: Created one of the first large black communities.
    Where: They traveled across North America.
  • Mayflower/Plymouth/Mayflower Compact

    Mayflower/Plymouth/Mayflower Compact

    Who: Settlers that fist arrived in New Plymouth.
    What: It was an agreement that bound the pilgrims together.
    Why: It was for the general good of the colonies.
    Where: Cape Cod
  • New York

    New York

    Who: The Dutch
    What: The establishment of New York when the Dutch first arrived there.
    Why: To establish a fur trading post.
    Where: It was founded on Manhattan Island.
  • Carolina

    Carolina

    Who: French Protestants
    What: The establishment of Carolina.
    Why: It was one of the richest colonies in America.
    Where: Present-day Charleston, South Carolina.
  • Massachusetts Bay Colony

    Massachusetts Bay Colony

    Who: Puritan refugees from England.
    What: One of the main reasons was to set up a society that would accord with what they believed to be Gods wishes.
    Why: It became the first English colony that their board did not reside in England.
    Where: It was in Salem and Boston.
  • Rhode Island

    Rhode Island

    Who: Roger Williams founded Rhode Island.
    What: It was founded for a refuge for people persecuted for their religious beliefs.
    Why: It was the first colony to resist the British rule.
    Where: Providence.
  • Connecticut

    Connecticut

    Who: Reverend Samuel Stone and Reverend Thomas Hooker.
    What: They founded Connecticut because they were trying to find freedom of religion.
    Why: They wrote a document called the Fundamental Order.
    Where: A town called Hartford.
  • Maryland Toleration Act

    Maryland Toleration Act

    Who: Men and Women of Maryland and lawmakers.
    What: It was to ensure freedom of religion for christian settlers that had diverse persuasions in other colonies.
    Why: It inspired the growth of religion freedom in the colonies.
    Where: St. Mary's City
  • Bacon's Rebellion

    Bacon's Rebellion

    Who: Nathaniel Bacon started it.
    What: It was an armed rebellion that was held by Virginia settlers from 1676 to 1677
    Why:
    Where:
  • Pennsylvania

    Pennsylvania

    Who: William Penn
    What: It provides a place for religious freedom for Quakers.
    Why: It was a place of Major Economic Power.
    Where: In-between Maryland and New York.
  • Salem witch trials

    Salem witch trials

    Who: The most famous of them is Bridget Bishop.
    What: People who thought other people were witches to be hanged and imprisoned in Salem Village.
    Why: They wanted to get rid of "witches".
    Where: Salem Village in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
  • Great Awakening/Enlightenment

    Great Awakening/Enlightenment

    Who: Methodists, Presbyterians, and Baptists.
    What: It promoted the power of reason and scientific observation.
    Why: Spread the idea that knowledge, reason, and that science could improve society.
    Where: In England, Scotland, and Germany.
  • French-Indian War

    French-Indian War

    Who: Great-Britain and France.
    What: A war between 2 country's about the frontier policy and paying the war's expenses.
    Why: To maintain control of their land.
    Where: In New York, Pennsylvania, Canada, and Nova Scotia.
  • Albany Plan

    Albany Plan

    Who: People and governments of Maryland, Pennsylvania, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts and New Hampshire.
    What: To put the British North American colonies in a more centralized government.
    Why: To reform colonial imperial relations with each other.
    Where: In Albany, New York.
  • Proclamation of 1763

    Proclamation of 1763

    Who: British crown initiated it.
    What: A boundary marked in the Appalachian Mountains at the Eastern Continental Divide to set limits.
    Why: The British didn't want Americans to cross the Appalachian Mountains.
    Where: In the Appalachian Mountains.
  • Maryland

    Maryland

    Who: William Claiborne founded Maryland.
    What: A place to worship freely.
    Why: A safe place to worship without persecution.
    Where: At St. Clement's Island.