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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 -
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. -
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 -
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 -
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. -
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 -
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. -
Who: French Protestants
What: The establishment of Carolina.
Why: It was one of the richest colonies in America.
Where: Present-day Charleston, South Carolina. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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 -
Who: Nathaniel Bacon started it.
What: It was an armed rebellion that was held by Virginia settlers from 1676 to 1677
Why:
Where: -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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.