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Roanoke
In 1587, the colony of Roanoke was founded. Roanoke is also known as the lost colony. John White, the leader of the colony, went to England to get more supplies. When he returned in 1590, the settlement was deserted. All the settlers had disappeared. The only clue he found was the word "Croatoan" carved in a tree.
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Jamestown
Jamestown was America’s first permanent English colony. The founding sparked a series of cultural encounters that helped shape the government, language, customs, beliefs that are all part of the US heritage today. The colony was sponsored by the Virginia Company of London. In order to make a profit for the Virginia Company, settlers tried glassmaking, wood production, and pitch and tar and potash manufacture.
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New York
On September 13th 1609, a vessel called the Crescent came to anchor within Sandy Hook (New Jersey), about seventeen miles from the present city of New York. Henry Hudson, was an English captain in the service of the Dutch East India Company, and on a voyage for discovering a northern passage to India. However, he failed and he proceeded along the shores of Newfoundland, and then as far as the Chesapeake and Delaware Bays.
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House of Burgesses
The House of Burgesses was the first elected law making body in America, and it was the beginning of representative government in America. It created laws, rules, and taxes. Also, it replaced Martial law with England law.
(http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1151.html)
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Mayflower/Plymouth/Mayflower Compact
In September 1620, a merchant ship called the Mayflower set sail from Plymouth, a port on the southern coast of England. Nearly 40 of the 102 passengers were Protestant Separatists. They called themselves “Saints” because they hoped to establish a new church in the New World. In order to establish themselves as an official colony under the circumstances, 41 of the Saints drafted and signed a document they called the Mayflower Compact. This Compact promised to create “just and equal laws.” -
Great Migration
In September of 1620, separatists traveled on the Mayflower and landed off the coast of Massachusetts in November, when the Plymouth Colony was established.
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Massachusetts Bay Colony
The colony was settled in 1630 by a group of about 1,000 Puritan refugees from England under John Winthrop and Thomas Dudley. In 1629 the Massachusetts Bay Company had gotten a charter empowering the company to trade and colonize in New England between the Charles and Merrimack rivers. The grant was similar to that of the Virginia Company in 1609.
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Maryland
Maryland was an English and later British colony in North America that existed from 1632 to 1776, when it joined the other twelve of the Thirteen Colonies in rebellion against Great Britain and became the U.S. state of Maryland. Maryland was an active participant in the events leading up to the American Revolution.
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Rhode Island
In 1636, Roger Williams founded the colony. He guaranteed religious and political freedom. Religious refugees from the Massachusetts Bay Colony settled in Rhode Island. It was one of the most liberal colonies. Rhode Island was the home of the first Baptist church, the first Jewish synagogue, and one of the first Quaker meetinghouses. On May 4, 1776, it became the first state to declare its independence from Great Britain.
(http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/usaweb/snapshot/Rhode_Island.htm) -
Connecticut
The Connecticut Colony was an English colony in North America that became the U.S. state of Connecticut. It was organized on March 3, 1636 as a settlement for a Puritan congregation. After early struggles with the Dutch, the English permanently gained control of the region in 1637.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connecticut_Colony) -
Maryland Toleration Act
Also known as the Act Concerning Religion, was a law mandating religious tolerance for Trinitarian Christians. It was passed on April 21, 1649, by the assembly of the Maryland colony. It was the second law requiring religious tolerance in the British North American colonies and created one of the pioneer statutes passed by the legislative body of an organized colonial government to guarantee any degree of religious liberty.
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Carolina
In 1663, Charles II was king of England. He gave the land south of Virginia to eight proprietors. These men founded the Carolina colony. They named it after the king’s father, Charles I. This new colony included what is now both North and South Carolina.
(https://www.eduplace.com/ss/socsci/books/content/ilessons/4/ils_nc_gr4_u3_c05_l2.pdf) -
Bacon's rebellion
Bacon's rebellion was the first rebellion in the American Colonies in which the frontiersmen took part in. This rebellion involved both black and white indentured servants which troubled the ruling class. The cause of the rebellion was that Nathanial Bacon joined with an angry mob to burn Jamestown and Indian settlements as a protest for the reason that they didn't get any protection from the government.
(https://www.landofthebrave.info/bacons-rebellion.htm) -
Pennsylvania
The Pennsylvania Colony was founded by William Penn and others in 1682. The Pennsylvania Colony was named by King Charles II after William Penn's father Admiral Sir William Penn. It was dominated by the Quaker religious beliefs and values. However there was still religious freedom for other beliefs. The reason for founding the Colony was religious beliefs. The reason that King George II gave William Penn such a large area in the New World was because he owed William's father a lot of money. -
Salem witch trials
The Salem witch trials began after a group of girls claimed to be possessed by the devil and falsely accused local women of witchcraft. More than 150 men, women and children were accused over the next several months. People were hung or pressed to death.
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Great Awakening/Enlightenment
The Great Awakening was a reaction against the Enlightenment. Jonathan Edwards, became concerned that the people of New England were becoming too concerned with worldly matters. The Great Awakening was the first major event that all the colonies could share, helping to break down differences between them. The Enlightenment was a movement in which ideas concerning God, reason, nature, and humanity were synthesized into a worldview.
(http://www.ushistory.org/us/7b.asp) -
French-Indian War
This New World conflict marked another chapter in the struggle between Britain and France. The French and Indian War began in 1754 and ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763. The war gave Great Britain great amounts of territory in North America, but disputes over frontier policy and paying the war’s expenses led to colonial discontent, and to the American Revolution.
(http://www.history.com/topics/french-and-indian-war)
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Albany Plan
The Albany Plan of union was a plan, suggested by Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Hutchinson, to create a unified government for the Thirteen Colonies. The Plan represented one of multiple early attempts to form a union of the colonies "under one government as far as might be necessary defense and other general important purposes."
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Proclaimation of 1763
The Proclaimation of 1763 declared the boundaries of settlement for inhabitants of the 13 colonies to be Appalachia. It became part of the long list of events in which the intent and actions of one side was misunderstood or disregarded by the other. The British issued the proclamation, mainly intended to conciliate the Indians by checking the encroachment of settlers on their lands.
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Salutary Neglect
Salutary neglect was Britain's unofficial policy created to relax the enforcement of strict regulations, particularly trade laws, imposed on the American colonies late in the seventeenth and early in the eighteenth centuries. It enabled the American colonies to prosper by trading with non-British entities, and then to spend that wealth on British-made goods, while at the same time providing Britain with raw materials for manufacturing.
(https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Salutary_Neglect)
