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Roanoke
In 1587, Raleigh dispatched a new group of 115 colonists to establish a colony on Chesapeake Bay. They were led by John White, an artist and friend of Raleigh who had accompanied the previous expedition to Roanoke, and was appointed governor of the 1587 colony. In the spring of 1588, White managed to get two small vessels and sailed for Roanoke, but his attempt to return was foiled when the captains attempted to capture several Spanish ships on the voyage. http://theshadowlands.net/roanoke.htm -
Jamestown
On May 14, 1607, the Virginia Company settlers landed on Jamestown Island to establish an English colony 60 miles from the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay. The settlement in the Colony of Virginia was the first permanent English settlement in the Americas. It was considered permanent after brief abandonment in 1610. http://historicjamestowne.org/history/history-of-jamestown/ -
Great Migration
Many Puritans moved to North America in the 1620-1640s because they thought the Church of England was unfair. However, most Puritans in both England and New England were non-separatists. They continued to profess their allegiance to the Church of England despite their dissent from Church leadership and practices. Between 1629 to 1640 more than 21,000 Puritans moved to New England. http://familypedia.wikia.com/wiki/Great_Migration_(Puritan) -
Mayflower Compact
The Mayflower Compact was the first governing document of Plymouth Colony. It was written by the male passengers of the Mayflower, consisting of separatist Congregationalists who called themselves "Saints", and adventurers and tradesmen, most of whom were referred to by the Separatists as "Strangers". The Separatists were fleeing from religious persecution by King James of England. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayflower_Compact -
New York
The New York Colony was founded in 1626 by the Duke of York and other colonists on Manhattan Island. The Province of New York was a British proprietary colony and later royal colony on the northeast coast of North America. As one of the Thirteen Colonies, New York achieved independence and worked with the others to found the United States. -
Massachusetts Bay colony
Massachusetts Bay Colony, one of the original English settlements in present-day Massachusetts, settled in 1630 by a group of about 1,000 Puritan refugees from England under Gov. John Winthrop and Deputy Gov. Thomas Dudley. In 1629 the Massachusetts Bay Company had obtained from King Charles I a charter empowering the company to trade and colonize in New England between the Charles and Merrimack rivers. https://www.britannica.com/place/Massachusetts-Bay-Colony -
Maryland
The Province of Maryland[1] was an English and later British colony in North America that existed from 1632[2] until 1776, when it joined the other twelve of the Thirteen Colonies in rebellion against Great Britain and became the U.S. state of Maryland. Its first settlement and capital was St. Mary's City, in the southern end of St. Mary's County, which is a peninsula in the Chesapeake Bay and is also bordered by four tidal rivers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Province_of_Maryland -
Connecticut
The Connecticut colony was first founded in 1633 by the Dutch establishing the first trading post on the Connecticut River Valley in what is now the town of Hartford. By the 1630s, the area in Boston began over populate and settlers began to move out throughout southern New England, concentrating on navigable river valleys such as the Connecticut. https://www.thoughtco.com/connecticut-colony-103870 -
Rhode Island
Rhode Island was founded in 1636 by Roger Williams. Originally called "Roodt Eylandt" by Adrian Block, who had explored that area for the Netherlands. The name means 'red island' due to the red clay that he found there. In 1635, Williams was banished to England by the Massachusetts Bay Colony for his beliefs in separation of church and state and freedom of religion. https://www.thoughtco.com/rhode-island-colony-103880 -
House of Burgesses
The House of Burgesses was an assembled group of representatives from Virginia that met from 1643 to 1776. This elected group of democrats on the legislative body was the first of its kind in the North American colonies. From 1619 up until 1643, elected burgesses met in a single legislative chamber with the governor and the royally appointed governor's Council. After 1643, the burgesses met separately as the lower house of the General Assembly of Virginia. -
Maryland toleration act
the Maryland Toleration Act, 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.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryland_Toleration_Act -
Carolina
The Province of Carolina was an English and later a British colony of North America. Carolina was founded in what is modern-day North Carolina. Carolina expanded south and, at its greatest extent, nominally included the modern states of North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee and Mississippi, and parts of modern Florida and Louisiana. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Province_of_Carolina -
Bacons Rebellion
Bacon's Rebellion was an armed rebellion in 1676 by Virginia settlers led by Nathaniel Bacon against the rule of Governor William Berkeley. 1000 Virginians of all social classes and races rose up in fury against Berkeley, attacking Native Americans, chasing Berkeley from Jamestown, Virginia, and ultimately torching the capital. It was the first rebellion in the American colonies in which discontented frontiersmen took part. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacon%27s_Rebellion -
Pennsylvania
The Province of Pennsylvania,[citation needed] also known as the Pennsylvania Colony, was founded in English North America by William Penn on March 4, 1681 as dictated in a royal charter granted by King Charles II. The name Pennsylvania, which translates roughly as "Penn's Woods",[1] was created by combining the Penn surname (in honor of William's father, Admiral Sir William Penn) with the Latin word sylvania, meaning "forest land." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Province_of_Pennsylvania -
Salem Witch Trials
The Salem Witch Trials of 1692 were a dark time in American history. More than 200 people were accused of practicing witchcraft and 20 were killed during the hysteria. The people often feared that the Devil was constantly trying to find ways to infiltrate and destroy Christians and their communities. This induced panic and hysteria and quickly sparked a massive witch hunt. http://www.history.com/topics/salem-witch-trials -
Great Awakening
The term Great Awakening refers to a number of periods of religious revival in American religious history. Historians and theologians identify three or four waves of increased religious enthusiasm occurring between the early 18th century and the late 20th century. Each of these "Great Awakenings" was characterized by widespread revivals led by evangelical Protestant ministers.
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Albany Plan
The Albany Plan of Union was a plan to create a unified government for the Thirteen Colonies, suggested by Benjamin Franklin. At the Albany Congress on July 10, 1754 in Albany, New York. More than twenty representatives of several Northern and Mid-Atlantic colonies had gathered to plan their defense related to the French and Indian War. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albany_Plan -
French and Indian War
The French and Indian war pitted the colonies of British America against those of New France. Both sides were supported by military units from their parent countries of Great Britain and France. At the start of the war, the French North American colonies had a population of roughly 60,000 settlers, compared with 2 million in the British North American colonies. The outnumbered French particularly depended on the Indians. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_and_Indian_War -
Proclamation of 1763
In 1763, at ethe end of the French and Indian War, the British issued a proclamation,mainly intended to conciliate the Indians by checking the encroachment of settlers on their lands. In the centuries since the proclamation, it has become one of the cornerstones of Native American law in the United States and Canada.http://www.history.com/topics/native-american-history/1763-proclamation-of -
Salutary Neglect
Salutary neglect is an American history term that refers to the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British Crown policy of avoiding strict enforcement of parliamentary laws meant to keep American colonies obedient to England. The term comes from Edmund Burke's "Speech on Conciliation with America" given in the House of Commons March 22, 1775. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salutary_neglect
