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Roanoke
Who: Phillip Amadas and Arthur Barlowe
What: Raleigh had seven years to establish a settlement before losing everything.
Why: Exploring the East Coast
Where: North Carolina -
House of Burgesses
Who: Established by Gov. George Yeardly
What: First legislative body in Virginia
Why: America was going through political change
Where: Virginia -
Jamestown
Who: King James 1
What: King James sent men to the land to get back some money from his debt
Why: they needed more food and supplies
Where: Williamsburg, Virginia -
Great Migration
Who: The Puritans
What: Every leader they had just made religious conflict worse which caused them to eventually leave.
Why: Religious conflict
Where: New England -
Mayflower Compact
Who: English Settlers
What: the king wanted land and laws to be put in place on that land
Why: establish law and order
Where: Plymouth, Massachusetts -
New york
Who: The Dutch
What: they weren't happy with the religious set backs
Why: for money and religious freedom
Where: New York -
Massachusetts Bay Colony
Who: Group of Puritans
What: they wanted to live persecution free
Why: search for religious freedom
Where: Massachusetts -
Maryland
Who: Cecil Calvert
What: the people wanted to have religious freedom
Why: safe haven for English Catholics escaping persecution
Where: Maryland -
Connecticut
Who: Thomas Hooker discovered it
What: founded for religious and political reasons
Why: Because of a disagreement with the Massachusetts Bay colony
Where: Connecticut -
Rhode Island
Who: Roger Williams
What: he believed in religious tolerance and the separation of church and state
Why: rogers had recently been banned from the Massachusetts colony so he discovered Rhode Island
Where: Rhode Island -
Maryland Toleration Act
Who: Lord Baltimore
What: the purpose was that It protected Catholic rights in Maryland from Protestant colonists
Why: it protected Christians from fights and discrimination
Where: England -
Carolina
Who: British
What: The economic success of the Virginia colony convinced English that money was being made in owning colonies in the New World
Why: the king wanted to get more money
Where: North Carolina -
Bacon's rebellion
Who: Nathaniel Bacon
What: attack against Governor William Berkeley
Why: High taxes, low prices for tobacco, and the people didn't like how Berkeley favored certain people
Where: Virginia -
Pennsylvania
Who: William Penn
What: the founding of Pennsylvania was seen as a reform
Why: religious freedom and beliefs
Where: Pennsylvania -
Salem witch trials
Who: Abigail Williams and Betty Parris
What: The girls began to scream and make strange animal noises and claimed they had a feeling of being pinched and stuck with pins
Why: The girls participated in witchcraft
Where: Massachusetts -
Great Awakening
Who: George Whitefield
What: the Church of England was in control
Why: They went through the motions when they were at church and this caused an uprising.
Where: Britain -
French-Indian War
Who: The British Vs. The Indians
What: The British claimed they were on their land
Why: issues between England and France over control of the Ohio River Valley
Where: Ohio River Valley -
Albany Plan
Who: Benjamin Franklin
What: they wanted to unite the American colonies
Why: it was to create a strong union of the colonies under one single government
Where: New York -
Proclamation of 1763
Who: King George III
What: it was an act put in place after the French and Indian War
Why: to relieve the Native Americans by checking European lands
Where: North America -
Salutary Neglect
Who: Robert Walpole
What: trade remained loyal to the British government
Why: so they could relax the enforcement of strict regulations, particularly trade laws
Where: Massachusetts
