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Roanoke
English settlers first came to Roanoke Island in 1585. Their
colony failed, however. They fought with American Indians
and they didn’t bring enough supplies. England sent another
group two years later. They also settled on Roanoke Island.
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jamestown
Jamestown was the first successful permanent English settlement in the United States. The settlement thrived for almost 100 years as the capital of the Virginia colony; it was abandoned after the capital moved to Williamsburg in 1699. A preservationist group took over the site in the late 1800s.
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House of Burgesses
The first legislature anywhere in the English colonies in America was in Virginia. This was the House of Burgesses, and it first met on July 30, 1619, at a church in Jamestown. Its first order of business was to set a minimum price for the sale of tobacco.
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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. On this trip the ship carried passengers: 102 of them, all hoping to start a new life on the other side of the Atlantic. Nearly 40 of these passengers were Protestant Separatists who hoped to establish a new church in the New World. Today, we often refer to the colonists who crossed the Atlantic on the Mayflower as “Pilgrims.”
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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.
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Maryland
Cecil Calvert, 2nd Lord of Baltimore, founded Maryland in 1632. By 1634, Maryland became one of the few territories of England to be predominately Catholic. Their settlement became known as St. Mary’s and is currently the fourth oldest permanent British settlement in America.
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connecticut
One of the original 13 colonies and one of the six New England states, Connecticut is located in the northeastern corner of the country. Initially an agricultural community, by the mid-19th century textile and machine manufacturing had become the dominant industries.
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Rhode Island
Rhode Island was founded by Roger Williams in 1636, who had been banished fromthe Massachusetts colony for hisadvocacy ofreligious tolerance and the separation of church and state.During the colonial period, Newport was a major hub for shipping and trade, and in the 19th century Rhode Island was at the forefront of the Industrial Revolution and the establishment of power-driven textile mills.
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Maryland toleration act
In 1634, a group of Catholics came to Maryland. Soon after, even though the Catholics founded Maryland, many Protestants had started to move in the area and there were religious conflicts between the beliefs of the Catholics and the Protestants. Lord Baltimore made a Toleration Act of 1649 to try to reduce conflicts.
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new york
The first native New Yorkers were the Lenape. Europeans began to explore the region at the beginning of the 16th century. The Dutch West India Company sent some 30 families to live and work in a tiny settlement that they called New Amsterdam. In 1626, the settlement’s governor general, Peter Minuit, purchased the much larger Manhattan Island from the natives.
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bacons rebellion
Bacon's Rebellion was an uprising in 1676 - 1677 against American Indians and the colonial government in the Virginia Colony over taking reprisal action for alleged thefts by the Native Americans. It was led by Nathaniel Bacon, a wealthy 29-year-old planter, in opposition to the Governor of Virginia, Sir William Berkeley. Bacon's Rebellion was the first rebellion in the American colonies.
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Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania was founded by William Penn as a haven for his fellow Quakers. Pennsylvania’s capital, Philadelphia, was the site of the first and second Continental Congresses in 1774 and 1775, the latter of which produced the Declaration of Independence, sparking the American Revolution. After the war, Pennsylvania became the second state, after Delaware, to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
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salem witch trials
The Salem witch trials occurred in colonial Massachusetts between 1692 and 1693. More than 200 people were accused of practicing witchcraft and 20 were executed. Eventually, the colony admitted the trials were a mistake and compensated the families of those convicted. Since then, the story of the trials continues to beguile the popular imagination more than 300 years later.
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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.
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french-indian war
The French and Indian War was a seven-year war between England and the American colonies, against the French and some of the Indians in North America. When the war ended, France was no longer in control of Canada. The Indians that had been threatening the American colonists were defeated. Great Britain spent a great deal of money fighting the war and colonists fully participated in this war.
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albany plan
The Albany Plan of Union was a proposal made at the Albany Congress back in 1754 aimed at a formation of a strong union of the colonies under one single government and direction. The need was justified because of the necessity for defense against the threats and consequences posed by the infamous French and Indian War. It was proposed by Benjamin Franklin.
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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.
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Great awakening/enlightenment
European politics, philosophy, science and communications were radically reoriented during the course of the “long 18th century” as part of a movement referred to by its participants as the Age of Reason, or simply the Enlightenment. The Enlightenment produced numerous books, essays, inventions, scientific discoveries, laws, wars and revolutions.
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Great Migration
he Great Migration, also known as the relocation of more than 6 million African Americans from the rural South to the cities of the North, Midwest and West, had a huge impact on urban life in the United States. During the Great Migration, African Americans began to build a new place for themselves in public life, actively confronting economic, political and social challenges and creating a new culture.
http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/great-migration
