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Roanoke
In 1587, the mayor of Roanoke, John White went to England to get supplies and manpower. Three years later when John White came back everybody was gone, the only clues why they were gone were the words Croatoan and Cro on trees. That is why this is considered the Lost Colony.
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Jamestown
Jamestown was the first permanent English settlement in North America, established in 1607. King James I granted a charter that allowed a group of investors to start the company. The plan of the company was to locate gold and silver deposits and finding a river into the Pacific Ocean to trade with the Orient.
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Mayflower/Plymouth/Mayflower Compact
The Mayflower was the ship that carried the Pilgrims from England to Plymouth, Massachusetts,
where the first permanent New England colony was established in 1620. The Pilgrims of the Mayflower were in search of religious freedom from the Church of England.
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Great Migration
The Puritans felt that they had a direct covenant with God to make these reforms. Under siege from the Church and crown, individual groups of Puritans migrated to North American colonies in the 1620's and 1630's.
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Massachusetts Bay Colony
The Massachusetts Bay Colony was one of the first original English settlements in now present-day Massachusetts, a group of 1000 puritans refugees settled in 1628.
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Maryland
The first colonists to land in Maryland arrive at St. Clement’s Island on Maryland’s western shore and established the settlement of St. Mary’s. In 1632, King Charles I of England granted a charter to George Calvert, yielding him proprietary rights to a region east of the Potomac River in exchange for a share of the profits obtained from the land. The land was named Maryland in honor of Henrietta Maria. -
Connecticut
The founding of the Connecticut colony started in 1636 when the Dutch established the first trading post on the Connecticut River valley. The move into the valley was part of a general movement out of the Massachusetts colony. By the 1630's, the population in and around Boston had grown so dense that settlers began to expand into the southern New England colonies, focusing their settlements along navigable river valleys such as those in the Connecticut colony. -
Rhode Island
The Rhode Island colony was established between 1636 and 1642 by five separate and combative groups, a lot of whom had been expelled from the Massachusetts Bay colony for disputative reasons.
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House of Burgesses
The House of Burgesses was a meeting of elected representatives from Virginia that met from 1643 to 1776. This democratically elected legislative body was the first ever of its kind in the English American colonies.
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Maryland Toleration Act
Long before the First Amendment was approved, the assembly of the Province of Maryland passed “An Act Concerning Religion,” or the Maryland Toleration Act of 1649. The act was meant to confirm freedom of religion for Christian settlers of varied persuasions in the colony. -
Carolina
The North Carolina colony was made out of the Carolina province in 1729, but the history of Carolina begins during the Elizabethan period of the late 16th century and is closely tied to the Virginia colony. The North Carolina colony is the direct outcome of British colonization efforts in North America; it was also the place where the first English settlement called Roanoke was built and mysteriously vanished.
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New York
In August 1664, New Amsterdam was threatened with the arrival of four English warships. Their goal was to take over the town. However, New Amsterdam was known for its diverse population and many of its settlers were not Dutch. The English made them an oath to let them keep their commercial rights. Due to this, they surrendered the town without having to go into battle. The English government renamed the town New York.
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Bacon's rebellion
Bacon's Rebellion, fought from 1676 to 1677, started with a local debate with the Doeg Indians on the Potomac River. Chased to the north by Virginia militiamen, who also attacked the otherwise neutral or uninvolved Susquehannocks, the Indians began to raid the Virginia frontier.
https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/bacons-rebellion-1676-1677/#:~:text=Bacon's%20Rebellion%2C%20fought%20from%201676,began%20raiding%20the%20Virginia%20frontier. -
Pennsylvania
The Pennsylvania colony was one of the original 13 British colonies that became the one of the states in America. It was founded in 1682 by an English Quaker named William Penn, because he was given a land grant from King Charles II, who had owed money to William Penn's deceased father.
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Salem Witch Trials
The Salem Witch Trials started during the spring of 1692, after a group of young girls in Salem Village, Massachusetts claimed to be demonically possessed by the Satan and accused various individual local women of witchcraft.
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Enlightenment/Great Awakening
The Great Awakening was a religious revival that had impacted the English colonies in North America during the 1730's and the 1740's started by Johnathan Edwards because religion had grown stale.
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Albany Plan
The Albany Plan of Union was an early concept to organize the British-held colonies under a single central government. While independence from Great Britain was not its main intent, the Albany Plan represented the first officially-endorsed plan to organize the American colonies under a single government.
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French-Indian War
The French and Indian War marked another chapter in the long imperial struggle between the English and the French. When France started its expansion into the Ohio River valley it brought conflict to the claims of the British.
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Proclamation of 1763
Proclamation of 1763, a proclamation that was declared by the British crown after the end of the French and Indian War or the Seven Years War in North America, mostly intended to conciliate the Native Americans by checking the invasion of settlers on their lands.
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Salutary Neglect
Salutary Neglect was an unofficial policy of the British. Started by prime minister Robert Walpole to relax the enforcement of harsh regulations, especially trade laws, urged on the American colonies in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.
https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/salutary-neglect/#:~:text=Salutary%20neglect%20was%20Britain's%20unofficial,early%20in%20the%20eighteenth%20centuries.