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Another name for the Roanoke is the Lost Colony, it was established on Roanoke island now known as North Carolina to attempt to establish a permanent English settlement.
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The Jamestown settlement in the Colony of Virginia was the first permanent English settlement in the Americas.
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The house of Burgesses was the first legislative assembly in the American colonies.
http://www.ushistory.org/us/2f.asp
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The Mayflower Compact was the first governing document of the Plymouth colony. The Mayflower was an English ship that transported the first English Puritans from Plymouth, England to the New World.
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The Province of Carolina was an English colony and later a British colony of North America. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Province_of_Carolina
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The Great Migration was a migration of English Puritans to Massachusetts and the West Indies.
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Massachusetts Bay Colony was one of the original English settlements in present day Massachusetts.
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The colony was named Maryland after queen Henrietta Maria.
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The Connecticut colony was founded by Thomas Hooker and colonists, at Hartford.
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Another name for the Maryland Toleration Act is the Act Concerning Religion, which was a law mandating religious tolerance Trinitarian Christians.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryland_Toleration_Act
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In 1626 the Dutch established New Amsterdam, then in 1664 the English conquered the area and renamed is New York.
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Bacon's Rebellion was an armed rebellion by Virginia settlers led by Nathaniel Bacon against the rule of Governor William Berkeley.
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Pennsylvania was granted to William Penn to settle a debt King Charles II of England owed to Penn's father. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Pennsylvania
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The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts.
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The Great Awakening was a religious revival that swept through the American colonies.
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The Albany Plan was a Plan to create a unified government for the thirteen colonies.
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The French-Indian War was a 7 year war, which pinned the colonies of British America against those of New France.
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The Proclamation of 1763 was issued by King George III following the acquisition Great Britain had of French territory in North America after he end of the French and War/Seven years' war.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Proclamation_of_1763
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Salutary Neglect is a term that refers to the seventeenth-century British Crown policy of avoiding strict enforcement of parliamentary laws meant to keep American colonies obedient to England. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salutary_neglect
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Rhode Island is a U.S. state in New England.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhode_Island
