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Was Americas first permenant English colony; helped shaping the government, culture, beliefs, etc. Founded by the Virginia Company of London for King James I.
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First representative government group in the American Colonies; met for the first time in Jamestown.
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Founded by a group of puritan businessman who were coming on the behave of Charles I; strictly puritan.
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Put in place the government of of the Connecticut and one of the first primary documents of the time other than the Iroquois Constitution and the Mayflower Compact.
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Did not bring on complete religious freedom; the act was a solution to the conflict between the Catholics and the protestant.
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Was a covenant put in place that said that any children born into a family of puritan/ christians was halfway puritan.
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Marked as the last major effort by the indians of Southern New England to drive out the english settlers; unsecussful, just pushed the indians out of their territory.
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Led by Nathaniel Bacon, taking some back woods farmers to the debters court to threaten the judges; led to the establishment from indentured servants to african american slaves.
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Also known as the 7 years war, was a major conflict between Austria, England, France, Prussia, and Sweden; played out in Europe and North American. It was mainly the English and French fighting over who gets the North American land.
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Named after New Yorker, Jacob Leisler, who led a protestant revolt against the colonial authority of King James II.
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More than 200 people were accused of practicing witchcraft (Devil's Magic) 20 people were excuted; trails were amitted a mistake.
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Was a period of revivalism that spread throughout the colonies rapiadly; putting more empaisize on the individual and religious experience.
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Zenger was a printer whose prosecution helped establish the principles of the freedom of press a jury nullifacation.
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20 black slaves met up at the Stono River in South Carolina to plan their escape to freedom; killing two shopkeepers and many more until they were later stoped by former slave owners, as a result a harsher slave code was put in place.
