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Roanoke
Who: The island colonists.
What: Roanoke was known as the lost colony.
Where: Roanoke is a island in Virginia.
Why: Their purpose was to harassing the Spanish -
Jamestown
Who: a group of English settlement led by King James 1.
Where: it is located North of the James river in Virginia.
Why: seeking a northwest passage to the Orient, and converting Virginia Indians to the Anglican religion.
What: The settlers got diseases and died and the survivors buried the town. -
House of Burgesses
Who: The general assembly was made by Gov. George Yeardley.
What: The House of Burgesses was made to grant supplies and originate laws.
Why: It was the first democratically-elected legislative body in the British American colony.
Where: It was established in Jamestown, Virginia. -
Great Migration-Puritan
Who: The Great Migration Puritan was started by Winthrop.
What: Groups of families that were mainly motivated by wanting freedom to practice their beliefs.
Where: It started with families leaving England and moving to the colonies
Why:The puritans left England because of religious reasons and economic reasons. -
Mayflower Compact
Who: the Mayflower Compact was composed by William Brewster
Where: It was signed at Provincetown Harbor in Massachusetts.
Why: Because they chose to stay where they landed in New England they needed a new permission.
What: It was the first framework of government written and enacted in the territory that is now the United States of America. -
Massachusetts Bay Colony
Who: a group of European refugees.
Where: the East oast of North America around the Massachusetts Bay.
What: first colony to formalize laws concerning slavery and Massachusetts body of Liberties which developed protections for people unable to perform public service.
Why: it was made for English Puritans fleeing religious persecution in England. -
Maryland colony
Who: Cecilias Calvert
What: was English later British Colony.
Where: middle Atlantic region of the US.
Why: so the English Catholics could have a place to live where they could escape the intoleration of the English Monarchy -
Rhode Island
Who: Roger Williams
Why: to establish a policy of religious and political freedom in his new settlement.
Where: South of Massachusetts colonies
What: one of the original 13 Colonies established on the east coast of America. -
Maryland Toleration act
Who: Planned by George Calvert
What: ensured religious freedoms to Christian settlers.
Why: way of providing protection for Catholics while at the same time representing a little bit of direction of English government
Where: St. Mary's City, Maryland -
Connecticut colony
Who:Thomas Hooker
Why: trading, and fishing, supplemented the living that the settlers were able to derive from the land.
Where: West of Rhode Island and South of Massachusetts.
What: an English colony in New England which later became the state of Connecticut -
Carolina
Why: economic success of the Virginia colony convinced English that there was money to be made in owning colonies in the New World.
Where: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and the Bahamas.
What: was a province of the Kingdom of England
Who: established by King Charles II -
New York Colony
Who: The Dutch
Where: Along the Hudson River.
Why: as a fur trading outpost.
What: proprietary colony and later royal colony on the northeast coast of North America. -
Pennsylvania colony
Who: William Penn
What: a haven for Penn's fellow Quakers
Where: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Why: to create a colony that allowed for freedom of religion -
Salam witch trials
What: a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of Witchcraft.
Where: Colonial Massachusetts
Why: came as the result of church politics, family feuds, and hysterical children.
Who: Betty and Abigail accused Tituba an enslaved woman. -
Great awakening
What: series of religious revivals in American Christian history.
Who: Jonathan Edwards, George Whitefield, and others.
Why: Christians were feeling complacent with their methods of worship.
Where: England, Scotland, and Germany -
French-Indian War
Who: The French, British, and Native Americans
Where: New York, Pennsylvania, and Canada.
Why: to maintain control of their land and their cultural future.
What: 7 year war that made the colonies of Great Britain dislike the French colonies. -
Albany Plan
Where: Albany, New York
Why: a mean to reform colonial-imperial relations
What: was a rejected plan to unite the 13 colonies.
Who: Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, Pennsylvania, and Maryland. -
Proclamation of 1763
Who: King George 3.
Why: after hearing of the rebellion the government decided to put into action a plan for creating a western Indian reserve,
Where: Appalachian Mountains
What: prohibited American colonists from settling on lands taken from the French following the French-Indian War. -
Salutary Neglect
Who: prime minister Robert Walpole
Why: colonies act freely and flourish.
Where: British Colonies
What: was Britain's unofficial policy. -
Bacon's rebellion
Who: led by Nathaniel Bacon.
What: was an armed Rebellion held by Virginia settlers.
What: rural farmers join together to prevent Courthouse from sitting officials in Northampton Massachusetts from sitting and issuing judgment on eviction cases.
Where: it happened in Jamestown.
Why: economic problems, political corruption, and intentions between colonists and Native Americans.