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Roanoke
Roanoke was founded by a European named John White. He returned to England to request man power and resources, where he was delayed for three years. On his arrival back at Roanoke, his family had vanished. Roanoke is known as the "Lost Colony" because it is still a mystery what actually happened to them. https://www.britannica.com/story/the-lost-colony-of-roanoke -
Jamestown
The Virginia company of London established the new colony along the coast of virginia. During the first winter, only 38 of the 150 settlers survived. Everyone refused to work, Native Americans were hostile, and disease was going around. John Smith declared that if you didn't work, you wouldn't eat and he got the colony back on the right track.
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House of Burgesses
The first legislative assembly the in American colonies. There were 22 burgesses representing 11 plantations, they were elected representatives, each Virginian settlement was able to choose two burgesses. The assembly was one division of the legislature established by governor George Yeardly at Jamestown.
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The Great Migration
The English puritans migrated to New England, the Chesapeake, and the West Indies during the 17th century. The pilgrims settled in the Plymouth Colony and between 13,000 and 21,000 emigrants went to Massachusetts Bay Colony.
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Plymouth/Mayflower Compact
On November 21,1620, the Mayflower set sail to the New world. It's intended destination was the Hudson Bay but due to rough seas, they landed in Plymouth instead. Unfortunately, when they arrived in Plymouth they had a rough start because it was the winter and no one wanted to work. This continued until John Smith came in saying that they couldn't eat unless they worked. They established the Mayflower compact as an adaptation of the Puritan Church. -
New York
The Dutch named it the area New Netherland and the city was named New Amsterdam. The British gained control in 1664 when they sent naval fleet and the Dutch surrendered it without a fight. In 1673 the Dutch briefly got the area back but British recaptured it. https://www.mrnussbaum.com/history-2-2/nycolony/ -
Massachusetts Bay Colony
Settled by about 1,000 puritans from England in 1630. One of the original English settlements under John Winthrop. The puritans established a theocratic government with the franchise limited to church members. They made their living through farming, fishing, and trade.
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Maryland
Maryland was founded by Lord Baltimore in 1633 as a refugee for Catholics. It was part of the Southern colonies that were known for farming cash crops. It was governed as a proprietary colony meaning the owner of the colony ruled it, not the king or queen.
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Rhode Island
Rhode island was founded by Roger Williams and his supporters that were banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony. It was a
New England colony that was established by a group of separatists that wanted there to be a separation between church and state. In 1643, Williams went to England to gain permission to form Providence Plantations from Providence, Portsmouth, and Newport. and later became known as Rhode Island. https://www.landofthebrave.info/rhode-island-colony.htm -
Connecticut
It was first settled by Dutch fur traders in 1614, but England came in at 1633 under the leadership of Reverend Thomas Hooker. It was later taken over by English and they made a permanent settlement.
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Maryland Toleration Act
There was no separation between church and state and there was little religious freedom at the time. Maryland was founded as a refuge for Christians and Protestants, but the Puritans and Protestants started to out number the Christians. As a result of this, Maryland passed an Act of Toleration to ensure the religious freedom of Maryland's Christians. -
Carolina
King Charles II granted the land to eight Lord Proprietors in return for their financial and political assistance. The eight Lords controlled the lands from 1663-1729. In 1669, the Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina divided the colony into two: North and South Carolina.
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Bacon's Rebellion
Nathaniel Bacon led a rebellion against governor William Berkeley. His army was made of indentured servants, slaves, and poor farmers. Bacon and his men attacked and destroyed Jamestown . The rebellion ended after Bacon died from dysentery and his co-conspirators were hung.
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Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania was a Middle Colony founded by William Penn under King Charles II. Pennsylvania was originally known as the Providence of Pennsylvania and was a royal charter company. It was founded for the religious freedom of the Quakers.
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Salem Witch Trials
Two girls claimed to be possessed by the devil and accused other local women to being witches along with them. Hysteria swept through the town and many people were killed and imprisoned. 7 people died in prison, 19 men and women were found guilty and hung and 1 person was crushed to death for refusing to testify. It was ended in September 1692 because people began to disagree with the trials. https://www.britannica.com/event/Salem-witch-trials -
Great Awakening
The Great Awakening was a religious rivalry in the American Colonies that was a retaliation against the Enlightenment that started by Jonathan Edwards, a Yale minister who refused to convert to the Church of England. George Whitefield was apart of the Great Awakening converting many people including Native Americans. The Awakening preachers set up new churches and schooling throughout the colonies, but the old preachers refused to accept the new way of worship.
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French-Indian War
War between France and Great Britain over territory in North America. It lasted seven years and ended with the treaty of Paris of 17632. The treaty stated that France was to give Britain their land that was east of the Mississippi River. This war left Britain in control of the colonies. https://www.britannica.com/event/French-and-Indian-War -
Albany Plan of Union
The Albany Plan of Union was a plan to place the British North American colonies under a more centralized government. On July 10, 1754, representatives from seven of the British North American colonies adopted the plan. Although never carried out, the Albany Plan was the first important proposal to conceive of the colonies as a collective whole united under one government.
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Proclamation of 1763
This was issued by the British board of trade under King George III after the French and Indian war. It was made to accomplish several main goals. The goals were to establish government for their new territories they gained from the war, encourage peace between colonies and the Native American tribes and to keep the colonists confined to the coast for easier taxation.
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Salutary Neglect
This was the relationship between Britain and it's colonies. The British would laxly enforce trade regulations and imperial supervision of the internal colonial affairs were loose as long as the colonists remained loyal to them. This came to an end when Britain was concerned with the favorable balance of trade and started passing acts such as the navigational act which angered the colonists.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/salutary-neglect
