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Roanoke
Raleigh was the man who founded Roanoke. This was the first attempt at founding a permanent English settlement in North America. It was located in today's Dare County, North Carolina. It was known as the Lost Colony .https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roanoke_Colony -
Jamestown
Jamestown was the first permanent English settlement in North America, located near present-day Williamsburg, Virginia. Established on May 14, 1607, the colony gave England its first foothold in the European competition for the New World, which had been dominated by the Spanish since the voyages of Christopher Columbus in the late 15th century.https://www.britannica.com/place/Jamestown-Colony -
House of Burgesses
The Virgina House of Burgesses was formed in 1619 by Governor George Yeardly at Jamestown. It was the first elective governing body in a British overseas possession. The original membership of the House of Burgesses was 22.The popular assembly granted supplies and originated laws, and the governor and council enjoyed the right of revision and veto. -
Mayflower/Plymouth/Mayflower Compact
The Mayflower was an English ship that famously transported the first English Puritans, known today as the Pilgrims, from Plymouth, England to the New World in 1620. In September 1620, during the reign of King James I, around 100 English men and women–many of them members of the English Separatist Church–set sail for the New World aboard the Mayflower, a three-masted merchant ship. The Mayflower Compact was the first governing document of Plymouth Colony.
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Great Migration
English Puritans migrated to New England, the Chesapeake, and the West Indies.They left England primarily due to religious persecution but also for economic reasons as well. Between 13,000 and 21,000 emigrants migrated to Massachusetts. http://historyofmassachusetts.org/the-great-puritan-migration/ -
New York
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Massachusetts Bay Colony
The Massachusetts Bay Colony was an English settlement on the east coast of North America in the 17th century around the Massachusetts Bay. The Massachusetts Bay Colony was founded by the owners of the Massachusetts Bay Company, which included investors in the failed Dorchester Company that had established a short-lived settlement on Cape Ann in 1623.
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Connecticut
The colony of Connecticut was originally established by the Dutch in the early 1630s. Thomas Hooker, a puritan minister, arrived in the colony in 1636 and delivered a powerful sermon. Hooker is responsible for founding Hartford, CT. Eventually, the English drove the Dutch out and gained control of CT. The colony received a charter from England in 1662.
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Maryland
Maryland Colony was a British colony that existed from 1632 until 1776, when it joined the other twelve of the 13 original colonies in rebellion against Great Britain and became the U.S. state of Maryland. Its first settlement and capital was St. Mary’s City. George Calvert, the first Lord Baltimore received a charter to found a colony east of the Potomac River from King Charles I. He was a declared Roman Catholic and wished to found a colony in the New World.
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Rhode Island
The Rhode Island Colony was founded in 1636 by Roger Williams and other colonists, such as Anne Hutchinson at Providence. In 1635, Williams was banished to England by the Massachusetts Bay Colony for his beliefs in separation of church and state and freedom of religion. He fled and lived with the Narragansett Indians in what would become Providence.
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Maryland Toleration Act
The Maryland Toleration Act, also known as the Act Concerning Religion, was a law mandating religious tolerance for Trinitarian Christians. It was passed on April 21, 1649, by the assembly of the Maryland colony, in St. Mary's City. It was the second law requiring religious tolerance in the British North American colonies and created one of the pioneer statutes passed by the legislative body.
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Carolina
In 1663, Charles II was king of England. He gave the land south of Virginia to eight proprietors. These men founded the Carolina colony. They named it after the king's father, Charles I.
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Bacon's Rebellion
Bacon's Rebellion was an armed rebellion in 1676 by Virginia settlers led by Nathaniel Bacon against the rule of Governor William Berkeley. Bacon raised an unauthorized militia of indentured servants, slaves, and farmers to retaliate against a series of Native American attacks on the Virginia Frontier.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacon%27s_Rebellion -
Pennsylvania
The Province of Pennsylvania, also known as the Pennsylvania Colony, was founded in English North America by William Penn on March 4, 1681 as dictated in a royal charter granted by King Charles II. -
Great Awakening/Enlightenment
The Great Awakening was a religious revival that impacted the English colonies in America during the 1730s and 1740s. The movement came at a time when the idea of secular rationalism was being emphasized, and passion for religion had grown stale. The Enlightenment’s important 17th-century precursors included the Englishmen Francis Bacon and Thomas Hobbes, the Frenchman Renee Descartes and the key natural philosophers of the Scientific Revolution, including Galileo, Kepler and Leibniz. -
Salem Witch Trials
The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693. More than 200 people were accused, nineteen of whom were found guilty and executed by hanging (fourteen women and five men). One other man was pressed to death for refusing to plead, and at least five people died in jail. It was the deadliest witch hunt in the history of the United States.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salem_witch_trials -
Albany Plan
The Albany Plan of Union was a proposal made at the Albany Congress back in 1754 aimed at a formation of a strong union of the colonies under one single government and direction. -
French-Indian War
French and Indian War, American phase of a worldwide nine years’ war fought between France and Great Britain.It determined control of the vast colonial territory of North America. The French and Indian War began over the specific issue of whether the upper Ohio River valley was a part of the British Empire, and therefore open for trade and settlement by Virginians and Pennsylvanians, or part of the French Empire.
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Proclamation of 1763
The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued October 7, 1763, by King George III following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War. This proclamation rendered worthless all land grants given by the government to British subjects who fought for the Crown against France.
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Salutary Neglect
Salutary neglect is an American history term that refers to the 17th and 18th century British Crown policy of avoiding strict enforcement of parliamentary laws meant to keep British colonies obedient to England. The term comes from Edmund Burke's "Speech on Conciliation with America" given in the House of Commons March 22, 1775.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salutary_neglect
