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Carolina
Called by the French, in 1563 or 1564. The territory thus named afterwards included the lands between the 30th and 36th degrees of north latitude. In 1663, this defined territory was conveyed, by Charles II -
Roanoke
The lost colony Roanoke was established. The Roanoke Colony, also known as the Lost Colony, was established in 1585 on Roanoke Island in what is today's Dare County, North Carolina. It was an attempt by Queen Elizabeth I to establish a permanent English settlement. https://tse4.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.ycx-SfANSpNxOZnFu_5uiQEsDX&w=246&h=177&c=7&qlt=90&o=4&pid=1.7 -
James Town
The Virginia Company sailed from England to try and establish the first English colony in the New World. Their instructions were to settle Virginia, find gold and a water route to the Orient. The explorers landed on Jamestown Island on the banks of the James River on May 14, 1607. https://www.virginia.org/JamestownVirginia/ -
Salutary Neglect
An American history term that refers to the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British Crown policy of avoiding strict enforcement of parliamentary laws meant to keep American colonies obedient to England. Salutary neglect occurred in three time periods. -
House of Burgesses
The House of Burgesses was an assembly of elected representatives from Virginia that met from 1643 to 1776. This democratically elected legislative body was the first of its kind in English North America. From 1619 until 1643, elected burgesses met in unicameral session with the governor and the royally appointed governor's Council. https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/House_of_Burgesses -
Mayflower/plymouth/mayflower compact
The Mayflower Compact, signed by 41 English colonists on the ship Mayflower on November 11, 1620, was the first written framework of government established in what is now the United States. http://www.history.com/topics/mayflower-compact -
Maryland Toleration act
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. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryland_Toleration_Act -
Connecticut
Connecticut's first European settlers were Dutch. They established a small, short-lived settlement in present-day Hartford at the confluence of the Park and Connecticut rivers.. The first major settlements were established in the 1630s by England. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connecticut -
Massachusetts Bay Colony
One of the original English settlements in present-day Massachusetts, settled in 1630 by a group of about 1,000 Puritans by John Winthrop and Deputy Gov, Thomas Dudley. In 1629, the Massachusetts Bay Company had obtained from King Charles, I a charter empowering the company to trade and colonize in New England. https://www.britannica.com/place/Massachusetts-Bay-Colony -
Maryland
Europeans began exploring the area, starting with the Italian/Venetian John Cabot, exploring the coast of the continent of North America for England in 1498. The first European settlements were made in 1634. -
Rhode Island
In 1636, Roger Williams settled at the top of Narragansett Bay on land sold or given to Him. He named the site Providence. He left because of his religious views. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhode_Island -
Bacons Rebellion
Bacon's Rebellion was a rebellion in 1676 by Virginia settlers led by Nathaniel Bacon against the rule of Governor William Berkeley. A thousand Virginians of all classes and races rose up in arms against Berkeley, attacking Indians, chasing Berkeley from Jamestown, Virginia, and capital. The rebellion was first stopped by a few armed merchant ships from London whose captains sided with Berkeley and the loyalists. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacon%27s_Rebellion -
Salem witch trials
June through September of 1692, nineteen men and women, all having been convicted of witchcraft, were carted to Gallows Hill, a barren slope near Salem Village, for hanging. Another man of over eighty years was pressed to death under heavy stones for refusing to submit to a trial on witchcraft charges. http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/FTrials/salem/SALEM.HTM -
Great Awakening
A religious revival in the British American colonies mainly between about 1720 and the ’40s. It was a part of the religious ferment that swept western Europe in the latter part of the 17th century and early 18th century. https://www.britannica.com/event/Great-Awakening -
French and Indian War
The French and Indian War comprised the North American theater of the worldwide Seven Years' War. It pitted the colonies of British America against those of New France. Both sides were supported by military units of Great Britain and France, as well as by American Indian allies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_and_Indian_War -
Proclamation of 1763
The Proclamation of 1763 was issued under King George III of England after the French and Indian War in order to accomplish several main goals. One of the goals were to establish governments for their new territories gained after the war. http://www.revolutionary-war-and-beyond.com/proclamation-of-1763.html -
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania was founded by William Penn as a haven for his fellow Quakers. Pennsylvania’s capital, Philadelphia, was the site of the first and second Continental Congresses in 1774 and 1775. Pennsylvania became the second state, after Delaware, to ratify the U.S. Constitution. http://www.history.com/topics/us-states/pennsylvania -
New York
Before European settlement, the area now known as New York was home to a number of Native American and Europeans. Settlement of New York began at New Amsterdam on Manhattan Island. From there, Dutch and then English settlers expanded northward along the Hudson River to present-day Albany, then west along the Mohawk River tribes. https://wikitravel.org/en/New_York_(state) -
Albany Plan
The Albany Plan of Union was a plan to create a unified government for the Thirteen Colonies, suggested by Benjamin Franklin. More than twenty representatives of several Northern and Mid-Atlantic colonies had gathered to plan their defense related to the French and Indian War, the front in North America of the Seven Years' War between Great Britain and France. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albany_Plan -
Great Migration
The Great Migration was the movement of 6 million African-Americans out of the rural Southern United. States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West. http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/great-migration
