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Growth of the 13 colonies
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House of burgesses
In 1619 james towns colonists held there first house of burgesses. Wich is were the constitution would be signed, and agreements would be made. -
Massachussetes pilgrims
Massachussetes pilgrims came up with the mayflower compact. Wich was sucessful. -
pocahontas
Was the daughter of powhatan. She is famous for saving captain John Smiths life -
Massachussetes bay
In 1630 John Winthrop had led many settlers to massachussetes bay. He had thought this would be a good place to settle. -
williamsburg
williamsburg was known as a middle plantation founded in virginia -
Roger Williams
Roger Williams was forced out of massachussetes. -
Thomas hooker
Thomas hooker founded the town of hartford conneticut in 1636. -
First university
North americas first university was founded in cambridge in massachussetes bay colony. Then later gets a large bequest from John harvard. -
first book written
In 1640 the first book was written called the Bay Paslm Book. It was printed by puritans in massachussetes bay. -
act of toleration
The act of toleration, helped Maryland to have religous freedom. When the act of toleration was passed Maryland had the oppurtunity to have religous freedom -
Amsterdam and the Dutch
Amsterdam surrendered to the Dutch colony. They did this in 1664 -
William Penn supervised the building of Philadalphia
William penn the founder of pennsylvania, supervised the building of the city of Philadalphia -
The number of people grew
The number of people grew by 250,000 and imagration was important to the growth of people -
legeslative representatives
Charter of liberties permitted colonists in pennsylvania to elect legeslative representatives -
Join or Die
The letters resembled the colonies and the snake resembled the colonies spread apart and they should get together or they wouldnt make it. -
loyal colonies
Georgia massachussetes, New York, North carolina, South carolina and virgina were loyal colonies -
French and indian war
Indian soldiers fought against the french because they were afraid that they would take over there land. This was known as the seven year war.
