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Growth of the Thirteen Colonies from 1600-1770
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1st House of Burgesses Meeting
This meeting was held to create laws. The burgesses were the representatives of the colonies towns. They could make local laws for the towns. -
Mayflower Compact
The compact pledged their loyalty to England. Also it declared their intension of forming a civil body politic. It was a necessary step in the development of the representative government in the new American colonies. -
New Hampshire
Ferdinando Goges and Jon Mason founded New Hampshire . They founded New Hamshire to get profit from fur and fish trading. -
John Winthrop led settlers to Massechusetts Bay
Winthrop led 900 men, women and children.Most of the people settled in a place called Boston. -
Maryland
Cecil Calvert founded Maryland for the purpose to sell land. also to have religious freedom. -
Connecticut
Thomas Hooker founded Connecticut for farming and religious and political freedom. He also founded it for profit from fur trading. -
Rhode Island
Roger Williams founded Rhode Island. He founded it for one reason religious freedom. -
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
It was the 1st written constitution in America. It describes the organization of Representatives government in America. -
Act of Toleration
The act granted Protestents and Catholics the right to worship freely. It was the second law passed for toleration. -
Pennsylvania
William Penn founded Pennsylvania for profit from selling land. He also founded it for religious freedom. -
Glorious Revolution
It forced out James and placed his daughter Mary on the throne. Mary had a Dutch husband named William of the Orange. -
Charter of Liberities
Penn granted colonists the right to elect representatives to the legislature. It gave them a representative government. -
Great Awakening
A religious rival swept through the colonies in the New England and Middle Colonies. From 1720 to 1740's ministers called for "a new birth." -
French and Indian War
The French and Indian War is a war against Britain. The French and Indians joined together against Britain. -
Pontiac's War
Pontiac gathered forces and captured the British fort and other British outposts. In the summer the Native Americans killed settlers along the Pennyslvannia and Virginia frontiers. -
Proclamation of 1763
It set the Apalachain Mountaians as the western boundary fo the colonies. The boundary was temporary. The proclamation angered many of the colonists who owned shares in land companies. -
Treaty of Paris
It forced France to give Cananda to Britain. Also they had to give most of the land east of the Mississippi River to Britain.
