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This meeting was held to create laws. The burgesses were the representatives of the colonies towns. They could make local laws for the towns.
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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.
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Ferdinando Goges and Jon Mason founded New Hampshire . They founded New Hamshire to get profit from fur and fish trading.
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Winthrop led 900 men, women and children.Most of the people settled in a place called Boston.
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Cecil Calvert founded Maryland for the purpose to sell land. also to have religious freedom.
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Thomas Hooker founded Connecticut for farming and religious and political freedom. He also founded it for profit from fur trading.
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Roger Williams founded Rhode Island. He founded it for one reason religious freedom.
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It was the 1st written constitution in America. It describes the organization of Representatives government in America.
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The act granted Protestents and Catholics the right to worship freely. It was the second law passed for toleration.
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William Penn founded Pennsylvania for profit from selling land. He also founded it for religious freedom.
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It forced out James and placed his daughter Mary on the throne. Mary had a Dutch husband named William of the Orange.
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Penn granted colonists the right to elect representatives to the legislature. It gave them a representative government.
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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."
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The French and Indian War is a war against Britain. The French and Indians joined together against Britain.
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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.
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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.
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It forced France to give Cananda to Britain. Also they had to give most of the land east of the Mississippi River to Britain.
