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Growth of the Thirteen Colonies from 1600-1800 (AshP)
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1st House of Burgesses meeting
The House of Burgesses' first meeting was in 1619. The burgesses made local laws for the colony -
Mayflower Compact Made
Ten days after their first stop at Cape Cod, the adult males on the Mayflower agree a form of government for their new colony called the Mayflower Compact. -
William Bradford
In 1620 William Bradford begins a journal of the Pilgrims' experience in New England. -
John Winthrop
The Massachusetts Bay Company picked John Winthrop for the governer of the colony. He brought 900 men, women, and children to Massachusetts Bay. -
Roger Williams
Roger Williams and other colonists who were forced out of Massachusetts settled Rhode Island. -
Thomas Hooker
Thomas Hooker did not like the way Puritan leaders ran the Massachusetts colony. In 1636 he brought his congregation to Hartford, Connecticut. -
Fundamental Orders Drafted
After Hartford, Windsor, and Wethersfield formed a colony they formed the first plan of government in America called the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut. In great detail it described the organization of representative government -
Peter Stuyvesant
In 1664 Peter Stuyvesant surrendered Dutch to England without a shot being fired. -
William Penn
In 1682 William Penn supervised Philadelphia, he later founded Pennsylvania. -
British Take Port Royal
In 1690 British took Port Royal from French. -
French Retake Port Royal
After British take Port Royal in 1690 the French retake it. -
British Take Acadia and Port Royal
In 1710 Port Royal and Acadia fall to British. -
British take French Fortress
In 1745 British took French fortress at Louisbourg. -
Louisborg Returns to France
The Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle returns Louisbourg to France. -
British recapture Louisbourg
In 1758 the British retook Louisbourg
