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The House of Burgesses was the first assembly of elected representatives of English colonists in North America. It was established by the Virginia Company. English craftsmen to settle in North America.
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John Winthrop was the govener of the massachusetts bay colony. He studied at Trinity collage. He became a large government administrator with strong Puritan leanings. Also, he was a member of the massachusetts bay compony.
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Roger Williams searched for the spiritually pure congregation and eventually led him to a conviction that the world was so deeply sinful, that it would not be redeemed until Christ's return.
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Fundamental Orders were adopted by the Connecticut Colony council on January 14, 1638/39. John Fiske, a Connecticut historian, was the first to claim that the Fundamental Orders were the first written Constitution, a claim disputed by some modern historians.
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Work of the Maryland Catholic Conference to advance the public policy interests of the Catholic Church in Maryland is made possible by the foundation laid by our Catholic forebears as early as the 16th century.
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Peter Stuyvesant is remembered as the stubborn somewhat choleric governor of the Dutch West India Company's base on the mainland. A zealous Calvinist, he brought a relatively effective government to the colony, absorbed the nearby rival Swedish settlements, and attempted to remold New Netherland in his own and the company's image.
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He was expelled from Oxford for his religious nonconformity and was then sent by his father to the Continent to overcome his leanings toward Puritanism. He also went on preaching missions through England, the Netherlands, and Germany.
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Port Royal was a city located at the end of the Palisadoes at the mouth of the Kingston Harbour, in southeastern Jamaica. Founded in 1518, it was the centre of shipping commerce in the Caribbean Sea during the latter half of the 17th century. It was destroyed by an earthquake in 1692 and subsequent fires, hurricanes, flooding, epidemics and another earthquake in 1907.
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Charter of Liberties, also called the Coronation Charter, was a written proclamation by Henry I of England, issued upon his accession to the throne in 1100.
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Port Royal was the capital of Acadia from 1605 to 1710 and is now a town called Annapolis Royal in the western part of the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. Initially Port Royal was located on the north shore of the Annapolis Basin, Nova Scotia, at the site of the present reconstruction of the original Habitation at Port-Royal.
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Its two sieges, especially that of 1758, were turning points in the Anglo-French imperial struggle for what today is Canada. Captured by British colonists in 1745, It was a major bargaining chip in the negotiations leading to the 1748 treaty ending the War of the Austrian Succession, and was returned to French contries.
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Louisbourg was an important bargaining chip in the peace negotiations to end the war, since it represented a major British success. Factions within the British government were opposed to returning it to the French as part of any peace agreement, but these were eventually overruled, and Louisbourg was returned.
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Although the Fortress of Louisbourg's construction and layout was acknowledged as having superior seaward defences, a series of low rises behind them provided attackers places to erect siege batteries. The fortress was barly paid.
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Appalachian Mountains, the temporary western boundary for the colonies. Angerd those who owned shares in land colonies. Speculators or inventors already had bought land west of the mountains.
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Little is known of Pontiac’s early life, but by 1755 he had become a tribal chief. His commanding manner and talent for strategic planning enabled him to also become the leader of a loose confederacy among the Ottawa, the Potawatomi, and the Ojibwa.
