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In 1587, Roanoke also known as "The Lost City of Roanoke" was found. The city would've been the first permanent English colony in the new world. But one day all of the settlers disappeared due to unknown circumstances. brittanica -
In 1607, 104 English men arrived in North America to make settlement. On May 13 they picked Jamestown, Virginia for their settlement, which was named after their King, James I. Jamestown became the first permanent English settlement in North America. -
Dutch traders arrived in 1614 and made Conneticut the first European settlement in 1633. But both dutch and English settlers found the settlements. then the land became English territory. [national geographic kids] https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/ -
in 1619, The house of Burgesses created laws and granted supplies. Exactly like the house of English commons. It was also elected First democratically legislative body in the British American colonies.
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Mayflower Compact, document signed on the ship Mayflower on November 20, 1620, prior to its docking at Plymouth, Massachusetts. It was the first work of government written and enacted in the territory that is now the United States of America.
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In the mid-1640s Massachusetts Bay Colony had grown to more than 20,000 inhabitants. Increasing estrangement between the colony and England resulted in the annulment of the company's charter in 1684 and the substitution of the royal government under a charter granted in 1691. -
From 1629-1640 the great migration was in its works. The English pilgrims and emigrants were headed towards Massachusetts. They left because of mass religious persecution in England.
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On March 24, 1663, Charles II issued a new charter to a group of English noblemen, granting them the land of Carolina, as a reward for their faithful support of his efforts to regain the throne of England. The eight were called Lords Proprietor or simply Proprietors -
On March 25, 1634 the English, the Ark and Dove arrived with settlers and landed at St. Clements Island in St. Mary's County, marking Maryland's beginning. On this island, the first Roman Catholic Mass in the English colonies was celebrated. -
Rhode Island was found in 1636 by Roger Williams and other European settlers who were banned from the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Williams negotiated with the Native Americans that were there for land and named the land Providence Plantations. -
In 1664, the English colony took New Netherland from the Dutch, renaming it New York. Ownership of New York was valuable because of its location and status as a port of commerce and trade. This Oyster Island was granted to Captain Robert Needham by the colonial Governor of New York, Richard Nicholls. -
The Toleration Act was believed, was a way of providing protection to Catholics while at the same time representing a change in the direction of the English government, which in 1649 and for a many years there after was firmly under the control of the English Puritans. -
Bacon's Rebellion was a fight that lasted from 1676-1677. It began from a local dispute with the Doeg Indians on the Pontiac River. Chased north by Virginia militiamen. -
English man William Penn found Pennsylvania in 1681 because King Charles II granted him a charter for over 45,000 square miles of land. Penn had previously helped found Quaker settlements in West New Jersey and was eager to expand his Quaker colony. -
The Salem witch trials and executions came from the result of a combination of church politics, family feuds, and hysterical children, all of which unfolded from political authority. -
The Great Awakening was an outburst of Protestant Revivalism of the eighteenth century the beliefs of the New Lights from the First Great Awakening competed with the more conservative religion of the first colonists who were known as Old Lights. -
The Albany Plan was a plan to place the British North American colonies under a more centered government. The plan was made official on July 10, 1754, by representatives from seven of the British North American colonies. -
The war provided Great Britain enormous territory gains in North America, but fights over subsequent frontier policy and paying the war's expenses led to a colonial discontent, and finally to the American Revolutionary war. -
The Proclamation of 1763 was a British produced territorial limit marked in the Appalachian Mountains. Decreed on October 7, 1763, the Proclamation Line prohibited Anglo American colonists from settling on lands acquired from the French following the French and Indian War. -
Salutary Neglect is the British policy of letting the colonies ignore most of the British Laws. This policy changed when Britain was broke after the French and Indian war and needed the Colonies to start paying taxes and following their laws.