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Roanoke
Roanoke was founded by Ralph Lane, its mayor John White, left for England and came back 3 years later to find the settlement empty. The word CROATOAN carved onto the trees on the colonies border. The Croatoan were a small ethnic living along the coast of what is now North Carolina. -
Jamestown
Jamestown was the first permanent English settlement in North America, on May 14, 1607 about 104 people from a group called Virginia Company founded the first English settlement in North America. -
House of Burgesses
The House of Burgesses was an assembly of elected representatives from Virginia, that met to set up basic laws, establish land rights, and trade relations, and also to choose the Church of England as their religion. -
Mayflower Compact
The Mayflower Compact was a contract signed by all the people on the Mayflower establishing a government for when they landed. -
Great Puritan Migration
The Puritans were members from a religious movement known as Puritanism, and they migrated to Northern English colonies to avoid persecution. They settled in the Massachusetts Bay colony and only allowed people from their church to settle there. -
Massachusetts Bay Colony
The Massachusetts Bay Colony was settled in 1630 by a group of about 1,000 puritans from England, the puritans were persecuted for their beliefs in England so they wanted a place where they could practice their religion in peace. The puritans only allowed members of their church to settle there and anyone who disagreed with their beliefs had to leave the colony. -
Maryland
In the 1600's king Charles l of England gave George Calvert the right to set up a colony in America. George Calvert has been planning to establish a colony where all Christians and Roman Catholics could worship. The colony was first started in 1634. Maryland passed America's first law regarding religious freedom, the law granted religious freedom to all Christians. -
Connecticut
The first occupants of Connecticut were the Native Americans, but in 1633 the first permanent European settlers in the state came from the Massachusetts colony.There were trading posts established along the Connecticut river by the Dutch, there was also a good relationships between Native Americans and early settlers. -
Rhode Island
In 1636 Roger Williams and his followers founded Providence. They had been banished from Massachusetts for their beliefs so they went out seeking religious freedom. In 1663 the king of England finally granted a charter that created the new colony Rhode Island. -
Maryland Toleration act
The Maryland toleration act Governor Calvert welcomed Roman Catholics and also non Catholic Christians. Maryland passed the act concerning religion in 1649. This act granted freedom to all Christians, this was the first religious toleration in America. -
Carolina
In 1653 Virginia moved South into the Carolina's. Charles town, now Charleston South Carolina was founded in 1670, it also was the first English settlement that was permanent in the province of Carolina. However, North and South Carolina did not become separate until 1712. -
New York
In 1624 the Dutch settled along the Hudson river and established the colony of New Amsterdam. In 1664 the English took control of the area and named it New York -
Bacon's rebellion
Bacon's rebellion was the first popular riot in England's North American colonies, in 1676 a man named Nathaniel Beacon led the riot. Beacon and his family moved to Virginia and was soon in conflict with the governor, William Berkeley. The main conflict was about the Native Americans, Beacon wanted to remove all of them while Berkeley wanted to foster trade with them. Berkeley declared beacon a rebel and their forces clashed. -
Pennsylvania
King Charles ll of England granted the Pennsylvania region to William Penn in 1681. Penn was a Quaker, Quakers were punished in England for their religious beliefs. Penn established the colony as a safe place for more Quakers to come and settle. -
Salem witch trials
The Salem witch trials began in the spring of 1692, after a young group of girls in Salem village Massachusetts, claimed to be possessed by the devil and accused several local women of witchcraft. The witch trials were a series of investigations and persecutions, where people would be hanged of imprisoned. -
Great Awakening/ Enlightenment
The Great Awakening was a religious movement in the British colonies. Christian protestants taught that good behavior and individual faith were more important than bible reading and book learning. The Great awakening was one of the first really important movement against slavery. The Enlightenment was people objecting to the absolute power of royal rulers and started in Europe . Some historians even believe that the Great awakening and Enlightenment helped lead to the American Revolution -
Albany plan
The Albany Congress was to discuss plans with the war with France that was starting.With the war approaching, the Albany plan was a plan that colonists made when they realized that they needed to work together, the representatives then suggested a union of the colonies, but the plan never went into effect. -
French Indian War
The French Indian War started in 1754 and ended in 1764. The war was fought between France and Great Britain to take control of the colonial territory of North America. Even though France had help from Native Americans, Britain won the war, taking control of most of the North American colonies. -
Proclamation of 1763
In 1763 the British king issued a royal decree to manage Great Britain's lands in North America, with its recent victory against France, Great Britain had a lot of land that they needed to manage. The proclamation prohibited British colonist from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains, so that it could help manage the lads better. -
Salutary neglect
The Salutary neglect was an unofficial policy from the 1600's to the mid 1700's by the British government. This policy allowed its North American colonies to be with little to no interference from the British.