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A majority of the colonists died because of the disease, massacre by the Native people, and assimilation into a Native tribe. Many of them died around 1857, because the first 115 English people arrived at the colony and kept the disease with them. -
On the day of May 13, 1617, the London Company found Jamestown. In September, Bacon and his followers decided to attack Jamestown, destroying 16-18 houses, the church and the statehouse. Soon after, in October, the Rebellion began its end with the death of Nathaniel Bacon of the bloody flux. Eventually, many of the rebels were caught and 23 were hanged by Governor Berkeley. -
The 1620 agreement f called the Mayflower Compact in 1793 was a legal instrument that bound the Pilgrims together when they went to New England. The people who signed up had to obey the government and legal system established in Plymouth Colony. -
Giovanni da Verrazzano discovered New York around the year of 1624. Here are some fun facts about New York. Did you know that New York was one of the original thirteen colonies that formed the United States. The Dutch first settled along the Hudson River in 1624 and established the colony of New Amsterdam on Manhattan Island.
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The Massachusetts Bay Colony is a colony that was a 17th Century British settlement and political unit on the east coast of North America. It was created in 1628, its charter revoked in 1684, and it became part of the Dominion of New England Genealogy in 1686. The purpose of it was to escape religious persecution and hoped to build a model religious community in the Americas. -
Roger Williams was the founder of Rhode Island. He found it February 5, 1631. Roger Williams settled on land gonna they gave to him (by the Narragansett tribe) at the tip of Narragansett Bay after being banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for his religious views. -
The Maryland Toleration Act of 1649 religious freedoms to Christian settlers of different denominations who settled in Massachusetts. Lawmakers hoped that it made Massachusetts a better location for immigration and was the first law to protect religious freedom in the Thirteen Colonies.
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For many years, historians have said the Virginia Rebellion of 166 to be the first ever stirring of revolutionary sentiment in America, it culminated in the American Revolution about 100 years later. But in the past few decades, based on the findings from a viewpoint from afar, historians have come to understand the Bacon's Rebellion as a power struggle between two selfish and stubborn leaders rather than a good fight versus tyranny.
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The Selem witch trials are a series of hearings and prosecutions of some people that were accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts around February 1692 and May 1693. Over 200 people were accused of it. 30 people were found guilty and 19 were executed by hanging there was 14 women and 5 men and 2 dogs.
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The Albany plan of Union was a rejected plan to make a unified government for the 13 colonies at the Albany Congress around July 10th,1754 in Albany NY. The plan was made by Benjamin Franklin then an older leader that was around the age of 48 and a delegate from Pennsylvania. The Albany Plan of union was rejected by King George II and by all of the individual colonial governments that considered it adoption.
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The french Indian war is a North American Conflict in a larger imperial war between Great Britain and France known as the Seven Years' War. The French and Indian War began in 1754 and ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763. This war is important because The war provided Great Britain enormous territorial gains in North America. -
Around May 1774, after the Parliament closed down Boston Harbor as revenge for the Boston tea party and the House of Burgesses adopted resolutions in support of the colonists of Boston, Royal governor of Virginia, John Murray, earl of Dunmore, and dissolved the assembly -
The founder of Maryland was George Calvert. He found it because if religious problems in England. Catholics could not openly observe their religion. They also had to pay money to the government because they did not belong to the Anglican Church, which was the Church of England. -
The founder of Connecticut is Thomas Hooker, He found Connecticut around January 9, 1788. Facts about Connecticut are: The nickname for Connecticut is The constitution state, the statehood is 1788; 5th state, The population as of July 2015 is 3,590,886, The capital is Hartford, Abbreviation is CT, state bird is the American robin, and the state flower is the mountain laurel. -
The Great Migration was a relocation to over 6 million Black Americans from the South to some parts of the North, West, and the Midwest from 1916 to around 1970. Drove to their homes by economic opportunities and harsh laws. Many of the Black Americans went to the north where they took over the need for workers that arose during the first world war during the Great Migration, Black people started to build a new place for themselves in public life, always confronting racial prejudice.