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First colony of England in the new world (America) that mysteriously disappeared without any signs of struggle.
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First English settlement in North America. Destroyed later in the seventeenth century.
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Laws put in place that were meant to keep American colonies obedient to England.
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First democratically-elected legislative body in British North America.
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The Mayflower Compact was the first agreement for self-government to be created and enforced in America. The Mayflower, a British ship, with 102 Pilgrims on it, sailed from Plymouth, England.
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The New York Colony was one of the original 13 colonies on the Atlantic coast of North America.
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The Massachusetts Bay Colony was settled in 1630 by a group of about 1,000 Puritan refugees from England.
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One of America's first original 13 colonies, the Maryland Colony was named after King Charles I's wife Queen Henrietta Maria.
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The Maryland Toleration Act was a law authorizing religious tolerance for Trinitarian Christians.
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Bacon's Rebellion was an armed rebellion in 1676 by Virginia settlers led by Nathaniel Bacon against the rule of Governor William Berkeley.
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The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts.
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Great Awakening was a revitalization of religious feeling.The Enlightenment was an intellectual and philosophical movement which dominated the world of ideas in Europe during the 18th century.
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The Albany Plan of Union was a plan to create a unified government for the Thirteen Colonies. Failed.
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British and Indians fight against France to try to gain control of Northern land.
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Forbade all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains.
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Founded in English North America by William Penn.
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The River Colony, was an English colony in North America that became the U.S. state of Connecticut.
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The Province of Carolina was an English and later a British colony of North America. Carolina was founded in what is modern-day North Carolina.
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The Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations was one of the original Thirteen Colonies established on the east coast of North America, bordering the Atlantic Ocean.
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The Great Migration was the movement of 6 million African-Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West.
