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Virginia is founded
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Massachusetts is founded
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New Hampshire is founded
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The First Puritans Arrive
- Came to practice religous reasons, but didn't want to break away from the Church on England like the pilgrims.
- They wanted to make the church more pure, so they called themselves the Puritans.
- They built Salem, a village on Massachusetts bay.
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John Winthrop Arrives
- John Windrop leads the second group of Puritans to Massachusetts Bay Colony.
- Winthrop's group named their settlement Boston, after a town in England.
- John Winthrop was elected govener of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
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Maryland is founded
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Conneticut is founded
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Disagreements with chrch and goverment in Massachusetts
- Annie Hutchinson and Roger Williams were two people who thought that the Puritas should be separate from the colony's goverment.
- The Puritans leaders voted to expel Williams Massachusetts.
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The Puritans made Hardvard college, now known as Hardvard University
- First college in the English colonies.
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Rhode Island is founded
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Anne Hitchinson is forced to leave Massachusetts
- Both Anne Hutchinson and William started settlements that joined to form the Rhode Island Colony.
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Delaware is founded
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Tolerance Act
- Maryland passed the tolerencce act. This act gave freesom of religons to all the Christians.
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New York is founded
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New Jersey is founded
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King Phillip War
- Disagreement over land led to war between the colonist and Native Americans.
- Metacomet or King Phillip, the leader of the Wampanog, united many tribes to fight against the colonist.
- Hundreds of colonist and thousands of Native Americans, Metacomet where killed.
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Pennsylvania is founded
- William Penn, an English Quaker, got approval to start a colony. He named it pennsylvania.
- He also became the owner of Delaware.
- Penn wrote the frame of goverment of Pennsylvania. It gave people freesom of speech, freedom of religion, and the right to a trial by jury.
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Middle passage
- Trading Ships carrying goods and raw materials also carried enslaved people from central Africa.
- Middle Passage - Millions of enslaved Africans were placed on ships and forced to travel across the Alantic Ocean form Africa to the English colonies.
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North and South Carolina
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Great Awakening
- New religious movement begins. It awakened, or renewed many people's intrest in religion.
- Poor people, women, enslaved people even started taking part in religous gatherings.
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Georgia is founded
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Fort Mose
- Fort Mose was the first free African settlement in North america.
- Some were set free by their owners, others bought their freedom.
