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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 religious beliefs, but dind't want to break away from the Church of Englnd like the Pilgrims.
They wanted to make the church more pure, so they were calldd the Puritans.
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John Winthrop arrives
John Winthrop leads 2 group of Puritans to Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Winthrop's group named their settlement Boston, after a town in England.
John Winthrop was elected governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony -
Maryland is founded
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Disagreements with church and government in Massachusetts
Anne Hutchinson and Roger Williams were two people who belived the Puritan church should be seperate from the colony's goverment.
Puritan leaders voted to expel Williams from Massachusettes.
Connecticut was founded. -
Puritans founded Harvard College, now known as Harvard University
First college in the English colonies.
Rhode Island is founded. -
Anne Hutchinson is forced to leave Massachusetts
Both Williams and Hutchinson started settlements that joined to form the Rhode Island Colony -
Delaware is founded
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Toleration Act
Maryland passed the Toleration Act. This act gave religious freedom to all Christians. -
New York and New Jersey is founded
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King Phillip's War
Disagreements over land led to war between the colonists and Native Americans.
Metacomet or King Phillip, the leader of the Wampanoag, united many trives to fight against the colonists.
Hundreds of colonists and thousands of Native Americans , in cluding Metacomet were killed. -
Pennsylvania is founded
William Penn, an English Quaker, got approval to start a colony. Henamed it Pennsylvania.
He also became the owner or proprietor of Delaware
Penn wrote The Frame of Govenment of Pennsylvania. It gave people freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and the right to a trial by jury -
Middle Passage
Trading ships carrying goods and raw materials also carried enslaved people from centraland western Africa.
Middle Passage - Millions of enslaved Africans were place on ships and forced to travel across the Atlantic Ocean from Africa to the English colonies -
North and South Carolina
Carolina was split into two colonies - North and South Dakota. -
Great Awakening
New religious movement begins. It "awakened",or tenewed, many people's interest in religion.
Poor people, women, and evslaved people even started taking pain religious gatherings. -
Georgia is founded
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Fort Mose
Fort Mose was the first free Africans settlement in North America.
Some were set free by their owners; others bought their freedom.
