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Queen Elizabeth gave paten to Sir Water Raleigh to settle NA.
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1608 Agreement: Indians gave corn and Europeans gave bread/metal weapons.
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Lord Warr became ill and went back to England. Sir Thomas Dale takes over and launches raids against the Algonquains
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Pocahontas was captured by colonists and converted to Christian.She marries John Rolfe and the two cultures top fighting.
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Rolfe introduces a new tobacco seed from the West Indies, Jamestown Thrive
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They needed a new government, and began the first slave trade within the settlement
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Puritans escaped religious persecution of the Church of England wanted reform.
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Anne Hutchinson did not agree w/ Puritan rules and banished form Massachusets
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The Carolina Charter of 1663 was a gift of land from England’s King Charles 2 to eight friends who had helped me regain the thrown.
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The first recorded slave conspiracy was in Gloucester County, VA.
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It was also called the Charlotte Town Resolves and was a list of statements adopted at Charlotte in Mecklenburg county on May 31, 1775 drafted the month following the fighting at Lexington and Concord.
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King Phillip the Native American Chief fought the Massachusetts Bay colony. Metacom was the Native American Chiefs name.
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a cluster of accusation of witchcraft leads to persecution.
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Albany Plan was proposed by Ben Franklin in 1754. It aimed to unite the 13 colonies for military and trade purposes.
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1754 to 1763 war fought over the land in America between the English and French.
It was called the Seven Years War in Europe.
Called the French and Indian War because the Indians helped the French in the war against the British. The Indians had nothing to lose. The British were taking their land, the French were not.
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The first tax was the Sugar Act of 1764. It placed a tax on molasses and sugar imported by the colonies.
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Stamp Act of 1765 placed a tax on all printed material, such as newspapers and playing cards.
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He began a secret society called the Sons of Liberty. The Sons of Liberty used violence to scare off the tax collectors.
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After months of protest, and an appeal by Benjamin Franklin before the British House of Commons, Parliament voted to repeal the Stamp Act in March 1766.
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However, the same day, Parliament passed the Declaratory Acts, asserting that the British government had free and total legislative power over the colonies.
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He became very popular in Massachusetts, especially after British officials seized his sloop Liberty in 1768 and charged him with smuggling
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Colonial men were shouting insults at the British soldiers.
They started throwing things, probably snow balls and rocks.
Someone yelled “fire” and the Red Coats (what the British soldiers were called) shot.
Five colonists were killed. These were the first Americans killed in the War for Independence.
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The Battle of Alamance was the final battle of the War of the Regulation, a rebellion in colonial North Carolina over issues of taxation and local control. There is a marker located along NC State Route 62 about 1/2 mile south of I-40/I-85.
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Committees of Correspondence were formed throughout the colonies as a means of coordinating action against Great Britain.
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The Tea Act, passed by Parliament on May 10, 1773, would launch the final spark to the revolutionary movement in Boston. The act was not intended to raise revenue in the American colonies, and in fact imposed no new taxes.
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The Boston Tea Party (initially referred to by John Adams as "the Destruction of the Tea inBoston") was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, on December 16, 1773.
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British defeated the Americans at the Battle of Bunker Hill in Massachusetts
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On this day in 1775, the Continental Congress adopts the Olive Branch Petition, written by John Dickinson, which appeals directly to King George III and expresses hope for reconciliation between the colonies and Great Britain
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