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Queen Elizabeth gave paten to Sir Water Raleigh
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2nd group came to settle Roanoke
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Settlers left and went back to Europe
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Over 100 men, women, and children went to America
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Vanished
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King James Steward the 1st
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Granted charter for a new venture
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John Smith was captured
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Jamestown/John Smith. Powhatan/aggressive Indians.
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Supply shortages, aggressive natives, and sickness
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Jamestown captured Pocahontas
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They came to an agreement of trade
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John Smith retured to England. Things turned for the worse.
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Set to abandon Jamestown
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Jamestown managed to harvest a decent crop
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Lord Warr became ill and went back to England.
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Pocahontas was captured by colonists
Pocahontas was captured by colonists and converted to Christian.She marries John Rolfe and the two cultures top fighting. -
Jamestown Thrive
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Pocahontas dies on a trip to Europe
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They needed a new government,
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Puritans escaped religious persecution of the Church
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Rhode Isand founded for dissenters
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Anne Hutchinson did not agree w/ Puritan rules
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Expelled from Michigan
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1660 Parliament rules under Oliver Cromwell
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King Charles 2 becomes King of England
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Carolina Charter
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. -
first recorded slave conspiracy in American
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Mecklenburg Resolves
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. -
King Phillip
King Phillip the Native American Chief fought the Massachusetts Bay colony. Metacom was the Native American Chiefs name. -
Bacons Rebellion
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King James becomes King of England
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Salem Witch Trials in Salem MA
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Spain begins to offer freedom to English owned slaves escaping to Florida.
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Ben Franklin is born
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George Washington is born
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James Oglethorpe receives paten for Georgia
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Last colony was established- Georgia
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First Great Awakening
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Albany Plan
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War between English and French for land in America
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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King George 3 becomes King of England
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Treaty of Paris
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Sugar Act
The first tax was the Sugar Act of 1764. It placed a tax on molasses and sugar imported by the colonies. -
Stamp Act
Stamp Act of 1765 placed a tax on all printed material, such as newspapers and playing cards.
This tax upset the colonists even more. -
Samuel Adams led the protests in Boston against the taxes
He began a secret society called the Sons of Liberty. The Sons of Liberty used violence to scare off the tax collectors. -
Parliament voted to repeal the Stamp Act
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. -
Parliament passed the Decelatory Acts
However, the same day, Parliament passed the Declaratory Acts, asserting that the British government had free and total legislative power over the colonies. -
John Hancock became popular in Massachusetts
He became very popular in Massachusetts, especially after British officials seized his sloop Liberty in 1768 and charged him with smuggling -
Boston Massacre
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.
Sam Adams started calling the incident the Boston Massacre. He used the incident to get more people angry at the British. -
Battle of Alamance Creek in NC
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. -
Revolution and New Nation
Committees of Correspondence were formed throughout the colonies as a means of coordinating action against Great Britain. -
Tea Act
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. -
Boston Tea Party
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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First Continental Congress
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Battle of Lexington and Concord
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Second Continental Congress
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Battle of Bunker's Hill
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Thomas Paine's Common Sense
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Olive Branch Petition
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Congress approves articales of confederation
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British troops seize Philadelphia
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Valley Forge
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Articles of Confedation becomes law
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British General Charles Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown
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Treaty of Paris
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Shay's Rebellion
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Philadelphia convention frames federal Constitution
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Federal Constitution formally ratified by 9 0f 13 states
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George Washington elected and inaugurated s first president
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Thomas Jefferson elected president
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Massive religious revival held at Cane Ridge, Kentucky
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Marbury vs Madison
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Louisiana Purchase for 15 million dollars from France
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Lewis and Clark expedition
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Vice President Aaron Burr kills Alexander Hamilton in a duel
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Fulton’s Clermont steamship successful
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Congressional ban on the importance of slaves
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James Madison elected president
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War of 1812
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James Monroe elected president
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US aquires florida from spain
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McCulloch vs Maryland
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Missouri compromise
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John Quincy Adams elected president
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Indian Removal Act
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abolition movement
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Nat Turner Slave Rebellion
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Martin Van Buren elected President
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Cherokee Removal “Trail of Tears”
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Manifest Destiny
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William Henry Harrison elected President
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John Tyler elected president
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James K Polk
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Zachary Taylor elected President
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Millard Fillmore assumes office of President after Taylor dies
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compromise of 1850
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Uncle Tom’s Cabin by “Harriet Beecher Stowe”
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Kansas nebraska act
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bleeding kansas
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Dred Scott vs Sanford
