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Protestant Revolt
Protestant resentment against Catholic proprietor erupted into a brief civil war. They triumphed, and Act of Toleration was repealed. The Catholics lost their right to vote in election for the Maryland assembly. -
Jamestown
the king of England king James I chartered the Virginia Company,a joint-stock company that founded the first permanent English colony at Jamestown -
The Chesapeake colonies
King Charles I subdivided the Virginia colony. he chartered a new colony on either side of Chesapeake Bay and granted control of it to George Calvert. The new of Maryland thus became the first proprietary. -
The Dominion of New England
A New king,James II, succeeded to the throne in 1685. He increase the royal control over the colonies . He combined New York, New Jersey, and the various New England colonies into a single united called the Dominion of New England. -
The Great Awakening
sermons in the Protestant churches tended to a a long intellectual discourses and portrayed God ad being creator of a perfectly ordered universe in the beginning of 18th century. The Great Awakening was a movement characterized by fervent expression of religion felling masses of people. -
Georgia: The Last Colony
In 1732, a thirteenth colony,Georgia, was chartered . It was the last of the british colonies and the only one to receive direct financial support from the government in London.