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Roanoke
Under leadership of John White 100 men, women and children settled on an Island called Roanoke. Soon after settling on the island White goes back to England to gather supplies he returns back to the island to discover that the settlement was deserted and the only clue was the were "CROATOAN" carved into a tree. White never had the chance to see what happened to them because stormy weather made it impossible to find them, so White returned back to England. -
Jamestown
On May 14, 1607, a group of roughly 100 members of a joint venture called the Virginia Company founded the first permanent English settlement in North America on the banks of the James River. Famine, disease and conflict with local Native American tribes in the first two years brought Jamestown to the brink of failure.
Tobacco became Virginia’s first profitable export, and a period of peace followed the marriage of colonist John Rolfe to Pocahontas, the daughter of an Algonquian chief.
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Salutary Neglect
Salutary neglect was Britain's unofficial policy, initiated by prime minister Robert Walpole, to relax the enforcement of strict regulations imposed on the American colonies late in the seventeenth and early in the eighteenth centuries. Walpole and other proponents of this approach hoped that Britain, by easing its grip on colonial trade, could focus its attention on European politics and further cement its role as a world power.
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House of Burgesses
The first legislature made up of elected representatives in North America were established in Jamestown, the only way representatives could get into the House were the votes of property owners. In 1924 Virginia became a Royal colony so the house was revoked.
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Mayflower/Plymouth/Mayflower Compact
The Mayflower was an English ship that transported the first English Puritans, known today as the Pilgrims, from Plymouth, England to the New World in 1620. On the Mayflower Compact was the first governing document of Plymouth Colony. It was written by the male passengers of the Mayflower, consisting of separatist Puritans, adventurers, and tradesmen. The Puritans were fleeing from religious persecution by King James of England.
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New York
The New York Colony was one of the four Middle Colonies which also included the Pennsylvania Colony, the New Jersey Colony, and the Delaware Colony. The New York Colony was originally a Dutch colony called New Amsterdam, founded by Peter Minuit in 1626 on Manhattan Island.
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Massachusetts Bay Colony
The second, larger Puritan colony of Massachusetts Bay was conceived as a "city upon a hill." But it also struggled with internal turmoil like the Salem Witch Trials. A much larger group of English Puritans left England in the 1630s, establishing the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the New Haven Colony, the Connecticut Colony, and Rhode Island.
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Great Puritan Migration
The Great Puritan Migration was when English puritans migrated to New England, the Chesapeake and the West Indies. English migration to Massachusetts consisted of a few hundred pilgrims who went to Plymouth Colony in the 1620's and about 20,000 emigrants who went to the Massachusetts Bay Colony between 1630 and 1642.
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Maryland
The Province of Maryland—also known as the Maryland Colony—was founded in 1632 as a safe haven for English Catholics fleeing anti-Catholic persecution in Europe. The colony was established by Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore (also known as Lord Baltimore), who also governed the Colony of Newfoundland and the Province of Avalon.
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Carolina
While wayward English migrants worked to build the new American colonies, mother England experienced the greatest turmoil in her history in the middle of the 1600s. The Stuart King, Charles I, was beheaded as the result of a civil war in 1649. A dictatorship led by OLIVER CROMWELL ruled England until 1660.
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Connecticut
Connecticut was founded in 1636 by,Thomas Hooker, a devout Puritan minister. He had no problems with the religious teachings of the church. He did, however, object to linking voting rights with church membership, which had been the practice in Massachusetts Bay. In 1636, his family led a group of followers west and built a town known as Hartford.
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Rhode Island
Roger Williams founded the colony in 1636. He guaranteed religious and political freedom. Religious refugees from the Massachusetts Bay Colony settled in Rhode Island. The colony was first named "Roodt Eylandt" by Dutch trader Adriaen Block (1567–1627), who had explored that area for the Netherlands. The name means 'red island' and it refers to the red clay that Block reported there.
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Maryland Toleration Act
Maryland's leaders met in St. Mary's City, the colony's capital. Of the 12 different acts passed that spring, one of the most significant was An Act Concerning Religion, also known as the Toleration Act of 1649. According to the act, no person whatsoever within this province professing to believe in Jesus Christ shall from henceforth be in any ways troubled,molested, or condemned for or in respect of his or her religion.
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Bacon's Rebellion
Nathaniel Bacon raised an unauthorized militia of indentured servants, slaves, and poor farmers to retaliate against a number of attacks from Native Amerians on the people in Virginia. Virginia's Governor William Berkeley then in response gathered an army to fight against Bacon and his army of rebellions.
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Pennsylvania
One of the original 13 colonies, Pennsylvania was founded by William Penn as a haven for his fellow Quakers. Pennsylvania’s capital, Philadelphia, was the site of the first and second Continental Congresses in 1774 and 1775, the latter of which produced the Declaration of Independence, sparking the American Revolution.
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Salem Witch Trials
Young girls in a small town in Massachusetts called Salem claimed to be possessed by the devil and accused some local women of witchcraft. 150 people were imprisoned for witchcraft, 7 died in prison, and 19 men and women were hung for refusing to testifying. If someone was accused of being a witch and they confessed they were not killed but if they denied it they were imprisoned or killed.
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Great Awakening
The First Great Awakening (sometimes Great Awakening) or the Evangelical Revival was a series of Christian revivals that swept Britain and its Thirteen Colonies between the 1730s and 1740s. The revival movement permanently affected Protestantism as adherents strove to renew individual piety and religious devotion.
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French-Indian War
Also known as the Seven Years’ War, when France’s expansion into the Ohio River valley brought repeated conflict with the claims of the British colonies, a series of battles led to the official British declaration of war in 1756. The British received the territories of Canada from France and Florida from Spain, opening the Mississippi Valley to westward expansion.
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Albany Plan
In the early 1750s, rivalry between England and France over who would control the North American continent led inexorably to what is known as the French and Indian Wars. This conflict lasted from 1756 to 1763, and left England the dominant power in the area that now comprises the eastern United States and Canada.
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Proclamation of 1763
After Britain won the Seven Years' War and gained land in North America, it issued the Royal Proclamation of 1763, which prohibited American colonists from settling west of Appalachia. The Treaty of Paris, which marked the end of the French and Indian War, granted Britain a great deal of valuable North American land.
http://www.ushistory.org/us/9a.asp
