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Roanoke
The Roanoke Colony, also known as the Lost Colony, was the first attempt in finding a permanent English Settlement in North America. It was established in 1585 on Roanoke, which is todays Dare County, North Carolina.
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Jamestown
On May 14, 1607, the Virginia Company settlers landed on Jamestown Island to establish an English colony. Disease, famine, and attacks from the Powhatan Indians took a toll on the population. Trade with the Powhatan revived the colony with food for glass beads, copper, and iron implements. John Smiths strict leadership made enemies within and without the fort. Years of peace followed the 1614 wedding of Pocahontas to John Rolfe.
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House of Burgesses
The House of Burgesses was the first legislative assembly of elected representatives in North America. During the 1610s, the small English colony at Jamestown had failed. Fearful of losing their investment, the officers of the Virginia Company of London embarked upon a series of reforms designed to attract more people to the troubled settlement.
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Great Migration
The Great Migration was the period in American history when twenty thousand English men, women, and children crossed the Atlantic Ocean to settle New England between 1620 and 1640. The Great Migration began when religious sects, mostly the Puritans, undertook the 3000 mile sea voyage and migrated to the New World looking for religious freedom. The Puritans believed that they would be able to establish a pure church in the colonies.
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Mayflower/Plymouth/Mayflower Compact
Document signed on the English ship Mayflower on November 21 , 1620, prior to its landing at Plymouth, Massachusetts. It was the first framework of government written and enacted in the territory that is now the United States of America. The Mayflower Compact was an adaptation of a Puritan church. It became the foundation of Plymouth’s government and remained in force until the colony was absorbed into the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1691.
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Massachusetts Bay Colony
One of the original English settlements in present-day Massachusetts, settled in 1630 by about 1,000 Puritan refugees from England under Gov. John Winthrop. The Puritans who settled the Massachusetts Bay Colony intended to set up a society that would accord with what they believed to be God’s wishes. By moving the Massachusetts Bay Company’s General Court from England to America, the Puritans converted it free from royal oversight.
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Maryland
In 1632, English King Charles I gave George Calvert a royal charter for the colony of Maryland. In the coming years the colony grew. As the colony grew, the Native American tribes were pushed out or died from diseases such as smallpox. There were also clashes between the different religious groups that settled the area, primarily between the Catholics and the Puritans.
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Connecticut
The U.S. state of Connecticut began as three distinct settlements of Puritans from Massachusetts and England. They combined under a single royal charter in 1663. The colony prospered from the trade and farming of its ethnic English, Protestant population.
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Rhode Island
Roger Williams founded the first permanent white settlement in Rhode Island at Providence in 1636 on land purchased from the Narragansett Indians. Forced to flee Massachusetts because of persecution, Williams established a policy of religious and political freedom in his new settlement.
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Maryland Toleration Act
The Maryland Toleration Act, also known as the Act Concerning Religion, was a law mandating religious tolerance for Trinitarian Christians. It was passed on April 21, 1649, by the assembly of the Maryland colony. It was the second law requiring religious tolerance in the British North American colonies and created one of the pioneer statutes passed by the legislative body of a colonial government to guarantee any degree of religious liberty. -
New York
The Dutch first settled along the Hudson River in 1624 and established the colony of New Amsterdam and Manhattan Island 2 years later. In 1664, the English took control of that area and renamed it New York. New York is one of the 13 colonies. Between 1892 and 1954, millions of immigrants arrived in the New York harbor to become U.S. citizens.
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Bacons Rebellion
Bacons Rebellion was an armed rebellion in 1676 by Virginia settlers led by Nathaniel Bacon against the rule of William Berkeley. Bacon’s rebellion caused a stir among the British, who allowed Berkeley to stay on as a governor. Under his rule, he took the rebels’ property and had 23 men hanged. However, after an investigation, he was sent back to England and was replaced.
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Salem Witch Trials
The Salem Witch Trials were a series of witchcraft cases brought before local magistrates in a settlement called Salem which was a part of the Massachusetts Bay colony in the 17th century.The Salem Witch Trials officially began in February of 1692, when the afflicted girls accused the first three victims, Tituba, Sarah Good and Sarah Osborne, of witchcraft and ended in May of 1693, when the remaining victims were released from jail.
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Carolina
The southern part of Carolina served first as support for the British West Indies. Soon the slave economy reached the shores of Carolina. African slaves became a majority of the population before the middle of the eighteenth century.In the northern part Carolina, most established small tobacco farms. Slavery existed here, but in far smaller numbers than in the neighboring regions. In 1712, North Carolina and South Carolina became distinct colonies.
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Great Awakening/Enlightenment
A religious revival that impacted the English colonies in America during the 1730s and 1740s. The movement came at a time when the idea of secular rationalism was being emphasized. Christian leaders traveled from town to town, preaching about the gospel, emphasizing salvation from sins and promoting enthusiasm for Christianity. Many historians believe the Great Awakening had a lasting impact on various Christian denominations.
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Albany Plan
The Albany Plan of Union was introduced by Benjamin Franklin during the Albany Congress in 1754. Franklin’s plan called for the formation of a permanent federation of colonies, to reform colonial-imperial relations, and to more effectively address shared colonial interests.
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French-Indian War
War between France and Great Britain to determine control of North America. The French-Indian War began over the issue of whether the upper Ohio River valley was a part of the British Empire, and therefore open for trade and settlement by Virginians and Pennsylvanians, or part of the French Empire. The British victory in the French and Indian War had a great impact on the British Empire
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Proclamation of 1763
In 1763, at the end of the French and Indian War, the British issued a proclamation,mainly intended to conciliate the Indians. After the French and Indian War in America, the British Empire began to tighten control over its colonies. This affected all thirteen colonies. A desire for good farmland caused many colonists to defy the proclamation; others resented the royal restrictions on trade and migration.
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Salutary Neglect
Salutary neglect is an American history term that refers to the 17th and 18th century British Crown policy of avoiding strict enforcement of parliamentary laws meant to keep British colonies obedient to England. The term comes from Edmund Burke's "Speech on Conciliation with America" given in March 22, 1775. “Salutary neglect” contributed to legislative institutions and led to American independence.
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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 was the site of the Battle of Gettysburg, which General George Meade defeated General Robert E. Lee, bringing an end to the Confederacy’s Northern invasion, as well as Lincoln’s famous Gettysburg Address.
