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Roanoke
Known as the lost colony, in present day North Carolina. Founded by Sir-Walter Raleigh. Colonists left during the Spanish war thus giving the colony the name, "The Lost Colony". -
Jamestown
This was the first permanent English settlement in the colony of Virginia. They named the town in honor of their king. 100 people went, but unfortunately many were killed by disease or starvation because they came to late to plant crops. -
House of Burgesses
The fist legislative assembly in the colonies, where they met at the church in Jamestown. They quieted oppositions by cutting taxes and opening Indian lands to colonists. -
Mayflower/Plymouth/Mayflower Compact
Pilgrims wanted to escape religious conflict, and threats from the King. They wanted to reach Virginia but their ship was blown off course and landed farther north in the Cape Cod Bay. there was no legal government so they established the Mayflower Compact which is a self governing colony base on majority rule of male church members. -
Great Migration
Puritans decided to risk moving to escape religious persecution, and economic ruin. About 60,000 left England for the Americas, most went to the West Indies, but about 10,000 to 20,000 went to Massachusetts. -
Massachsettes Bay Colony
Before the Puritan exodus began a group of Puritans made a royal charter for the Massachusetts Bay Company allowing them to make a colony. 11 ships carried about a thousand Puritans, but these Puritans didn't want to cute a ties with England or the church. They wanted to inspire other Christians and be a model community. -
Maryland
Englishmen dreamed of establishing a colony in the Chesapeake, the land surrounding the Chesapeake Bay. Cecilius Calvert was made the property owner of millions of acres on the upper Chesapeake Bay. This colony was named Maryland, after Charles wife Henrietta Maria. -
Connecticut
People thought to leave Massachusetts as it prospered and grew to start new settlements elsewhere. Thomas Hooker and his group left Massachusetts and went southwest, and settleled in Hartford. The name Connecticut came from an Indian phrase meaning rivers whose water is driven by the tides or wind. -
Rhode Island
Roger Williams purchased lands from the Narragansets which became Rhode Island. Willimans was a politican so the secured a charter for the colony that permitted religious freedom. This colony attracted many people with unpopular beliefs -
Maryland Toleration Act
Calvert wanted to create a haven for Roman Catholics of faced persecution in England, but he also wanted to make money. He wanted to protect the Catholic minority's legal rights, the Maryland Assembly passed this act. This act guaranteed religious freedom to all Christians. -
Carolina
Charles II gave eight supporters a charter for a colony between Virginia and Spanish Florida. The colony was later split into North and South Carolina, but they didn't have a stable government so the Crown took over both colonies. Many settlers established small farms and the vast amount of forest supplied them with furs they could trade -
New York
Peter Stuyvesant who was an old soldier with a wooden legs was the governor of the land at the time. English fleets sailed into the harbors and demamded that the colony which had the name New Netherland, and was later renamed New York would be handed over. The colonists refused to defend this land and without a single shot being fired the Dutch handed over there land to the English -
Bacon's rebellion
Nathaniel Bacon was a well-connected young planter raised an army of settlers and randomly attacked Indians on the frontier. These rebels included his followers and was joined by indentured servants and enslaved Africans. These men seized and burned Jamestown, however this rebellion came to an end when Nathaniel died of illness. -
Pennsylvania
Charles II repaid £16,000 that he owed Sir William Penn and then later held property of a large tract of land near New York. Penn wanted to make his colony a haven for the Quakers. Quakers had no formal clergy, opposed welfare, and ignored class privileges. -
Salem Witch Trials
A series of hearings and persecutions of people accused of witchcraft in Massachusetts. All started with a group of girls that claimed to be possessed by the devil. This caused mass hysteria in the towns. -
Great Awakening/Enlightenment
Protestant religion revival that swept Protestant Europe and American Britain. During this time the idea that God did not directly intervene in human affairs was not confined to politics. In the 18th century their was a birth of a revolution in ideas called the Enlightenment. These thinkers emphasized human reason and progress. -
Albany Plan
This was a proposal to create a unified government for the 13 colonies. At this time Benjamin Flanklin was the senior leader and suggested this plan. He was a delagte from Pennsylvania, but this idea was formed in Albany, New York hence the name. -
French-Indian War
A war between the French and British, also known as the Seven Year War. Its called the French- Indian War because the French were allies with the Indians in order to beat the British troops. The French lost there foothold in battle so they lost their colonies in Canada but were able to keep its west indies sugar islands -
Proclamation of 1763
Great Britain issued this as a barring settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains. Fur traders had to have royal permission before entering this territory. This proclamation was hard to enforce, so settlers continued to stream in. -
Salutary Neglect
This was the British Crown policy of avoiding strict parliamentary laws meant to keep American colonies loyal to England. The balance of trade made this a thing.
