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13 Cards in this Set
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Plymouth Colony (Massachusetts)
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-1620
-English Separatist, later called Pilgrims -Seeking religious freedom -Came across on the Mayflower -Mayflower compact -people: John Carver, William Bradford, Miles Standish, William and Mary Brewster, Edward and Susannah Winslow, John and Francis Billington, John Alden and Priscilla Mullins, Squanto, Samoset, Massasoit -Celebrated the first American Thanksgiving - |
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Jamestown (Virginia)
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-1607
-First English men -Treasure seeking -1619 - first women and slaves arrived -1619 - first elected assembly met to make laws -London Company charter -people: Captain John Smithy, Powhatan, Pocahontas, John Rolfe |
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Massachusetts
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-1628 English Puritan families settled at Salem, Massachusetts
-Came seeking religious freedom -people: John Winthrop, John Endicott |
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New York
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-1624
-Colony first known as New Netherlands -Settled first by Dutch men and Ft. Orange in Albany, NY -Seeking trade with Indians -people: Peter Minuit, Peter Stuyvesant |
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Maryland
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-1634
-English Catholic settlers -Came seeking religious freedom for all, but particularly for Catholics. people: Lord Baltimore, Alias Sir, George and Cecil Calvert |
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New Hampshire
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1623 - Englishment settled in Pannaway, NH
-Came seeking a business venture -people: David Thompson, Edward and William Hilton, and Captain John Mason 1630 - settlers from Massachusetts who could not accept the religious intolerance came seeking religious freedom -people: John Wheelwright and Edward Randolph |
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Connecticut
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-1636
- Settlers from Massachusetts Colony settled Hartford, Connecticut - Came seeking religious and political freedom -people: Thomas Hooker |
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Rhode Island
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-1635
- Settlers from other colonies settled Providence, Rhode Island - Came seeking religious and political freedom - people: Roger Williams, Massasoit, and Anne Hutchinson |
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Delaware
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-1639
- Swedish settlers first settled at Ft. Christian in present day Wilmington, Delaware - Came seeking a settlement - people: Peter Minuit |
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New Jersey
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-1664
-English settlers first settled in Elizabeth, New Jersey -people: Sir George Carteret and Lord John Berkely - Another settlement of unhappy Puritans from Connecticut settled in Newark, NJ - people: Philip Carteret and William Penn |
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Carolinas
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-1663 First settlement of Virginians seeking to expand their settlement
-1691 Additional Virginians settled in Charleston, SC |
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Pennsylvania
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-1681 Quaker families came from England, settled Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Came seeking religious freedom - people: William Penn -1683 German families first settled in Germantown, PA; came seeking economic freedom - Scottish, Irish, and Catholics came for economic freedom |
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Georgia
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-1733
-English debtors from prison came to settle - Seeking to rid England of debtor prisoners and allow debtors a new life - people: James Oglethorpe |
