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educatoin
when the education started in the colonies -
marriage
they could mary cousins. -
jamestown
Jamestown colony founded under a patent of the London Company. -
mayflower
signed the mayflower compact for there own governmennt -
massachusetts
massachussets was founded in religious freedom -
mercantilism
basic policy imposed by Britain on its colonies -
BACON
Nathaniel Bacon leads a group of frontiersmen from Western Virginia in a rebellion against Virginia Governor William Berkeley which results in Baconís burning of Jamestown. Bacon and fellow rebels also crush the Susquehannock Indians who have been attacking the settlers of Western Virginia. The rebellion disintegrate when Bacon dies suddenly in October 1676. -
Religious
The Great Awakening was a major religious revival movement that took place in most colonies in the 1730s and 1740s. -
american settlement
Proclamation of 1763 issued by King George forbids American settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains. -
pensylvania
Pennsylvania enact a law mandating the gradual abolition of slavery. Massachusetts adopts a bill of rights that applies to blacks and whites equally