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== British North American colonization ==
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|+ '''Pre-Columbian & post-Columbian overview'''
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| '''PERIOD / TIMELINE'''
| '''PERIOD / TIMELINE'''
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* 1497: John Cabot 1st expedition to North America
* 1603: King James I crowned
* 1606 First Charter of Virginia
* 1607 Jamestown settlement
* 1608 Separatist group moves to Holland
* 1618 Great Charter (established VA self-governance)
* 1620 Mayflower Company/ Plymouth settled by Pilgrims
* 1622 Jamestown Massacre
* 1624: Virginia Company abolished; royal Colony
* 1639: Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
* 1642: House of Burgesses
|| '''BIG IDEAS'''
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* Joint Stock Company: shared ownership for commercial venture; used by England for 1st colonies
* Virginia Company: to establish colonies & find gold (didn’t)
* Headright System: land grant for brining laborers to colonies
* Indentured servants
* House of Burgesses:
** legislature, governing body of VA colony
* Separatists: wanted autonomous congregations “separate” from Church of England
* Puritans: anti-papal/ anti-Catholic, wanted to “purify” English Churches
* Pilgrims: separatists group sailed to Plymouth from Holland
* Mayflower Compact: Pilgrim contract for self-rule
* William Bradford: became Plymouth Colony governor; wrote book “On “Plymouth Plantation”
 
 
 
John Winthrop: Mass Bay Colony leader, called it “city upon a hill”; insisted on church rules
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
“A Model of Christian Charity”: Winthrop sermon declaring Christian mission of the colony
 
|'''Notes & connections: details of issues, concepts, themes & events'''
|'''Notes & connections: details of issues, concepts, themes & events'''
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