• Founded Maryland in 1634
• Refuge for Catholics

• One of the founders of Georgia
• Saved Georgia by mortgaging his own personal fortune

• A representative self government born in Virginia in 1619
• It was the first miniature parliament to flourish in America

• Made in 1494
• divided the newly discovered land outside of Europe between Spain and Portugal

• Passed in Maryland in 1649
• Guaranteed toleration to all Christians but decreed the death penalty for those, like Jews and atheists
• Ensured that Maryland would continue to attract most of the Catholic immigrants

• Joint stock companies in England with the purpose of establishing settlements on the coast of North America
• Made in 1606 by James I

• Challenged Puritan orthodoxy (predestination)
• Said that a holy life was no sure sign of salvation and that the ones that are truely saved don't need to follow any laws 

• Extreme Separatist
• Challenged the legality of the Bay Colony's charter
• Also denied the authority of civil government to regulate religious behavior

• Became a Quaker at a young age and was persecuted
• 1681 recieved a grant of land in the New Colonies from the king
• King called the land Pennsylvania (Penn's Woodland)

• founded in 1630 
• established by non-separating Puritans
• Grew to be the largest and most influential of the New England colonies

• Began in 1651
• Regulated colonial shipping
• Only English ships would be allowed to trade in English and colonial ports
• All goods destined for the colonies would first pass through England

English Protestant reformers who sought to purify the Church of England of Catholic rituals and creeds

(many thought that only 'visible saints' should be admitted to church membership)

• Officially known as the Religious Society of Friends
• Especially offensive to religious and civil authorities

• Agreement to form a majoritarian government in Plymouth 
• Signed aboard the Mayflower
• Created a foundation for self-government in the colony

• Came to Pennsylvania at age 17
• most reprentative personality of his era

• Exploded in the 1730s and 40s 
• First ignited by a pastor in Massachusetts named Jonathan Edwards
• It was religious revival

• An uprising in Virginia led by Nathaniel Bacon
• In response to Willian Berkeley's refusal to protect backcountry settlers from Indian attacks

• Employed in the tobacco colonies to encourage the importation of indentured servants
• Allowed an individual to aquire 50 acres of land if he paid for a laborer's passage to the colony

• Decree issued by Parliament in the wake of Pontiac's uprising
• Prohibited settlement beyond the Appalachians
• Contributed to rising resentment of British rule in the colonies

• Americans wanted to be represented in the British parliament
• Declaration later points out that the colonies were not directly represented in Parliament

• Wealthy French nobleman nicknamed "French Gamecock"
• Made major general of colonial army
• Got commision on part of his family

• Master propogandist
• Organized the local committees of correspondance in Massachusetts
• Designed to oppose British policy forced on the colonies by spreading propoganda

Wrote Common Sense in 1776 

Helped the Americans recognize the need to separate from the British crown

• Gave reasons why America should separate from England
• Called for the creation of a Republic where power came from the people themselves

• Concieved the idea of capturing British posts by surprise
• Claimed Ohio River area

• Took place on Breed's Hill
• Even though the colonists lost it gave them a confidence boost because of the amount of British people they killed

• December 26, 1776 
• Washington surprised a thousand Hessians who were sleeping off Christamas effects
• defeated small British attatchment at Princeton

• German colonists hired by George III to smash colonial rebellion 
• They were more concerned about money than duty

• British formally recognized the independence of the US
• Americans couldn't persecute Loyalists and had to give them their land back

• Ended the 7 years war in Europe and the French and Indian war in North America
• Britain won all of Canada and almost all of the land east of the Mississippi

• September 5, 1774
• protested the Intolerable acts
• voted for a boycott of British imports

• Congress opposed the drastic move toward complete independence from Britain

• The beginning of the American Revolution
• British gaurds at the Boston Customes House open fired on Americans killing 5