Colonial Exploration
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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 - 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 - Massachusetts
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-1628 English Puritan families settled at Salem, Massachusetts
-Came seeking religious freedom
-people: John Winthrop, John Endicott - 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 - 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 - 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 - Connecticut
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-1636
- Settlers from Massachusetts Colony settled Hartford, Connecticut
- Came seeking religious and political freedom
-people: Thomas Hooker - 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 - 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 - 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 - Carolinas
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-1663 First settlement of Virginians seeking to expand their settlement
-1691 Additional Virginians settled in Charleston, SC - 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 - 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