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#Colonial America

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People (2)
Peter Minuit
The man who founded two colonies for two rival powers
Peter Stuyvesant
The last director-general of New Netherland, 1647-1664
Places (15)
Connecticut
One of the original Thirteen Colonies — the Constitution State
Delaware
One of the original Thirteen Colonies — the First State
Fort Orange
The Dutch fur post that became Albany, founded 1624
Georgia
The last of the original Thirteen Colonies, founded as a debtors' refuge
Maryland
One of the original Thirteen Colonies — founded as a Catholic refuge
Massachusetts Bay Colony
The Puritan commonwealth that governed itself, 1630-1691
New Amsterdam
The Dutch town at the tip of Manhattan, 1625-1664
New Hampshire
One of the original Thirteen Colonies — first to declare independence
New Jersey
One of the original Thirteen Colonies — the Crossroads of the Revolution
New Netherland
The Dutch colony on the Hudson, 1624-1664
New Sweden
The Swedish and Finnish colony on the Delaware, 1638-1655
North Carolina
One of the original Thirteen Colonies — a colony of small farmers
Rhode Island
One of the original Thirteen Colonies — founded on religious liberty
Roanoke Colony
The "Lost Colony" that vanished from the Outer Banks before relief ships returned
St. Augustine
The Spanish presidio in Florida — oldest continuously inhabited European settlement in the United States
Events (7)
Apple Pie
An immigrant fruit, a cider economy, and a patriotic slogan invented in the 1920s
Pumpkin Pie
From Native squash to the canned filling that fixed a national recipe
The Committees of Correspondence
The nervous system of colonial resistance, 1772-1775
The First Continental Congress
Twelve colonies meet at Carpenters' Hall, 1774
The First Thanksgiving
The 1621 harvest feast at Plymouth and the myth that grew around it
The Gaspee Affair
Rhode Islanders burn a revenue schooner, June 1772
The Purchase of Manhattan
What the one surviving document actually says, 1626
Documents (8)
The Currency Act
The 1764 ban on colonial paper money
The Declaratory Act
Repeal with one hand, absolute authority with the other, 1766
The Intolerable Acts
The Coercive Acts meant to isolate Massachusetts, 1774
The Proclamation of 1763
The line along the Appalachians that closed the West
The Quartering Act
Making the colonies pay to house the king's troops, 1765
The Suffolk Resolves
Massachusetts declares the Coercive Acts void, September 1774
The Sugar Act
The 1764 duty Britain actually meant to collect
The Townshend Acts
Duties, general search warrants, and salaried governors, 1767
Concepts (2)
First Great Awakening
The 1730s–1740s religious revival that made Americans a people before they were a nation
Puritanism
The theology that named America a chosen nation — and what survived when the faith faded
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