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3 days ago · Detail of a 17th-century map of New England with the Plymouth colony appearing opposite the tip of Cape Cod. (more) Although the Pilgrims were always a minority in Plymouth, they nevertheless controlled the entire governmental structure of their colony during the first four decades of settlement.
4 days ago · Regions of the British Colonies Summary. Following the failure of Roanoke Colony and Popham Colony, England finally established a permanent settlement at Jamestown. 13 years later, the Pilgrims sailed to New England on the Mayflower, landed at Cape Cod, and established Plymouth.
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6 days ago · The Pilgrims were exiles for conscience' sake; they suffered for the common liberties and rights of the whole people. The first settlers at Portsmouth and Dover were adventurers, bold, hardy, and resolute, like all pioneers who go into the wilderness to better their condition.
3 days ago · In 1620 the ship the Mayflower carried about 100 Pilgrim Separatists to what is now Massachusetts, where the Plymouth colony took root. What pushed the American colonies toward independence? After the French and Indian War the British government determined that the colonies should help pay for the cost of the war and the postwar garrisoning of ...
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- The American colonies were the British colonies that were established during the 17th and early 18th centuries in what is now a part of the eastern...
- In 1606 King James I of England granted a charter to the Virginia Company of London to colonize the American coast anywhere between parallels 34° a...
- After the French and Indian War the British government determined that the colonies should help pay for the cost of the war and the postwar garriso...
- On July 2, 1776, the Second Continental Congress, meeting in Philadelphia, “unanimously” by the votes of 12 colonies (with New York abstaining) res...
5 days ago · The first documented English landing goes to Christopher Levett, whose crew of about 300 fishermen in six ships found the Shoals a barren camp site in 1623. Eventually a number of famous Seacoast families used the Shoals as a stepping stone to successful businesses on the mainland.
1 day ago · The settlement of Great Britain by diverse Germanic peoples led to the development of a new Anglo-Saxon cultural identity and shared Germanic language, Old English, which was most closely related to Old Frisian on the other side of the North Sea. The first Germanic-speakers to settle permanently are likely to have been soldiers recruited by the ...
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4 days ago · PLYMOUTH, Mass. -- We know the Pilgrims became some of America's first English settlers. And because of Thanksgiving Day, we certainly know they were thankful. But what else was it about these devout Christians that helped them shape what became the most free, most powerful nation on earth?
