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The colonial history of the United States covers the period of European colonization of North America from the early 16th century until the incorporation of the Thirteen Colonies into the United States after the Revolutionary War. In the late 16th century, England, France, Spain, and the Dutch Republic launched major colonization expeditions in ...
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Bacon's Rebellion was an armed rebellion held by Virginia...
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In the early 17th century, thousands of English Puritans settled in North America, almost all in New England. Puritans were intensely devout members of the Church of England who believed that the Church of England was insufficiently reformed , retaining too much of its Roman Catholic doctrinal roots, and who therefore opposed royal ...
Feb 26, 2024 · c1730-1755 First Great Awakening. First Great Awakening (Wikipedia) THE GREAT AWAKENING (The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of the American Enlightenment) Great Awakening (Encyclopedia of Emancipation and Abolition in the Transatlantic World) 1732 Province of Georgia. Province of Georgia (Wikipedia)
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Jul 29, 2019 · The 1600s saw major changes in philosophy and science. Major changes in the fields of philosophy and science took place during the 17th century. Prior to the beginning of the 1600s, scientific study and scientists in the field were not truly recognized. In fact, important figures and pioneers such as the 17th-century physicist Isaac Newton were ...
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Nov 25, 2014 · By the 17 th century, more than half of the English peasantry was landless. The price of food shot up 600 percent, and firewood by 1,500 percent. Many peasants who were pushed off their...
Many of the British North American colonies that eventually formed the United States of America were settled in the seventeenth century by men and women, who, in the face of European persecution, refused to compromise passionately held religious convictions and fled Europe.
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