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Religious radicals similarly founded Rhode Island. After his exile from Massachusetts, Roger Williams created a settlement called Providence in 1636. He negotiated for the land with the local Narragansett sachems Canonicus and Miantonomi.
Jan 1, 2015 · In the 1670s and early 1680s King Charles II tightened English control over North America and the West Indies through the creation of new colonies, the imposition of new Navigation Acts,...
Global Competition and the Expansion of England’s Empire. 1675, bloodiest and most bitter battle between Indians and New England o Indians attacked farms and settlements encroaching on Indian land o Metacom: The chief of the Wampanoags, whom the colonists called King Phillip.
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Chapter 3: British North America Introduction o Native Americans saw fledgling settlements grow into unstoppable beachheads of vast new populations that increasingly monopolized resources and remade the land into something else entirely o As colonial societies developed in the 17 th and 18th centuries, fluid labor arrangements and racial ...
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Chapter 3: Colonial America. Chapter Overviews. Section 1: Early English Settlements. After defeating the Spanish Armada, England became more interested in establishing colonies in North America. The first colonists arrived on Roanoke Island in 1587, but within three years, they had disappeared.
After Maryland was founded in 1632, more than three decades passed without the planting of another English colony in North America. Then, in 1663, as a defense against Spanish expansion, Charles II granted eight proprietors the right to find a colony to the north of Florida.
Britain used victories in Europe to win territorial and commercial concessions in the Americas. In the Treaty of Utrecht (1713), Britain obtained Newfoundland, Acadia, and the Hudson Bay region of northern Canada from France, as well as access through Albany to the western Indian trade.
