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Kay Bradley

Puritan New England: Massachusetts Bay (article) | Khan Academy - 0 views

  • The second wave of English Puritans established the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the New Haven Colony, and Rhode Island
  • These Puritans, unlike the Separatists, hoped to serve as a "city upon a hill" that would bring about the reform of Protestantism throughout the English Empire.
  • Unlike the exodus of young men to the Chesapeake colonies, these migrants were families with young children and their university-trained ministers.
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  • John Winthrop, the first governor of Massachusetts Bay
  • reformed Protestantism, a “city upon a hill,”
  • Mary Rowlandson was a Puritan woman whom Native American tribes captured and imprisoned for several weeks during King Philip’s War. After her release, she wrote The Narrative of the Captivity and the Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson, which was published in 1682. The book was an immediate sensation that was reissued in multiple editions for over a century."But now, the next morning, I must turn my back upon the town, and travel with th
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Kay Bradley

Timeline of the European colonization of North America - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • 1607 – Jamestown – English
  • 1620 – Plymouth Colony – English
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  • 1612 - Bermuda - English
  • 1622 – Province of Maine – English
  • 1623 – Portsmouth – English
  • 1625 – New Amsterdam – Dutch
  • 1630 – Massachusetts Bay Colony – English
  • 1633 – Windsor, Connecticut – English
  • 1636 – Connecticut Colony – English
  • 1640? – New Stockholm – Swedish
  • 1733 – Province of Georgia – British
  • 1585: Failed English settlement on Roanoke Island, North Carolina (Lost Colony).
Kay Bradley

Case Closed: The Gulf of Tonkin Incident | HistoryNet - 0 views

  • The 122 additional relevant SIGINT products confirmed that the Phu Bai station had misinterpreted or mistranslated many of the early August 3 SIGINT intercepts. With that false foundation in their minds, the on-scene naval analysts saw the evidence around them as confirmation of the attack they had been warned about. Those early mistakes led U.S. destroyers to open fire on spurious radar contacts, misinterpret their own propeller noises as incoming torpedoes, and ultimately report an attack that never occurred.
Max Novak

Article III U.S. Constitution - 16 views

Questions: 30. What provision is made for the judicial branch of the government? There are federal courts; the Supreme court, inferior courts. 31. What is the provision for the tenure of o...

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