First Virginia
Charter (1606)
-Jamestown, VA
- Virginia Company of London
- outline the rules of the colony
- preserves their rights as English citizens
Mayflower
Compact (1620)
- Plymouth Colony, MA (Separatists)
-first written self- government in the
colonies
Charter of the
-Puritans & Massachusetts Bay Company
Massachusetts
- created a "Christian" community
Bay Colony (1629) (Puritan)
-Puritan church leaders have the power
Fundamental
Orders (1639)
- Connecticut (Thomas Hooker)
- eleven orders that set up the government
- can be compared to a bill of rights
New England
Articles of
Confederation
(1643)
- the 4 colonies will form a confederation called the
United Colonies of New England
-to protect and defend each other from the native
Maryland Act of
Toleration
(1649)
-Lord Baltimore of Maryland
-FREEDOM OF RELIGION (for ALL Christians)