Excerpt from The War of American Independence: 1775 1783
John Smith; Pocahontas; Indian wars; the Stuart kings; Submission to the Commonwealth; growth of landed aristocracy; The Restoration; Bacon"s Rebellion; Distress of the colony; Return of prosperity; Maryland; Liberal charter: Lord Baltimore; Early prosperity: troubles with Clayborne; Commonwealth; Restoration; Maryland after 1688 a royal government; Similarity to Virginia; The Carolinas; Early charters; Shaftesbury and Locke"s "grand model"; Turbulent early history of these colonies. Slavery; The colonists break up Indian civilization in Florida; Indian wars; the Carolinas become colonies, 1729; Georgia; The last founded colony; Oglethorpe; his charter and his government; Hostilities with Spain; Failure of Oglethorpe"s plans; New York and New Jersey; New York the centre of a sub-group; Hudson at Manhattan Island; the New Netherlands; New Amsterdam; New Sweden; eventually annexed to the New Netherlands; The Dutch territory conquered by England, and divided into New York and New Jersey; History of New Jersey soon connected with that of Pennsylvania; Pennsylvania and Delaware; Pennsylvania the last founded of the religious colonies; The Quakers in America; Penn; Philadelphia; Delaware; The Pennsylvania constitution; Penn"s proprietary rights confiscated in 1688
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