1585- The Roanoke Colony (located in present North Carolina) was first founded under the reign of Elizabeth I. However, all of the residents of this colony disappeared under mysterious circumstances. 1607: The Jamestown Settlement is founded in Virginia under the reign of James I. ...
All my known ancestry goes back to the very beginning of what has come to be known as the United States, starting with the Mayflower’s arrival to the so-called Plymouth Bay Colony (I am a direct descendant of William Brewster, a moving force behind the Pilgrims, and the lay religious ...
What type of government did the North Carolina colony have? What document was the basis of the Mayflower Compact? What was the Constitutional Act of 1791? What was Article 3 of the Constitution of 1917? What did the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights fail to do?
I was walking through my front yard in the Santa Monica Mountains in Southern California last night and wondered why there was a glowing LED on the ground. Upon closer inspection I found two glow worms. One blinked out right away upon being disturbed, but the other kept right on glowing. ...
The story goes that after the first round of Dutch settlers took over Manhattan, another group came up to this area to settle on the land. A man by the name of Cornelius Laddin brought his wife and daughter with him and moved into a little colony on what is now, the Waterside area ...
discussing the rebellious colonists. In this one, King George, among other things, noted, “When the unhappy and deluded multitude… shall become sensible of their error, I shall be ready to receive the misled with tenderness and mercy! … as if such Province or Colony had never revolted....
In 1659 the Massachusetts Bay Colony outlawed Christmas, making it a criminal offense to publicly celebrate the holiday “by forbearing of labor, feasting, or any other way…” Quakers agreed, noting that there was no scriptural basis for commemorating the birth of Christ, or that it even ...
#43 Colony Grill (Stamford, Connecticut) MICHAEL McANDREWS/The Hartford Courant In 1935, Colony Grill openedas an Irish-American tavernin Stamford, Connecticut. Over the years, it earned a sparkling reputation for its thin-crust bar pie, best served with the signature spicy pepper-infused "hot...
The next time I saw a cubist painting, it made me feel icky, like I was looking at a picture of the inside of an ant colony, eggs and all. Ew. At that time I was in college looking at slides in an art appreciation class. (Truthfully, at that time the only art that I really ...
What was it like for the early settlers of Jamestown? What was the first colonial industry in America? What type of colony was Plymouth Colony? In the late 1840s in the U.S., what led to the question of whether slavery should expand to the territories? ...