Colonial North America
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Colonial North America
Early Conquest and Exploitation
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Political Forms
- Samuel de Champlain: The Foundation of Quebec, 1608 [At
this Site]
- Virginia
- Instructions for
the Virginia Colony, 1606 [At American Revolution]
- The First
Virginia Charter, 1606 [At American Revolution]
- The Second
Virginia Charter, 1609 [At American Revolution]
- The Third
Virginia Charter, 1612 [At American Revolution]
- First, Second, & Third Virginia Charters [At U
Oklahoma]
- An Ordinance and
Constitution of the Virginia Company in England for a Council of State and General
Assembly, 24 July 1621 [At American Revolution]
- Bacon's
Declaration in the Name of the People, 30 July 1676 [At American Revolution]
The rebellion in Virginia
- Governor William Berkely: On Bacon's Rebellion,
19 May 1676 [At American Revolution]
- Edward Randolph Condemnation of
the Massachussetts Bay Company, 12 June 1683 [At American Revolution]
- New England
-
Mayflower Compact, 1620 [At
Yale], or
here [At
National Center.org] or here [At American Revolution]
- Charter of Massachusetts Bay, 1629
[At U Oklahoma] or here [At
American Revolution]
- William Bradford: History of Plymouth Plantation, c.
1650 [At this Site]
- John Bradford: Of Plymouth
Plantation, full text. [At AOL]
- Fundamental Orders of Connecticut,
1639 [At Yale]
or here [At
American Revolution]
-
Massachusetts Body of Liberties,
1641 [At Hanover]
- John Winthrop: Arbitrary government described and the
Government of the Massachusetts vindicated from that aspersion, 1644 [At this Site]
- Connecticut Colony Charter, 1662
[At U Oklahoma]
- Sir Henry Vane: Healing Question, 1656 [At this
Site]
A proposal for civil and religious liberty by the former governor of Massachusetts.
-
Instructions to Sir Edmund
Andros, 1686 [At Hanover]
-
Commercial Orders to Governor
Andros, 1686-1687 [At Hanover]
-
Orders For Sending Sir Edmund
Andros To England, 1689 [At Hanover]
- Middle Atlantic
American Society
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