Identifier: bookshelfforboys00univ019 (find matches)
Title: The Bookshelf for boys and girls Historic Tales and Golden Deeds part 4
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: University Society, New York
Subjects: Children's literature Children's encyclopedias and dictionaries Literature Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York. : University Society
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University-Idaho

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kes a lawtolerating all forms of Christian belief.—InMassachusetts many people who do not accept thePuritan rule are severely punished.—All Puri-tans are banished from Virginia.—After CharlesI., King of England, is beheaded, January 30,many of his soldiers, known as Cavaliers, takerefuge in Virginia. Puritans from Virginiafound what is now the city of Annapolis, Mary-land, naming it Providence. 1652—Massachusetts Bay Colony annexes theProvince of Maine as far as Casco Bay.—ThePuritans gain control of Virginia by force. 1653—Colonists from Virginia settle at Albe-marle, North Carolina. 1655—A Dutch force from New Amsterdamconquers the Swedish colony in Delaware. ThePuritans gain control of Maryland. For severalyears there is disorder in the colony, and strongfeeling between rival parties. 1658—Order is restored in Maryland, and Fen-dall, agent of Lord Baltimore, gains control ofthe government.—The General Court of Massa-chusetts makes a law fining any one 10 shillings
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p^■N^M-^.^^ DRILLING RECRUITS FOR I Hli COMlNExN lAL ARMY. DRAWN BY HOWARD PVLE. 339 240 EVENTS OF OUR COUNTRYS HISTORY for attending a Quaker meeting. All Quakersare banished from the colony, and it is made acapital offense for a Quaker to return. 1659—Two Quakers are hanged in jMassa-chusetts for returning after being banished. 1660—Mary Dyer, a Quaker preacher, ishanged at Boston, June i, for sedition and forreturning after banishment.—The English Par-liament passes the famous Navigation Act, whichforbade any one but a British subject to tradewith the American colonies, and allowing nonebut British ships to carry merchandise to orfrom their ports. This was one of the first ofthe acts that finally led to the American Revo-lution and the independence of the colonies asthe United States of America. 1661—Massasoit, a chief of the Wampanoagor Pokanoket Indians, and a friend of the colon-ists, dies. (He is succeeded—1662—by his sonMetacomet, known as King Philip, a foe of a

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