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6th Massey History of North America 1400-1700 (1400- lots of people start…
6th Massey History of North America 1400-1700
1400- lots of people start exploring outside of europe
Christopher Columbus lands on an island in the Caribbean, and claims it for the kings of Spain.
Columbus arives in the new world again.
John Cabot claims Newfoundland for England; Europeans begin to fish on the Grand Banks, leading to contact with coastal tribes.
The populations of villages along the Zuni River in central New Mexico grow. A defensive architecture of multistory, windowless apartments are built of adobe-surfaced stone. The flat roofs are used as public spaces.
The Kachina cult spreads to the Puebloan Zuni and Hopi peoples, and eventually throughout the Southwest
1600- colonies were just now settling in.
Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in America, is established by the London Company in southeast Virginia.
The Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts is established by Pilgrims from England
English seize New Amsterdam (city and colony) from the Dutch and rename it New York.
The House of Burgesses, the first representative assembly in America, meets for the first time in Virginia. The first African slaves are brought to Jamestown
Colonial population is estimated at 50,400.
1500-people who landed in north america start exploring the land and learn the nature around it.
European fishermen investigate the possibilities of trade in animal furs. The fur trade becomes a major economic force throughout North America.
Southern Athapaskan peoples migrate to the Southwest from west central Canada; they will become the Apache and the Navajo, among others.
The power and position of the last important Mississippian culture center, Moundville in Alabama, declines.
The League of the Iroquois, the Northeast confederacy of Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Seneca peoples, forms to avoid continuing conflict among them.
1565 st. augustine was settled by spain
1700- there were lots wars/conflicts between different countries between different countries.
French and Indian War: Final conflict in the ongoing struggle between the British and French for control of eastern North America. The British win a decisive victory over the French on the Plains of Abraham outside Quebec.
American Revolution: War of independence fought between Great Britain and the 13 British colonies on the eastern seaboard of North America. Battles of Lexington and Concord, Mass., between the British Army and colonial minutemen, mark the beginning of the war.
With the Treaty of Paris, the British formally gain control of Canada and all the French possessions east of the Mississippi.
U.S. Supreme Court meets for the first time at the Merchants Exchange Building in New York City.
Boston Tea Party: Group of colonial patriots disguised as Mohawk Indians board three ships in Boston harbor and dump more than 300 crates of tea overboard as a protest against the British tea tax.