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US HISTORY TIMELINE (American Indians Flourished (Christopher Columbus…
US HISTORY TIMELINE
American Indians Flourished
Christopher Columbus lands in Bahamas
Jamestown settled
House of Burgesses meets
Massachusetts established
New York Seized
French and Indian War (1754-1763)
Boston Massacre (1770)
Boston Tea Party (1773)
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INTOLERABLE ACTS
: a series of punitive acts to punish the people of Boston and Massachusetts
used it to inflame anti-British feeling
THE ALBANY PLAN OF UNION
: the British gov called for representatives from several colonies to meet in a congress at Albany, New York; set a precedent for later, more revolutionary congresses in the 1770s
--> PONTIAC'S REBELLION: Chief Pontiac led a major attack against colonial settlements on the western frontier
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PROCLAMATION OF 1763
: issued a proclamation that prohibited colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains; angered the colonies
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Sugar Act
(placed duties on foreign sugar and certain luxuries),
Quartering Act
(required the colonies to provide food and living quarters for British soldiers),
Stamp Act
(placed taxes on all stamped documents)
--> Sons and Daughters of Liberty and Boycotts -->
Declaratory Act
(stated that Parliament had the right to tax and make laws for the colonies "in all cases whatsoever")
--> Townshend Acts: provided for the search of private homes for smuggled goods (WRITS OF ASSISTANCE)
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Jamestown, VA: chartered for PROFIT; fatal outbreaks of dysentery and malaria;
JOHN SMITH
; developed a new variety of tobacco (ROYAL); guaranteed colonists the same rights as residents of England --> American Revolution :star:
Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay, MA: chartered for RELIGIOUS reasons; pilgrims (
SEPERATISTS
)/
PURITANS
(
JOHN WINTHROP
)
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HOUSE OF BURGESSES
: the first representative assembly in America
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MAYFLOWER COMPACT
: an early form of colonial self- government
Chesapeake Colonies (Maryland, Virginia): chartered for CATHOLIC freedom
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ACT OF TOLERATION
: the first colonial statute granting religious freedom to all Christians
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INDENTURED SERVANTS
: young people who agreed to work for a period of time for money and land ---> Homestead Act; :star:
HEADRIGHT SYSTEM
: The colony offered 50 acres of land to each immigrant who paid for his own passage and any plantation owner who paid for an immigrant's passage
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BACON'S REBELLION
: a series of raids and massacres against American Indian villages on the Virginia frontier; showed the sharp class differences and colonial resistance to royal control
Rhode Island: chartered for RELIGIOUS FREEDOM (A refuge for many); Roger Williams/ ANNE HUTCHINSON- ANTINOMIANISM
Connecticut:
FUNDAMENTAL ORDERS OF CONNECTICUT
: first written constitution in American History
New Hampshire
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HALFWAY COVENANT:
In an effort to maintain the church's influence and membership, this was created. NEW
ENGLAND CONFEDERATION
: a formed military alliance; it established a precedent for colonies taking unified action toward a common purpose
Carolinas: South- rice growing/ North- tobacco
New York
New Jersey
Pennsylvania and Delaware: charters for RELIGIOUS FREEDOM;
QUAKERS
- believed in the equality of all men and women;
THE HOLY EXPERIMENT
- Penn wanted his colony to provide religious refuge for Quakers and other persecuted people
Georgia: chartered to become a BUFFER between South Carolina and Spanish Floride
New England
(New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay Colony, Rhode Island, Connecticut): rocky soil and long winters--> logging, shipbuilding, fishing, trading, and rum-distilling
Middle
(New York, New Jersey, Penn., Delaware): rich soil--> wheat, corn, large farms, indentured servants, trading
Southern
(Maryland, Virginia, NC, SC, Georgia): agriculture varied greatly, plantations were self-suffcient, tobacco, timber, rice, and indigo)
COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE: New-Old: beans, corn, sweet and white potatoes, tomatoes, and tobacco Old-New: sugar cane, bluegrass, pigs and horses (plains indians), smallpox (mortality rate of 90%)
Spain an Portugal were the first European kingdoms to claim territories LINE OF DEMARCATION: the pope granted Spain all lands to the west of line and Portugal all lands to the east ---> TREATY OF TORDESILLAS
Spain: ENCOMIENDA SYSTEM (basically slavery)
English: John Cabot but Protestant Reformation slowed progress; came in families (Puritans and Separatists), had no respect for Indians
French: looking for furs and converts to Catholicism, viewed Americans Indians as potential allies (French and Indian War)
Mayas, Aztec, Incas: Central and South American Indians (all three developed highly organized societies, carried on an extensive trade, and created calenders) MAIZE
Great Plain Indians: North American Indians, nomadic hunters, hunted buffalo(smaller and less sophisticated)
---> 17th Century: Horses from Spanish settlers :star:
IROQOUIS CONFEDERATION: a political union of five tribes (indian alliance)
