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U.S history timeline of Colonial America
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U.S History Timeline
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Colombian Exchange (1492)
Columbian exchange
The Colombian exchange was the exchange of good and diseases between the New world(The Americas) and Great Britain.
Crops, diseases, cattle, plants, ideas, Technologies, and culture were traded between these nations.
SUBTOPIC 1
francisco pizarro
Francisco Pizarro(1478-1541)
Francisco Pizarro was a Spanish Conquistador that led the Spanish conquest of Peru. He also claimed the lands of spain
Hernan Cortes(1485-1547)
Hernan cortes
The Spanish Conquistador that destroyed the Aztec empire and claimed mexico.
PICTURES
Ferdinand Magellan(1480-1521)
Portuguese Navigator that was the first to circumnavigate the world.
Ferdinand Magellan
TIMELINE
Pueblo Revolt(1680)
Pueblo Revolt
Also known as Popes rebellion, the Pueblo revolt was an uprising of indigenous pueblo against the spanish in the province of Santa Fe de Nuevo Mexico. The revolt killed 400 spanish and the remaining colonists were driven out.
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Bartolome de la casas(1484-1566)
De La Casas was an early Spanish historian and Dominican missionary that was the first to speak out against the oppression and mistreatment of the indigenous people.
Bartolome de la casas
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Econmienda System(1503)
Econmienda system
A labor system enforced by the Spanish in American colonies. In this system, a Spanish encomendero was granted a number of native laborers who would pay tributes to him in exchange for his protection.
Asiento System(1500)
Asiento System
Used to obtain slaves to work in spanish colonies.
Columbus(1451-1506
Colombus
An Italian explorer and navigator who completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean. He stumbled across the Americas when searching for a new right to Asia.
Maya(1800 B.C. to A.D. 250)
Maya, incas, Aztecs
The civilization included southeastern Mexico and northern Central America. This area included the entire Yucatán Peninsula and all of the territory now incorporated into the modern countries of Guatemala and Belize, as well as the western portions of Honduras and El Salvador.
Incas(c. 1400-1533 CE
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The Inca Empire, also known as the Incan Empire and the Inka Empire, was the largest empire in pre-Columbian America. Its political and administrative structure is considered by most scholars to have been the most developed in the Americas before Columbus' arrival
Aztecs(1300 to 1521)
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The Aztecs were a Mesoamerican culture that flourished in central Mexico in the post-classic period
Henry Hudson(1570-1611)
Henry Hudson
an English sea explorer and navigator during the early 17th century, best known for his explorations of present-day Canada and parts of the northeastern United States.
John Cabot( 1450, disappeared May 1498)
John Cabot
John Cabot was an Italian navigator and explorer. His 1497 discovery of the coast of North America under the commission of Henry VII of England is the earliest known European exploration of coastal North America since the Norse visits to Vinland in the eleventh century.
Navigation Acts(1651-1849
Navigation Acts
a series of laws passed by the British Parliament that imposed restrictions on colonial trade. British economic policy was based on mercantilism, which aimed to use the American colonies to bolster British state power and finances
Virginia Company(1606-1624
The Virginia Company refers collectively to two joint-stock companies chartered under James I on April 10, 1606 with the goal of establishing settlements on the coast of America.
Virginia Company
Plymouth Rock(1620)
Plymouth Rock
Plymouth Rock is the traditional site of disembarkation of William Bradford and the Mayflower Pilgrims who founded Plymouth Colony in 1620.
Mayflower Compact(1620)
Mayflower Compact
a set of rules for self-governance established by the English settlers who traveled to the New World on the Mayflower. When Pilgrims and other settlers set out on the ship for America in 1620, they intended to lay anchor in northern Virginia.
Jamestown(1607)
Jamestown
The first permanent English settlement in North America, founded in 1607 in Virginia. Jamestown was named for King James I of England. It was destroyed later in the seventeenth century in an uprising of Virginians against the governor.
Captain John Smith (1580-1631)
English explorer who helped found the colony at Jamestown, Virginia; was said to have been saved by Pocahontas
Captain John Smith
John Rolfe(1585-1622)
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one of the early English settlers of North America. He is credited with the first successful cultivation of tobacco as an export crop in the Colony of Virginia.
Pocahantas(1596-1617)
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Powhatan princess who befriended the English colonists at Jamestown and is said to have saved Capt. John Smith from execution by her people. She married the colonist John Rolfe (1614) and later traveled to England, where she died.
Powhatan(1540s or 1550s-1618)
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leader of more than 30 tribes and controlled the area where English colonists formed the Jamestown settlement in 1607. He initially traded with the colonists before clashing with them
King Phillip's war/Metacom(1675–1678)
metacom
was an armed conflict in 1675–1678 between Indian inhabitants of New England and New England colonists and their Indian allies.
Head-Right System(1618)
Head- right system
a grant of land, usually 50 acres, given to settlers in the 13 colonies. The system was used mainly in Virginia, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Maryland. ... The headright system was originally created in 1618 in Jamestown, Virginia.
Southern Colonies
Southern colonies
Maryland(George Calvert in 1632), Virginia(John Smith in 1607), North and South Carolina(eight English nobles with a Royal Charter from King Charles II in 1633), and Georgia(James Oglethorpe in 1733)
Mid Atlantic colonies
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the Mid-Atlantic colonies include New Jersey(Sir George Carteret and Lord Berkeley in 1644), Pennsylvania(founded by William Penn in 1681), Delaware(founded by Pete Minuit in 1638), New York(originally a Dutch colony that was surrendered to the English in 1644).
New England Colonies
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Connecticut(founded by Thoman Hooker in 1776), Rhode Island(founded by Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson in 1776), Massechussetts(founded by William Bradford in 1780), New Hampshire(founded in 1776 by John Mason)
Bacon's rebellion(1676)
bacon's rebellion
Bacon's Rebellion was an armed rebellion in 1676 by Virginia settlers led by Nathaniel Bacon against the rule of Governor William Berkeley
House of burgesses(1619-1776)
House of Burgesses
the first democratically-elected legislative body in British North America. This group of representatives met from 1619 until 1776. ... The House of Burgesses is important because the ideas and leaders from this House helped bring about the American Revolutionary War
Great Awakening(aproximately 1730-1740)
a revival that swept Protestantism in the British colonies and changed the fabric of religion in early America. The movement came at a time when the idea of secular rationalism was being emphasized, and passion for religion had grown stale.
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Halfway covenant(1662)
Halfway Covenant
a form of church membership among the Congregational churches of New England allowed by decisions in 1657 and 1662 and permitting baptized persons of moral life and orthodox faith to enjoy privileges of full membership except the partaking of the Lord's Supper.
Salutary Neglect(1609-1763)
salutary Neglect
as Britain's unofficial policy, initiated by prime minister Robert Walpole , to relax the enforcement of strict regulations, particularly trade laws, imposed on the American colonies late in the seventeenth and early in the eighteenth centuries.
Pequot Wars(1636-1638
Pequot wars
an armed conflict that took place between 1636 and 1638 in New England between the Pequot tribe and an alliance of the colonists of the Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, and Saybrook colonies and their allies from the Narragansett and Mohegan tribes.
Roger Williams(1603-1683)
Roger williams
Founded the colony of Rhode Island as a place of complete religious toleration after he was banished from Massechusetts for his religious views
Anne Hutchinson(1591-1643)
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early colonists of the Massachusetts Colony who was banished from Boston in 1637 for her religious and feminist beliefs and fled to the Rhode Island Colony
Middle passage(1600-1865)
Middle Passage
the stage of the triangular trade in which millions of Africans were forcibly transported to the New World as part of the Atlantic slave trade.
The Holy Experiment(1681)
William Penn's term for the government of Pennsylvania, which was supposed to serve everyone and provide freedom for all, was the first colony to allow many different religions to live together.