aLeY aNtIvErO

By swallie
  • Magna Carta
    Nov 3, 1215

    Magna Carta

    This was a document that limited the power of the king.Magna Carta meaning "Great Charter."This was important because it gave power to the people.
  • Renaissance
    Nov 3, 1300

    Renaissance

    This was the rebirth of new thinking, new ideas, arts, and culture. If it weren't for this time in period we probably wouldn't have ever known there were still places out there. We would probably think it was just Asia, Africa, and Europe.
  • Columbus
    Nov 3, 1492

    Columbus

    When everyone noticed he had found a new world, everyone wanted to do the same. Most countries wanted to gain more land to have more power.
  • Columbian Exchange
    Nov 4, 1500

    Columbian Exchange

    The voyages of Columbus triggered a great transfer of people, plants, animals, and disease back and forth across the Atlantic Ocean.This transfer still continues today.
  • Growth of Mercantilism
    Nov 4, 1500

    Growth of Mercantilism

    The more money and land you have the more power you have.
  • Arrival of Conquistadors
    Nov 4, 1513

    Arrival of Conquistadors

    Spanish soldier-explorers espcially those who conquered the native peoples of Mexico and Peru.
  • Arrival of Missionaries
    Nov 4, 1540

    Arrival of Missionaries

    People who traveled to a territory or community in order to make converts to their religion.
  • Intoduction of Slavery

    Intoduction of Slavery

    The Africans were inslaved in the americas. They were used to raise crops, take the place of the natives that had died,and to become indentured survants.
  • Middle Passage

    Middle Passage

    This passage was an Atlantic slave trade.This was their worst moment because they were chained up and they had to do their droppings where they were seated.
  • Jamestown settled

    Jamestown settled

    Jamestown was the first permanent English settlement in the colonies.When the europeians arrived the were attached by native americans.
  • Indentured Servants begin arriving

    Indentured Servants begin arriving

    A person who sighned an indenture, or an agreement to work for a master for a period of years. Indentured servants were not free until they completed their term of survice.
  • House of Burgesses

    House of Burgesses

    This law was passed by the vigina legislater making African workers slaves for life.
  • Puritans and Pilgrims Arrive

    Puritans and Pilgrims Arrive

    These people came to the america's to bring back religious faith.
  • Mayflower Compact

    Mayflower Compact

    A document that desdribed the way they would govern themselfs in the New World
  • Development of Assemblies and Democracy

    Development of Assemblies and Democracy

    Democracy- A government in which the people rule.
    Assembly- An elected group of lawmakers.
  • Rise of tabacco and other cash crops

    Rise of tabacco and other cash crops

    Crops such as tobacco, sugar, and cotton raised in large quantitlies in order to be sold for profit.These crops were located in the southern region.
  • Fundamental Orders

    Fundamental Orders

    This was written with help of poritan clergyman Thomas Hooker. The Fundamental Orders was the first written plan of gov't for any of the colonies. Written in conn. Guarenteed right to vote to puritan men.
  • Parliament

    Parliament

    This was a lawmaking body of England, similar to congress in the United States. This is important because the people have the power to choose their laws.
  • Great Awakening

    Great Awakening

    People were loosing their religious faith, and this is the day when their religious faith came back into their hearts and souls.
  • Arrival of Early Americans

    Arrival of Early Americans

    They crossed the Bering Strait searching for new resources.They travled from Asia to the America's.