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AP US History

By JDoh1
  • Jan 2, 1570

    Iroquois Confederacy formed

  • Freedom of Conscience brought to America

  • Founding of Jamestown

  • Period: to

    Indentured Servants

  • Mercantilism spurs creation of colonies

  • New Netherlands Founded

  • Headright system started

  • House of Burgesses

  • Mayflower Compact

  • Pilgrims/Separatists start Plymouth

  • "City on a Hill" - John Winthrop

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    Great Puritan Migration

  • Roger Williams Founds Providence, RI

  • Harvard College Formed

  • Anne Hutchinson expelled from Mass. Bay Colony (1638)

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    New England Confederation

  • Thomas Hobbes' Book "Leviathan" published

  • Trade and Navigation Acts

  • Half-Way Covenant Accepted

  • King Phillip's War

  • Bacon's Rebellion

  • William Penn Forms Pennsylvania

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    Salutary Neglect (1690's to 1760's)

  • Salem Witch Trials Begin

  • Trial of Peter Zenger

  • James Olgethorpe forms Georgia

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    Great Awakening 1730's-1740's

  • Jonathan Edwards Starts Great Awakening

  • George Whitefiled comes to America

  • Stono Rebellion

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    French and Indian War

  • Albany Plan of Union

  • Pontiac's Rebellion Begins

    Lasts into November. Crushed by British

  • Proclamation of 1763

  • Paxton Boys march on Philadelphia

  • Sugar Act of 1764 passed

  • Quartering Act Passed

  • Sons of Liberty formed

  • Stamp Act Congress begins

    Went from October 7 - 25

  • First act of Townshend Acts passed

    More acts continued to be passed until July 2

  • Colonists begin non-importation agreements

  • Phyllis Wheatley publishes her first poem

  • Boston Massacre

  • 'Gaspee' Affair occurs

  • Tea Act passed

  • Boston Tea Party

  • First Continental Congress

  • Intolerable Acts Passed

    Following the Boston Tea Party

  • Second Continental Congress

  • Olive Branch Petition Adopted

    Adopted by the Second Continental Congress

  • Thomas Paine publishes "Common Sense"

  • First Crisis Paper Published

    Written by Thomas Paine