AP US History

  • Christopher Columbus ''founds'' new world (1492)
    1492

    Christopher Columbus ''founds'' new world (1492)

    he found two large continents across the Atlantic ocean
  • Columbian Exchange begins
    1492

    Columbian Exchange begins

    Christopher Columbus widespread, plants, animals, culture, human populations and more
  • Period: 1492 to

    European Exploration Era

    European ships were traveled around the world to search for trading
  • 1500

    Spanish Encomienda System Begins

    Spanish labor system that rewarded conquerors with the labor of particular groups of conquered non-Christian people
  • 1500

    Spanish Casta system begins

    The casta system was extremely important to the spanish colonies because it dicted ones social status, level of taxation, and legal rights
  • Period: 1500 to

    Triangular Trade

  • Period: 1500 to

    Middle passage

  • 1520

    Small pox begins spreading to Native Americans

    The Native American were struck hard with small pox a lot of the people died to the disease
  • 1521

    Spanish Conquistador Herman Cortez Conquers the Aztec Empire

    primary events in the Spanish colonization of the Americas
  • 1534

    England splits from the Catholic church

    parliament passage of the acts of supremacy in 1534 solidified the break from the catholic church
  • London company gains charter for the set up english colony

    The company plan was to identify profitable raw materials such as gold and silver in virginia to repay the investors back to england
  • Jamestown, Virginia colony founded

    english man and boys arrived in North America to start to settle
  • Period: to

    Colonial Era

  • French found Quebec on the St. Lawrence river and engage in the fur Trade

    establish a trading post at what is now Quebec
  • Tobacco introduced to virginia colony by John Rolfe

    provided an economic incentive for further expansion and settlement of the new world
  • First african slaves arrive in Jamestown virginia colony

    setting the stage for slavery in north America kidnapped by the Portuguese
  • Virginia House of burgesses

    elected representative element of the virginia general assembly
  • Plymouth, Massachusetts colony founded

    17th century British settlement and political unit on the east coast of North America established in 1620
  • Mayflower compact

    agreement between the settlers of new Plymouth, was the first governing document of Plymouth colony
  • New Hampshire founded

    founded by John Manson and Ferdinando Gorges
  • Dutch and New Amsterdam becomes the capital of New Netherlands

    the breaking point came when english king charles II awarded the colonys land to his brother
  • The great Migration to Massachusetts bay colony

    English puritans to Massachusetts and the west Indies
  • city upon a hill john winthrop

    phrase derived from the parable of salt and light in Jesus Sermon on the mount
  • Maryland founded

    Maryland founded

    The Maryland colony was founded in 1632
  • Thomas Hooker founds of Connecticut

    a puritan minister, left the Massachusetts bay colony and founded Hartford Connecticut
  • Roger Williams founds of Rhode island

    advocating separation of church and state in colonial America
  • Harvard college founded in Massachusets

    Harvard college founded in Massachusets

    founded by Massachusetts general court
  • Delaware Founded

  • Fundamental orders of Connecticut

    describe the government set up by Connecticut river towns, its structure and power
  • Maryland toleration act

    was a religious tolerance for trinitarian Christians
  • North Carolina Founded

    founded by the virginia colonists
  • Iroquois Confederacy Formed

  • Navigation Acts and Mercantilism

  • South Carolina Founded

    became one of the wealthiest early colonies largely due to exports of cotton
  • New York Funded

  • New Jersey Founded

  • King philip war

    war conflict between new england and new england colonist and their indigenous allies
  • Bacons rebellion

    an armed rebellion by virginia settlers that took place in 1676
  • Pueblo Revolt

    pueblo people against the spanish colonizers in the province of santa fe de Nuevo Mexico
  • Quaker William Penn Founds Pennsylvania

  • Period: to

    Enlightenment Era

  • John Locke’s Two Treatises of Government Published

  • English Bill of Rights

  • salem witch trials

    series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts
  • Period: to

    Salutary Neglect Policy

  • The great Awakening

    The great Awakening

    religious revival that impacted the english colonies in america during the 1730s
  • Georgia founded as a debtors colony

    The founder Georgia James Oglethorpe specifically started the colony as a debtors refuge in 1732
  • stono rebellion

    stono rebellion

    slave rebellion that that began on 9 of September in South Carolina
  • French and Indian War Begins

  • French and Indian War Ends

  • Proclamation Line of 1763

  • Period: to

    Revolutionary Era

  • Period: to

    Republican Motherhood

  • Sugar Act

  • Stamp Act

  • Quartering Act

  • Townshend Acts

  • Boston Massacre

  • Tea Act

  • Boston Tea Party

  • Intolerable Acts

  • First Continental Congress

  • Thomas Paine’s Common Sense Published

  • Battle of Lexington and Concord

  • Second Continental Congress

  • Continental Army Lead by General George Washington

  • Declaration of Independence

  • Benjamin Franklin Becomes French Ambassador

  • Adam Smith Publishes "The wealth of nations"

    a seminal book that represents the birth of free-market economics, but not without its faults
  • Winter at Valley Forge

  • Battle of Saratoga

  • Articles Of Confedaration

    agreement among the 13 original states of the united states of America
  • Battle of Yorktown

  • Treaty of Paris of 1783

  • shay's rebellion

    Shays' rebellion was an armed uprising in wester Massachusetts and Worcester in response to debt crisis
  • Federalist papers

    85 articles and essays written by Alexander Hamilton
  • Period: to

    Manifest Destiny

    the 19th century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable