APUSH timeline

  • 1492

    Columbus sets off

    • economic and religious motivations
    • sponsors = isabella and ferdinand
    • devout catholic
  • 1503

    Encomienda

    System that the spanish used in the americas to force native americans to perform back breaking labor because they were "offering them protection"
  • 1521

    Hernán Cortes vs. Monteczuma

    • cortes saw cracks and allied with other native american kings to capture monteczuma
  • Jamestown founded

    • rough beginnings but stable by 1700
    • tobacco helped the economy start up
    • hierarchical southern society
  • House of Burgesses

    • first gov in the colonies
    • white property owning males vote
  • Massachusetts Bay Colony

    • strict puritan and calvinist ideas (ex. of religious intolerance)
  • Foundation of Rhode Island

    • founded by Roger Williams bc he was banished from puritain massachussetts
    • first colony w/ separation of church and state
    • wanted to find a place where his religion would be accepted
  • Act of toleration

    • lord baltimore made it a safe place for catholics and religious freedom for all christians
  • Metacoms' War

    • an instance of NA coming together against europeans
  • Bacon's Rebellion

    -turning point from INDENTURED SERVANTS -- RACE-BASED SLAVERY
    - Bacon asked Gov Berkeley if he can trade w/ NA and gov said no, so bacon goes on a killing spree
  • Pennsylvania founded

    • by william penn -quakers
    • advocated for freedom of slaves
    • good relation w/ NA
    • free place to practice freedom of religion
    • religious diversity
  • Salem witch trials

    • accused random women and executed them for unrest in religion and politics
  • Period: to

    1st Great Awakening

  • Albany Plan

    • inter-colonial gov plans made by Benjamin Franklin but not accepted
  • Period: to

    7 years war/French-Indian War

  • Stamp act

  • Pontiac's War

    • led to the establishment of the Proc line because NA attacked Br settlers and Br settlers wanted to appease NA
  • Proclamation of 1763

    • no more colonial settlement past the Appalachian mountains
    • end salutary neglect
    • start of colonial resentment to british
  • Townshend Act

  • Stamp Act congress

  • Boston Massacre

  • First continental congress

  • Boston Tea Party

  • Coercive Acts

  • Battle of Lexington and Concord

  • 2nd Continental Congress

  • Olive Branch Petition

  • Articles of Confederation

  • Common Sense by Thomas Paine

  • Declaration of Independence

  • battle of yorktown

  • treaty of paris