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1450
Triangular Trade begins
Began transporting slaves -
1469
Columbus
Sails ocean -
1492
Columbian Exchange
An exchange between the Old World, New World, and Africa. In this exchange the Old World gave the New World food, animals, and diseases. Africa gave the New World slaves. Lastly, the New World gave the Old World gold, silver, raw materials, and syphilis. -
1494
Treaty of Tordesillas
agreement between Spain and Portugal aimed at settling conflicts over lands newly discovered or explored by Christopher Columbus and other late 15th-century voyagers. -
1500
Middle Passage
refers to the part of the trade where Africans, densely packed onto ships, were transported across the Atlantic to the West Indies. -
1512
Encomienda Begins
Spanish government's policy to "commend", or give, Indians to certain colonists in return for the promise to Christianize them. Part of a broader Spanish effort to subdue Indian tribes in the West Indies and on the North American mainland. -
Roanoke
Lost Colony -
Mercantillism
Economic philosophy or practice in which England established the colonies to provide raw materials to the Mother Country; the colonies received manufactured goods in return. -
Virginia Company
The first joint-stock company in the colonies; founded Jamestown; promised gold, conversion of Indian to Christianity, and passage to the Indies -
Jamestown is founded
remembered for his role in establishing the first permanent English settlement in North America at Jamestown, Virginia, and his brief association with the Native American girl Pocahontas during an altercation with the Powhatan Confederacy and her father, Chief Powhatan. He was a leader of the Virginia Colony (based at Jamestown) between 1607 and 1609, and led an exploration along the rivers of Virginia and the Chesapeake Bay. -
House of Burgesses
the first legislative assembly in the American colonies in jamestown, VA -
First AA arrives in Colonies
Begins colonial slavery -
Plymouth is founded
in 1620 some Separatists, the Pilgrims, famously settled at Plymouth, Massachusetts. -
Will Bradford
A Pilgrim, the second governor of the Plymouth colony, 1621- 1657. -
New Amsterdam
purchased by Dutch East and West India Companies, was a company town, run by and for the Dutch company in the interests of stockholders, attracted people of all types and races, did not care about religion, aristocratic, Cosmopolitan, profit centered -
Salem Massachusetts is founded
a group of Puritans formed the New England Company. The King of England gave them a charter to make a settlement along the Massachusetts Bay. The first group of Puritan settlers was led by John Endecott. They began the settlement Salem, Massachusetts. -
City Upon a Hill
As governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony, Winthrop (1588-1649) was instrumental in forming the colony's government and shaping its legislative policy. He envisioned the colony, centered in present-day Boston, as a "city upon a hill" from which Puritans would spread religious righteousness throughout the world. -
Pequot War
The Pequot War was an armed conflict that took place between 1636 and 1638 in New England between the Pequot tribe and an alliance of the English colonists of the Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, and Saybrook colonies and their Native American allies -
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
the first written Constitution in the Western tradition -
Rhode Island is founded
he received a charter creating the colony of Rhode Island, named for the principal island in Narragansett Bay. He is credited for originating either the first or second Baptist church established in America. -
Mayflower Toleration Act
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The Maryland Toleration Act, also known as the Act Concerning Religion, was a law mandating religious tolerance for Trinitarian Christians. It was passed on April 21, 1649, by the assembly of the Maryland colony, in St. Mary's City. -
Acts of Trade and Navigation
These acts were designed to tighten the government's control over trade between England, its colonies, and the rest of the world. -
Navigation Act of 1651
It authorised the Commonwealth to regulate trade within the colonies -
Navigation Act 1660
ships' crews had to be three-quarters English, and "enumerated" products not produced by the mother country, such as tobacco, cotton, and sugar were to be shipped from the colonies only to England or other English colonies. -
Restoration Colonies
continued/resumed British colonization after a 30 year hiatus- NJ, Pennsylvania, and Carolinas by Charles II -
Half-Way Covenant
a form of partial church membership created within the Congregational churches of colonial New England -
Act for the Encouragement of Trade
required all European goods bound for America (or other colonies) to be shipped through England first -
Virginia Slave Laws
Strict laws against slaves -
Anne Hutchinson
a dissenter in the Massachusetts Bay Colony who caused a schism in the Puritan community. Eventually, Hutchinson's faction lost out in a power struggle for the governorship. She was expelled from the colony in 1673 and traveled southward with a number of her followers, establishing the settlement of Portsmouth, Rhode Island -
Bacon's Rebellion
Nathaniel Bacon, a Virginia planter, led a group of 300 settlers in a war against the local Native Americans. When Virginia's royal governor questioned Bacon's actions, Bacon and his men looted and burned Jamestown. Bacon's Rebellion manifested the increasing hostility between the poor and wealthy in the Chesapeake region. -
Bacon's Manifesto
persuade people to rebel -
Pope's Rebellion
uprising of most of the indigenous Pueblo people against the Spanish colonizers in the province of Santa Fe de Nuevo México, present day New Mexico. -
Pennsylvania
British colony of Pennsylvania which was formed by William Penn in 1681 as a haven for persecuted Quakers. -
Enlightenment Begins
aka Age of Reason, was a philosophical movement that took place primarily in Europe and, later, in North America, Enlightenment philosophy was influential in ushering in the French and American revolutions and constitutions. -
The Dominion of New England
a merging of British colonies in New England in the 17th century. It merged the colonies of Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Rhode Island, together into one large colony -
Glorious Revolution
a bloodless coup in England that overthrew James the II and enthroned Mary II and William the III; weakened the monarchial power- est GB Bill of Rights -
King Williams war begins
One of the four wars fought between France, Spain, England and France's indian allies for control of North America. No major battles fought but brought terrifying indian raids. -
British Immigration to Colonies slows
As wages increased in the mother country, less people came to colonies with indentured servitude and increased need for slavery -
Salem Witch Trials
Witch hunts in Mass -
King Williams war Ends
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Royal African Co
English company that lost its monopoly on the slave trade i -
Queen Ann's War begins
The second of the four wars known generally as the French and Indian Wars, it arose out of issues left unresolved by King Williams' War (1689-1697) and was part of a larger European conflict known as the War of the Spanish Succession. Britain, allied with the Netherlands, defeated France and Spain to gain territory in Canada, even though the British had suffered defeats in most of their military operations in North America. -
Queen Ann's war Ends
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Encomienda Ends
The system is ended -
First Great Awakening
a Protestant religious revival that swept Protestant Europe and British America in the 1730s and 1740s. An evangelical and revitalization movement, it left a permanent impact on American Protestantism. -
George Whitefield
One of the preachers of the great awakening (key figure of "New Light"); known for his talented voice inflection and ability to bring many a person to their knees. -
John Edward
He was an American theologian and Congregational clergyman, whose sermons stirred the religious revival, called the Great Awakening. He is known for his " Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God " sermon. -
Molasses Act
levied heavy duties on the trade of sugar from the French West Indies to the American colonies, forcing the colonists to buy the more expensive sugar from the British West Indies instead. -
Zenger Case
Journalist who questioned the policies of the governor of New York in the 1700's. He was jailed; he sued, and this court case was the basis for our freedom of speech and press. He was found not guilty. -
Stono rebellion
was a slave rebellion that began on 9 September 1739, in the colony of South Carolina. It was the largest slave uprising in the British mainland colonies, with 42-47 whites and 44 blacks killed. -
South Carolina Slave Code
institutionalized slavery -
King George's War begins
Land squabble between France and Britain. France tried to retake Nova Scotia (which it had lost to Britain in Queen Anne's War). The war ended with a treaty restoring the status quo, so that Britain kept Nova Scotia). -
King George's War ends
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Triangular Trade Ends
Save trade ends -
George Washington in F&I War
sent as an ambassador from the British crown to the French officials and Indians as far north as present-day Erie, Pennsylvania. -
Ben Franklin
submitted the Albany Plan during the Fr. and Ind. War -
Albany Plan of Union
called for the colonies to unify in the face of French and Native American threats. The delegates approved the plan, but the colonies rejected it for fear of losing too much power. The Crown did not support the plan either, as it was wary of too much cooperation between the colonies. -
Mission System
a chain of missions estalbished by Franciscan monks in the Spanish Southwest and California that forced Indians to convert to Catholicism and work as agricultural laborers -
Treaty of Paris
treaty in which British formally recognized the independence of the United States; granted generous boundaries (Mississippi River to Great Lakes to Spanish Florida plus a share in the priceless fisheries on Newfoundland); Americans could no longer persecute Loyalists and had to restore their property to them; states vowed to put no lawful obstacles in the way of debt-collecting from British -
Enlightenment Ends
the era ended -
Mission System Ends