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May 25, 1539
Herdando de Soto explores GA
he was looking for gold
he went with 600 soilders
he died on the trip -
Jan 1, 1565
Fort King George built to protect the Southern Colonies from invasion by the Spanish
Colonel John Barnwell traveled to London to ask that a fort be built at the mouth of the Altamaha River.
The Crown approved the construction of the fort.
In 1721, the garrison was finished.
Fort King George became the British “warn- ing point” for invaders.
it was abandoned in 1727 due to Indian raids, swampy conditions, and sickness -
Jan 1, 1568
Spanish Missions on barrier islands
mission- church used to confert natives to catholic
-spread religion
- to take NA and protect their land -
Virginia Colony established
first british colony -
Virginia Colony founded
John Smith founded it
Natrual resources: Plantation agriculture (tobacco, wheat, corn)
Major Cities: Jamestown, Williamsburg, Richmond -
Massachusetts Colony founded
John Winthrop founded it
natrual resources are: fishing, corn, livestock, lumbering, shipbuilding
Main Cities are: Boston, Quincy, Plymouth, Lexington, Concord -
Georgia Colony founded with Charter of 1732, beginning the Trustee Period
Ogerthorpe and 20 other trutees went over to georgia to create and over see it for 21 years
3 reasons: Charity, Economics, and Defense
Did not let Cathlocts, african americans, lawerys, or people who made liquor in Georgia -
War of Jenkin's Ear
a war broke out between Great Britain and Spain.
Great Britain con- trolled Georgia’s borders, and Spain controlled Florida’s.
There seemed to be no way to keep the two groups from fighting. -
Battle of Bloody Marsh
Orgerthorpe's forces waited in the woods along the marshes on St. Simons Island.
Spanish troops who came that way were caught completely by surprise and forced back across the Florida border.
it was neither big nor very bloody. I
t marked the beginning of a safe southern frontier for the British. -
French and Indian War
French vs. British/Colonies -
Stamp Act
tax on newspapers, legal documents, and licenses
^^People hated this
Eventually repealed -
Townshend Acts
tax on tea, paper, glass, and coloring for paint -
Boston Massacre
the killing of five colonists by the British
it was the culmination of tensions in the American colonies that had been growing since Royal troops first appeared in Massachusetts in October 1768 to enforce the heavy tax burden imposed by the Townshend Acts. -
Intolerable Acts
to punish the Massachuetts colony after the Boston tea party:
-closed boston harbor
-cancelled the massachusetts royal charter
-brisish accused of crime in the colonie were tried in great britian
-quartering acts- had to feed and house british troops at their own expense -
Battle of Lexington and Concord
started the revolutionary war -
Declaration of Independance
Break up letter between the colonies and great britain -
Articles of Confederation
first try at government
gave too much power to the states and not enough to the federal government
7 main problems
tested by shay's rebellion -
Batttle of Kettle Creek
attack on 800 british troops
elijiah clark war the kernal during the battle
^^austin dabney saved his life
big boost for them (only battle they won)
replenished their supplies -
Siege of Savannah
19,000 american and french troops tried to attack savannah
^^failed because it was very unorginized and Britain had defenses
first time america and france worked together -
Battle of Yorktown
ended the revolutionary war -
Treaty of Paris
in paris
ended the revolutionary war officialy -
ratification of the constitution
when the colonies approved the constitution? -
Invention of the Cotton Gin
Inventor- Eli Whitney
a machine that revolutionized the production of cotton by greatly speeding up the process of removing seeds from cotton fiber
made cotton the number one export in america in the mid-19th century -
Yazoo Land Fraud
Georgia’s legal boundary extended west to the Mississippi River. Many state leaders wanted to open this area to settlement, but Creeks, Cherokees, and other Native Americans lived there.
bribed them
But in reality this law allowed the companies to buy 35 million acres of land at an incredibly low price of less than two cents an acre! The companies then sold the land (making huge profits) to either other speculators or to innocent civilians hoping to move to these frontier territories. -
Missouri Compromise
After months of bitter debate, Congress passes the Missouri Compromise, a bill that temporarily resolves the first serious political clash between slavery and antislavery interests in U.S. history.
stated that all states north of the 36 parallel would be free staes and those south of it would e slave states. -
Dahlonega Gold Rush
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Indian Removal Act
authorizing the president to grant unsettled lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders
the Cherokees were forcibly moved west by the United States government. Approximately 4,000 Cherokees died on this forced march, which became known as the "Trail of Tears." -
Nullification Crisis
The Tariff of 1832, despite pleas from Southern representatives, failed to moderate the protective barriers erected in earlier legislation. The South Carolina passed an ordinance of nullification on November 24, 1832, and threatened to secede if the federal government attempted to collect those tariff duties. It ended when they made a compromise to lower it. -
Compromise of 1850
a package of five separate bills passed in the United States in September 1850, which defused a four-year confrontation between the slave states of the South and the free states of the North regarding the status of territories acquired during the Mexican-American War -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. The Act served to repeal the Missouri Compromise of 1820 which prohibited slavery north of latitude 36°30´. -
Dred Scott Case
The case had been brought before the court by Dred Scott, a slave who had lived with his owner in a free state before returning to the slave state of Missouri. Scott argued that his time spent in these locations entitled him to emancipation. In his decision, Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, a staunch supporter of slavery, disagreed: The court found that no black, free or slave, could claim U.S. citizenship, and therefore blacks were unable to petition the court for their freedom. -
Election of 1860