Timeline lesson1

By hschreiber22
  • Jan 5, 1500

    New France

    1. Jacques Cartier
    2. French merchants wanted the weath the came from the fur trade.
    3. Catier explored the St. Lawrence River
  • European counries claimed the land in the Americas
    Sep 16, 1500

    European counries claimed the land in the Americas

    2.Spain,Portugal,England
    3. in the Americas
    4. Spain formed colonies to protect its land.
    6. Spain wanted to protect its land north of Mexico City. These lands on the edge of Spains claims were called borderlands.
  • Jan 5, 1550

    Europeans started plantations in America

    1. Spain, Portugual
    2. America 3.They needed many workers on the plantations
    3. They made Native Americans be slaves
  • Jan 5, 1550

    Slavery

    1. Spain, Portugual, Native Americans 2.. Brazil, America 3.Many Native Americans died from hunger and the work they did.
    2. Sometimes the dieases killed the whole tribe.
  • Jan 5, 1565

    Settling St. Augustine Florida

    1. Perdro Menedez de Aviles and his soldiers
    2. Florida
    3. They built the first European settlements in the U.S
    4. Spain's main goal in settling the borderlands to protect its empire.

  • The Lost Colony

    1. John White
    2. Johnn white led a group of people to Roanoke Island.
    3. When he returned back from getting more supplies everyone was gone and it remained a mystery.

  • The Virginia Company

    1. King James
    2. King James wanted to start a new colony

  • Jamestown

    1. King James
    2. Three ships by the Virgina Company sailed down a deep bay and they sailed up the river and called it Jamestown in return of there king

  • Life in the borderlands

    1. Native Mericans, settlers
    2. Southern half of North America
    3. Some settlers built haciendas in the borderlands
    4. The Spanish brought with them and changed many lives for Native Americans . For example the used horses for hunting and sheep for wool

  • Settling Santa Fe

    1. Spanish missionaries
    2. New Mexico
    3. The missionaries built religious settlements called missions.
    4. In such places missionaries and Native Americans lived very close.

  • The Pilgrims Journey

    1. John Smith
    2. John Smith named a region New England and wrote a book about it and called it A Desription of the New England
    3. Today these regions include six states Conneticut, Rhode Island, Massachuts, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine

  • The House of Burgesses

    1. Europeans
    2. Only men who owned property could become members and vote in the House of Burgesses.
    3. It is important because it is Virginia's Legisature and they govern themselves

  • The Mayflower Compact

    1. John Smith
    2. The settlers arrived with know government
    3. The Mayflower Compact gave the right to govern themselves

  • Building a Colony

    1. Samoset, Tisquantum
    2. It was a cold and long by spring 50- 102 settlers died
    3. Tisquantum helped colonists trade furs from NAtive tribes.

  • Powhatan War

    1. King James
    2. The Powhatan War fought. The Powhatan Wars led King James to make Virgina a royal colony

  • New Netherland

    1. Peter Minut
    2. The Dutch set up a colony in order to profit from the fur trade
    3. The Dutch believed they had bought Manhattan Island from the Native Americans

  • New Sweden and more conflicts

    1. New Sweden Algonquian
    2. Dutch colonists and Algonquian who lived nearby had a strong trading relationship
    3. By the late 1630s conflicts with the Native Amwericans had grown because the settlers had cleared more land for farming