1492

1. 1492

2. Answer: • Christopher Columbus sails West to find a faster all-water route to Asia and lands in the Caribbean (Hispaniola).

3. 1494

4. Answer: • Treaty of Tordesillas = Pope divides the New World with the Line of Demarcation. • Spain gets land west of the line. • Portugal gets the eastern land (Brazil) and Africa.

5. 1587-1590

6. Answer: • Roanoke Colony is founded and LOST. • 1st English Colony off coast of N. Carolina • Founder = Sir Walter Raleigh • Lost during Spanish Armada attack. • Only clue = “Croatoan” carved into tree.

7. 1588

8. Answer: • Spanish Armada is defeated by the English navy.

9. 1607

10. Answer: • Jamestown founded • VA Company = joint-stock company • Captain John Smith

11. 1619

12. Answer: • Boat of women • Boat of slaves (Portugal) • Headright system • 50 acres of land if you paid for indentured servant trip to American colonies + keep indentured servant for ~7 years until debt paid back • House of Burgesses • 1st representative assembly of landed colonists

13. 1620

14. Answer: • Plymouth Colony is founded by mostly Pilgrims. • Mayflower Compact = majority rules • Separatist Gov. William Bradford • Squanto • Thanksgiving

15. 1624

16. Answer: • VA becomes a royal colony b/c of financial difficulties. • Tobacco saves the colony soon after & royal government benefits financially.

17. 1630

18. Answer: • Massachusetts Bay Colony is founded by the Puritans. • Non-Separatist Gov. Winthrop = “build a city upon a hill”

19. 1636

20. Answer: • Pequot War = Pequots attacked Plymouth and Mass. Bay because their land was being encroached upon. Pequot lose.

21. 1675

22. Answer: • King Phillip’s War = Metacomet, leader of the Wampanoag, attacked Plymouth and Mass. Bay because their land was being encroached upon. Indians lose.

23. 1676

24. Answer: Bacon’s Rebellion • stops indentured servants & starts slavery boom!

25. 1680

26. Answer: • Pope’s Rebellion = Indians in New Mexico attack Spanish over land encroachment and lose.

27. 1688

28. Answer: • Glorious Revolution: • Bloodless revolution to restore English rights & get rid of Catholic king. • James II removed from the thrown • English Bill of Rights passed • William III & Mary II jointly rule

29. 1689

30. Answer: • Coode’s Rebllion = rebellion over religion in Maryland; Protestants take control from Catholics. • Leisler’s Rebellion = rebellion over rights of Englishmen in NY; English men fight & win rights. • Dominion of New England is broken up. • Sir Edmund Andros escapes.

31. 1692

32. Answer: • Salem Witch Trials

33. 1713

34. Answer: • Salutary neglect begins = British are not strictly enforcing the Navigation Acts.

35. 1700’s

36. Answer: • Enlightenment Movement

37. 1730s-1740s

38. Answer: • 1st Great Awakening • Leaders: • Jonathan Edwards • Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God • George Whitefield

39. 1739

40. Answer: • Stono Rebellion

41. 1754

42. Answer: • Albany Plan of Union • for defense against Indians & French; it fails; shows disunity of colonies • The French and Indian War begins: • Over Ohio River Valley – trade / settlement • French build forts in Ohio Valley– Fort Duquesne – and friendly with the Indians • Washington sent to expel the French; attacks Fort Dusquene • British declare war on France

43. 1763 Hint:

44. Answer: • Treaty of Parisof 1763 • Ends the French and Indian War - French loose all territory • Pontiac’s Rebellion • Indians rebel against the British in the NW territory after the FIW; had been loyal to the French; British didn’t respect their culture or trade with them as equals = ANGER • Proclamation of 1763 • Colonials temporarily can’t settle west of the Appalachians • Paxton Boys Rebellion • A group of Western Pennsylvania backcountry Scotch-Irish “nur nurs” decide to take the law into their own hands and get even with the Indians for Pontiac’s Rebellion in the NW Territory. They disobey the pacifist Mass. state government & attack innocent Christian Indian tribes nearby murdering women & children; never punished.  • SALUTORY NEGLECT ENDS • British need revenue ($) to pay off FIW debt; now going to enforce Nav. Acts (regulations) & stop ignoring the smuggling; going to enforce mercantilist policy

45. 1764

46. Answer: • Sugar Act: • Purpose: to raise revenue ($) to pay off FIW debt by getting Americans to stop smuggling French molasses & buy British in the Caribbean • indirect tax(pre-added tax) on molasses & sugar imported into the colonies from Britain; • it actually lowered the tax to make British goods cheaper than competitors BUT strictly enforced = end of salutary neglect • Currency Act: • Colonies can only use British currency & can’t print their own. Massachusetts, Three Shilling Note, 1775

47. 1765

48. Answer: S3V • Stamp Act • Direct tax on internal goods of the colonies (previously taxed by only by the colonial assemblies) including: legal documents, paper, cards, newspapers, dice • purpose of tax: to raise revenue to pay off FIW war debt • Sons of Liberty • Massachusetts colonials against direct taxes w/o actual representation (like the colonial assemblies had) • Stamp Act Congress • Delegates from several colonies met in NY & agree to boycott (non-consumption) stamped products • Purpose: to hurt Britain economically, so they repeal the vile act • Virginia Resolves • Patrick Henry; VA resolved that Britain could not directly tax the colonies internally w/o colonial assembly approval b/c they don’t have actual representation in Parliament.

49. 1766

50. Answer: • Stamp Act repealedby Parliament • New Prime Minister Rockingham Rocks! • Declaratory Act: • Parliament has unlimited power of taxation/legislation over colonies • & complete sovereignty over the colonies  This cartoon depicts the repeal of the Stamp Act as a funeral, with Grenville carrying a child's coffin marked "born 1765, died 1766".