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Background to U.S. History

“Indian” Maize (Corn) Maya. Aztec Empire. Background to U.S. History. Norsemen (Vikings) Leif Erickson (1000) Islam (Moslems) Renaissance Humanism Henry the Navigator (1394-1460) Christopher Columbus Spanish Reconquest (711-1492). Ferdinand Magellan (1519). Hernando Cortes

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Background to U.S. History

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  1. “Indian” Maize (Corn) Maya Aztec Empire Background to U.S. History

  2. Norsemen (Vikings) Leif Erickson (1000) Islam (Moslems) Renaissance Humanism Henry the Navigator (1394-1460) Christopher Columbus Spanish Reconquest (711-1492) Ferdinand Magellan (1519)

  3. Hernando Cortes Francisco Pizarro Treaty of Tordesillas 1494 John Cabot 1496 Giovanni de Verrazano 1524 Jacques Cartier Henry Hudson 1609 Crosby, The Columbian Exchange

  4. Roanoke Island Sir Walter Raleigh “Proprietary Colonies” George Calvert (Lord Baltimore) “Quit Rents” Mercantilist Theory Richard Hakluyt., Discourse Concerning Western Planting (1584) Martin Luther 1517 “The Reformation” Henry VIII Church of England (Anglican) 1533 Europeans and Africans to America

  5. Calvinists Joint Stock Company Jamestown 1607 “Headright” House of Burgesses 1619* John Rolfe Tobacco Indentured Servant Slavery- Jamestown 1619* Puritans James I (1603-1625) Charles I (1625-1649) Mayflower 1620 Mayflower Compact

  6. Act of Toleration 1649 Massachusetts Bay Company 1629 Harvard University 1636 Roger Williams Rhode Island 1644 Thomas Hooker- Connecticut 1636 Oliver Cromwell 1649 Charles II 1660-1684 James II 1685-1688 “Glorious Revolution” 1688-189 William and Mary 1689 Dominion of New England- Sir Edmund Andros 1685 Salem Witch Trials Anne Hutchinson Trial 1637

  7. Lords Proprietors of Carolina 1663 Henry Hudson 1609 New Netherland 1624 New Amsterdam (New York) 1624 William Penn Quakers (Society of Friends) Colonial North America

  8. Pennsylvania 1681 Philadelphia 1682 Georgia 1732 James Oglethorpe The Navigation Acts 1660-1672 “Triangular Trade” Molasses Act 1733 Board of Trade and Plantations 1696 Sir Robert Walpole- “Salutary Neglect” Samuel de Champlain Quebec 1608 Huron Indians Jesuits

  9. The French and Indian Wars: • King William’s War 1689-1697 • Queen Ann’s War 1702-1713 • King George’s War 1744-1748 • French and Indian War 1754-1763 • French and Indian WarDate1754–1763Location North America ResultTreaty of Paris, British victory.Territorialchanges Canada ceded to Great Britain CombatantsFrancenative allies:* Algonquin* Huron* Ojibwa* Ottowa* ShawneeGreat Britainnative allies:* IroquoisStrength3,900 regulars7,900 militia2,200 natives (1759)50,000 regulars and militia (1759)

  10. New Orleans 1718 St Louis Cathedral (Below- a symbol of New Orleans:) Fort Duquesne 1754 General James Braddock George Washington William Pitt 1758 General James Wolfe Treaty of Paris 1763

  11. “Pennsylvania ‘Dutch’” “Scotch-Irish” (Scots-Irish) French Huguenots “The Enlightenment” John Locke Deism Freemasonry “The Great Awakening” George III 1760 George Grenville 1763-1765 Revenue Act of 1764 (Sugar Act) “Salutary Neglect” Background to Revolution

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