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Period: Jan 1, 1492 to
1492-1754
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Sep 30, 1492
Columbus arrived in America
Columbus' voyage was funded by the King and Queen of Spain. He set out with three ships to find a new trading route to the Indies. He died believing he found the Indies and did not know he had descovered a new world, Though he did not find the Indies, his most important finding was that the winds of the Atlantic blow in a clockwise direction. -
Sep 30, 1517
Luther begins Protestant Reformation
The Protestant Reformation was a movement led by Martin Luther to reform the Catholic church. The new ideas brought about divided christians and reshaped the politcal and religious values in Europe. It also led to modern concepts of Democracy. -
Lost Colony of Roanoke is descovered
Led people to realize that Columbus was not the first to descover and land on the new world -
Colony of Jamestown established
First English colony in new world. -
French found Quebec
This settlement helped defend the St. Lawrence River which was important to their trade -
John Rolfe finds Virginia's cash crop of tobacco
Tobacco is what kept virginia alive, it was the main export, and since it demmanded much labor to cultivate it increased importance for indentured servants or slaves. -
Pocahontas marries John Rolfe
This ended the first Anglo-Powhatan war. (1610-1614) -
Headright system began in Virginia
This increased immigration from Europe -
House of Burgesses created
First type of representative government in the new world and was the first step towards democracy -
First Africans arrive in America (Virginia)
Natives were dying off and slavery of African Americans became important to tend to the sugar and tobacco plantations -
Pilgrims land in America
failed to succeed economically but encouraged other puritans to follow in their path such as John Winthrope. -
Powhatan uprising
led to the second Anglo-Powhatan war -
Massachusetts Bay Company created
The one of the English chartered colonization companies not subject to the control of a board of governors in England. Changed its emphasis on trade to that of religion. -
Harvard College created
educated puritan ministers -
Toleration Act enacted in Maryland
only accepted christian denomination, other religions were still excluded -
Bacon's Rebellion
began a developing conflict between back woods frontiers and the settled fronteirs on the coast. -
William Penn establishes Quaker Colony
Has good relations with natives and creates an acceptance of religion in his colony making it the most efficient colonization effort of the seventeenth century -
Glorious Revolution
Created an elected parliment, step towards democracy -
Salem Witch Trials
Many girls died and it showed how critical the puritans were especially towards women. -
The Great Akwakening
Brought people back to their traditional ideas and made religion more important again -
Beginning of French and Indian War
a war was to follow
