From Jamestown to Beantown

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    The Scientific Revolution

    • What was this?
    • Plot at least three people who contributed to this into your timeline and describe how they contributed

  • Jametown is founded

    • What hardships did the settlers face?
    • What was the settlers relationship with the American Indians like?
    • What crop made Jamestown a success and who introduced it to the colony?
    • Who worked the land?
    Key Terms: Powhatan Confederacy; John Rolfe; Indentured Servants

  • The Plymouth Colony is founded

    • Why was Plymouth founded?
    • What hardships did the settlers face?
    • What was the settlers relationship with the American Indians like?
    Key Terms: Pilgrims; Puritans; Separatists
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    The Great Migration

    • What led to the Great Migration
    Key Terms: dissenters

  • Massachusetts Bay Colony is founded

    • Why was Massachusetts founded?

  • Maryland is founded

    • Why was Maryland founded?

  • Connecticut is founded

  • Rhode Island is founded

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    The Navigation Acts

    What did they do? Key Terms: duties; imports

  • Carolina is founded

  • New York and New Jersey are founded

  • New Jersey is founded

  • King Philip's War

    • Who fought this war and why was it called King Philip's War?
    Key Terms: militia

  • New Hampshire is founded

  • Pennsylvania is founded

    • Who founded Pennsylvania?
    • What did Quakers believe?
    Key Terms: Quakers; William Penn

  • Queen Anne's War

    • Who fought this war and how did it change the distribution of land?

  • North and South Carolina split

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    The Great Awakening

    • What was this?

  • Georgia is founded

    • Who founded Georgia and for what reasons?

  • The Molasses Act

    • What did this do?
    • How did the colonists get around it?
    Key Terms: smuggling

  • French and Indian War

    • Who foughts this war and where did it officially start?
    • When was the turning point?

  • Treaty of Paris

    • What war did it end and how did it change the distribution of land?

  • The Proclamation of 1763

    • Why was is passed, what did it do and was it effective?

  • The Sugar Act

    • Why was it passed and what did it do?
    • Why did the colonists feel that it violated their rights and how did they protest it?
    Key Terms: Taxation without repreentation; boycott

  • The Stamp Act

    • What did it tax? Give at least three examples
    • Why was it repealed
    Key Terms: boycott

  • The Townshend Acts

    • What did it tax?
    • How were they enforced?
    • Why did colonists feel that it violated their rights and how did they protest it?
    Key Terms: Taxation without representation; boycott

  • The Boston Massacre

    -What was it?
    • Who represented the British soldiers and what was the verdict?

  • The Tea Act

    • What did it do?

  • The Boston tea Party

    • What was it?

  • The Intolerable Acts

    • What did they do?

  • Delaware is founded