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Oct 3, 1492
Columbian Exchange
Ships from the Americas brought back a variety of items Europeans, Asians, and Africans had never seen before. -
Period: Oct 3, 1500 to
Middle Passage
10-12 million were transported to work as slaves.
15% died on ships -
Slaves made up 40% in parts of Chesapeake
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Proclamation of 1763
aimed to placate Brittain's Indian allies ny forbidding American settlement west of the crest of the Appalachian Mountains. -
the Stamp Act
The Stamp Act passed to raise revenue, heavily taxed printed materials. Americans at the Stamp Act Congress held in October of 1765, took their first step toward united resistance. They agreed not to import British goods and the congress forced Parliament in 1766 to repeal the Stamp Act. -
Slave Ship Mutiny
The Meermin set sail from Madagascar carrying slaves to South Africa. -
Townshend Acts
This act taxed glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea imported into the colonies from Britain. Resistance to these taxes in Boston led the British government tostation two regiments of troops there in 1768. -
Boston Massacre
When a small detachment of British troops fired into an angry crowd, killing five Bostonians. -
Parliament passed the Tea Act
The Tea Act gave the British East India Company a monopoly over all tea sold in the American colonies. A huge but debt-ridden entity, the East India Company governed India for the British Empire. -
Lexington and Concord
Minutemen clashed with British troops at Lexington and Concord near Boston. This was the first battle in what became a war for independence. -
Declaration of Independence
When Thomas Jefferson wrote “that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,” he was not supporting black claims for freedom. -
Invention of the cotton gin
Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin which paved the way for the expansion of cotton kingdoms in the South. -
Slavery Spreads to the Americas
England abolished slave trade and by the time the slave trade ended, the English had transported 1.7 million Africans
