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Period: to
Colonial America
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The Virginia Company founds Jamestown
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John rolfe begins growing tobacco
Raw materials for England
Gave England further cause to establish more colonies
Saved Colony economically -
PIlgrims arrive by Mayflower
Setup Plymouth Massachusetts
Mayflower Compact -
New York Colony
Renamed in 1664
port of entry
ship building etc. -
Massachusetts bay Colony
John Winthrop
Royal Charter
Provision for local government
City upon a Hill -
Maryland
Calvert/ Lord Baltimore
Act of Toleration (not tolerant) -
Rhode Island
Roger Williams, Anne Hutchinson -
Connecticut
Thomas Hooker
New Haven
Hartford -
New Hampshire
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Delaware
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Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
representative government
legislature of popular vote
governor by legislauter -
New England Confederation
military alliance vs. Native Americans -
North Carolina
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Navigation Act of 1660
All goods exported by English ships
only trade sugar, cotton, tobacco, wood, pitch, and tar -
Halfway Covenants
allowed certain people to retain church privelages w/o becoming official members -
South Carolina
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Second Navigation Act of 1663
Unload cargo upon arriving in England for taxation -
New Jersey
manufacturing -
Restraining Acts of 1669
banned factoris in the colonies
banned export of woolen products -
Bacon's Rebellion
Western Virginian came under Native American attack
Nathaniel Bacon leads rebellion
Attacked peaceful Indian camps and government buildings -
Pennsylvania
William Penn
Safe haven for persecuted
Quaker -
Dominion of New England
Combined New york, New Jersey, and others
Sir Edmund Andros= governor
levied taxes, limited town meetings,revoked land titles -
Salem Witch Trials
Puritan accusations of witchcraft -
First Great Awakening
elicit an emotional response
development of democratic thought
demand for religious freedom -
Georgia
Protection for South Carolina
Oversized Debtors prison
James Oglethorpe -
Molasses Act
Curtail colonial trade w/ West Indies
rarely enforced -
Zenger Trials
John Peter Zenger
criticized New york's royal governor
Andrew Hamilton (lawyer)
gave more freedom to press -
Albany Plan of Union
seven colonies
provided for an intercolonial government
system for recruiting troops and colleting taxes -
French and Indian War
French built forts in Ohio River Valley
George Washington sent to stop forts
Washington attacks
French and Indians retaliate
British Win etc. -
Peace of Paris
Peace treaty ending F&I war
GB Got French Canada and Spanish Florida -
Results of F&I War
British= low opinion of colonial military effort, disorderly, refused to contribute
Colonial: confidence in themselves, unity -
Pontiac's Rebellion
Chief Pontiac led a major attack against colonial settlements
British sent troops to deal with the rebellion instead of colonial troops -
Period: to
Seeking Independence
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Proclamation of 1763
Prohibited colonists from settling west of the Appalachian mountains
hoped to prevent future hostilities
Amerians denied from access to western lands -
Sugar Act/ revenue Act of 1764
duties on foreign sugar (luxury tax)
stricter enforcement of the Navigation Acts
tried in admiralty courts -
Quartering Act
Required colonists to provide food and living quarters for b/ritish soldiers -
Stamp Act
Revenue stamps be placed on most printed paper in the colonies (legal documents, newspapers, pamphlets, advertisemnets, cards)
First direct tax -
Stamp Act Congress
Representatives from nine Colonies
only elected representatives had the legal authority toapprove taxes -
Declaratory Act
Repeal the Stamp Act
Face saving measure
asserted that parliament had the right to tax and make laws for the colonies -
Townshend Acts
New duties on colonial tea, glass, and paper
raised to pay crown officials
search of private homes
writ of assistance
suspended New York's assembly -
Massachusetts Circular Letter
urged various colonies to petition Parliament -
Boston Massacre
5 people killed after harassing guards -
Gaspee Incident
Colonists set fire to a british customs ship -
Tea Act
made the price of British East india Company tea cheaper
principle -
Intolerable Acts
Port Act: Closed the port of boston, prohibiting trade until tea was paid for
Massachusetts Government Act: reduced teh power of massachusetts legislature
Administration of Justice Act: royal officials tried in England
Quartering act: same as before
Quebec Act: organized Canadian lands (CATHOLICISM) -
First Continental Congress
Determine how the colonies should react to british acts
no desire for independence
restore relationship
Suffolk Resolves: rejected intolerable Acts
made military preparations
Declaration of Rights and Grievances
Meeting of Second Congress in 1775 -
Lexington and Concord
First shots of Revolution -
Second Continental Congress
Declaration of the Causes and Necessities for taking up Arms (Troops)
Olive Branch Petition (rejected) -
Bunker hill
Breed's hill
British victory, but with heavy losses -
Declaration of Independence
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Battle at Saratoga
British army surrender
persuaded France to join (Franco-American Alliance) -
Battle of Yorktown
Washington forced surrender of British Army -
Treaty of Paris
Britain would recognize US independence
Mississippi River would be the western boundary
Americans would have fishing rights off the coast of Canada
Americans would pay back their debts -
Shay's Rebellion
Captain Daniel Shays
led farmers against high state taxes, imprisonment for debtm and lack of paper money
state milita broke the rebellion