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1453
Land Route to Asia taken by Turks
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Period: 1491 to
Period 1
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Oct 12, 1492
Columbus Reaches Bahamas
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1493
Papal Line
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1494
Treaty of Tordesillas
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1497
John Cabot Explores Newfoundland
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1498
De Gama Reaches India by Going Around Africa
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1542
New Laws of 1542
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1550
Valladolid Debates
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1565
St. Augustine Created
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Period: 1570 to
England Challenges Spanish Shipping
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1573
Ordinances of Discovery
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English Defeat of Spanish Armada
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Jamestown Founding
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Period: to
Period 2
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Samuel de Champlain Establishes Settlement on St. Lawrence River
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Santa Fe Created
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Headright System Begun
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House of Burgesses Formed
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Indentured Africans brought to Americas on Dutch Ship
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Mayflower Compact
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First Thanksgiving
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Virginia Becomes a Royal Colony
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Massachusetts Bay Company Charter
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Massachusetts Bay Colony Founded
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Great Migration
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Roger Williams Banished and forms Providence Colony
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Maryland is Created
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Thomas Hooker Creates Hartford Colony
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Harvard Created
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Anne Hutchinson banished and Creates Portsmouth Colony
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John Davenport Makes New Haven Colony
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Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
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Massachusetts Recognizes Slavery of "Lawful Captives"
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New England Confederation Formed
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Massachusetts Mandates Primary/Grammar Schools Based on Population
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Act of Toleration
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Navigation Acts Begin
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Virginia Decides Slavery is Passed from Mother to Child
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Halfway Covenant Began
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New Amsterdam Seized from Dutch and Became New York Colony
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West and East New Jersey Formed
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Maryland Decides Baptism doesn't affect Enslaved Status; White Women can't Marry Black Men
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King Phillip's War
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Bacon's Rebellion
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New Hampshire Formed
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Pueblo Revolt
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Charter for Pennsylvania
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New England Confederation Collapsed
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Massachussetts Charter Revoked because of Smuggling
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Dominion of New England Formed
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Glorious Revolution
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Dominion of New England Split Up
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Period: to
King Williams War
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William and Mary Created
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Charter of Liberties
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Yale Created
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West and East New Jersey Combined
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Delaware Created
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Period: to
Queen Ann's War
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North and South Carolina Formed
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Period: to
Great Awakening
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James Oglethorpe created Savannah
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Zenger Trial
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Period: to
King George's War
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College of New Jersey Created
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Georgia Became Royal Colony
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King's College Created
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Albany Congress
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Period: to
Period 3
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French beat Washington's troops at Fort Duquesne
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French beat Edward Braddocks Troops
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French Protect From Invasion of Canada
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Peace of Paris
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Pontiac's Rebellion
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Proclamation of 1763
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Rhode Island College Created
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Sugar Act
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1st Medical College Created
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Quartering Act
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Stamp Act
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Queen's College Created
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Stamp Act repealed
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Declaratory Act
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Townshend Acts
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Massachusetts's Circular Letter
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Dartmouth Created
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Townshend Acts Repealed
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Boston Massacre
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Colonists Destroy the Gaspee
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Beginning of Committees of Correspondence
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Tea Act
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Boston Tea Party
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Intolerable Acts
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First Continental Congress
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Colonists Send Olive Branch Petition
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Second Continental Congress
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Prohibitory Act
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Lexington and Concord
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Battle of Bunker Hill
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Common Sense
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Declaration of Independence Adopted
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Articles of Confederation adopted by Congress
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Battle of Saratoga
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British controlled Philadelphia and NYC
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Articles of Confederation Ratified
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Treaty of Paris
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Land Ordinance of 1785
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Mt. Vernon Conference
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Shay's Rebellion
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Annapolis Convention
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Northwest Ordinance of 1787
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Constitutional Convention
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9 States had Ratified Constitution
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NC Ratifies Constitution
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Judiciary Act of 1789
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Washington takes Oath
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RI Ratifies Constitution
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Period: to
Federalist Era
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Bill of Rights Adopted
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Vermont Becomes a State
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Kentucky Becomes a State
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US Army Beats Confederacy (Natives)
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Tennessee Becomes a State
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Washington Retires
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Public Land Act
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Revolution of 1800
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Draft of Constitution Sent to States