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1492
columbian exchange
Christopher Columbus introduced horses plants and disease to the New World, while facilitating the introduction of New World commodities like sugar, tobacco, chocolate, and potatoes to the Old World The process by which commodities people and diseases crossed the Atlantic during the The Columbian exchange was the exchange of Age of Exploration It is important because it led to increased trade and food production across the globe However it also had a negative impact with disease and slavery. -
1517
middle passage
Between 1517 and 1867, 12.5 million enslaved Africans were forced onto ships to begin the Middle Passage to America. About 10.7 million men, women, and children survived the journey. About 40 percent, mostly from Angola, landed in Brazil, where the trade continued until 1850. was considered a time of in-betweenness where captive Africans forged bonds of kinship, which then created forced transatlantic communities. -
mayflower compact
mayflower a legal instrument that bound the pillgrims together when they arrived in new england an agreement that bound the signers to obey the goverment and legal syster established in plymouth colony.the ship that carried the Pilgrims from England to Plymouth, Massachusetts, where they established the first permanent New England colony in 1620. -
Royal Charter Colonies
It is a colony directly ruled and owned by the king -
Kings Phillips War
The Native American's last ditch effort to avoid recognizing English authority and stop English settlement on their native lands -
Bacons Rebellion
bacon's Rebellion was an armed rebellion by Virginia settlers that took place from 1676 to 1677. It was led by Nathaniel Bacon against Colonial Governor William Berkeley, after Berkeley refused Bacon's request to drive Native American Indians out of Virginia. Bacon's Rebellion in Virginia was the first popular uprising in the American colonies. It was long viewed as an early revolt against English tyranny, which culminated in the war for independence one hundred years later. -
Glorious Revolution
The Glorious Revolution is the sequence of events that led to the deposition of James II and VII in November 1688. He was replaced by his daughter Mary II and her Dutch husband, stadtholder William III of Orange, who was also his nephew. The Glorious Revolution (1688–89) permanently established Parliament as the ruling power of England—and, later, the United Kingdom—representing a shift from an absolute monarchy to a constitutional monarchy. -
The Great Awakening
The Great Awakening was a religious revival in the British colonies between 1720 and the 1740's. It was a part of the religious ferment that swept Western Europe in the latter part of the 17th century and the early 18th century. -
Stono Rebellion
The largest and most significant slave rebellion in the British North American colonies -
French and indian war
The French and Indian War was a theater of the Seven Years' War, which pitted the North American colonies of the British Empire against those of the French The French and Indian War began in 1754 and ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763. The war provided Great Britain enormous territorial gains in North America, but disputes over subsequent frontier policy and paying the war's expenses led to colonial discontent, and ultimately to the American Revolution -
Olive Branch Petition
The Olive Branch Petition, adopted by Congress on July 5th, 1775, it was a last attempt to prevent formal war with Britian. It expressed loyalty to the British crown and emphasized the colonists' rights as British citizens, appealing for redress of grievances and seeking a peaceful resolution to the crisis. -
boston massacre
carried the Pilgrims from England to Plymouth, Massachusetts, where they established the first permanent New England colony in 1620.carried the Pilgrims from England to Plymouth, Massachusetts, where they established the first permanent New England colony in 1620. -
boston massacre
carried the Pilgrims from England to Plymouth, Massachusetts, where they established the first permanent New England colony in 1620.carried the Pilgrims from England to Plymouth, Massachusetts, where they established the first permanent New England colony in 1620. -
Boston massacre
The 1770 Boston Massacre was a skirmish between colonist rioters and British soldiers that ended with five colonists' deaths. It was the result of a number of factors inciting resentment in the colonists, including: The Sugar Act and the Stamp Act, which were passed without colonist representation. This was an important event in American history because it united the colonists against Britain, which would have eventually led to the Revolutionary War. America won -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a political protest on December 16, 1773, against British taxation and tyranny. Colonists dumped tea into Boston Harbor to oppose a tax on tea and the British East India Company's monopoly on the tea trade. It was significant act of defiance that rallied American patriots and was a key event leading to the Revolutionary War.