History in class No.1

By robiertomaldy
  • 1513

    Spanish Exploration of Florida and the Southwest

    Juan Ponce de Leon and Spanish venture into US, claim Atlantic Coast from Florida to Newfoundland
  • 1521

    Leon death

    Dies from arrow wound shot by Indian in Florida. He was in search of slaves and gold
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    Barbados and sugar and Virginia tobacco appeared profitable enough for transatlantic commerce.

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    Value of trade between Spain and New Spain fell by 60%

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    Louis XIV reign

  • Parliament banned foreign ships trading with English colonies

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    Value of New Spain's export dropped 75%

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    Alteration of European dietary habits

    75% of goods to Amsterdam and 85% coming to London were tobacco and sugar products

  • Navigation Acts passed by Parliament

    Mercantilist laws combatting Dutch supremacy against English government

  • Enumeration Act

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    Dutch minor wars with England over commerce

  • French crown takes control of Canada

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    Population increase in Canada

    3,000 to 14,000

  • Colbert oversees creation of French East India Co.

  • Crown sends 1,000 soldiers to Canada

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    Jean-Baptiste Colbert

    Pursued a mercantilist strategy to combat Dutch dominance of Transatlantic trade.

  • English corsair Robert Searles sacked St. Augustine

  • Parliament passed Plantation duty act and customs service

  • Louis Joliet and Jacques Marquette travel down to Arkansas

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    Quakers head to PA

    10,000 quakers, about half of those in England left to PA.

  • Charles II grants land Pennsylvania

    William Penn

  • First Frame of Government

  • Rene Robert Cavalier followed Mississippi to Mexican gulf

  • French established Compagnie du Nord

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    French and English battle for control of Hudson river

  • The Navigation Act

  • Iberville began to establish French settlement of lower Mississippi Valley

  • Iberville established Fort Maurepas

  • Spain's system was in tatters

  • Penn sets forth Charter of Privileges

  • Lower half of PA becomes Delaware

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    Adult white men in British North America objected to Virtual representation

    Parliament represents colonies
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    Free women called themselves Daughters of Liberty

    at forefront of nonconsumption movement

  • James Otis of Boston challenged the writs as an unconstitutional violation of rights

  • Proclamation Line

  • American revenue act (sugar act)

  • Currency Act

    Prohibited the colonies from using paper currency- and forced them to use silver and gold

  • Stamp Act

    All papers must have a stamp indicating it had been paid for

  • Sons of Liberty formed

    They organized protests and wrote letters in newspapers

  • Politics of the streets

    Mocked "stamping" rituals to ridicule new regulations

  • John Dickinson urges Americans to follow in footsteps of the Swiss

    "coarse clothes and simple furniture" could help them "defend their liberty"

  • American nonconsumption movement

  • Townshend Duties

    taxed paper, lead, glass, paint and tea

  • Residents of Spanish New Orleans revolted against Spanish

  • Treaty of Fort Stanwix

    Moved proclamation line west of the Ohio River

  • First four British regiments arrive in Boston Harbour

  • Value of British NA exports exceeded the value of imports for the first time

  • Parliament repealed nearly all of the Townshend taxes

  • Boston Massacre

    Samuel Adams turns case into anti-British propaganda

  • Tea Act

    British tea cheaper than smuggled Dutch imports

  • Boston tea party

    Colonists dressed Indian style and dumped 10,000 euros worth of tea into the Boston Harbour

  • Virginians kill a group of Shawnee women and children

    Escalates in Dunmore's War, Indians forced to yield Kentucky region

  • Quebec Act

    Merged Ohio Valley region with (former) French Canada into one single colony

  • First Continental Congress

    55 men from 12 colonies attended this in Philadelphia. Drafted a petition to George III for relief from Coercive Acts and tea tax, while compromising things on their end.

  • George III ordered gage to seize military supplies in Concord

    Fighting at Lexington and Concord

  • San Fransisco founded

    Carlos III separates region composed of California, New Mexico, and Texas and names it "Provincias Internas" under control of Spanish crown

  • Population wants to be separate from Britain, but enslaved people want liberty WITH Britain

  • English build factories to produce fabric previously imported from India

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    Post-war contributed to economic depression

  • Planters in S.Carolina and Georgia resume importation of Africans as slaves

    Even after a wartime suspension of the trade

  • British Lord Sheffield wrote that the US "should not be, for a long time, either to be feared or regarded as a nation."

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    Congress uses bills of credit

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    Slave traders from Britain, France, Denmark and Holland shipped 11k people to SC and GA

    In 1787, with an oversupply, SC shut down trade again

  • Land Ordinance

  • Bills of credit transition to war bonds

  • English man Samuel Slater arrives in US with purpose of adapting British technology to American social conditions

  • Another round of Atlantic Revolutions, beginning in Paris

    sparked by nobles refusing to give up certain privileges

  • First patent Act

    promoted the progress of useful arts

  • Interchangeable parts

    French gunman Honore Blanc demonstrated the composition of his musket

  • US Post office organized

  • Eli Whitney made cotton gin

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    Charles Newbold, David Peacock, and Jethro Wood patented cast iron plows

    outpaced wooden ones

  • Shortlived national Bankruptcy Act

    People who couldn't pay debt compelled to declare bankruptcy and start fresh
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    boom-bust cycle

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    Virginia exported 300k enslaved people, and Mississippi gained 130k

  • Bankruptcy act repealed

    due to fear of collusion between debtors and creditors
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    European Wars

    Marks an end of a century of conflict among European empires over land, trade, and power.

  • Napoleon crowns himself emperor of France

  • Britain banned Atlantic slave trade

  • Congress passed Embargo Act

  • Robert Fulton developed American steamboat

  • US Congress ends importation of African captives

  • German immigrant, John Jacob Astor, founds American fur company

  • Nonintercourse Act

    US resume trade with all countries except Britain and France
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    US population in Great lakes region and Southern Mississippi Valley tripled

  • US declare war on Britain

  • Commander Oliver Perry destroyed British forces at Put-in-Bay on lake Erie

  • Francis Cabot Lowell establishes Boston Manufacturing Company

  • Second Bank of the US

    Most powerful bank in history by far

  • Congress established a federal tarriff on US imports

  • James Madison vetoed bill that would have earmarked US bank dividends to pay for transportation projects

  • Trustees of Dartmouth College v. Woodward

    Chief justice Marshall declared a private corporation the same protected rights as a US citizen

  • Panic of 1819

  • Waltham-Lowell System established

    Brought all fabric production (carding, spinning, weaving, and fulling) under one management

  • Erie Canal is finally finished- Hudson river (Albany) to Lake Erie (Buffalo)

  • Charles Carroll deems Baltimore and Ohio railroad

    last living signer of declaration
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    Railroad construction begins

  • NY carpenters and such organize General Trades Union to organize strikes and push for higher wages

  • Female workers at Lowell Mills protested wage cut

  • Cyrus McCormick patented horse-drawn reaper

    power of 14 men
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    "Great Hunger" in Ireland

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    More than 10k different kinds of paper were in circulation