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Sep 24, 1295
Marco Polo returned to Europe
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Sep 24, 1492
Columbus landed in the Bahamas
Columbus thought he was going to India , however he landed there -
Sep 24, 1494
Treaty of Toresillas
The land between Spain and Portugal was divided, spain got east and Portugal got wesr ( Brazil) -
Sep 24, 1498
Da Gama explores land for England
He came to the northeastern part of North America to explore land for England -
Sep 24, 1513
Balboa claimed land
He claimed all that land that was touched by the Pacific for Spain -
Sep 24, 1513
Juan Ponce de Leon explored Florida in 1513 and 1521
He was seeking for gold and thought it was in an island -
Sep 24, 1517
Martin Luther begins Protestant Reformation
Martin Luther criticized about the bad things (corrupted churches and priests) about the catholic church and created his ninety five theses -
Sep 24, 1517
Martin Luther begins Protestant Reformation
Martin Luther criticized about the bad things (corrupted churches and priests) about the catholic church and created his ninety five theses -
Period: Sep 24, 1519 to Sep 24, 1521
Hernan Cortes conquered Mexico for Spain
He went from Cuba to Mexico with his army and the people as well as Moctezuma thought he was a god. He fooled them and attacked, took over Aztec Empire -
Sep 24, 1524
Giovanni da Verrazano explores for France
Dispatched by French king to explore eastern seaboard in North America -
Sep 24, 1532
Francisco Pizzaro crushes Incas of Peru
He wanted sliver, also added a hoard of booty to Spanish Confers -
Sep 24, 1536
John Calvin of Geneva
John Calvin of Geneva continued with the thoughts of Martin
People (Puritans) believed in CalvinismPredestination – believed God knew who was going to hell or heaven
The y looked for “Conversions” in themselves and others -
Sep 24, 1558
Elizabeth I becomes queen of England
She later on made desisions that would change everything -
Raleigh founds Roanoke colony
Raleigh was a younger son who seeked for forturen, the joint stock company helped -
England defeats Spanish Armada
Spain wanted revenge from the British but they lost when they attacked them, this was the Spanish Armada. Due to this they could now come to North America and they did. They started to colonize and have power. -
Iroquis Confederacy founded
Inspired by a legendaty leader Hiawatha, closest approximation tio Mexico and Peru nation-states -
James I becomes king of England
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Spain and England sign peace treaty
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Virginia colony- Jamestown
Created for business,had many plantation and slaves -
Spanish Founded New Mexico
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Virginia House of Burgesses established
They had a self-government that was created in 1619, also Africans came during this time -
First Africans in VA
10 million Africans have been brought to Amercia by the time
Now the black slaves outnumber white servants
Half of the pop. Of Virgnia -
May flower compact
Pilgrims did business with VA company and came on the mayflower to land in New England
Before they got on they signed the Mayflower Compact -
Dutch found New Netherland
Hudson river area, established by dustch west india company for its fur trade -
Puritans found MA Colony
Franchise- gave right to vote to all free men
No democracy
john Cotton- clergy , he left MA because he was scared to get persecuted due to his belifs
To the puritans life was serious business and hellfire was real -
Maryland colony founded
It was also a plantation of tobacco – African American worked in the fields
They accepted different religions( Mostly Catholic or ProtestantThey had the Act Toleration but they had to believe in Christ -
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Connecticut and New Haven colony
Reverend Thomas Hooker- took puritans into CTFunadamental Orders- open meeting document -
Harvard College
In New England,use to train men to become ministers -
Peqout war
Indians vs Settlers -
Rhode Island Colony
Roger Williams- religious freedom, made RI very liberal
Most the people their were exiled from another place
“Little Rhody”- traditional home of otherwise minded -
Anne Hutchinson banned from MA
Anne Hutchinson- believed that being holy wont save you for sure and not to worry about following the law and Gods law. Later on banned from colony -
Slave systems in English West Indies
The British also colonized Jamaica in 1655
They used Africans to grow sugar in cruel plantations. They used them because they were immune to disease. They used codes instead of names to see who they were owned by -
New England Confederation
four puritan colonies united -
Half Way Covenant
everyone could be a part of their Puritan church if they weren’t visible saints and were half converted to puritans -
New Netherland, West Jersey, New Amsterdam formed
The Dutch were free and now created Dutch East India Company
Had army of 10,000, 190 ships
Henry Hudson said NY bay and Delaware was for the Netherlands
New Amsterdam was a company in what is present day NYC -
Carolina was founded
Due to King Charles being headed the colonizing was interrupted
Carolina was formed in 1670Many slaves from Barbados came to work there in rice plantations
Rice was their main cash crop -
Bacon's Rebellion
Nathaniel Bacon- Led the rebellion but many poor men had no land and they attacked the Indians b/c they felt the governer was too nice to them
Bacon died during the rebellion -
French exploration of Missippi River
Robert de la Salle, as threat to spanish -
PA Colony
Quakers- they didn’t really respect authorities both man laws and religious law, They just had meeting houses, didn’t have real names. They were stubborn people but against violence
William Penn was granted a large section of fertile land from the king and named it Pennsylvania -
Salem Witch Trials in MA
Salem Girls
They said that they were bewitched
People started witch hunting and killing them, stopped three years later -
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Tuscarora war
Tuscarora ( Indians) Attacked N Carolina, they became the 6th nation of Iroquois -
North and South Carolina established
The colony started to divide into two
The rich people lived in the south close to the rice plantations in Charleston
The poor and snobbish people lived in the north and resisted authority -
NY Slave Revolt
Cost lives 12 whites and execution of 21 blacks, some were burned -
Georgia Colony
It was created to be a buffer. It would keep Carolina protected from the Spanish in Florida and French in Louisiana
Named in After king George 2
James Oglethorpe – didn’t want slavery, saved “Charity Colony”
Somewhat had religious toleration -
South Carolina Slave Revolt
Blacks along Stono river and tried to march to Florida