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US History I
Specific dates are NOT accurate; just used the year that it happened NOT the exact date. Really just for my own review.
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⟶ Updated 28 Jan 2018 ⟶
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Events
Christopher Columbus sails the ocean blue
Columbus seized 1200 Taino people
Columbian Exchange
Juan Ponce de Leon lands in Florida
Northern Europeans loathed Catholic Spain and depicted them as barbaric
Founding of Jamestown + Virginia company
King James issues a charter
Jamestown sucks (read description)
Good Friday Massacre
Tobacco revolutionizes economy: John Rolfe smuggled it from Spanish territory
African slaves brought by ship and traded
Headrights: immigrant colonists who paid for passage were given 50 acres Indentured servants: individuals who paid for the passage of identured servants were given 50 acres -- voluntarily intially
African population became self-sustaining
Stono Rebellion - South Carolina
James Oglethorpe is offered Georgia as a refuge for imprisoned debters from England
Oglethorpe moves back to England so his trustees make colony slave-owning planation society. Natives exploited.
Poor tobacco prices
King Phillip's War -- his name was Metacom, not Phillip
Bacon's Rebellion - Virginia
Bacon's Rebellion ends after Bacon dies of dysentry
Mayflower Compact - founded Plymouth
John Winthrop, governor of Massachussets Bay colony, lead first large wave of immigrants to the colonies Wrote "City Upon a Hill"
Roger Williams argues that the Native Americans' land needs to be compensated for & bring church together & separation of church and state
Roger Williams expelled to Rhode Island, becomes Baptist, & creates religious freedom
Anna Hutchinson challenged the ruling order and let's be honest, the male clergy didn't like her
Anna Hutchinson banished to RI
Mystic Massacre & set precedent for "combating" natives
Salem Witch Trials and no, there were not any witches
People could be accused of witchcraft if: spectral evidence, marks of the devil, testimony, artifacts/trinkets But 0 scientific evidences, forced confessions, a lot of made-up stuff, evidence circumstancial, lack of connect to witchcraft
English fleet captured New York colony with little resistance (Dutch were there to make money)
William Penn founded Pennsylvania as a "holy experiment" since Quakers were prosecuted in England
Penn sets up all these cool things like organized grid, neutrality with natives, and such but then he left
French and Indian War: Catholic vs Protestant, struggle for fur trade and fertile land of Ohio River Valley, and struggle for dominance
George Washington is sent out at age 22 to protect an Ohio Company claim
British defeated at Ft Duquesne - W. PA
American colonists refuse to serve under new British commander Lord Loudoun
French take Ft Osewgo - Upstate NY
Massacre at Ft Wiliam Henry - Upstate NY
Louisbourg and Ft Duequesne captured by British - Quebec & W. PA
Battle of Quebec
Battle of Quiberon Bay -- off France
Iriquois join British-American allianc
French surrender Montreal
Britich capture Havana, Manila from Spain
Treaty of Paris... the first one
*** Albany Plan of Union - didn't pass
*** "Join or Die" is the first American political cartoon
TURNING POINT IN WAR
Pontiac's Rebellion - pan-Indian movement to drive out British settlers after a prophet as a vision
Proclamation 1763 - prohibits settlements west of Appalachians
Colonies are becoming more confident and united... Meanwhile British look down on colonists
First Continental Congress meets on how to redress colonial grievances
Lexington and Concord... who fired the first shot?
Olive Branch Petition - wanted peace yet plan B is Washington
Second Continental Congress meets
Battle of Bunker Hill
British hired Hessian soldiers... woot
DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, BABY
Battle of New York - British take NYC ):
Battle of Trenton - they did good
Battle of Princeton - yay boost in morale
Battle of Saratoga NY - BIGGEST VICTORY YET!!!
FRENCH FRIENDS
Meanwhile, in the west, French helps American to gain control
Meanwhile, in the south, British gain control and Cornwallis has some small defeats for British but nothing major
Battle of Yorktown - American-French troops trap Cornwallis and stop delivery Last battle of Revolutionary war!!
Articles of Confederation adopted
Congress controls all lands west of Appalachians to stop discourse among states
Land Ordinance of 1785 - Congress sells Western lands to settlers to gain revenue
Northwest Land Ordinance of 1787 - gave territories chance at statehood and no slavery allowed
NW Ordinance was progressive! but caused tension... north vs south
$40 million war debt... woot. Not to mention inflation!!!
Shays's Revellion - Irritated with taxes in states (bc debt) with specie (difficult for farmers to pay)
Philadelphia Convention/Constitutional Convention - were SUPPOSED to REVISE Articles but lmao
Virginia Plan
New Jersey Plan
The Great Compromise
3/5s Compromise
Inauguration of George Washington - unanimous vote & set a lot of precedents
Hamilton's Plan
Foreign policy in Washinton's presidency: support French?
Jay's Treaty - convinces British to leave forts but not stop seizing ships
Periods
Four castaways from a Spanish expedition journey from Florida to Gulf of California
Slaves had similar status to indentured servants (no race-based & servitude was limited)
Slavery legal and no longer considered servants
All children would be considered free or slave based on mother's status Race-based
Great Puritan Migration
Dominion of England - RIP salutary neglect
The Great Awakening: Puritans died off. Now desire to create a society with liberty and justice for every soul.
William Pitt guides British war effort -- much more reasonable than Loudoun
Event progress
of Native American population wiped out by disease
