APUSH MEGA TIMELINE
PERIODS 1 & 2 TIMELINE (1492 - 1607)
1492 - Columbian Exchange begins with Columbus's discovery of the New World
- Transfer of plants, animals, minerals , diseases, gold silver, and people between old and new world including better foods in Europe
- It was the most significant demographic and environmental change in world history
- The horse changed warfare tactics
- slaves changed the way of work
1512 - Encomienda system created
- Coerced labor system
- spanish government gave people land to farm for highly profitable crops
- Indigenous people became slaves and were later replaced with African slaves
1520 - Smallpox begins to decimate native population
- New disease makes the immune system weak
- killed nearly had of native population
1552 - Bartolome De las Casas popularizes the idea of the “Black Legend”
- The spanish are just coming to destroy the indians
1607 - Jamestown est. (include John Smith & John Rolfe)
- First American town
- created to get the most money as possible filled
- mostly single young men who were money hungry
- Lots of people ended up dying because of lack of food showing that opportunities were not always better
1609 - 1613 - Anglo-Powhatan War
- Conflict between Jamestown residents and indigenous peoples
- They cut of each others food leading to starving time
- Started sustained tension between the two people groups
- showed Instability of colonies and westward expansion
1618 - Headright system created
- People were promised land if they worked on other people’s farms for years which Incentivized migration, virginia, grew tobacco economy
1619 - Virginia House of Burgesses created
- Representative government where only white men who owned property could vote
1620 - Plymouth Est. (include Mayflower Compact)
- Family based town settled by pilgrims
- agriculture was focused on subsistence farming
- Mayflower compact
- first form of democracy
- majority rule government
,1632 - colony of Maryland est.
- Founded as a safe haven for catholics from the british government
- showed how religious tensions in europe shaped religious freedom in america
1635 - Roger Williams exiled
- Wanted the separation of church and state and individual religious freedom and he left massachusetts bay created rhode island where
everyone would practice religious freedom known as the sewer
1637 - Anne Hutchinson banished
- Said that people would talk directly to God and did not need a priest to intervene
- Inspired by roger williams
- Challenged traditional women's ideals and the way they fit into religious society
1639 - Fundamental Orders created
- First state constitution written in connecticut
- Influenced the constitution, promoted democracy, showed self governance
1643 - New England Federation est.
- Alliance between new england colonies that gave mutual defense and cooperation that was against native americans, slaves, dutch, french
1651 - Navigation Laws/Mercantilism
- Britain was not happy with America starting to have its own economy and using it to its advantage (independently) so they put in the
navigation laws which forbade trading with all nations other than the mother land
- Economic system based on balance of trade
- Maximise exports and minimise imports
- Wealth is measured in gold and silver not power, and there is only a limited amount of gold and silver available
1676 - Bacon’s Rebellion
- The indentured servants were not happy that they were not getting the land that they were promised and that their freedoms were being
taken away
- Shifted to slavery and not indentured servitude
- Protection against native americans
1686 - Dominion of New England est. (include Sir Edmund Andros)
- Administrative government sent by england led by sir edmund andros
- Stronger control of colonies and high colonial resistance to it
- Collapsed after glorious revolution
1693 - Salem Witch Trials
- People were accusing other people of being witches
- Shaped ideas of justice and due process for future america, exposed weaknesses in the american court system
- Mass tension and hysteria
1730s and 1740s - Great Awakening
- Religious revival and the spreading of religion throughout all the colonies that emphasized personal salvation over the salvation through the
church
, 1733 - Zenger Trial
- Editor of a newspaper spoke badly of one of the governors and the governor got mad
- Established freedom of press precedent
- Limited government powers
PERIOD 3 TIMELINE (1754 - 1800)
1754 - Ben Franklin publishes “Join or Die” cartoon & Albany Congress
- Urged colonies to unite to fight against England together
- Congress convened to discuss relations with native americans during the seven years war
- Call for unified militias from the states
1754 - 1763 - Seven Years War
- Great Britain and the colonies fighting against the French for land in North America as well as trade routes
- British won giving them land from east of the Mississippi and canada
- Britain was in debt so they taxed colonists unfairly
- Eventually led to revolutionary war
- French lost their influence in north america and Native Americans lost lots of their land to expansion
1763 - Proclamation of 1763
- King George said colonists would not settle west of the appalachian mountains
- Colonists were mad they could not settle the land they just fought for
- There was strong British control yet many colonists moved west anyway and it could not be enforced as well anymore
1764- Sugar Act
- Tax on sugar and molasses to pay for seven years war debt
- Taxation without representation
- Enforcement rate was much higher
1765- The Stamp Act (and Stamp Act Congress)
- Tax on paper, official documents, and playing cards which was the first tax on an unavoidable item, affecting everybody
- The goal of the congress was not to become independent (yet) but to solve the problems diplomatically and peacefully
1766- Declaratory Act
- Repealed the stamp acct but said it was because they wanted to, not because of colonial push back also warned the colonists of the future
1767- Townshend Acts
- Taxes on paper, lead, glass, paint, tea, led to lots of boycott of those goods and then troops were sent to violently enforce the taxes
1770- Boston Massacre
- British soldiers were near an angry colonial crowd, officers got so mad they shot and killed five people
- Sam adams had ani-british propaganda
- The British soldiers were tried in England showing how unfair it the judicial system was
1774- Boston Tea Party and Intolerable Acts
- Colonists got so mad they overthrew tea on British ships by dressing as native americans which showed colonial unity
- Closing of boston harbor until colonists paid for all the tea
- Quartering act - colonists must house british soldiers
PERIODS 1 & 2 TIMELINE (1492 - 1607)
1492 - Columbian Exchange begins with Columbus's discovery of the New World
- Transfer of plants, animals, minerals , diseases, gold silver, and people between old and new world including better foods in Europe
- It was the most significant demographic and environmental change in world history
- The horse changed warfare tactics
- slaves changed the way of work
1512 - Encomienda system created
- Coerced labor system
- spanish government gave people land to farm for highly profitable crops
- Indigenous people became slaves and were later replaced with African slaves
1520 - Smallpox begins to decimate native population
- New disease makes the immune system weak
- killed nearly had of native population
1552 - Bartolome De las Casas popularizes the idea of the “Black Legend”
- The spanish are just coming to destroy the indians
1607 - Jamestown est. (include John Smith & John Rolfe)
- First American town
- created to get the most money as possible filled
- mostly single young men who were money hungry
- Lots of people ended up dying because of lack of food showing that opportunities were not always better
1609 - 1613 - Anglo-Powhatan War
- Conflict between Jamestown residents and indigenous peoples
- They cut of each others food leading to starving time
- Started sustained tension between the two people groups
- showed Instability of colonies and westward expansion
1618 - Headright system created
- People were promised land if they worked on other people’s farms for years which Incentivized migration, virginia, grew tobacco economy
1619 - Virginia House of Burgesses created
- Representative government where only white men who owned property could vote
1620 - Plymouth Est. (include Mayflower Compact)
- Family based town settled by pilgrims
- agriculture was focused on subsistence farming
- Mayflower compact
- first form of democracy
- majority rule government
,1632 - colony of Maryland est.
- Founded as a safe haven for catholics from the british government
- showed how religious tensions in europe shaped religious freedom in america
1635 - Roger Williams exiled
- Wanted the separation of church and state and individual religious freedom and he left massachusetts bay created rhode island where
everyone would practice religious freedom known as the sewer
1637 - Anne Hutchinson banished
- Said that people would talk directly to God and did not need a priest to intervene
- Inspired by roger williams
- Challenged traditional women's ideals and the way they fit into religious society
1639 - Fundamental Orders created
- First state constitution written in connecticut
- Influenced the constitution, promoted democracy, showed self governance
1643 - New England Federation est.
- Alliance between new england colonies that gave mutual defense and cooperation that was against native americans, slaves, dutch, french
1651 - Navigation Laws/Mercantilism
- Britain was not happy with America starting to have its own economy and using it to its advantage (independently) so they put in the
navigation laws which forbade trading with all nations other than the mother land
- Economic system based on balance of trade
- Maximise exports and minimise imports
- Wealth is measured in gold and silver not power, and there is only a limited amount of gold and silver available
1676 - Bacon’s Rebellion
- The indentured servants were not happy that they were not getting the land that they were promised and that their freedoms were being
taken away
- Shifted to slavery and not indentured servitude
- Protection against native americans
1686 - Dominion of New England est. (include Sir Edmund Andros)
- Administrative government sent by england led by sir edmund andros
- Stronger control of colonies and high colonial resistance to it
- Collapsed after glorious revolution
1693 - Salem Witch Trials
- People were accusing other people of being witches
- Shaped ideas of justice and due process for future america, exposed weaknesses in the american court system
- Mass tension and hysteria
1730s and 1740s - Great Awakening
- Religious revival and the spreading of religion throughout all the colonies that emphasized personal salvation over the salvation through the
church
, 1733 - Zenger Trial
- Editor of a newspaper spoke badly of one of the governors and the governor got mad
- Established freedom of press precedent
- Limited government powers
PERIOD 3 TIMELINE (1754 - 1800)
1754 - Ben Franklin publishes “Join or Die” cartoon & Albany Congress
- Urged colonies to unite to fight against England together
- Congress convened to discuss relations with native americans during the seven years war
- Call for unified militias from the states
1754 - 1763 - Seven Years War
- Great Britain and the colonies fighting against the French for land in North America as well as trade routes
- British won giving them land from east of the Mississippi and canada
- Britain was in debt so they taxed colonists unfairly
- Eventually led to revolutionary war
- French lost their influence in north america and Native Americans lost lots of their land to expansion
1763 - Proclamation of 1763
- King George said colonists would not settle west of the appalachian mountains
- Colonists were mad they could not settle the land they just fought for
- There was strong British control yet many colonists moved west anyway and it could not be enforced as well anymore
1764- Sugar Act
- Tax on sugar and molasses to pay for seven years war debt
- Taxation without representation
- Enforcement rate was much higher
1765- The Stamp Act (and Stamp Act Congress)
- Tax on paper, official documents, and playing cards which was the first tax on an unavoidable item, affecting everybody
- The goal of the congress was not to become independent (yet) but to solve the problems diplomatically and peacefully
1766- Declaratory Act
- Repealed the stamp acct but said it was because they wanted to, not because of colonial push back also warned the colonists of the future
1767- Townshend Acts
- Taxes on paper, lead, glass, paint, tea, led to lots of boycott of those goods and then troops were sent to violently enforce the taxes
1770- Boston Massacre
- British soldiers were near an angry colonial crowd, officers got so mad they shot and killed five people
- Sam adams had ani-british propaganda
- The British soldiers were tried in England showing how unfair it the judicial system was
1774- Boston Tea Party and Intolerable Acts
- Colonists got so mad they overthrew tea on British ships by dressing as native americans which showed colonial unity
- Closing of boston harbor until colonists paid for all the tea
- Quartering act - colonists must house british soldiers
