1492 - ANS-Columbus arrives
-begins Columbian Exchange
-Spain sends conquistadors & Armada
-Spain units up encomiendas (missions like in CA & others)
1587 - ANS--Sir Walter Raleigh Roanoke Island
-disappeared via 1590 "Lost Colony"
1588 - ANS--England defeats Spanish Armada
-England becomes superpower starts colonization quickly after
1607 - ANS-Jamestown
-Joint Stock Company investor-backed
-backer business enterprise Virginia Company
-Captain John Smith leader
-martial law instituted for survival
1609-1610 desperate instances
-Powhatan Confederacy aides Jamestown
-tobacco cash crop, saves colony from extinction
-Chesapeake turns into call of surrounding vicinity
-indentured servants - famous and beneficial
-1618 headright sys. 50 acres given to a plantation owner who backed ppl over to America
1619 - ANS-House of Burgesses first government in colonies
-white assets-proudly owning men could vote
-slavery starts offevolved inside the English colonies
1620 - ANS-Separatists depart England accidentally
arrive in Massachusetts in "Mayflower"
-settlement called "Plymouth"
-Mayflower Compact government installed, energy not from God but from governed
-received resource from local Indians to in addition the settlement
1629 - ANS-Mass. Bay Colony Congregationalists John Winthrop "City on a hill"
-Puritan and Calvinist thoughts
ex. Of spiritual intolerance
-Roger Williams banished
-created Rhode Island free faith
-Anne Hutchinson
, 1629-42 Great Puritan Migration
1649-1660 little immigration because England changed into specifically Puritan
1635 - ANS-Connecticut gets charter for being a colony
-Maryland Lord Baltimore haven for Christians & Catholics
1649 Act of Toleration protects Christians
1670's - ANS-publisher 1st baron verulam's Rebellion
-settlers v. Indian = trouble
-led to introduction of Black Codes
1685 - ANS-New York = colony
-Pennsylvania William Penn Quaker
-Carolina (proprietary) cut up into NC (Virginia-like colony) and SC (settled via humans from
Barbados)
-proprietary colonies commonly became royal colonies (king-controlled)
Salutary Neglect 1650-1750 Britain changed into palms-off on American colonies; gave America
autonomy
1692 - ANS-Salem Witch Trials
-many executions
-unrest in faith, politics and gender caused the witch hysteria
1730's
to
1740's - ANS-Great Awakening
-Jonathan Edwards Congregationalist "sinners in palms of indignant God" fireplace & brimstone
-message turned into approximately Hell and predestination
-George Whitefield Methodist Christianity emotionalism and spirituality
-visible in southern evangelism
Enlightenment = rationalism
emotionalism & spirituality
-Ben Franklin ex of enlightenment man
1754 - 1763 - ANS-7 Years War "French-Indian War"
-Britain wins - ends in anti-British sentiment
1754 - ANS-Albany Plan via Ben Franklin
-inter-colonial authorities plans
-for protection
-now not common
1763 - ANS-Proclamation of 1763
-forbids colonial agreement past Appalachian Mountains