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Am: -1855 Flashcards

1
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Peoples indigenous to the Americas orally performa and transmit a variety of “literary” genres that include…

A

speeches, songs, and stories

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2
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When did Anasazi communities inhabit southwestern regions?

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1000-1300

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3
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When did Columbus write, “Letter to Luis de Santangel Regarding the First Voyage”?

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1493

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4
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Christopher Columbus arrives in the Bahamas in… . How many Native Americans estimated to be in present day United States?

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1492; between 3 and 7 million

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5
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Native American populations begin to be ravaged by European diseases

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1500

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Bartolome de las Casas petitions Spanish crown to treat Native American peoples as humanely as other subject populations

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1514

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7
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Cortes conquers Aztecs in Mexico

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1519-21

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8
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Spanish explorers bring first African slaves to South Carolina

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1526

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9
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First printing press in the Americas set up in Mexico City and Hernando de Soto invades Florida in

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1539

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10
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Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca writes The Relation of Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca

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1542

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Bartolome de las Casas writes The Very Brief Relation of the Devastation of the Indies

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1552

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12
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Reign of Elizabeth I

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1558-1603

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13
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Walter Ralegh lands on “island” of Roanoke; What does he name it? For whom?

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1584; Virginia for Queen Elizabeth

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Who wrote A brief and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia and when?

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Thomas Harriot; 1588

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Samuel de Champlain explores the Saint Lawrence River; founds Quebec

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1603-13

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16
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Jamestown is established in Virginia; Powhatan confederacy saves colonists from starving; teaches them to plant tobacco.

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1607

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17
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Twenty Africans arrive in Jamestown on a Dutch vessel as indentured servants

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1619

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18
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Mayflower drops anchor in Plymouth Harbor

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1620

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19
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First Thanksgiving at Plymouth

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1621

20
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The General History of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles written by whom?

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John Smith, 1624

21
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John Winthrop delivers his sermon “A Model of Christian Charity” in… when was it published?

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1630; 1838

22
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Immigration of English Puritans to Massachusetts Bay

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1630-43

23
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William Bradford writes Of Plymouth Plantation in… then published in …

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1630-50; 1856

24
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Thomas Morton writes New English Canaan

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1637

25
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Pequot War

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1637

26
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Anne Hutchinson banished from Bay Colony for challenging Puritan beliefs

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1638

27
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A Key into the Language of America

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1643, Roger Williams

28
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The Tenth Muse

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1650, Anne Bradstreet

29
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The Day of Doom

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1662, Michael Wigglesworth

30
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Samuel Sewall keeps his Diary; published?

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1673-1729; 1878-82

31
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King Philip’s War destroys power of Native American tribes in New England

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1675-78

32
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William Penn founds Pennsylvania

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1681

33
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Mary Rowlandson’s Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration

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1682

34
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Edward Taylor continues his Preparatory Meditations written in___ and published in ___

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1682-1725; 1939, 1960

35
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The New England Primer

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1690

36
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Salem witchcraft trials

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1692

37
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Robert Calef, More Wonders of the Invisible World in

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1700

38
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Cotton Mather, Magnalia Christi Americana in

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1702

39
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The Sketch Book written by ___ in ___.

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Washington Irving, 1820

40
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Missouri Compromise admits Missouri as a slave state, Main as a free state, and excludes slavery in the Louisiana Territory north of latitude 36, 30

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1820

41
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William Cullen Bryant, “Thanatopsis”

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1821

42
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Sequoyah (George Guess) invents syllabary in which Cherokee language can be written

A

1821

43
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James Fenimore Cooper, The Pioneers

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1823

44
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Monroe Doctrine warns all European powers not to establish new colonies on either American continent

A

1823

45
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Erie Canal opens, connecting Great Lakes region with …

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The Atlantic in 1825

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