Am: -1855 Flashcards
Peoples indigenous to the Americas orally performa and transmit a variety of “literary” genres that include…
speeches, songs, and stories
When did Anasazi communities inhabit southwestern regions?
1000-1300
When did Columbus write, “Letter to Luis de Santangel Regarding the First Voyage”?
1493
Christopher Columbus arrives in the Bahamas in… . How many Native Americans estimated to be in present day United States?
1492; between 3 and 7 million
Native American populations begin to be ravaged by European diseases
1500
Bartolome de las Casas petitions Spanish crown to treat Native American peoples as humanely as other subject populations
1514
Cortes conquers Aztecs in Mexico
1519-21
Spanish explorers bring first African slaves to South Carolina
1526
First printing press in the Americas set up in Mexico City and Hernando de Soto invades Florida in
1539
Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca writes The Relation of Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca
1542
Bartolome de las Casas writes The Very Brief Relation of the Devastation of the Indies
1552
Reign of Elizabeth I
1558-1603
Walter Ralegh lands on “island” of Roanoke; What does he name it? For whom?
1584; Virginia for Queen Elizabeth
Who wrote A brief and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia and when?
Thomas Harriot; 1588
Samuel de Champlain explores the Saint Lawrence River; founds Quebec
1603-13
Jamestown is established in Virginia; Powhatan confederacy saves colonists from starving; teaches them to plant tobacco.
1607
Twenty Africans arrive in Jamestown on a Dutch vessel as indentured servants
1619
Mayflower drops anchor in Plymouth Harbor
1620
First Thanksgiving at Plymouth
1621
The General History of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles written by whom?
John Smith, 1624
John Winthrop delivers his sermon “A Model of Christian Charity” in… when was it published?
1630; 1838
Immigration of English Puritans to Massachusetts Bay
1630-43
William Bradford writes Of Plymouth Plantation in… then published in …
1630-50; 1856
Thomas Morton writes New English Canaan
1637
Pequot War
1637
Anne Hutchinson banished from Bay Colony for challenging Puritan beliefs
1638
A Key into the Language of America
1643, Roger Williams
The Tenth Muse
1650, Anne Bradstreet
The Day of Doom
1662, Michael Wigglesworth
Samuel Sewall keeps his Diary; published?
1673-1729; 1878-82
King Philip’s War destroys power of Native American tribes in New England
1675-78
William Penn founds Pennsylvania
1681
Mary Rowlandson’s Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration
1682
Edward Taylor continues his Preparatory Meditations written in___ and published in ___
1682-1725; 1939, 1960
The New England Primer
1690
Salem witchcraft trials
1692
Robert Calef, More Wonders of the Invisible World in
1700
Cotton Mather, Magnalia Christi Americana in
1702
The Sketch Book written by ___ in ___.
Washington Irving, 1820
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
1820
William Cullen Bryant, “Thanatopsis”
1821
Sequoyah (George Guess) invents syllabary in which Cherokee language can be written
1821
James Fenimore Cooper, The Pioneers
1823
Monroe Doctrine warns all European powers not to establish new colonies on either American continent
1823
Erie Canal opens, connecting Great Lakes region with …
The Atlantic in 1825
