Dates/Timeline

Question 1

Territorial expansion of the Andean Empire. Cuzco emerges as the primary Inca city.

Answer 1

1438-1525

Question 2

Expansion of Cahokia

Answer 2

1050-1200

Question 3

Santo Domingo established

Answer 3

1502

Question 4

Thomas Moore’s “Utopia”

Answer 4

1516

Question 5

Fall of Tenochtitlan to the Spanish

Answer 5

1521

Question 6

French establish religious community in present-day Jacksonville, FL

Answer 6

1565

Question 7

St. Augustine established

Answer 7

1565

Question 8

Laws of the Indies

Answer 8

1573

Question 9

“Miguel’s Map” and European contact with Etzanoa

Answer 9

1602

Question 10

Jamestown established

Answer 10

1607

Question 11

Santa Fe formally established

Answer 11

1610

Question 12

John Winthrop’s “City on a Hill” Sermon

Answer 12

1630

Question 13

Pueblo uprising against Spanish mission system

Answer 13

1680

Question 14

Fort St. Louis established

Answer 14

1683

Question 15

First documented case of enslaved Africans fleeing to St. Augustine

Answer 15

1687

Question 16

Spain uses royal decree granting freedom to all enslaved Africans escaping British colonies, as long as they convert to Catholicism and serve Spain

Answer 16

1693

Question 17

Mobile established

Answer 17

1702

Question 18

New Orleans established

Answer 18

1718

Question 19

Fort Mose established

Answer 19

1730

Question 20

Beginning of the French-Indian Wars

Answer 20

1754

Question 21

France relinquishes claim to Louisiana in favor of Spain in a secret signed before the 1763 Treaty of Paris

Answer 21

1762

Question 22

First Treaty of Paris ending French-Indian Wars

Answer 22

1763

Question 23

New Orleans ruled by Spanish; city returns briefly to French rule in 1803, before the French broker the “Louisiana purchase” with the United States

Answer 23

1763-1801

Question 24

End of American Revolution, birth of US-nation state

Answer 24

1776

Question 25

Beginning of revolt in Saint Domingue, France has great concerns over Caribbean holdings, less over its North American colonies beyond not wanting to see expansion of British

Answer 25

1791

Question 26

Louisiana Purchase: US purchases land west of Mississippi from France, US territory doubles in size

Answer 26

1803

Question 27

First large-scale (documented) immigration boom

Answer 27

1820-1880

Question 28

Spain relinquishes colonial claims in territories that will become continental US

Answer 28

1821

Question 29

End of Mexican-American War

Answer 29

1848

Question 30

Second phase of immigration boom (“new immigrants”)

Answer 30

1880-1920

Question 31

Defining number for what constitutes “urban community” fixed at 2,500

Answer 31

1910

Question 32

Birth of the Chicago School

Answer 32

1915-1935

Question 33

Majority of US lives in cities

Answer 33

1920

Question 34

WWI; US shifting from agriculture-based societies to an urban-based society

Answer 34

1914-1918

Question 35

Post War (WWII) period

Answer 35

1940s

Question 36

V. Gordon Childe’s “The Urban Revolution” is published in “Town Publishing Review”

Answer 36

1950

Question 37

Jane Jacob’s “The Death and Life of Great American Cities” is published

Answer 37

1961