SS Flashcards
Spanish motives
Gold
Northwest passage
French motives
Spread Christianity
Northwest passage
England motives
Colonize
Northwest passage
Christopher Columbus
1492
Palos,Spain to Asia and the indies
Instead discovered the americas
Hernan Cortes
1519
Conquered mexico by defeating the Aztecs and their leader Montezuma
1000
Leif Erickson discovers Vinland(new england)
1492
Christopher Columbus discovers america
1479
John Cabot discovers continental North America
1507
New world names after Amerigo Vespucci
1513
Vascular Nunez de balboa discovers the Pacific Ocean
1519
Herman Cortes conquers mexico
1521
Ferdinand Magellan sails around the world
St Augustine
Oldest city in the US
Founded 1565 by the Spanish
Ponce de Leon explored it looking for gold
Jamestown
1st permanent English colony in the americas
1607
Plymouth colony
Americas 1st permant puritan settlement
Established by English separatist puritans in 1620
Rhode Island Colony
Founded 1636 by Roger Williams
The pilgrims
English puritan separatists seeking religious freedom
The thirteen colonies
New England colonies
- New Hampshire
- Massachusetts
- Rhode Island
- Connecticut
Middle colonies
- New York
- New Jersey
- Pennsylvania
- Delaware
Southern colonies
- Maryland
- Virginia
- North Carolina
- South Carolina
- Georgia
Stamp act
Tax put on american colonies by the British in 1765
Townsend acts
Passed by British parliament in 1767
Taxed goods like paper, paint, lead, glass, and tea that were imported to the american colonies and established
- american customs board in Boston to collect taxes
- courts in america to prosecute smugglers without a local jury
- the right of British officials to search colonists’ houses and businesses
Boston tea party
December 16,1773
Result of the tea tax of 1773
Dumped 90,000 pounds of tea into Boston massacre
Perpetuated sons of liberty
Sons of liberty
