Timeline Flashcards
1492
Columbus reaches America
1502
First African slaves arrive in spanish america
1565
St. Augustine is founded in Florida
1607
Jamestown founded by the London Company
1608
French found Quebec
1619
First African people enslaved to Virginia
Houses of Burgesses Meets in Virginia
1620
Plymouth Colony founded
1624
Dutch Establish New York
1630
Massachusetts Bay Colony
1634
Maryland
1636
Roger Williams founds Rhode Island
1647
Massachusetts requires public schools
1664
New Jersey established
1675
King Phillip’s War
1676
Bacon’s Rebellion
1681
William Penn founds Pennsylvania
1685
Edict of Nantes revoked, Huguenots migrate to North America
1686
Dominion of New England
1688
Glorious Revolution
1734
Great Awakening begins in Massachusetts
1739
Stono Slave Rebellion
1740’s
Indigo produced in South Carolina
1732
Georgia founded
1756-1763
Seven Year’s War
1763
Treaty of Paris (ended 7 years war)
Proclamation of 1763 (forbade settlement past Appalachian mountains)
1764
Sugar Act (tax on sugar) Currency Act (regulated paper money)
1765
Stamp Act (tax on stapes = all printed goods, first tax to directly be for raising money, not regulating commerce) Sons of Liberty Mutiny Act (must harbor and feed British soldiers)
1766
Stamp Act repealed Declaratory Act (Parliament has total authority over the colonies)
1767
Townshend Acts (duties on imports of glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea)
1770
Townshend Acts repealed (expect for tea)
Boston Massacre
1772
Committees of Correspondence in Boston
1774
Intolerable/Coercive Acts
First Continental Congress (rejected british authority, repealing of all laws since 1763, military preparations, boycott British, meet next spring)