Timeline review Apush

Question 1

period 1

What was the context of 1492?

Answer 1

Columbus’ first voyage

Question 2

Period 2 Dates – Colonial America

Context of each of these dates, 1607, 1649, 1688, and 1692?

Answer 2

• 1607 – Jamestown, 104 English men and boys arrived in North America to start a settlement. On May 13 they picked Jamestown, Virginia for their settlement, which was named after their King, James I. The settlement became the first permanent English settlement in North America
• 1649 – Toleration Act ensured religious freedoms to Christian settlers of different denominations who settled in Maryland. Lawmakers hoped that it made Maryland a more desirable location for immigration and was the first law to protect religious freedom in the Thirteen Colonies.
• 1688 – Glorious Revolution England was once again on the verge of civil war. In 1688 the country was invaded by a foreign army and its King fled, as the Crown was offered by Parliament to his own nephew and son-in-law. The event also had an impact on the 13 colonies in North America. The colonists were temporarily freed of strict, anti-Puritan laws after King James was overthrown
• 1692 – Salem Witch Trials (June 1692–May 1693), in American history, a series of investigations and persecutions that caused 19 convicted “witches” to be hanged and many other suspects to be imprisoned in Salem Village in the Massachusetts Bay Colony (now Danvers, Massachusetts)

Question 3

Period 3 Dates – The American Revolution

Context of these timelines, 1754-1763, 1763, 1765, 1770, 1773, 1775?

Answer 3

• 1754–1763 – Seven Years’ War The French and Indian War was the North American conflict in a larger imperial war between Great Britain and France known as the Seven Years’ War. The French and Indian War began in 1754 and ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763.
• 1763 – Proclamation of 1763 was a British-produced boundary marked in the Appalachian Mountains at the Eastern Continental Divide. Decreed on October 7, 1763, the Proclamation Line prohibited Anglo-American colonists from settling on lands acquired from the French following the French and Indian War
• 1765 – Stamp Act required the colonists to pay a tax, represented by a stamp, on various forms of papers, documents, and playing cards. It was a direct tax imposed by the British government without the approval of the colonial legislatures and was payable in hard-to-obtain British sterling, rather than colonial currency
• 1770 – Boston Massacre had a major impact on relations between Britain and the American colonists. It further incensed colonists already weary of British rule and unfair taxation and roused them to fight for independence
• 1773 – Boston Tea Party To protest the Tea Act of 1773, colonists disguised as Mohawks raided ships and dumped ninety thousand pounds of tea into Boston Harbor
• 1775 – Lexington & Concord, 19 April 1775, the famous ‘shot heard ‘round the world’, marked the start of the American War of Independence (1775-83)