Unfinishednation2 Flashcards
Roanoke, 1587
Lost Colony established by John White. White left to get supplies and took three years to return; previously (1585)Sir Richard Grenville led a group of men to the island. Sir Francis Drake came with supplies but the colonists boarded the boat and left.
Don Juan Onate, 1598
traveled North to New Mexico, claimed the land of the Pueblo Indians. Followed Coronado’s old path into present day New Mexico, and spread Roman Catholicism by establishing missions. He conquered the Indians ruthlessly, maiming them by cutting off one foot of survivors just so they’d remember.
James I, 1603
became English King and in 1606 gave charters to colonize in the south and Plymouth merchants in the north.
Jamestown, 1607
first permanent English settlement after 30 years of trying to colonize.
Quebic, 1608
French established
Santa Fe, 1609
Spanish colonists founded
Pope, 1680
2,000 Spanish living among 30,000 Pueblos; tried to convert to Catholicism but they continued with their rituals. Led an uprising killing hundreds and capturing back Sante Fe.
Final Results of Pope, 1696
Twelve years later Spanish return to Pueblo area and crushed them. Assimilated–Spanish population, increased, Indian population, decreased by half due to war, disease and migration.
1500-1800
Half of all immigrants to the New World were African slaves.
1619
Jamestwon founding of both House of Burgesses (early western democracy) and John Rolfe’s purchase of some “twenty odd Africans”
Mayflower Compact
1620, created a “civil body politic”
Land Bridge theory
Linked Asia and North America across Bering Sea. Nomadic tribes walked across the “bridge” before the sea level rose and thus populated the Americas.
Maize
This crop was important because people could settle down and be farmers, which gave rise to towns and then cities.
Columbian Exchange
Exchange of goods and ideas between the Old and New World. From the New World: corn, potatoes, tobacco, beans, peppers, manioc, pumpkin, squash, tomato, wild rice, syphilis. From the Old World: cows, pigs, horses, wheat, sugar cane, apples, cabbage, citrus, carrots, and devastating diseases - smallpox, yellow fever
Treaty of Tordesillas
Portugal and Spain feuded over who got what land; the Pope drew a line that ran North-South in Brazil; Portugal got everything east of the line (Brazil and land around/under Africa) and Spain got everything west of the line
Francisco Pizarro
Conquered the Incan Empire of Peru and begins shipping tons of gold/silver back to Spain. This huge influx of precious metals made European prices skyrocket (inflation).
Francisco Coronado
Ventured into current Southwest U.S. looking for Cibola, the legendary city of gold. He found the Pueblo Indians.
Encomienda System
Indians were “commended” or given to Spanish landlords. Indians would work on the farm and be converted to Christianity. But it was basically just slavery on a plantation guised as missionary work.
John Cabot
Explored the Canadian coastline and named many of its islands and capes. His mission’s purpose was to search for a Northwest passage across North America to Asia, which was unsuccessful
Black Legend
The notion that Spaniards only brought bad things (murder, disease, slavery) to the New World; used by non-Catholics or non-Spanish to criticize the Spanish. However, the Spanish also brought good things such as law systems, architecture, Christianity, language, and civilization.
1606
James I issues new charter dividing North America b/t London Group in the south and the Plymouth merchants in the north. Charter promised full rights of Englishmen, an end to strict rule and share in self-government.
Jamestown
founded in 1607. London Co. headed for VA w/ 144 men aboard. Only 104 men survived. Site was low and swampy (failed for 17 years). Founded as a Joint Stock company to make a profit.
John Smith
John Smith took leadership promoted work and order, raids on Indian villages. Only 38 of orignial 144 survived. No women-no permanent stake. Disease-malaria. “Saved” by Pochahantas
Jamestown “starving time”
600 passangers to VA. One ship lost at sea, one aground on Bermuda isle. Many who arrived succumed to fevers. Local indians kept them barracaded in. Lived off dogs,..corpses. 60 people left when aground vessel arrived. All left. Ran into another supply vessel w/ Governor Lord De La Warr. Establish headright system. (50 acres) encouraged immigration.
Early Jamestown
Pocohontas married John Rolf and went to visit England. During VA 17 years 8,500 white settlers arrived–80% died.
1619
First African workers in Virginia. 20 some African negroes. Colonists thought they were indentured servants.
House of Burgesses
Met for the first time in 1619. Established representative gov’t. (early preedent for self government)
Plymouth
Founded in 1620. Puritan Separatists. Set sail on the Mayflower, drew up the Mayflower Compact and governed themselves. “combine urselves together into a civil body politic” (early precedent for self-government)
1621
Spain went to war with the Netherlands. English swooped in and began colonizing.(Antigua, St. Kitts, Jamaica and Barbados). Spain only colonized on the larger islands (Cuba, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico). Tobacco and cotton failed–sugar succeeded.
Opecenough
Powhatan Indians attack Virginia in 1622
1624
Dutch settle in Manhattan
Charles I
began ruling as Monarch in England, dismissed the Parliament.
1629-40
King Charles I dissolved Parliament. (this is King James’ son who was also repressive toward Puritans).
Massachusetts Bay Colony
Puritans established in 1630. 17 ships set sail with 1,000 people. Largest single migration. Gov’n John Winthrop. Created a refuge for Puritans. Charter meant they were not responsible to any company officials in England.
English turmoil
Charles I began ruling, Dismissed Parliament, Parliament returned, English Civil War began; Charles beheaded; New “protector” died; Charles II comes back and seizes throne. This is called the Restoration Period (1632-33).
Maryland
founded in 1634. Origins different than VA. Originally a refuge for Catholics, but Calvert died while negotiating with the King Lord Baltimore for charter. His son Cecilius (second Lord Baltimore) received charter and made his brother Leonard Calvert as governor. The most religiously tolerant.
Rhode Island
Roger Williams founded, 1635-36. Williams had lived in Salem, expressing religious and political dissent. Advocated separation from England. He escaped before deportation. Refuged with Narragansett tribe. Created Providence. Rhode Island was the only colony which all faiths could worship.
Pequot War
Broke out between English settlers in Connectcut valley in 1637. Natives almost wiped out. Bloodiest battle between whites and Indians. White’s called it King Philips War(Indian Chief).Whites and Mohawks ambushed Metacomet and killed him. Fragile alliance disbanded. Earlier exchange of Flintlock rifle and Matchlock rifle (heavy).
Anne Hutchinson
felt that one could talk directly to God. Challenged assumptions about role of women in Puritan society. Convicted of heresy and sedition, banished with her family in 1638. Later killed in Indian uprising.
English Civil War
broke out in 1642. King Charles I antagonized the Parliament by dismissing them twice in two years. They organized a military force –Cavaliers (support the king) and the Roundheads (forces of Parliament, largly Puritan). Roundheads won..king beheaded.
1650’s
England began trying to regulate colonial trade by Pariliament passing laws to keep Dutch ships out of the colonies. Navigation Acts passed later (1660-1673).
Navigation Acts
1660, 1663, 1673. Only trade with English ships and items exported only to England (tobacco); European goods must go through England to get taxed before the colonies receive; Coastal trading amongst colonies will be subject to taxes and custom officials will be appointed.
New Netherlands
English captured in 1664. Charles I granted his brother James(Duke of York) the land between CT and DE rivers. English navy extracted surrender of Dutch colony, renamed it New York. Living there were Dutch, Scandinavians, Germans, French and Africans(slaves) and Indians. No provision for representative assemblies.Political power with wealthy.
Charleston
founded in 1669. Charles II awarded 8 proprietors joint title. Religious freedom for all Christian faiths. Created representative assembly. Hoped to attract existing settlers and save $$. Anthony Ashley Cooper didn’t give up and aided by John Locke drew up the Fundamental Constitution for Carolina. Divided colonies into equal size/equal parcels. Established social hierarchy. North (backwoods) South (fertile land/good harbor). Headright system established. It failed.
New Jersey
founded in 1674. James (Duke of York) gave part of his charter to John Berkley and Sir George Carteret. Carteret named it NJ. Enormous ethnic and religious diversity but no class division.
King Phillips War (Metacom’s War)
1675-1678, New England natives defending themselves against an ever increasing white settlement, 12 New England towns destroyed and about 1/2 of New England towns attacked, Metacom was eventually captured and killed
Bacon’s Rebellion
1676 - The autocratic rule of Berkley,Revealed rival elites in VA; Demonstrated instability of large population of non-landowners; continued struggle for white and Indian spheres of influence. Bacon was a westerland farmer.Nathaniel Bacon angered about hold the line of settlement to avoid Indian conflicts. Motivated movement away from indenture and toward race based slavery.
Pennsylvania
chartered in 1681. Society of Friends, first leader George Fox & Margaret Fell. Quakers rejected predestination concept and original sin. Pacifists. Colony was best know and most cosmopolitan of all colonies. Franklin named Philadelphia (city of brotherly love).
1684
Defiance of Navigation Acts by MA lead to charter getting revoked.
Dominion of New England
1686
Glorious Revolution
James II popular support vanished, daughter Mary (protestant) and husband William of Orange appt. ruler of Netherlands to assume the throne. Considered a bloodless coup. Touched off revolutions in several colonies (bloody ones); representative assemblies revived; colonial unification abandoned. 1688-89
1691
The Glorious Revolution led to Maryland becoming a separate colony. The new gov’t increase potential authority.
1701
Ben Franklin signed a Charter of Liberties to establish representative assembly–limited authority of proprietor.
Spanish “Southwest”
Spanish began to fortify borders by est. forts (San Antonio area). Greatest threat was the French near Texas. (1731)
Georgia
chartered in 1732. Granted General James Oglethorpe and his fellow trustees control of GA. Excluded Africans(free or slave); Settlement became more compact and easier to defend. Only a few debtors release from prison. Brought hundreds of tradesman England, Switzerland, Germany, Scotland, Jews. Grew slower that other colonies.
colonial restoration period
Restoration Period –resumption of colonization in America. four additional colonies: Carolinas, NY, NJ and PA (1663)
mail order brides in Jamestown
VA Co. sent ironworkers and craftsman with 100 Englishwoman for wives to Virginia Colony.
What led to the Pueblo Revolt?
The harsh treatment of the Spanish and the Missions were tolerated at beginning but as the priests continued their power push by enforcing taxes on converted natives, burning every religious sacred thing of the pueblo people, forbidding the Kachina dances that are done at ceremonies, and arresting 43 shamans, killing 4, along with the drought that was destroying livestock and crops the natives under the leadership of shaman Pope, who was released from capture, revived their traditional religious culture and now wanted the Spanish out
Why was there such intensified religious restriction before Pueblo revolt?
Continued power struggle between the Spanish governors and the religious friars over. Both groups were there just to exploit the pueblos and competition to who can get the most out of the labor and resources of them. In order for the friars to get control of the labor they offered they needed to convert the natives and so they believed the best way to do so was to eliminate any other religious option, including the one they were originally practicing
Result of Pueblo Revolt
Spanish lost the colony to the Pueblo and their monopoly over the midwest. The Spanish horses are captured and spread throughout the Southwest becoming the start of the horse culture that arises throughout the heart of america
What was the Pueblo Revolt?
an uprising of many pueblos of the Pueblo people against Spanish colonization of the Americas in the New Spain province of New Mexico.
What happened during the pueblo revolt? (damages done) and how many natives were involved?
Pueblo indians killed 400 spanish, burned churches, put poop on chuches, killed preist & sent surviving spanish fleeing, 17,000
What was different about the treatment of the Pueblos this time after the Spanish had returned?
The Spanish weren’t forcing them to give up their culture anymore - they were less oppressive
Why was the Pueblo Revolt significant? (3 reasons)
it was the only successful revolt, Pueblo culture stayed intact, pueblos are still located there today.
Stono Rebellion
first major slave rebellion (South Carolina), slaves stole a supply of guns and killed 20-25 whites, slaves hoped to escape to Florida (1676) Enacted strong laws stopping slaves from assembling in groups and from being taught to read.
slavery in South Carolina
imported slaves with specific knowledge of rice growing. Most southerners did not own slaves but felt that slaves were inferior to all whites
Maryland Toleration Act, 1649
protected Roman Catholics from discrimination and gave Christians some degree of religous action
Headright System (Chesapeake)
Method of attracting settlers to Virginia; after 1618, it gave fifty acres of land to anyone who paid for their own passage or for that of any other settlers who might be sent or brought to the colony.
City on a Hill
John Winthrop’s statement the Puritans were to live as a model Christian society for the world (the beginning of American Exceptionalism?)
New England Colonies
migrated as families, longer life expectancy, religously motivated,
Chesapeake Colonies
intially mostly single men, motivated by trade and profit
Halfway Covenant
signified decrease in religous zeal of 2nd generation Puritans, In 1662, Puritans permitted the baptized children of church members into a “half-way” membership in the congregation and allowed them to baptize their children; they still could not vote or take communion.
Pilgrims
sepratists who wanted to end all ties with a corrupt England and corrupt Europe (beginning of theme of US’ isolationism)
Puritans
led by John Winthrop, wanted to reform or “purify” the Church of England, 11 ships and 700 people to Mass. Bay, lived in villages centered around a meeting house, strict moral code - no card playing no dancing
Pennsylvania
Founded by William Penn when King Charles II settled a debt with Penn’s father using land in 1681; proprietary colony with William Penn as the proprietor, settled by Quakers
Relations with Great Britain - Restoration (1660) and the Glorious Revolution (1688)
American colonists reluctant to accept the Restoration as it appeared to show the failure of puritan reform. Glorious Revolution in England led to small rebellions in the colonies due to the new English Bill of Rights
Virginia Company
1606; English joint stock companies chartered by James I with the purpose of establishing colonies in America
Pequot War
1634-38; armed conflict between English colonists and Pequot Indians, resulting in hundreds of Indians killed or in captivity
Peaceable Kingdom
William Penn’s vision of Pennsylvania inhabited by both Indians and Europeans
Antinomianism
An interpretation of Puritan beliefs that stressed God’s gift of salvation and minimized what an individual could do to gain salvation; identified with Anne Hutchinson
Great Migration
Settlement of over twenty thousand Puritans in Massachusetts Bay and other parts of New England between 1630 and 1642.
Indentured servants
Individuals who sold their labor for a fixed number of years in return for passage to the colonies; indentured servants were usually young, unemployed men and could be sold.
Proprietary colony
A colony founded as a grant of land by the king to an individual or group of individuals; Maryland (1634) and Carolina (1663) were proprietary colonies, as was Pennsylvania (1681).
Enlightenment
1600
Harvard
founded first American College named after a Charlestown minister, John Harvard in 1636. Established by Puritan theologians to create a place to train ministers
printing press
First operated in the colonies in 1639, by 1695 there were more printing presses in American than England.
1647
Massachusetts law states that every town needs to provide for schooling
1662
Halfway covenant
1685
Huguenots migrate to America
1692
Salem witchcraft trials
1693
College of William and Mary (after the King and Queen)
1697
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1701
Yale founded in New Haven CT by benefactor Elihu Yale because of liberalism of Harvard.
1720
Cotton Mather starts smallpox innoculations
1734
Great Awakening begins
1739
George Whitefield arrives in America/Great Awakening intensifies/Stono Slave rebellion
1740
Indigo production begins
1746
Collegeof NJ becomes Princeton NJ First president was Jonathan Edwards
1755
University of Pennsylvania
1763
Paxton Boys-band of PA frontiersmen decended on Philly to demand tax relief and financial support for defenses against Indians. Bloodshed averted by concession from the colonial assembly.
1764
Sugar Act was a raised the duty on sugar while lower the duty on Molasses. (Currency Act the same year).
1765
Mutiny Act required colonists to provide quartering to British soldiers.British ship searched for smugglers.
1765
Stamp Act tax on every printed document. Strictly attempt to raise revenues. Affects everyone.
1766
Stamp Act repealed
1767
Charles Townshend dies
1770
Lord North repeals all the Townshend Acts except the tax on tea.
French and Indian War (1754-1763)
between the 3 powers French, English and Iroquois. French offered indians tolerance, English offered goods.French assimilated with Indians–stronger bonds. Happened at Fort Necessity with Washington surrendering. Lasted 9 years.
Seven Years’ War (1754-1763)
Seven Years’ War begins (England) Struggle between England and France. Fighting spread to West Indies, India and Europe itself. Main struggle remained in North America (F & I War).
Peace of Paris (1763)
French ceded to Great Britain lands west of the Mississippi to the Spanish empire, West Indies, India and Canada, and anything French east of the Mississippi.
Proclamation of 1763
Forbade settlers to go beyond the Appalachain mountains. Ineffective as white settlers continued to swarm across boundary in the Ohio Valley. New agreements in 1768 pushed the boundary farther west. Also at the same time a band of Paxton Boys decended on Philadelphia demanding tax relief and support against Indians. Colonial assembly conceded and bloodshed avoided.
Sugar Act (1764)
duty on sugar, lowered the duty on molasses; but the tax would be collected.HIts rum drinkers hard.
Stamp Act (1765)
tax on every printed document. Strictly an attempt to raise revenues for the England w/o consent of colonial assemblies. Grenville’s plan antagonized and unified the colonies. Patrick Henry made dramatic speech that caused the cry of treason(he spoke against the king and said he might lose his head too). Who uses paper the most - newspapers and lawyers.
Stamp Act repealed (1766)
after much protests and boycotts of British goods. Benjamin Franklin had directly addressed Parliament.
Declaratory Act (1766)
put in with the repeal of the Stamp Act declaring that confirmed parliamentary authority over the colonies in all cases.
Townshend Duties (1767)
imposed new taxes on paint, paper, tea, lead (Paint the Town shed with lead based paint while drinking tea in a paper cup.)
Boston “Massacre” (1770 March 5)
Boston Massacre was an event in MA that happened before the news of the repeal of the Townshend duties was known. “Liberty Boys” pelted sentries at the customs house with rocks and snowballs. British soldiers let fire into the crowd killing 5 people.
1770
Most Townshend Duties repealed except the tax on tea.
Committee of Correspondance (1772)
Sam Adams decries Boston Massacre and says England is corrupt. He proposes this committee to publicize grievances against England. Formed a loose intercolonial network of political organizations
Gaspee Incident (1772)
the result of growing resentment over the Navigation Acts. Colonists seized a British revenue ship on lower Delaware River. Rhode Island residents boarded a British schooner, the Gaspee’, and set it afire and it sank.
Tea Act, Boston Tea Party(1773)
some colonial leaders made plans to prevent the East India Co from landing its cargo. Phil and NY kept the tea from leaving the ships . Boston staged drama on December 16–3 ships, 150 men masquerading as Mohawk Indians went aboard the ships and dumped the tea in the harbor.
Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts) (1774)
Closed the Boston port; Reduced the power of the gov’t in MA; American royal officers can be tried in other colonies or England; Provides for the quartering of troops by the colonists.
First Continental Congress (1774)
resulted in 5 decisions (REACT) Reject a plan for colonial union under British rule (Galloway Plan); Endorse a statement of grievances and demand a repeal of all oppressive acts; Approve having military preparations to defend against British possible attack in Boston; Concur to boycotts that ceases trade with Britain; They would meet in the spring again.
Battles of Lexington and Concord (1775)
are considered to be the beginnings of the War for Independence.
Battle of Bunker Hill (Breeds Hill) (1775)
Both the British and Colonialist fought courageously. Capturing this hill would be paramount tactically. British won, 1.034 casualties (almost half). Americans had 4-600 casualties. Americans needed leadership–George Washington came in July.
Pontiac’s Rebellion
The war began in May 1763 when Native Americans attacked a number of British forts and settlements. Eight forts were destroyed, and hundreds of colonists were killed or captured, with many more fleeing the region. Hostilities came to an end after British Army expeditions in 1764 led to peace negotiations over the next two years. Native Americans were unable to drive away the British, but the uprising prompted the British government to modify the policies that had provoked the conflict (enforcement of Proclamtion Line).
Stamp Act Congress
it was the first gathering of elected representatives from several of the American colonies to devise a unified protest against new British taxation. The Declaration of Rights contains fourteen statements. The first six lay groundwork, proclaiming loyalty to the crown, and asserting that, according to the Rights of Englishmen and the more general “freedom of a people”, only representatives chosen by the colonists could levy taxes. Because Parliament did not have such representatives, it could not levy taxes. The seventh statement asserts that the Rights of Englishmen afford all colonists the right to trial by jury. The remaining statements protest the unconstitutionality of the Stamp Act, express the economic consequences act (which, among other things, would reduce trade to the detriment of English manufacturers), and reiterated the rights of the colonists to petition the crown and Parliament.
Virginia Resolves
a series of resolutions passed by the Virginia House of Burgesses in response to the Stamp Act of 1765
Crispus Attucks
was an American slave, merchant seaman and dockworker of Wampanoag and African descent. Crispus is often credited as the first person shot dead by British redcoats during the Boston Massacre, in Boston, Massachusetts
Galloway Plan
was put forward in the First Continental Congress of 1774. Joseph Galloway was a Pennsylvania delegate who wanted to keep the Thirteen Colonies in the British Empire. He suggested the creation of an American colonial parliament to act together with the Parliament of Great Britain. On matters relating to the colonies each body would have a veto over the other’s decisions
1754
Beginning of French and Indian War between the 3 powers French, English and Iroquois. French offered indians tolerance, English offered goods.French assimilated with Indians–stronger bonds. Happened at Fort Necessity with Washington surrendering. Lasted 9 years.
1756
Seven Years’ War begins (Enland) Struggle between England and France. Fighting spread to West Indies, India and Europe itself. Main struggle remained in North America (F & I War).
1760
George III becomes King - determined to reassert authority of the monarchy. He removed Whigs’ stable government with unstable coalition. King had serious intellectual and psychological problems. Problems with the new prime minister George Grenville also complicated matter although he share the same opinion as the King.