Background to U.S. History

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Background to U.S. History

• Indian
• Maize (Corn)
• Maya

• Aztec Empire

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• Norsemen (Vikings)
• Leif Erickson (1000)
• Islam (Moslems)
• Renaissance
• Humanism
• Henry the Navigator (1394-1460)
• Christopher Columbus
• Spanish Reconquest (711-1492)

• Ferdinand Magellan (1519)

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• Hernando Cortes
• Francisco Pizarro
• Treaty of Tordesillas 1494
• John Cabot 1496
• Giovanni de Verrazano 1524
• Jacques Cartier

• Henry Hudson 1609
• Crosby, The Columbian Exchange

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Europeans and Africans to America

• Roanoke Island
• Sir Walter Raleigh
• Proprietary Colonies
• George Calvert (Lord Baltimore)

• Quit Rents
• Mercantilist Theory
• Richard Hakluyt., Discourse Concerning Western
  Planting (1584)
• Martin Luther 1517
• The Reformation
• Henry VIII
• Church of England (Anglican) 1533

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• Calvinists
• Joint Stock Company
• Jamestown 1607
• Headright
• House of Burgesses 1619
• John Rolfe
• Tobacco
• Indentured Servant
• Slavery- Jamestown
• 1619

• Puritans
• James I (1603-1625)
• Charles I (1625-1649)
• Mayflower 1620
• Mayflower Compact

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• Act of Toleration 1649
• Massachusetts Bay Company 1629
• Harvard University 1636
• Roger Williams Rhode Island 1644

• Thomas Hooker- Connecticut 1636
• Oliver Cromwell 1649
• Charles II 1660-1684
• James II 1685-1688
• Glorious Revolution 1688-189
• William and Mary 1689
• Dominion of New England- Sir Edmund Andros 1685
• Salem Witch Trials
• Anne Hutchinson Trial 1637

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Colonial North America

• Lords Proprietors of Carolina 1663
• Henry Hudson 1609
• New Netherland 1624

• New Amsterdam (New York) 1624
• William Penn
• Quakers (Society of Friends)

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• Pennsylvania 1681
• Philadelphia 1682
• Georgia 1732
• James Oglethorpe

• The Navigation Acts 1660-1672
• Triangular Trade
• Molasses Act 1733
• Board of Trade and Plantations 1696
• Sir Robert Walpole- Salutary Neglect
• Samuel de Champlain
• Quebec 1608
• Huron Indians
• Jesuits

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The French and Indian Wars

• King Williams War 1689-1697
• Queen Anns War 1702-1713
• King Georges War 1744-1748
• French and Indian War 1754-1763
• French and Indian WarDate17541763Location North
  America ResultTreaty of Paris, British
  victory.Territorialchanges Canada ceded to Great
  Britain Combatants Francenative allies
  Algonquin Huron Ojibwa Ottowa Shawnee
  Great Britainnative allies IroquoisStrength3,9
  00 regulars7,900 militia2,200 natives
  (1759)50,000 regulars and militia (1759)

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• New Orleans 1718
• St Louis Cathedral (Below- a symbol of New
  Orleans)

• Fort Duquesne 1754
• General James Braddock
• George Washington
• William Pitt 1758
• General James Wolfe
• Treaty of Paris 1763

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Background to Revolution

• Pennsylvania Dutch
• Scotch-Irish (Scots-Irish)
• French Huguenots
• The Enlightenment
• John Locke

• Deism
• Freemasonry
• The Great Awakening
• George III 1760
• George Grenville 1763-1765
• Revenue Act of 1764 (Sugar Act)
• Salutary Neglect