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)
• Hernando Cortes
• Francisco Pizarro
• Treaty of Tordesillas
1494
• John Cabot 1496
• Giovanni de
Verrazano 1524
• Jacques Cartier
• Henry Hudson 1609
• Crosby, The
Columbian Exchange
Europeans and Africans to America
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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*
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Puritans
James I (1603-1625)
Charles I (1625-1649)
Mayflower 1620
Mayflower Compact
• Act of Toleration 1649
• Massachusetts Bay
Company 1629
• Harvard University 1636
• Roger Williams Rhode
Island 1644
• Thomas HookerConnecticut 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
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
The French and Indian Wars:
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King William’s War 1689-1697
Queen Ann’s War 1702-1713
King George’s War 1744-1748
French and Indian War 1754-1763
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French and Indian WarDate1754–1763Location North America
ResultTreaty of Paris, British victory.Territorial
changes Canada ceded to Great Britain Combatants France
native allies:
* Algonquin
* Huron
* Ojibwa
* Ottowa
* Shawnee Great Britain
native allies:
* IroquoisStrength3,900 regulars
7,900 militia
2,200 natives (1759)50,000 regulars and militia (1759)
• New Orleans 1718
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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
Background to Revolution
• “Pennsylvania
‘Dutch’”
• “Scotch-Irish” (ScotsIrish)
• 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”