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Important Terms and Concepts
Chapter One:
Adena-Hopewell: 800 BC-600AD
Pueblo-Hohokam: 400BC
Mississippian Culture: 600-1500AD
Leif Eriksson
c. 1000AD
Medieval Climate Optimum
The Crusades
The Black Death: 1347
The Hundred Years War
Unification of Portugal: 1385
Fall of Constantinople: 1453
Unification of France under Louis XI
Wars of the Roses
The Silk Road
Unification of Spain: 1469
Henry VII/Tudor Dynasty
Why is there an “Age of Discovery”?
Who is looking to discover what?
Prince Henry De Aviz
Cristobal Colon 12 October 1492
Treaty of Tordesillas: 1494
Amerigo Vespucci
The “Columbian Exchange”
Vasco de Balboa: 1513
“Indians”
“America”
John Cabot/Newfoundland: 1497
Ferdinand Magellan: 1519-1522
Hernan Cortes: 1519
Aztec Empire (gold)
Montezuma
Francisco Pizarro: 1531
Peru (silver)
“Spanish America”
Trade: 1503
Encomienda (plantations)
African Slave
Mercantilism
Inflation
Ponce de Leon/Florida: 1513
Hernando de Soto/NC, Arkansas & Mississippi: 1539
Francisco de Coronado/ New Mexico & Texas: 1540
Protestant Reformation
Martin Luther
John Calvin
95 Theses
Henry VIII
“Protestant”
Catharine of Aragon
Giovanni de Varazzano/ NC & Maine: 1524
Jacques Cartier/St. Lawrence River: 1542
Samuel de Champlain: 1600
Sir Walter Raleigh
Queen Elizabeth I
Spanish Armada: 1588
Roanoke The “Lost Colony”: 1590
CROATAN
Chapter Two:
James I: 1603
Charles I Charles II
James II
Oliver Cromwell
Puritan Commonwealth
English Civil War
Glorious Revolution: 1688
William & MaryVirginia Company: 1606
Chesapeake Bay
Powhatan
“Headright”
Tidewater Confederation
Opechancanough
“Good Friday” Massacre: 1622
Maryland: 1634
Mayflower: 1620
New England Company: 1628
Bacon’s Rebellion
Massachusetts Bay Company: 1629
Rhode Island: 1636
New Hampshire: 1679
Pequot War: 1637
North Carolina: 1664
South Carolina: 1669
Dutch East & West India Companies
Jamestown
Connecticut: 1637
King Philip’s War: 1675
New York: 1664
Iroquois League
New Jersey: 1676
Pennsylvania: 1681
Delaware: 1701
Georgia: 1732
James Oglethorpe
Name
Founded By
Year
Virginia
London Co.
1607
New Hampshire
John Mason and
Others
1623
Massachusetts
Plymouth
Maine
Puritans
Separatists
F. Gorges
1628
1620
1623
Maryland
Lord Baltimore
1634
Connecticut
New Haven
Mass. Emigrants
Mass. Emigrants
1635
1638
Rhode Island
R. Williams
1636
Delaware
Swedes
1638
N. Carolina
Virginians
1653
New York
Duke of York
1664
New Jersey
Berkeley and Carteret 1664
Carolina
Eight Nobles
1670
Pennsylvania
William Penn
1681
Georgia
Oglethorpe and others 1733
Chapter Three:
“Slash & Burn” agriculture
Sir Isaac Newton
The Enlightenment
Principia Matematica: 1687
Scientific Revolution
John Locke
Essay on Human Understanding & Two Treatises on Government: 1690
Benjamin Franklin
The Great Awakening: 1730s
Jonathan Edwards
George Whitefield
Chapter Four
Mercantilism
Navigation Acts of 1660 & 1673
The (English) Bill of Rights: 1689
The Toleration Act: 1689
Lords of Trade & Plantations: 1696
George I: 1714
Hanover Dynasty
Robert Walpole
Spanish America
New France
Louisiana: 1673
Colonial Wars
The “Wars of Empire”
King William’s War: 1689 War of the Spanish Succession: 1702
War of the Austrian Succession: 1740
Seven Years War (French & Indian War): 1754
Louisbourg
Fort Duquesne
George Washington
The Albany Congress: 1754
Battle of Quebec: 1759
Peace of Paris: 1763
“Delivered from a neighbor they have always feared, your other colonies will soon
discover that they stand no longer in need of your protection. You will call on
them to contribute toward supporting the burden which they have helped to bring
on you, and they will answer you by shaking off all dependence.”
-Charles Gravier, Comte de VergennesParis, 1763