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97 Cards in this Set
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33,000-8000 B.C
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First humans cross into Americas from Asia
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5000 B.C
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Corn is developed as a staple crop in highland Mexico
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4000 B.C
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First civilized societies develop in the Middle East
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1200 B.C
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Corn planting reaches present day American Southwest
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A.D 1000
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Norse voyagers discover and briefly settle in northeastern North America; Corn cultivation reaches Midwest and southeastern Atlantic seaboard
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A.D. 1100
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Height of Mississippian settlement at Cahokia
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A.D. 1100-1300
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Christian crusades arouse European interest in the East
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1295
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Marco Polo returns to Europe
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late 1400s
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Spain becomes united
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1488
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Diaz rounds southern tip of Africa
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1492
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Columbus lands in the Bahamas
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1494
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Treaty of Tordesillas between Spain and Portugal
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1498
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Da Gama reaches India; Cabot explores northeastern coast of North America for England
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1513
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Balboa claims all lands touched by the Pacific Ocean for Spain
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1513, 1521
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Ponce de Leon explores Florida
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1519-1521
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Cortes conquers Mexico for Spain
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1522
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Magellan's vessel completes circumnavigation of the world
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1524
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Verrazano explores eastern seaboard of North America for France
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1532
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Pizarro crushes Incas
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1534
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Cartier journeys up the St. Lawrence River
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1539-1542
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De Soto explores the SE and discovers the Mississippi River
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1540-1542
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Coronado explores present day Southwest
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1542
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Cabrillo explores California coast for Spain
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1565
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Spanish build fortress at St. Augustine
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late 1500s
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Iroquois Confederacy founded, according to Iroquois legend
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c. 1598-1609
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Spanish under Onate conquer Pueblo peoples of Rio Grande Valley
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1609
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Spanish found New Mexico
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1680
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Pope's rebellion in New Mexico
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1680s
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French expedition down Mississippi River under La Salle
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1769
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Serra founds first California mission, at San Diego
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1558
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Elizabeth I becomes queen of England
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c. 1565-1590
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English crush Irish uprising
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1577
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Drake circumnavigates the globe
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1585
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Raleigh founds Roanoke colony
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1588
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England defeats Spanish Armada
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1603
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James I becomes king of England
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1604
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Spain and England sign peace treaty
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1607
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Virginia colony founded at Jamestown
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1612
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Rolfe perfects tobacco culture in Virginia
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1614
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First Anglo Powhatan War ends
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1619
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First African arrive in Jamestown; Virginia House of Burgesses established
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1624
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Virginia becomes royal colony
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1634
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Maryland colony founded
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1640s
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Large-scale slave-labor system established in English West Indies
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1644
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Second Anglo-Powhatan War
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1649
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Act of Toleration in Maryland
Charles I beheaded; Cromewell rules England |
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1660
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Charles II restored to English throne
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1661
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Barbados slave code adopted
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1670
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Carolina colony created
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1711-1713
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Tuscarora War in North Carolina
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1712
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North Carolina formally separates from South Carolina
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1715-1716
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Yamasee War in South Carolina
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1733
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Georgia colony founded
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1517
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martin Luther beginas Protestant Reformation
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1536
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John Calvin of Geneva publishes Institutes of the Christian Religion
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1620
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Pilgrims sail on the Mayflower to Plymouth Bay
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1624
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Dutch found New Netherland
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1629
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Charles I dismisses Parliament and persecutes Puritans
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1630
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Puritans found Massachusetts Bay Colony
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1635-1636
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Roger Williams convicted of heresy and founds Rhode Island Colony
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1635-1638
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Connecticut and New Haven colonies founded
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1637
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Pequot War
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1638
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Anne Hutchinson banished from Massachusetts colony
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1639
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Connecticut's Fundamental Orders drafted
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1642-1648
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English Civil War
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1643
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New England Confederation formed
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1655
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New Netherland conquers New Sweden
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1664
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England seizes New Netherlands from Dutch East and West Jersey colonies founded
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1675-1676
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King Philip's War
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1681
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William Penn founds Pennsylvania colony
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1686
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Royal authority creates Dominion of New England
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1688-1689
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Glorious Revolution overthrows Stuarts and Dominion of New England
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1619
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First Africans arrive in Virginia
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1636
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Harvard College founded
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1662
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Half-Way Covenant for Congregational Church membership established
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1670
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Virginia assembly disfranchises landless freeman
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1676
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Bacon's Rebellion in Virginia
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1680s
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Mass expansion of slavery in colonies
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1689-1691
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Leisler's Rebellion in New York
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1692
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Salem witch trials in Massachusetts
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1693
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College of William and Mary founded
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1698
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Royal African Company slave trade monopoly ended
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1712
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New York City slave revolt
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1739
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South Carolina slave revolt
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1693
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College of William and Mary founded
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1701
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Yale College founded
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1721
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Smallpox inoculation introduced
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1732
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First edition of Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanack
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1734
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Johnathan Edwards begins Great Awakening
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1734-1735
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Zenger free-press trial in New York
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1738
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George Whitefield spreads Great Awakening
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1746
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Princeton College founded
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1760
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Britain vetoes South Carlina anti-slave trade measures
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1764
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Paxton Boys march on Philadelphia Brown College founded
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1766
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Rutgers College founded
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1768-1771
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Regulator protests
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1769
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Dartmouth College founded
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