Intro American History Test One

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1606

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King James I of England chartered the Virginia Company, granting it power to colonize North America between the 34th and 45th parallels. The company was headquartered in London and Plymouth.

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1607

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Jamestown founded by Virginia Company.

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1607-09

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Pilgrims, who were separatists, left England for the Netherlands.

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1609

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Of a total of 325 English settlers who came to Jamestown before 1609, fewer than 100 were still alive.

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1613

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John Rolfe imported a type of tobacco from the West Indies, the new variety sold well in England. So successful that Tobacco was being grown in the streets of Jamestown.

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1619

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Africans reached Virginia, but their status in early Virginia and Maryland remained ambiguous for decades.

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1620

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Pilgrims arrive via the Mayflower and establish Plymouth.

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1624

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The king of England declared the London Company bankrupt and assumed direct control of Virginia. This made it the first royal company.

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1629

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An advance party of Puritans took over a small fishing village on the coast of New England and renamed it Salem.

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1630

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A major group led by John Winthrop arrived and established the colony of Massachusetts Bay.

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1632

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Maryland chartered by Lord Baltimore (Catholic)

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Mid-1630s

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Reverend Thomas Hooker led his people west tot he Connecticut River and founded Hartford.

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1636

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Roger Williams fled MA and settled in what later became the colony of Rhode Island.

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1637

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The Puritans massacred the Pequot Indians in a war of annihilation that was part of a quest for more land.

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1638

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Anne Hutchinson was banished from the MA Bay colony and moved with her followers to the Narragansett Bay.

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1641

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MA defined its legal system in the ABody of Liberties.@

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1650

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Parliament banned foreign ships from English colonies. The following year, it passed the comprehensive Navigation Acts.

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1662

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Puritan clergy worked out the Half-Way Covenant. Parents who had been baptized but had not yet experienced conversion could bring their children before the church, Aown the covenant,@ and have them baptized.

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1664

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James, Duke of York, obtained a charter for a colony between the Delaware and Connecticut Rivers. The Dutch in the area surrendered without resistance. Hence New York.

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1681

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William Penn launched a AHoly Experiment@ with a charter for the colony of PA. Two years later the PA Charter of Liberties

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1692

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Hysteria of Salem witch trials.

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1732

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The Hat Act prohibited the export of hats made in the colonies.

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1750

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The Iron Act prohibited the creation of certain types of iron mills. Designed to protect the industry in England.

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1690

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In response to a military emergency, MA invented fiat money - paper money backed only by a government promise to accept it in payment of taxes.

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1700

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Before 1700, ordinary farmers and small planters often had sat in colonial assemblies. However, after 1700, those who participated in public life above the local level came increasingly from a higher social status.

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1722

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During commencement ceremonies, the entire Yale College faculty, except for 19 year-old Jonathan Edwards, stunned observers by announcing their conversion to the Church of England.

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1727

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Ben Franklin and several friends found the Junto. Later, it evolved into the American Philosophical Society.

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1730-40s

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An immense religious revival, known as the Great Awakening, swept across the Protestant world.

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1733

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Parliament passed a prohibitive tax on all foreign molasses imported to the colonies. The Molasses Act was not strictly enforced and resulted in bribery and smuggling.

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1741

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New York City=s 2000 slaves were the largest concentration of blacks in British North American outside Charleston. The New York slave conspiracy trials ended when 4 whites and 18 slaves were hanged, 13 slaves burned alive, and 70 banished.

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1754

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The Albany Congress originally called to meet with the Iroquois because of fear that they might side with New France. The congress adopted an amended version of a proposal by Ben Franklin for promoting unity among the colonies. Every colony rejected it.

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1763

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The Peace of Paris ended the war. France surrendered to Britain all of North America east of the MS River, except for New Orleans.

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1750s

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Quakers prohibited any involvement in the slave trade and, in 1774, would forbid slaveholding altogether.

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1763

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With a unity never seen before, the Indians struck in the West in a conflict that came to be known as Pontiac=s War, after a prominent Ottawa chief. Indian successes so enraged Jeffrey Amherst that he ordered the commander at Fort Pitt to distribute smallpox-infested blankets among the western tribes, touching off a severe epidemic. For the next decade it was open season on Indians along the VA & PA frontiers.

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1764

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The Sugar Act was a major part of George Grenville=s war against smuggling. It increased paperwork and encouraged prosecution of violators in vice-admiralty courts, which did not use juries. The Currency Act was a response to the wartime protests of London merchants against Virginia=s employment of paper currency. It forbade the colonies to issue any paper money as legal tender.

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1765

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The Quartering Act ordered colonial assemblies to provide public housing for the British army. Parliament approved the Stamp Act. This act required that all contracts, licenses, commissions, and most other legal documents be executed on stamped paper. Included newspapers, pamphlets, playing cards, and dice. Colonial resistance to the Stamp Act increasingly alarmed the British that an organized movement for independence was indeed under way, a fear that led to even sterner measures of control. Patrick Henry of Virginia launched a wave of resistance by introducing five resolutions in May. Nearly all colonial spokesmen concurred that the Stamp Act was an unconstitutional measure. In August, Boston awoke to find an effigy of Andrew Oliver, the stamp distributor, hanging on the town=s Liberty Tree. Thoroughly intimidated, Oliver resigned. That same month the lavish mansion of Lt. Governor Thomas Hutchinson was all but demolished by colonists. In October nine colonies sent delegates to the Stamp Act Congr