10,000 yrs ago

Began a Farminng Revolution

Corn, Squash,.. etc

9000 yrs ago

Man Found in Kennewick, Washington

Possibly from Polynesia

Genetically

not native American, not European

1400-1500

The capital city of the Aztec empire, in present-day Mexico.

During the Neolithic Revolution,

A type of grass from which corn was created and evolved from.

present day - found in Mexico

Recording devises using knots

Used by the Inca Empire

Generally a native American belief of all things have a spirit.

Animate and Inanimate

The transatlantic flow of goods, and people (plants, animals, and diseases) that began with Columbus's voyages.

1000 CE

Viking

Banished from Greenland for commiting crimes.

Discovered America about 500 yrs before Columbus

During the Comlumbian Exchange

Indians had an outbreak of Small pox with the traders from Europe, which the Native Americans had no immunitty to. It was very effective at wiping out large portions of Native American population.

1519

Aztec capital city Tenochtitlan

Lead an expedition of 600 Spanish Soldiers, from Vera Cruz, to Tenochtitlan, that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire.

1531

The Inca Ruler (right after his father just died) during the time the Spanish conquest of the Inca Emipire by Fransisco Pizarro

1532

Conquered the Inca Empire for the Spanish.

(the Ruler was Atahualpa, which his father just died, giving him the tittle of Inca Ruler)

1630

The Great Migration of the Puritans to found Boston

The first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

Early 1600

Savior of Jamestown

The leader of the early Virginia colony.

Father Powhaton

Saved John Smith from being sacrificed by Powhaton.

Christianized as "Rebecca" (dies 1617, deseas)

1644-1646

Powhatans vs. Virginians (Eastern)

Series of Massacres on both sides (Mainly English raids on Indian villages and crops, which starved the Indians)

Virginia's Major Export

200,000 lb - 1624

3,000,000 lb - 1638

Reason for massive population growth

350 in 1616

13000 in 1650

Takes about 9 months to cultivate (labor intensive)

Labor provided by Indentured servants (at first, slaves later on)

Settler who signed on for a temporary period of servitude to a master in exchange for passage to the New World; Virginia and Pennsylvania were largely peopled in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries by English and German indentured servants.

sometimes for 7 years (about) and sometimes received land grants after servitude (about 50 acres)

1676

Unsuccessful revolt led by planter Nathaniel Bacon against Virginia governor William Berkeley's administration because of governmental corruption and because Berkeley had failed to protect settlers from Indian raids and did not allow them to occupy Indian lands.

 9 July 1755

Took place at the beginning of the French and Indian War, at Braddock's Field in what is now Braddock, Pennsylvania, 10 miles east of Pittsburgh. A British force under General Edward Braddock, moving to take Fort Duquesne (22,000 men), was defeated by a force of French and Canadian troops, with its Native American allies.

Home of Fort Duquesne (French)

A land speculation company organized for the settlement by Virginians of the Ohio Country and to trade with the Indians there. The Company had a land grant from Britain and a treaty with Indians, but France also claimed the area, and the conflict helped provoke the outbreak of the French and Indian War. No lands were actually settled, and the company ended operations by 1776.

 Formally known as the Ohio Company of Virginia, was a land speculation company organized for the settlement by Virginians of the Ohio Country and to trade with the Indians there. The Company had a land grant from Britain and a treaty with Indians, but France also claimed the area, and the conflict helped provoke the outbreak of the French and Indian War. No lands were actually settled, and the company ended operations by 1776.

 9 July 1755

 A British force under General Edward Braddock, moving to take Fort Duquesne (22,000 men), was defeated by a force of French and Canadian troops, with its Native American allies.

Taking place at the beginning of the French and Indian War, at Braddock's Field in what is now Braddock, Pennsylvania, 10 miles east of Pittsburgh.

George Washington served as one of General Braddock's aides

Fort Duquesne (Forks of the Ohio River)

Highly contested fort (French, est. 1754)

Focal point of the Seven Years' War (French controled)

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May 8, 1753 – December 5, 1784

The first African-American poet and first African-American woman to publish a book. Born in Senegambia, she was sold into slavery at the age of 7 and transported to North America. She was purchased by the Wheatley family of Boston, who taught her to read and write, and encouraged her poetry when they saw her talent.

The publication of her Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773) brought her fame, both in England, and the Thirteen Colonies; figures such as George Washington praised her work. During Wheatley's visit to England with her master's son, the African-American poet Jupiter Hammon praised her work in his own poem. Wheatley was emancipated after the death of her master John Wheatley.

1720-1740

Fervent religious revival movement that was spread throughout the colonies by ministers like New England Congregationalist Jonathan Edwards and English revivalist George Whitefield.

1770

I boycott of British goods in response to the Townshend Duties in 1770. (The Stamp Act (and other British Acts) had been repealed, but the British didn't give up there.)

The British gained 21,000 pounds in revenue

The British lost 700,000 pounds of revenue 

March 22, 1765

The Stamp Act was passed by the British Parliament. The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. Ship's papers, legal documents, licenses, newspapers, other publications, and even playing cards were taxed.

On December 16, 1773,

the Sons of Liberty, dressed as Indians, dumped hundreds of chests of tea into Boston Harbor to protest the Tea Act of 1773, under which the British exported to the colonies millions of pounds of cheap but still taxed tea, thereby undercutting the price of smuggled tea and forcing payment of the tea duty.

The Patriot name for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 relating to Massachusetts after the Boston Tea party.

The acts stripped Massachusetts of self government and historic rights, triggering outrage and resistance in the Thirteen Colonies. They were key developments in the outbreak of the American Revolution in 1775.

The Battles of Saratoga (September 19 and October 7, 1777) conclusively decided the fate of British General John Burgoyne's army in the American War of Independence and are generally regarded as a turning point in the war. The battles were fought eighteen days apart on the same ground, 9 miles (14 km) south of Saratoga, New York.