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  1. Indian cultures before Columbus
    1. Origins of earliest Americans
    2. Indian cultures in Middle and South America
      1. Mayan
      2. Aztec
      3. Inca
    3. North American Indians
      1. Tribal life
      2. Response to European Invasion
        1. Weakness of Indians
        2. Indians’ resistance
  2. European contacts with the New World
    1. Extension of European power and culture
    2. Amerigo Vespucci
    3. Biological exchange
      1. Animals
      2. Plants
      3. Devices
      4. Diseases
  3. Exploration and conquest of New World
    1. Spanish dominance in sixteenth century
    2. Cortés’s conquest of Aztecs
      1. Conquistadors
      2. Encomienda system
      3. Effects of Spanish culture
      4. The Spanish Southwest
        1. Role of the church
        2. Indian resentment
    3. Spain’s rivals in North America
      1. French in Canada and on the Mississippi River
      2. Dutch raiders
      3. British defeat of the Spanish Armada
    4. Early English exploration
      1. Virginia Dare
      2. Lost colony
  4. Ely English settlements
    1. Tudors to Stuarts
    2. English colonization pattern
      1. Not conquest and conversion
      2. Settlement in communities
    3. The Chesapeake
      1. Virginia
        1. Settlement of Jamestown
        2. John Smith
        3. Relations with Indians
        4. Reforms after 1618
        5. Tobacco trade
        6. Made a royal colony
      2. Maryland
    4. New England
      1. Pilgrims at Plymouth Colony
        1. Separatist Puritans
        2. William Bradford
        3. Mayflower Compact
      2. Massachusetts Bay
        1. Non-Separating Puritans
        2. John Winthrop
        3. “City upon a hill”
        4. Provincial government
          1. Royal Charter
          2. Representative legislature
      3. Rhode Island
        1. Roger Williams
        2. Anne Hutchinson banished
      1. Settlements in Connecticut, New Hampshire, and Maine
      2. Relations with Indians
        1. English seek to subordinate Indians
        2. Initial relations
        3. Pequot War of 1637
        4. Peaceful fur trade
        5. King Philip’s War of 1675
  5. Settlements after 1660
    1. The English Civil War
    2. Southern colonies
      1. The Carolinas
      2. Indian relations
        1. Trade in deerskins
        2. Diseases
        3. Wars and revolts
    3. New York
      1. Dutch origin
      2. Conquest by the English
      3. The Iroquois
        1. Indian unity
        2. Fights for hunting grounds
        3. Conflicts with French
        4. Neutrality between French and English
    4. New Jersey
    5. Pennsylvania and Delaware
      1. Quakers
      2. William Penn
    6. Georgia and James Oglethorpe
  6. English colonial success

 

 

Chronology return to the top of the page
about 32,000–22,000 B.C. -
Crossing from Siberia to Alaska
A.D. 300–900 -

Classical cultures of Middle America
1492 -
Columbus’s first voyage to the New World
1513 -
Ponce de Leon searches for fountain of youth
1519 -
Cortés begins conquest of Aztecs
1542 -
Cartier establishes colony near Quebec
1587 -
Virginia Dare born
1588 -
Defeat of Spanish Armada
1606 -
Virginia Company chartered
1607 -
Settlement of Jamestown
1619 -
Representative assembly meets in Jamestown
1620 -
Pilgrims settle Plymouth
1624 -
Virginia becomes royal colony
1634 -
Maryland founded
1637 -
Connecticut organized
1637 -
Pequot War
1642–1649 -
English Civil War
1660 -
Restoration of monarchy
1670 -
Carolinas settled
1681 -
Pennsylvania settled
1733 -
Georgia founded

 

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