US History timeline & concept chart: 16th-18th centuries (to 1754) British-American colonies: Difference between revisions
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=== Protestant Reformation === | === Protestant Reformation === | ||
* subsequent | * 1517 Martin Luther's "protest" against abuses of the Church (the "95 Theses") | ||
** Luther was excommunicated in 1521 | |||
*** excommunication means to be denied holy rites, which Catholics believed were necessary in order to go to heaven | |||
*** thus excommunication is the most serious punishment the Catholic church can issue | |||
* the Protestant Reformation marked a defining moment in Western European history | |||
** by rejecting Church hierarchy, and professing that individuals can have a direct relationship with God, Protestantism promoted individualism, equality, and political independence | |||
* religious conflict | |||
** protestants considered the papacy an agent of the anti-Christ | |||
** Catholics considered protestants heretics and thus against the Church and God | |||
* subsequent wars between Catholic & protestant people and nations | |||
** Thirty Years War | ** Thirty Years War | ||
** French genocide of Huguenots (protestants) | ** French genocide of Huguenots (protestants) | ||
* Protestant Reformation propels European nationalism | * Protestant Reformation propels European nationalism | ||
** printing of the Bible in local dialects | ** printing of the Bible in local dialects | ||
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*** behaved like populists with speeches, pamphlets, rallies, etc. | *** behaved like populists with speeches, pamphlets, rallies, etc. | ||
** Anabaptists (opposed infant baptism; included Amish and Mennonite movements) | ** Anabaptists (opposed infant baptism; included Amish and Mennonite movements) | ||
* in 1553, the adamantly Catholic Mary Tudor was crowned ruling Queen of England | |||
** Mary attempted to reverse the English Reformation, including to return property that was seized by Henry VIII to the Catholic Church. | |||
** she officially reunited the Churches of England and Ireland to Catholicism | |||
** she is known as "Bloody Mary" for putting to death 283 religious dissenters by burning them at the stake, most for not repudiating Protestantism | |||
*** the burnings were very unpopular and prompted anti-Catholicism sentiment | |||
** Mary was opposed by Parliament and did not succeed in her counter-reformation | |||
* her protestant sister, Elizabeth, succeeded Mary in 1558 | |||
** Elizabeth I reversed Mary's counter-reformation | |||
** Parliament passed the '''Act of Supremacy of 1559''' which reestablished the Churches of England and Ireland and declared their independence from papal authority. | |||
*** the Pope excommunicated Elizabeth and all her loyal subjects in 1570 | |||
*** England reacted by persecuting Jesuit priests | |||
*** the 1571 "Ridolfi" plot was an unsuccessful Catholic attempt to murder Elizabeth and put the Catholic Mary Queen of Scots on the throne | |||
**** Elizabeth subsequently cracked down on pro-Catholic agitators and sympathizers | |||
=== Thirty Years War, 1618-1648 === | === Thirty Years War, 1618-1648 === | ||
* European war between Catholic and protestant nations & regions, mostly in central Europe | * European war between Catholic and protestant nations & regions, mostly in central Europe | ||
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** English '''Bill of Rights of 1689''' | ** English '''Bill of Rights of 1689''' | ||
*** clarified royal succession & protected certain rights of citizens | *** clarified royal succession & protected certain rights of citizens | ||
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Revision as of 18:00, 26 October 2021
US History timeline & concept chart: American colonies 17th & mid-18th centuries
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Article objectives[edit | edit source]
- exploration & colonialism motives & purposes
- role of domestic Britain conditions and choices in American colonialism
- especially religious & political conflict, population & economic growth
- regional, economic, and demographic aspects of colonial expansion
- timeline up to the French-Indian War (1754)
Protestant Reformation, European political and religious conflicts & impact on American colonies[edit | edit source]
PERIOD / TIMELINE | Major Events, Concepts & Themes | Notes & connections: details of issues, concepts, themes & events |
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Martin Luther & Protestant Reformation English Civil War Religious conflict & persecution as push factor on migration to colonial America
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BIG IDEAS
DETAILS Protestant Reformation[edit | edit source]
Church of England & Protestantism in England[edit | edit source]
Thirty Years War, 1618-1648[edit | edit source]
English Civil War, 1642–1651[edit | edit source]
Significance of English Civil War[edit | edit source]
English Civil War impact on American colonies[edit | edit source]
Glorious Revolution & English Bill or Rights & Tolerance Act[edit | edit source]
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British exploration and early settlements in North America[edit | edit source]
PERIOD / TIMELINE | Major Events, Concepts & Themes | Notes & connections: details of issues, concepts, themes & events |
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early British expeditions not successful because goals were to find gold & a route to Asia
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BIG IDEAS
DETAILS Early British explorations of North America[edit | edit source]
British governance of early colonies[edit | edit source]
Royal charters & mercantilism[edit | edit source]
Dominion of New England[edit | edit source]
Salutary neglect[edit | edit source]
click EXPAND for excerpt from Burke's speech to Parliament in 1775: “That I know that the colonies in general owe little or nothing to any care of ours, and that they are not squeezed into this happy form by the constraints of watchful and suspicious government, but that, through a wise and salutary neglect, a generous nature has been suffered to take her own way to perfection; when I reflect upon these effects, when I see how profitable they have been to us, I feel all the pride of power sink, and all presumption in the wisdom of human contrivances melt, and die away within me.” |
Early British North American colonization[edit | edit source]
PERIOD / TIMELINE | Major Events, Concepts & Themes | Notes & connections: details of issues, concepts, themes & events | ||
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1651 British Navigation Act 1676 Bacon's Rebellion 1681, William Penn granted charter for Pennsylvania 1692 Salem Witchcraft Trials 1721 British policy of "Salutary Neglect" |
British colonial population growth
Push / Pull factors
Joint Stock Company
Headright System
Indentured servants
Separatists (religious)
John Winthrop & "city upon a hill"
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BIG IDEAS
DETAILS British colonial population growth & demographics[edit | edit source]
Early British settlements of North America[edit | edit source]
Joint-stock company[edit | edit source]
Jamestown, 1607[edit | edit source]
Virginia "tobacco economy"[edit | edit source]
instead of exchanging actual tobacco, these "receipts" were used
Headright System/Headrights[edit | edit source]
Colony of Maryland[edit | edit source]
Rhode Island & religious freedom * 1636 Rhode Island passed acts to prohibit religious persecution of "non-Trinitarians" ** "Trinitarian" refers to believers of the "Holy Trinity", which is a core Catholic belief ** Rhode Island is considered the first government to separate "Church and State" * 1649 Maryland passed the Maryland Toleration Act to enforce religious tolerance for Catholics ("Trinitarians") ** the Rhode Island and Maryland laws explicitly protected only Christians *** after the English Restoration, Rhode Island welcomed Quakers, Jews and others seeking religious liberty Rhode Island was started by Puritan Roger Williams who was exiled from Massachusetts Williams named Rhode Island "Providence Plantation" and established religious tolerance Quakers = "Religious Society of Friends" = Puritans who were considered extremists for their belief that the "Light of Christ" resided in every person in 1681, the Quaker William Penn traded a debt owed to his father by King Charles II for the province of Pennsylvania by 1685, 8,000 Quakers had moved to Pennsylvania Penn encouraged protestant German immigrants, including Lutherans, Mennonites, Amish, and other sects many of these groups settled on farm land, thus "Pennsylvania Dutch country"
“IN THE NAME OF GOD, AMEN. We… Do by these Presents, solemnly and mutually, in the Presence of God and one another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil Body Politick, for our better Ordering and Preservation, and Furtherance of the Ends aforesaid: And by Virtue hereof do enact, constitute, and frame, such just and equal Laws, Ordinances, Acts, Constitutions, and Officers, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general Good of the Colony; unto which we promise all due Submission and Obedience …”
click EXPAAND for Bradford's account of the cicada outbreak of 1633: "It is to be observed that, the spring before this sickness, there was a numerous company of Flies which were like for bigness unto wasps or Bumble-Bees; they came out of little holes in the ground, and did eat up the green things, and made such a constant yelling noise as made the woods ring of them, and ready to deafen the hearers; they were not any seen or heard by the English in this country before this time; but the Indians told them that sickness would follow, and so it did, very hot, in the months of June, July, and August of that summer."
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Southern colonial economies & demographics[edit | edit source]
PERIOD / TIMELINE | Major Events, Concepts & Themes | Notes & connections: details of issues, concepts, themes & events |
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cash crops[edit | edit source]plantation economy[edit | edit source]coastal elites[edit | edit source]
backcountry farmers[edit | edit source]
Bacon's Rebellion[edit | edit source]slavery[edit | edit source]>> to do
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BIG IDEAS
DETAILS
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Colonial slavery[edit | edit source]
PERIOD / TIMELINE | Major Events, Concepts & Themes | Notes & connections: details of issues, concepts, themes & events |
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subtitle[edit | edit source] |
BIG IDEAS DETAILS
slavery & slave culture
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New England colonial expansion[edit | edit source]
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subtitle[edit | edit source] |
BIG IDEAS
DETAILS
>> see Taylor on 1/4th of Boston freeman had ownership of a ship |
central colonies[edit | edit source]
PERIOD / TIMELINE | Major Events, Concepts & Themes | Notes & connections: details of issues, concepts, themes & events |
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subtitle[edit | edit source] |
BIG IDEAS DETAILS
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Colonial wars[edit | edit source]
War Timeline | Colonial name | European name | Consequence | |
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1675-1763 |
"French & Indian Wars" include:
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1675–1678 | King Philip's War | n/a - independent of European conflicts or involvement |
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1688–1697 | King William's War |
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1702–1713 | Queen Anne's War | War of the Spanish Succession |
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1722–1725 | Dumner's War |
n/a - colonial war
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1739 | War of Jenkin's Ear |
n/a - colonial conflict
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1744–1748 | King George's War | War of the Austrian Succession |
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1754–1763 | French-Indian War | Seven Years' War | to be discussed in subsequent timeline & concepts chart |