US History timeline & concept chart: 16th-18th centuries (to 1754) British-American colonies: Difference between revisions
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* 1534 Henry VIII’s break from Catholic Church & create Church of England ("Anglican church") | * 1534 Henry VIII’s break from Catholic Church & create Church of England ("Anglican church") | ||
** the break ensures English-Spanish/French competition / wars | ** the break ensures English-Spanish/French competition / wars | ||
* Non-conformists = do not "conform" to the central, state-run Church of England (also known as "Anglican Church") | |||
* Protestant objections to centralized Church of England doctrine leads to the splinter religious dissenters known generally as "'''Separatists'''" and "'''Puritans'''" and their offshoots, including | * Protestant objections to centralized Church of England doctrine leads to the splinter religious dissenters known generally as "'''Separatists'''" and "'''Puritans'''" and their offshoots, including | ||
** Anabaptists (opposed infant baptism; included Amish and Mennonite movements) | |||
** Brownists | ** Brownists | ||
*** followers of Robert Browne in 1550s who were among the first separatists who opposed the Church of England | *** followers of Robert Browne in 1550s who were among the first separatists who opposed the Church of England | ||
*** most of the pilgrims on the 1620 Mayflower were Brownists | *** most of the pilgrims on the 1620 Mayflower were Brownists | ||
** Quakers (who would settle in Pennsylvania) | ** Quakers (who would settle in Pennsylvania) | ||
** Congregationalists (believe in autonomous, self-run "congregations") | |||
** Levelers -- arose during the English Civil War: | ** Levelers -- arose during the English Civil War: | ||
*** believed in popular sovereignty and religious tolerance | *** believed in popular sovereignty and religious tolerance | ||
*** behaved like populists with speeches, pamphlets, rallies, etc. | *** behaved like populists with speeches, pamphlets, rallies, etc. | ||
* in 1553, the adamantly Catholic Mary Tudor was crowned ruling Queen of England | * 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. | ** Mary attempted to reverse the English Reformation, including to return property that was seized by Henry VIII to the Catholic Church. | ||
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** Third Civil War ends in 1651 when Charles II was exiled | ** Third Civil War ends in 1651 when Charles II was exiled | ||
=== '''The Commonwealth''' === | |||
* 1649-1653 Oliver Cromwell & the Commonwealth of England (Protestant rule) | |||
** the Commonwealth was marked by political dissention | ** Cromwell was both a member of Parliament and a leader of the parliamentarian army | ||
*** called the New Model Army, it was the first "professional army" (paid, full-time soldiers) and it wielded political power over Parliament | |||
* Cromwell was a fervent Puritan | |||
** believed he was acting on God's providence | |||
* the Commonwealth was marked by political dissention | |||
* only Cromwell held it together, falling apart a year after his death in 1658 and his son's unsuccessful rule | |||
* "Restoration" of Charles II in 1660 after Cromwell died and his son was unable to maintain rule | * "Restoration" of Charles II in 1660 after Cromwell died and his son was unable to maintain rule | ||
=== English Reformation === | |||
=== Significance of English Civil War === | === Significance of English Civil War === |
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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]
The Commonwealth[edit | edit source]
English Reformation[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 |