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Objective:  
Objective:  
* covering regional, economic, and demographic aspects of colonial expansion
* timeline up to the French-Indian War (1754)


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== Colonial America growth ==
== Colonial America growth ==
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* 1578 Foribsher expedition to find ''Northwest Passage''  
* 1578 Foribsher expedition to find ''Northwest Passage''  
** failed but spurred British interest in North America
** failed but spurred British interest in North America
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* 1676 Bacon's Rebellion
* 1676 Bacon's Rebellion
* 1692 Salem Witchcraft Trials
* 1692 Salem Witchcraft Trials
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== Southern colonial economies & demographics ==  
== Southern colonial economies & demographics ==  
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=== cash crops ===
=== cash crops ===
=== plantation economy ===
=== plantation economy ===
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=== slavery ===
=== slavery ===
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'''BIG IDEAS'''
'''BIG IDEAS'''
* plantation economy  
* plantation economy  
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== Colonial slavery ==
== Colonial slavery ==
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* 1619 first Africans colonial America
* 1619 first Africans colonial America
* 1638 Maryland legally recognizes slavery
* 1638 Maryland legally recognizes slavery
* 1705 Virginia slave code enacted
* 1705 Virginia slave code enacted
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== New England colonial expansion ==  
== New England colonial expansion ==  
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'''BIG IDEAS'''
'''BIG IDEAS'''
* coastal economy
* coastal economy
* townships
* townships
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* frontier
* frontier
* Indian Wars
* Indian Wars
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* coastal economy
* coastal economy
>> see Taylor on 1/4th of Boston freeman had ownership of a ship
>> see Taylor on 1/4th of Boston freeman had ownership of a ship
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== central colonies ==  
== central colonies ==  
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* PA land  >> = decline in indentured servitude
* PA land  >> = decline in indentured servitude
* Quakers
* Quakers
 
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== Indian Wars ==  
== French & Indian wars ==  
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* European dynastic wars
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=== King William's War === 
* 1688–1697
=== Queen Anne's War === 
1702–1713
=== King George's War === 
=== French-Indian War ===   
* to be covered in next Timeline & Concepts chart
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'''BIG IDEAS'''
'''BIG IDEAS'''
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'''DETAILS'''
'''DETAILS'''
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! Years of War
! North American War
! European War
! Treaty
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| align=center valign=center|1688–1697
| valign=top|
 
| valign=top|[[War of the Grand Alliance]]<br />War of the [[League of Augsburg]]<br />[[Nine Years' War]]
| valign=top|[[Treaty of Ryswick]] (1697)
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| align=center valign=center|1702–1713
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'''[[Queen Anne's War]]'''<br />''2nd Intercolonial War'' <br />'''[[Dummer's War]]
| valign=top|[[War of the Spanish Succession]]
| valign=top|[[Treaty of Utrecht (1713)]]
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| align=center valign=center|1744–1748
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'''[[King George's War]]'''<br />''3rd Intercolonial War''<br />'''[[War of Jenkins' Ear]]'''
| valign=top|[[War of the Austrian Succession]]
| valign=top|[[Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle (1748)]]
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| align=center valign=center|1754–1763
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'''[[French and Indian War|The French and Indian War]]'''<br />''4th Intercolonial War'' or ''War of Conquest'' (in Quebec)<ref>Marcel Trudel, Guy Frégault, "La guerre de la conquête, 1754–1760", Montréal, 1955 [https://books.google.fr/books?id=pO80AAAAIAAJ&q=%22Guerre+de+la+conquete%22&dq=%22Guerre+de+la+conquete%22&hl=fr&sa=X&ei=vyS6VJvgC9HjaMyqgoAO&ved=0CCgQ6AEwAQ]</ref> <br />''6th Indian War''<ref>William Williamson. The history of the state of Maine. Vol. 2.  1832. p. 304</ref> <br />'''[[Father Le Loutre's War]]'''
| valign=top|[[Seven Years' War]]
| valign=top|[[Treaty of Paris (1763)]]
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Revision as of 18:35, 8 May 2021

US History timeline & concept chart: American colonies 17th & mid-18th centuries

article under construction

Objective:

  • covering regional, economic, and demographic aspects of colonial expansion
  • timeline up to the French-Indian War (1754)

Previous timeline:

Next timeline: US History timeline & concept chart: American colonies 17th & mid-18th centuries

See also:

section & table structure:

Colonial America growth[edit | edit source]

PERIOD / TIMELINE Major Events, Concepts & Themes Notes & connections: details of issues, concepts, themes & events
  • 1578 Foribsher expedition to find Northwest Passage
    • failed but spurred British interest in North America
  • 1634 Maryland founded by Catholic George Calvart
  • 1681, William Penn granted charter for Pennsylvania
  • 1614 Tobacco 1st shipped to England
  • 1642 English Civil War
  • 1651 British Navigation Act
  • 1676 Bacon's Rebellion
  • 1692 Salem Witchcraft Trials

subtitle[edit | edit source]

  • << todo
  • << todo

BIG IDEAS

DETAILS

  • Tobacco
    • John Rolfe planted seed from Trinidad in Virginia
    • 1614 fist tobacco shipment to England
      • spurred colonial projection
  • 1634 Maryland founded
    • by Catholic George Calvert, Lord Baltimore; granted by English King Charles I
    • first prioprietary colony = owned and governed by an individual

Southern colonial economies & demographics[edit | edit source]

Southern colonial economies & demographics
PERIOD / TIMELINE Major Events, Concepts & Themes Notes & connections: details of issues, concepts, themes & events

cash crops[edit | edit source]

plantation economy[edit | edit source]

coastal elites[edit | edit source]

  • Governor Berkeley

backcountry farmers[edit | edit source]

  • yeoman farmers

Bacon's Rebellion[edit | edit source]

slavery[edit | edit source]

BIG IDEAS

  • plantation economy
  • social/ economic stratification
  • frontier settlements & conflict with Native Americans
  • Bacon's rebellion
  • expansion of slavery
      • by early 1700s VA & MD planters switch from indentured servants to slaves

DETAILS

  • cash crops:
    • tobacco in NC, VA and MD
    • rice/ indigo in SC
  • plantation economy
    • increasing use of slaves
  • demographics
    • stratification of southern society
  • Southern gentry
    • large estates
      • gentry lifestyle, including hunting, horse racing, gambling, dancing
      • coastal or Tidewater elites based on plantations and ports
  • indentured servants and "backcountry" farmers:
    • half of indentures servants died in colonies before earning freedom
    • yoeman farmers owned their land, engaged in subsistence farming
    • many former servants become tenent farmers (rent not land ownership) due to costs of land surveys, fees, farming equipment & animals, etc.
    • general trend is towards small-farm ownership and westward expansion in search for new lands to farm


Bacon's rebellion

  • background:
    • Governor Sr. William Berkely
      • controlled House of Burgesses via political patronage and favors among elites
      • exempted himself and ruling "governor council" members from taxes
      • restricted right to vote to property ownership (cut vote rolls by half)
  • growing conflict with Native Americans over colonial encroachment on frontier lands
    • 1675 war between Native Americans and frontier settlers
    • coastal elites did not want war with Indians
  • Nathaniel Bacon
    • = wealthy landowner, buys frontier land, attacked by Indians
    • member of the governor's council
      • but sides with frontier farmers on war with Native Americans
    • Bacon leads his own militia to fight Native Americans
    • Gov Berkeley calls for new election
      • but new legislators back Bacon and authorize militia
      • also restores vote to all free men and removed Berkeley's tax exemptions
    • Bacon still opposes Berkeley regime, with small army takes over capital at Jamestown and charges Berkeley with corruption
    • Berkeley flees, raises his own army and battles Bacon's army
    • Bacon escapes but dies while hiding in a swamp and his army disintegrate

Colonial slavery[edit | edit source]

PERIOD / TIMELINE Major Events, Concepts & Themes Notes & connections: details of issues, concepts, themes & events
  • 1619 first Africans colonial America
  • 1638 Maryland legally recognizes slavery
  • 1705 Virginia slave code enacted

subtitle[edit | edit source]

BIG IDEAS

DETAILS

  • 1619: first African slaves brought to British colonies by Dutch merchants
  • British entry to slave trade via Royal African Company (1672)
  • 1680s growth in central / south colonies

slavery & slave culture

  • growth in slavery in 1680s
    • after Bacon's rebellion wealthy planters increased reliance on slaves instead of indentured servants
    • expanding frontiers, especially in Pennsylvania, had diminished flow of indentured servants
    • increase in transatlantic slave trade, including by British under the Royal African Company starting 1672
  • slave culture
    • maintain oral traditions, songs
    • mixture of African and colonial cultures


New England colonial expansion[edit | edit source]

PERIOD / TIMELINE Major Events, Concepts & Themes Notes & connections: details of issues, concepts, themes & events

subtitle[edit | edit source]

BIG IDEAS

  • coastal economy
  • townships
  • frontier
  • Indian Wars

DETAILS

  • coastal economy

>> 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

subtitle[edit | edit source]

BIG IDEAS

DETAILS

  • PA land >> = decline in indentured servitude
  • Quakers

French & Indian wars[edit | edit source]

PERIOD / TIMELINE Major Events, Concepts & Themes Notes & connections: details of issues, concepts, themes & events
  • Intercolonial wars
  • European dynastic wars

King William's War[edit | edit source]

  • 1688–1697

Queen Anne's War[edit | edit source]

1702–1713

King George's War[edit | edit source]

French-Indian War[edit | edit source]

  • to be covered in next Timeline & Concepts chart

BIG IDEAS

Years of War North American War European War Treaty
HEADER HEADER
data col 1 data col 2
data col 1 data col 2

DETAILS

class="wikitable" align="center" Years of War North American War European War Treaty
1688–1697 War of the Grand Alliance
War of the League of Augsburg
Nine Years' War 		Treaty of Ryswick (1697)
1702–1713

Queen Anne's War
2nd Intercolonial War
Dummer's War

War of the Spanish Succession Treaty of Utrecht (1713)
1744–1748

King George's War
3rd Intercolonial War
War of Jenkins' Ear

War of the Austrian Succession Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle (1748)
1754–1763

The French and Indian War
4th Intercolonial War or War of Conquest (in Quebec)[1]
6th Indian War[2]
Father Le Loutre's War

Seven Years' War Treaty of Paris (1763)
  1. ↑ Marcel Trudel, Guy Frégault, "La guerre de la conquête, 1754–1760", Montréal, 1955 [1]
  2. ↑ William Williamson. The history of the state of Maine. Vol. 2. 1832. p. 304
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