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

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Colonial America growth[edit | edit source]

Colonial America growth
PERIOD / TIMELINE
  • 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
 Major Events, Concepts & Themes

subtitle[edit | edit source]

  • << todo
 Notes & connections: details of issues, concepts, themes & events

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

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]

 Notes & connections: details of issues, concepts, themes & events

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]

Colonial slavery
PERIOD / TIMELINE
  • 1619 first Africans colonial America
  • 1638 Maryland legally recognizes slavery
  • 1705 Virginia slave code enacted
 Major Events, Concepts & Themes

subtitle[edit | edit source]

 Notes & connections: details of issues, concepts, themes & events

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


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Title
PERIOD / TIMELINE
Major Events, Concepts & Themes

subtitle[edit | edit source]

 Notes & connections: details of issues, concepts, themes & events

BIG IDEAS

DETAILS

New England colonial expansion[edit | edit source]

Title
PERIOD / TIMELINE
Major Events, Concepts & Themes

subtitle[edit | edit source]

 Notes & connections: details of issues, concepts, themes & events

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]

Title
PERIOD / TIMELINE
Major Events, Concepts & Themes

subtitle[edit | edit source]

 Notes & connections: details of issues, concepts, themes & events

BIG IDEAS

DETAILS

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

Indian Wars[edit | edit source]

Title
PERIOD / TIMELINE
Major Events, Concepts & Themes

subtitle[edit | edit source]

 Notes & connections: details of issues, concepts, themes & events

BIG IDEAS

DETAILS

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