US History timeline & concept chart: 16th-18th centuries (to 1754) British-American colonies

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

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Colonial America growth

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

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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

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Southern colonial economies & demographics

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Major Events, Concepts & Themes cash crops plantation economy coastal elites Governor Berkeley backcountry farmers yeoman farmers Bacon's Rebellion slavery

Notes & connections: details of issues, concepts, themes & events BIG IDEAS tobacco in VA and MD rice/ indigo in SVC plantation economy increasing use of slaves by early 1700s VA & MD planters switch from indentured servants to slaves DETAILS 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

Colonial slavery

PERIOD / TIMELINE 1619 first Africans colonial America 1638 Maryland legally recognizes slavery 1705 Virginia slave code enacted

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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