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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Objective:
- covering regional, economic, and demographic aspects of colonial expansion
- timeline up to the French-Indian War (1754)
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section & table structure:
Colonial America growth[edit | edit source]
PERIOD / TIMELINE | Major Events, Concepts & Themes | Notes & connections: details of issues, concepts, themes & events |
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BIG IDEAS DETAILS
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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] |
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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BIG IDEAS DETAILS
slavery & slave culture
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New England colonial expansion[edit | edit source]
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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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BIG IDEAS DETAILS
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French & Indian wars[edit | edit source]
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King William's War[edit | edit source]
Queen Anne's War[edit | edit source]1702–1713 King George's War[edit | edit source]French-Indian War[edit | edit source]
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BIG IDEAS
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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 |
War of the Spanish Succession | Treaty of Utrecht (1713) | |||||||||||||||
1744–1748 |
King George's War |
War of the Austrian Succession | Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle (1748) | |||||||||||||||
1754–1763 |
The French and Indian War |
Seven Years' War | Treaty of Paris (1763) |