People
Events/ Phenomena
Animals/Microbes/ Ecology/Plants
Battles and wars
100

An influential English philosopher who earned the title of "Father of Liberalism" and wrote the Two Treatises on Government.

John Locke

100

Atlantic Slave Trade

The greatest forced movement of Africans to the New World by Portugal, Spain, England and integral to the development of the modern world.

100

maize

Corn!

100

Battle of Yorktown

The Revolutionary War's last major battle which led to the Treaty of Paris 1783

200

Mary Dyer

A quaker martyr in Massachusetts  

200

The way in which the Northern states slowly cushioned the effects of abolition

gradual emancipation

200

Fish found in Newfoundland's Grand Banks which were vital to the areas economy and a source of wealth within new world

Atlantic Cod

200

The first major battle of the Revolutionary War

Battles of Lexington and Concord

300

Free Black(s)

Non- enslaved African American Men that voted in most states if they owned property but were slowly disenfranchised in the early 1800s

300

Epidemics that infectiously spread through unexposed populations like what happened to the Amerindians after the columbian exchange.

virgin-soil epidemic

300

passanger pigeons

The most numerous birds in the world that would travel in giant flocks but sadly were hunted mercilessly by Americans to extinction 

300

Battle of Saratoga

The US soldiers got the Brits to surrender and was the Revolutionary War's turning point since it inspired the French to enter the war and help the Americans

400

Group that opposed stronger federal government that the constitution proposed and wanted a Bill of Rights.

Anti-federalists

400

Great Compromise

Known as the Connecticut compromise, this brought together the Virginia Plan and the New Jersey Plan and was the basis for the Constitution. 

400

endling

Last known survivor of a species

400

An effort made by Metacom against the colonizers to restore sovereignty and tradition to their land

King Philips War

500

Metacomet

Also known as King Philip, Metacomet was the Sachem of the Wampanoag and their leader during King Philip's War.

500

Demographic Catastrophe

The 80-90% mortality of Amerindians within a century of contact with Europeans

500

The last passenger Pigeon 

Martha

500

Great War for Empire

The first "world war" largely fought in Europe and involved all the great powers but was mainly Britain against France. It ended with the Treaty of Paris 1763

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