European Arrivals
Beginning in 1492 this refers to a biological and cultural exchange of animals, plants, human populations, diseases, food, government, technology, the arts, and languages
What is the Columbian Exchange?
The first enslaved people arrived in Virginia on this date.
What is 1619?
This famous pre-revolutionary slogan captured the anger colonists had at having to pay new taxes.
What is "no taxation without representation?"
In 1775 the "shot heard 'round the world" was fired at this place sparking an American Revolution.
What is Lexington or Concord, Massachusetts?
Before the Pilgrims arrived in 1620 in Plymouth, MA, they signed this--a precursor to the Constitution.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This voyage would cripple West Africa's economy and spur European and North American economies for centuries to come.
What is the Middle Passage?
This act of 1765 that forced colonists to use special British paper for documents was said to help pay down war debt.
What is the Stamp Act?
The Declaration of Independence consisted of four parts- the preamble (introduction), natural rights, colonial grievances, and declaring independence. This man was the primary author.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
In 1630 Puritan John Winthrope wrote this famous sermon to describe the expectation that the Massachusetts Bay Colony would shine like an example to the world.
What is "City on a Hill?"
This invention would expand the cash crop of cotton and inadvertently invigorate and expand the institution of slavery.
What is the Cotton Gin?
This war ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763 and a proclamation forbidding colonists to move west of the Appalachian Mts.
Sixteen thousand American and French troops laid siege to Cornwallis's British army effectively ending the war in 1781 at this site.
What is Yorktown, Virginia?
The French first settled in present-day Canada and the Dutch first settled in this present-day metropolis.
What is New York?
Abolitionist Frederick Douglass published the North Star, and he published The Emancipator.
William Lloyd Garrison
After the Boston Tea Party, King George issued this act shutting the Boston harbor and sending British troops to "occupy" the city, leading to the Boston Massacre.
The American Revolution officially ended with the signing of this on this date.
What is the Treaty of Paris in 1783.
The first successful English Colony Jamestown, was saved with the help of the Powhatan Indians and this man who planted tobacco and would later marry Pocahanta in a political alliance.
Who is John Rolfe?
After this revolution (1791-1804), many southern slaveholders became paranoid about slave uprisings. They were right to be scared, evidenced by his uprising in Virginia in 1831 where 55 white people were killed.
Who is Nat Turner?
These 13 colonies made up English North America before 1776.
What are, GA, SC, NC, VA, MD, DE, NJ, PA, CO, NY, RI, MA, and NH?
Following the end of the American Revolution, the Continental Congress drafted a plan for the country as a whole. The first American constitution, approved in 1777, was known as this.
What are the Articles of Confederation?