U.S. History Timeline
This English settlement, established in 1607, becoming the first permanent English colony in North America.
Jamestown
This colonial assembly in Virginia allowed white, property-owning men to participate in government but excluded women, enslaved people, Indigenous nations, and poor colonists (who were the vast majority of the colonial population).
The House of Burgesses
This principle, influenced by the ideas of John Locke, a scholar of the Enlightenment, states that government power comes from the people.
Consent of the Governed
This war had already started when the Declaration of Independence was written.
American Revolutionary War
This belief in the cultural superiority of one group helped English settlers justify seizing Indigenous lands and expanding plantation labor systems that relied on African slavery.
Ethnocentrism
The demand for permanent, unpaid labor and the Myth of Race helped justify this system, where racial hierarchies developed deeper in the English colonies.
African slavery
These two Puritans were considered dissenters because they challenged the religious and political authority of Puritan society in Massachusetts.
Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson
Prior to the Enlightenment, this intellectual movement revived classical learning and encouraged people to question religious and political authority through knowledge and reason.
The Renaissance
This document explained why the colonies were separating from Britain and argued that governments must protect natural rights and receive authority from the people.
The Declaration of Independence
This system occurs when a country seizes another country and controls it politically and economically while denying its people the same rights as citizens of the ruling country.
colonialism
In this event, colonists destroyed tea shipments in Boston Harbor to oppose British taxes and monopoly control of the tea trade.
Boston Tea Party
This political body represented the American colonies when independence was declared.
The Continental Congress
This type of government protects natural rights and receives its authority from the consent of the governed.
Democracy
This document created the first national government of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
The Articles of Confederation
In colonial governments such as the House of Burgesses, political power was limited to property-owning white men, excluding poorer colonists from political participation. This practice reflects what type of hierarchy?
social hierarchy
Representatives from twelve colonies met in this 1774 gathering to coordinate a response to British Intolerable Acts
The First Continental Congress
Colonial political and economic power belonged to this group of people.
property - owning white men
This intellectual movement influenced the delegates in the Continental Congresses. It evolved from the Renaissance and encouraged people to question political and religious authority through knowledge and reason.
The Enlightenment
This document had to be signed to officially recognize the independence of the United States.
The Treaty of Paris
Colonial governments excluded women from basic rights, voting, and leadership positions, reinforcing this type of hierarchy in colonial society.
gender hierarchy
This 1783 agreement forced Britain to recognize the United States as an independent country.
The Treaty of Paris
After the Seven Years’ War, the British government took this economic action to recover its war debt from the American colonies.
Imposition of high taxes and economic monopolies
Enlightenment ideas challenged this form of government by rejecting the belief that political authority comes from divine right, royal ancestry, and unquestioned loyalty to the king.
Monarchy
These rights listed in the Declaration cannot be taken away and include life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Natural Rights
In colonial society, the Myth of Race was used to deny the humanity of Africans, treat enslaved people as property, and deny them any opportunity to change their social or economic status. This reflects what type of hierarchies?