Finance Christopher Columbus's trip

Spain's King Ferdinand & Queen Isabella

make up the Iroquois Confederation

Oneida, Cayuga, Mohawk, Onondaga and Seneca tribes

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American History I

1492 - 1790

Event	Person	Event	Person	Event	Person
Finance Christopher Columbus's trip	Spain's King Ferdinand & Queen Isabella	where Columbus lands	San Salvador Island	Current day name of San Salvadore Island	Bahamas
discovers Newfoundland	Cabot	Who Cabot sailed for	Henry VII	who names America	German mapmaker Waldseemuller
who America was named for	Amerigo Vespucci	searches for through Florida for the Fountain of Youth	Ponce de Leon	governor or Puerto Rico from 1509 - 1512	Ponce de Leon
discovers the Pacific	de Balboa	leads expedition that circumnavigates the globe	Magellan	killed by natives in the Philippines	Magellan
completes Magellan's trip to circumnavigate the globe	del Cano	discovers New York Harbor	de Verrazano	commissioned de Verrazano's expedition	Francis I of France
expores the St. Larence River to modern day sites of Quebec and Montreal	Cartier	the country Cartier sails for	France	explores the American Southwest seeking the Seven Cities of Cibola	de Coronado
first European in present-day Arizona and New Mexico	de Coronado	first to see the Grand Canyon	de Coronado's men	explores Florida, Georgia, the Carolinas, Tennessee, Alabama and Oklahoma	DeSoto
first European to see the Mississippi River	DeSoto	dies on his expedition and is buried in the Mississippi River	DeSoto	establishes St. Augustine as the first permanent settlement in what is now the present day Florida	de Aviles
make up the Iroquois Confederation	Oneida, Cayuga, Mohawk, Onondaga and Seneca tribes	where the Iroquois Confederation is based	upstate New York	first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe	Sir Francis Drake
Drake's ship	The Golden Hind	first English settement is established where	Roanoke Island	financed the first English settlement	Sir Walter Raleigh
first child born of English parents in the New World	Virginia Dare	names the whole East Coast Virginia	Raleigh	Who Raleigh named Virginia after	Queen Elizabeth I "the Virgin Queen"
who discovered the Roanoke settlement gone	Supply ships	only clue to Roanoke settlements whereabouts	"Croatan" carved on a tree	first permanent English settlement	Jamestown, VA
becomes de facto leader of Jamestown	John Smith	explores much of the Chesapeake Bay region	John Smith	claims to have been captured by Indians under Powhatan and saved from death by the Indian princess Pocahontas, daughter of Powhatan	John Smith
publishes A True Relation of Virginia in England	John Smith	founds Quebec	de Champlain	explored teh St. Lawrence Seaway	de Champlain
oldest present day state capital	Santa Fe	founded Santa Fe	de Peralta	explored teh river and bay naved for him	Henry Hudson
is cast adrift in Hudson Bay in a lifeboat by his mutinous crew	Henry Hudson	marries first tobacco grower John Rolfe	Pocahontas	moves to England and dies at age 23	Pocahontas
bring first slaves to Jamestown	Dutch traders	first representative body in New World convenes at Jamestown - who voted	Virginia Planters	where did they vote	House of Burgesses
first political document in New World is signed by whom	Pilgrims on the Mayflower	name of the first political document	Mayflower Compact	Pilgrims land here	Cape Cod
Pilgrims eventually settle here	Plymouth	teaches Pilgrimes how to fish, plant crops and find other sources of food	Squanto - an English speaking Indian	in charge of militia	Miles Standish
governor	William Bradford	colonists celebrated this in Autumn	a Thanksgiving feast	founded as Peter Minuit buys Manhattan Island from Indians for $24 in wampum	Dutch Colony of New Amsterdam (New York)
governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony	Winthrop	granted charter for Maryland colony to Lord Baltimore	King Charles I	brought colonists to Maryland	"Ark and the Dove"
founded Providence and the colony of Rhode Island	Williams	banished by Puritans from Massachusetts Bay	Williams	first college in America in 1638	Harvard College
banished as heretic from Massachusetts Bay	Hutchinson	founded Portsmouth RI	Hutchinson	settled Delaware as New Sweden	Swedes
who controled New Sweden	English	first written constitiution in teh colonies	The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut	becomes director eneral of teh New Netherland colony and remained in charge until surrender to English, 1664	Stuyvesant
what disability did Stuyvesant have	One leg	published "The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America"	Bradstreet	journeyed down the MIssissippr River, proving teh existence of water passageway from teh St. Lawrence to Gulf of Mexico	Marquette and Joliet
thousands were killed in this war between 5 Indian tribes and New Englanders	King Philip's War	lead a rebellion agains colonial rule in Virginia, torching Jamestown	Bacon	claims the Americqan interior for France and called it Louisiana	de LaSalle
college founded in Williamsburg, VA	William and Mary	nations second oldest college	William and Mary	witchcraft hysteria began here	Salem, Massachussetts
how many people were executed	nearly 20	these incidents became the basis for Arthur Miller's work	The Crucible	moved from Jamestown to Williamsburg	Capital of Virginia
college founded in New Haven, CT	Yale	nations 3rd oldest college	Yale	established a French outpost at present day Detroit	Cadillac
this industry began on Nantucket, off Massachussetts coast	Whaling	founds French city of New Orleans	LeMoyne	pirate captured and executed by English	Blackbeard
Blackbeard's real name	Edward Teach	Benjamin Franklin's pseudonym	Richard Saunders	wrote Poor Richard's Almanac in the same year that George Washington is born	Saunders
leads 150 debtors in founding Georgia	Oglethorpe	last of 13 original colonies	Georgia	acquited on libel charges brought by the colonial governor of NY	Zenger
established the concept of freedom of free press	Zenger's acquittal	helps start teh religious awakening in New World with sermon, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"	Edwards	Puritan Preacher	Edwards
his famous experiment in a thunderstorm proves the existence of electricity in lightning	Franklin	here, colonists approve a tentative plan for union proposed by Benjamin Franklin	At Albany Congress	dies in attack at Fort Duquesne	Braddock
first major battle in the French and Indian War	Battle at Fort Duquesne	Led troops against Braddock	Washington	French and Indian War aka	Seven Years War in Europe
published "The Way to Wealth" a pamphlet of pity sayings previously published over 25 years in Poor Richard's Almanac	Franklin	defeated in Battle of Quebec	de Montcalm	defeated Montcalm	Wolfe
die in Battle of Quebec	Montcalm and Wolfe	head Rogers Rangers in victory at Detroit	Rogers	ends French and Indian War	Treaty of Paris
passes the Stamp Act	England	put a tax on newspapers and legal documents	Stamp Act	passed the Quartering Act	England
repealed the year after it is passed	Stamp Act	enacted to replace revenue lost by repeal of Stamp Act	Townshend Act	set up in Boston as a secret societ opposed to English taxation	Sons of Liberty
complete survey of southern Pennsylvania/northern Maryland border	Mason and Dixon	southern Pennsylvania/northern Maryland border	Mason Dixon Line	first Spanish misson in California	San Diego
five colonists are killed when they and their fellow colonists are fired upon by English troops in what becomes	Boston Massacre	Killed in the Boston Massacre	Crispus Attucks	publishes "Poems on Various Subjects"	Wheatley
Black servant who is a writer	Wheatley	colonists dressed as Indians protest an English tax on tea by boarding teh Eleanor, the Dartmouth and the Beaver and throwing tea into the harbor	Boston Tea Party	Parliament passes this in response to Boston Tea Party	Intolerable Acts
First Continental Congress meets in Philadelphia's Carpenter's Hall in response to this	Intolerable Acts	blazes the Wilderness Trail	Boone	founds Boonesboro, KY	Boone
"Give me liberty or give me death"	Henry	Where Patrick Henry gives his famous speech	before teh Virginia House of Burgesses	battles that start the American Revolution before which Paul Revere takes his famous ride	Lexington and Concord
Basis for Longfellow's poem and Grant Wood painting	Paul Revere's ride	captured English arsenal at Fort Ticonderoga on Lake Champlain	Ethan Allen and Green Mountain Boys, along with Benedict Arnold	meets and authorizes the Continental Army and names George Washington Commander in Chief	Second Continental Congress
sent to King George III in an attempt to stop hostilities	The Olive Branch Petition	won the battle of Bunker Hill in Boston	English	battle fought on Breed's Hill	battle of Bunker Hill
publishes "Common Sense" and "American Crisis" pamplets urging separation from England	Paine	where Declaration of Independence was signed	Philadelphia	how many signed Declaration of Independence	56 including John Hancock
how many state ratified the Constitution	11 of 13	Father of the Constitution	Madison	wrote "The Federalist Papers"	Hamilton, Jay and Madison
name Hamilton, Jay and Madison wrote The Federalist Papers under	Publius	Bill of Rights proposed in this year	1788	where Washington was inaugurated	New York
First Vice President	Adams	First Secretary of the Treasury	Hamilton	First Secreatry of War	Knox
First Attorney General	Randolph	First Secretary of State	Jefferson	Frist Chief Justice	Jay
becomes and Admiral in the Russian navy of Catherine the Great	John Paul Jones	appoints John Carroll first American Catholic bishop	Pope Pius VI	opens first successful cotton mill	Slater
where was the first cotton mill	Pawtucket, RI	created to provide new site for national capital	District of Columbia	(blank)	(blank)

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