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By: Anne**__​__** Liesch, Joshua Schulz, and Brandon Schu?(spelling) U.S. History, Wiki Timeline Projects =====

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**__//North America 1400's//__** The Spanish** May 14, 1607 Jamestown Began exploring early 1500's and Colonies Beggining around 1605. ** Puritans **
 * 1) ​ 1492: Christopher Columbus
 * 2) 1492 ; Christopher Columbus Sailed Across The Atlantic Ocean For Spain attempting a new navigation route to India.
 * 3) Sailed with Three Ships Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria.
 * 4) Discovered "new' land and many reasouces.
 * European Explorers ​
 * 1) 1519 Hernando Cortez
 * 2) Defeated the Aztec Empire.
 * 3) Brought Diseases that helped them conqure the Aztec Empire with about only 600 men.
 * 4) Land near Tabsco, Mexico.
 * 5) 1512-1513 Juan Ponce De Leon
 * 6) Claimed Present Day Florida For Spain
 * 7) Founded St. Augustine, the oldest European Founded City in North America.
 * The English**
 * 1) The English Began Colonizing the New world imeadiately.
 * 2) High Demand for tobaco from colonies.
 * 3) Settlers "Pushed" Native People away from the colonies.
 * 1) Was the First English Settlement in North America.
 * 2) Located in Present Day Virginia.
 * 3) Founded By a man Named John Smith.
 * 4) Located on Jamestown Island Near Chesapeak Bay.
 * French Explorers**
 * 1) Explored Hudson Bay, Great Lakes, Present Day Qubec Canada, and the Missisippi River Area.
 * 2) Mainly settled in Present Day Eastren Canada, Great Lakes Region, and Along the Missisippi River Basin.
 * 1) John Winthrop
 * 2) Puritan Leader
 * 3) 1st govorner of Massachucetts Bay Colony, elected October 1629
 * 4) Puritans are English Settlers that wanted more religious purity.
 * 5) Wanted a "model society".
 * Quakers**
 * 1) William Penn Born 1644, died 1718.
 * 2) Quaker leader
 * 3) Settled Pennsylvania
 * 4) Created Capitol of Philidelphia
 * 5) Founded Penslvannia circa the early 1680's
 * 6) Quakers were English Settlers that believed in equality and cooperation.
 * Southern Colonies**
 * 1) Plantations
 * 2) The South Had fertile soils and favorable growing seasons.
 * 3) Self suficient in every aspect and used Slave Labor to produce cash crops.
 * 4) Triangular Trade
 * 5) Was composed of Three Legs on going to Africa, Going from Afirca to West Indies, and from the West Indes to North America.
 * 6) Slaves came from Africa, to West Indies and America. Crops went from West Indes to America, and Rum and goods went from America to Africa.
 * 7) Ran some Time from about 1550 {First Known Records but certainly earlier} to the 18th century and was finnaly stopped by Victory in Civil War
 * 8) Middle Passage
 * 9) Transportation of Slaves from Africa to West Indies, and then to America.
 * 10) Conditions were harsh and many slaves did not survive the trip.
 * Northern Colonies**
 * Industry in the north
 * 1) Colonies grew fast, port cities prospered.
 * 2) Immigration
 * 3) eighteenth century,about 585,000 Europeans migrated to america
 * 4) Slavery
 * 5) Agriculture in north didn't require a high demand of slaves
 * 6) But there were slaves
 * 7) Women
 * 8) About the Same as in the South
 * French and Indian War 1756-1763**
 * 1) Rivals
 * 2) French and Indian against England
 * 3) The french "empire" slowley expanded into Canada, While british colonies rapidly grew on the east coast.
 * 4) The War
 * 5) A battle that went back and forth until the treaty of paris.
 * 6) George Washington
 * 7) Virginian Colonist
 * 8) Built fort nesscity
 * 9) A "leader".
 * 10) William Pitt
 * 11) Leader of British Goverment
 * 12) Captured French city of Quebec.
 * 13) Pontiac
 * 14) Ottowa tribal leader
 * 15) Began to fight British, British gave them blankets with smallpox.
 * 16) Treaty of Paris ended the war.
 * The Colonies Dividing**
 * 1) 1765- Stamp Act
 * 2) first direct tax of goods and service within British Colonies.
 * 3) 1770- Boston Massacre
 * 4) Clash between colonists and "Red Coats"
 * 5) Five colonists killed.
 * 6) 1773- Boston Tea Party
 * 7) Colonists disguised themselves as indians and dumped british tea in the Boston Harbor.
 * The Revolution**
 * 1) Lexington and Concord
 * 2) Patriot
 * 3) Loyalist
 * 4) Redcoat
 * 5) Declaration of Independence
 * 6) Yorktown


 * Treaty of Paris**
 * 1) Prolamation of 1763
 * 2) Officially Ended the war

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