Identify the 15 most significant events in APUSH (moreso throughout US history)

1492 Columbus arrives

-begins Columbian Exchange

-Spain sends conquistadors & Armada

-Spain sets up encomiendas (missions like in CA & others)

1587 -Sir Walter Raleigh Roanoke Island

-disappeared by 1590 “Lost Colony”

1588 -England defeats Spanish Armada

-England becomes superpower begins colonization soon after

1607 Jamestown

-Joint Stock Company investor-backed

-backer company Virginia Company

-Captain John Smith leader

-martial law instituted for survival

1609-1610 desperate times

- Powhatan Confederacy aides Jamestown

-tobacco cash crop, saves colony from extinction

-Chesapeake becomes name of surrounding area

-indentured servants – popular and useful

-1618 headright sys. 50 acres given to a plantation owner who sponsored ppl over to America

1619 House of Burgesses first government in colonies

-white property-owning males could vote

-slavery begins in the English colonies

1620 Separatists leave England accidentally

arrive in Massachusetts in “Mayflower”

-settlement called “Plymouth”

-Mayflower Compact government established, power not from God but from governed

-received aid from local Indians to further the settlement

1629 Mass. Bay Colony Congregationalists John Winthrop “City on a hill”

-Puritan and Calvinist ideas

ex. of religious intolerance

-Roger Williams banished

-created Rhode Island free religion

-Anne Hutchinson

1629-42 Great Puritan Migration

1649-1660 little immigration because England was mainly Puritan

1635 Connecticut gets charter for being a colony

-Maryland Lord Baltimore haven for Christians & Catholics

1649 Act of Toleration protects Christians

1685 New York = colony

-Pennsylvania William Penn Quaker

-Carolina (proprietary) split into NC (Virginia-like colony) and SC (settled by people from Barbados)

-proprietary colonies usually became royal colonies (king-controlled)

Salutary Neglect 1650-1750 Britain was hands-off on American colonies; gave America autonomy

1670’s Bacon’s Rebellion

-settlers v. Indian = issue

- Governor Berkeley - corrupt, elite group gets best land, fail to protect backcountry farmers

- Nathanial Bacon - led frontier farmer in raids against "Indians" / burned Jamestown, drove out Berkeley

-led to creation of Black Codes, can't control white indentured servants

Explanation:

in the 1800s, locomotives powered by steam made transportation faster and cheaper. the resulting rapid growth of railroads led to the connection of the atlantic and pacific railroad in oklahoma city in 1897.

in the last years of the century, the improvement of steam-based engines the expansion and growth of railroads. this growth increased when the companies started to build and expand, such as the atlantic and pacific railroad, which connected new mexico with california, and missouri with oklahoma. many of these new networks were built in oklahoma, and these changes transportation henceforward.