Period 3 Timeline and Fact Check

1492

• Columbus Reaches the Bahamas

• Cortez Conquers Tenochtitlán

• Spain Establishes New Mexico

• Jamestown Established

1680

• Pueblo Revolt against the Spanish

• Establishment of Jamestown by the English

• Stono Rebellion occurs

• Beginning French and Indian War

1607

• First permanent English colony is established at Jamestown, Virginia

• New Orleans founded by France

• Glorious Revolution occurs

• Bacon's Rebellion takes place

1620

• Pilgrims arrive in Massachusetts Bay

• Trial of John Peter Zenger

• King Philips War in New England

• Navigation Acts Passed

1637

• John Winthrop and 700 Puritans arrive in Massachusetts and establish Boston

• John Smith takes control of Jamestown

• George Whitefield tours the colonies preaching evangelism

• Anne Hutchinson exiled from Massachusetts by John Winthrop and the Puritans. Goes to Rhode Island and dies terribly.

1676

• Bacon's Rebellion takes place against the royal government of Virginia

• Treaty of Utrecht gives Nova Scotia and Newfoundland to England

• Boston mobs resist British navy's impressment of sailors

• Maryland defines slavery as lifelong, inheritable racial status; other colonies follow suit

1754

• French and Indian War begins

• Articles of Confederation become effective following Maryland's ratification

• Alexander Hamilton submits report on Public Credit to Congress

• Tennessee enters the Union

1776 (pick two)

• Thomas Paine pamphlet Common Sense published

• Continental Congress approves Declaration of Independence

• Boston Massacre

• Stamp Act Passed

• Battle of Lexington and Concord between militia and British troops

1783

• Treaty of Paris signed between Britain and United States, ending the Revolutionary War

• British general Cornwallis surrenders to combined American French force at Yorktown

• Shays' Rebellion routed by Massachusetts militia

• US Victory over Miami Indians at Battle of Fallen Timbers in Ohio valley.

1789 (Pick three)

• First Congress under Constitution convenes after successful ratification by the states of Constitution

• George Washington inaugurated in New York as first president of United States

• French Revolution begins as the Bastille in Paris is stormed by republican revolutionaries

• John Adams inaugurated as President

• Treaty of Greenville signed between United States and Northwest confederacy of indian tribes