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:

the answer is b: an economic crisis throughout the country.