Salem Press
Back Search

SEARCH

Search
To search multiple titles Click Here
Salem Press
Copy Permalink to this Title to Clipboard

Great Events from History: American History, 1492-1775 - Exploration to the Colonial Era

Table of Contents

Volume 1



Publisher’s Note


Editor’s Introduction


Contributors


Complete Table of Contents


THE PRE-COLONIAL ERA AND EXPLORATION OF A NEW WORLD



Bering Strait Migrations


Leif Eriksson Lands in North America


Anasazi Civilization Flourishes in American Southwest


Christopher Columbus’s Voyages to the Americas


Ponce de León’s Voyages


Cabot’s Voyages to the Americas


Amerigo Vespucci’s “Second” Voyage to South America


The Waldseemüller Map


Balboa Reaches the Pacific Ocean


CONQUERING THE NEW WORLD: SPAIN



Cortés Conquers Aztecs in Mexico


Narváez’s and Cabeza de Vaca’s Expeditions


The Viceroyalty of New Spain Founded


Coronado’s Southwest Expedition


Hernando de Soto Discovers the Mississippi River


Spain Explores Alta California


St. Augustine Is Founded


Oñate’s New Mexico Expedition


Governor Peralta Establishes Santa Fe as the Capital of the Province


War of Jenkins’s Ear


CONQUERING THE NEW WORLD: FRANCE



Giovanni Verrazano Discovers New York Harbor


Cartier and Roberval Search for a Northwest Passage


Champlain’s Voyages


Company of New France Is Chartered


French Explore the Mississippi Valley


La Salle’s Expeditions


French Found the Louisiana Colony


French and Indian War


Battle of Fort Ticonderoga


THE ARRIVAL OF THE ENGLISH



The Tudors Rule England


Drake Lands in Northern California


Lost Colony of Roanoke


Defeat of the Spanish Armada


Thomas Hariot: A briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia


Hakluyt’s Voyages Published


EUROPEAN COLONIES: THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY



First Charter of Virginia


Jamestown Is Founded


Introduction of Tobacco Farming in North America


Pilgrims Arrive in North America


The New England Charter


Founding of New Amsterdam


Settlement of Salem Colony


The Massachusetts Bay Company Established


William Bradford: Of Plymouth Plantation


New Haven Colony Established


British Conquest of New Netherland


Hudson’s Bay Company Is Chartered


Dominion of New England Forms


RELIGION IN THE NEW WORLD



John Calvin: Institutes of the Christian Religion


Revolt of the Huguenots


“A Model of Christian Charity”


Great Puritan Migration


Maryland Established as a Haven for Catholics


The Trial of Anne Hutchinson


First Printing Press in North America


The Bay Psalm Book Published


Roger Williams: The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution for Cause of Conscience


Maryland Act of Toleration


Anne Bradstreet: The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America


Fox Organizes the Quakers


Salem Witchcraft Trials


First Great Awakening


Jonathan Edwards: “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”


RELATIONS WITH INDIGENOUS PEOPLES



Smallpox Epidemics Kill Native Americans


Beaver Wars


Powhatan Wars


Algonquians “Sell” Manhattan Island


Pequot War


Westward Migration of Native Americans


Kieft’s War


Metcom’s War (King Philip’s War)


Pueblo Revolt


Mary Rowlandson: A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson


King William’s War


Queen Anne’s War


Tuscarora War


Yamasee War


Pontiac’s Resistance


Paxton Boys’ Massacres


Lord Dunmore’s War


FOUNDING OF AMERICA’S THIRTEEN COLONIES



Colony of Virginia Founded


Settlement of the Carolinas


Settlement of Connecticut


Providence Plantations Founded


Confederation of the United Colonies of New England


Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations Founded


The Province of Carolina Granted a Royal Charter


The Province of New Jersey Founded


New York Colony Founded


“Holy Experiment” Establishes Pennsylvania


The Province of Massachusetts Bay Chartered


Settlement of Georgia


Volume 2



SLAVERY IN COLONIAL AMERICA



Africans Arrive in Virginia


Massachusetts Recognizes Slavery


George Fox: “To Friends beyond sea, that have Blacks and Indian Slaves”


“An exhortation and caution to Friends concerning buying or keeping of Negroes”


Virginia Slave Codes


New York City Slave Revolt


The Pennsylvania Assembly: “An Act to prevent the importation of Negroes”


“An Act directing the trial of Slaves”


The Chesapeake Rebellion


Spanish Florida Governor Montiano Orders Construction of Fort Mose


Stono Rebellion


South Carolina: The Negro Act


Phillis Wheatley: Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral


Pennsylvania Society for the Abolition of Slavery Founded


COLONISTS IN CONFLICT



Claiborne and Ingle’s Rebellion, or the Plundering Time, in Maryland


Bacon’s Rebellion


Culpeper’s Rebellion


Boston Revolt


Coode’s Rebellion


Leisler Revolt in New York


The Mason-Dixon Line


BEGINNINGS OF CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT



First General Assembly of Virginia


Massachusetts Body of Liberties


Rhode Island Acts and Orders


The Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina


New York Charter of Liberties and Privileges


Publick Occurrences Both Forreign and Domestick


The Boston News-Letter


Andrew Hamilton: Trial of John Peter Zenger


THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION BREWS



At the Town-House in Boston and The Boston Declaration of Grievances


Albany Congress


James Otis Jr. Oration against Writs of Assistance


Proclamation of 1763


Sugar Act


Stamp Act Crisis


The Stamp Act Congress (1765)


Townshend Crisis


John Dickinson: Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania


Samuel Adams and James Otis Jr.: Massachusetts Circular Letter


The Liberty Affair


Boston Non-Importation Agreement


1770S: COLONISTS IN REVOLT



Boston Massacre


The Gaspee Affair


The Hutchinson Affair


Samuel Adams: “The Rights of the Colonists”


Committees of Correspondence


Boston Tea Party


Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts)


Quebec Act


First Continental Congress


Fairfax County Resolves


Restraining Acts


Battle of Lexington and Concord


Second Continental Congress


Paul Revere’s Midnight Ride


Battle of Bunker Hill


Proclamation on Behalf of King George III


Proclamation of Rebellion


Patrick Henry’s Speech for Liberty


Primary Documents


Alphabetical List of Events


American History Chronology/Timeline


Geographical Index


Key Figures Index