History High School

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

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Answer 1

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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

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For what reasons were many colonies granted independence after World War II? Check all that apply.Recognition of universal human rightseconomic growth in Europepressure from United Nationsgrowth of nationalismpromises made to colonies during the warEuropean economic weaknessdecline in nationalism

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Answer :Some colonies took advantage of the situation right away, while others worked with their rulers for a gradual process toward independence. But in the decades following WWII, dozens of countries claimed their independence.

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In what ways did human societies forever change after the Neolithic
Revolution?
A. Societies became sedentary and unequal social classes emerged
B. Societies became nomadic and unequal social classes ended
C. Societies became divided and religion gave way to atheism
D. Societies became more peaceful and learned to speak one
language

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Answer:

Societies became sedentary and unequal social classes emerged

Decided to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Advocated development of Hydrogen Bomb Refused to drop atomic bombs on China

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Answer: President Harry S. Truman

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The actions given were all undertaken by former President Harry Truman after he took over from President Roosevelt when the latter died in the last year of the second World War.

Truman decided to drop the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki after he realized that a land invasion would cost too many lives. He also supported the development of the Hydrogen bomb which was worse than the atomic bomb and during the Korean War, he refused to drop atomic bombs on China because he saw that it would escalate the conflict.

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