The Columbian Exchange 1492 - 1248 Words

1. Columbian Exchange: 1492 †¢ The Atlantic world connected people, animals, and plants between Europe, Africa, and the Americas. Europe brought many diseases that the Native Americans were not immune to to the Americas and took finished goods to Africa. Africa was a major slave trader and exporter of raw materials. The Americas also exported plants to Europe that helped health. 2. Jamestown: 1607 †¢ Englishmen went there in search of gold, but when they found little to none they did not realize that they had to work in order to stay alive. They had a hard time finding drinking water since they were between two different kinds of sources but as they spread down the river over the years they began to prosper. 3. Mayflower Compact: 1620 †¢ It†¦show more content†¦6. Pequot War: 1636-1637 †¢ The Pequots in Connecticut River Valley did not want the whites expanding onto their land. The whiles destroyed their towns and left the remaining survivors of the Pequot tribe to be sold as slaves. This represented a power shift from the populist Native Americans to the English and led to the opportunity for more Puritan expansion. 7. Iroquois Confederacy: 1640 †¢ The league was established before European settlement. Once they had interactions with the Europeans they were then used to take the land from other Native Americans that the English wanted. They were very cooperative with the British expect for when it came to them taking their own land. 8. Old Deluder Act: 1647 †¢ The act was the second of two education laws that Massachusetts made. It was the beginnings of mandatory public education. The act required towns in each colony to make, operate, and provide funding for schools. 9. Act of Religious Toleration: 1649 †¢ The toleration act was created as a result of the Catholics and the Protestants fighting over which denomination would use the city chapel in St. Mary’s, Maryland. The act gave more power to the government to be involved in religion through blasphemy. Maryland was the second colony to have the liberty of worship. 10. Half-way Covenant: 1662 †¢ The second and third generations of Puritans were not getting baptized and were not become saints to join the elect. The covenant allowed the children of baptized parents to be baptized