APUSH Dates

Most important dates, periods, and information to go along with them

1492

Christopher Columbus arrives in America

Cause: Spain competition with Portual/Europe for trade/settlement, Desire to spread Christianity after the Reconquista of Spains resulting in Catholic fervor

Effect: Encomienda, Caste System, mass Native American death, beginning of Columbian Exchange(animals, crops, disease, religion)/Atlantic Slave Trade/

Trick: 1492 - Sailed the ocean blue

1494

Line of Demarcation/Treaty of Tordesillas

1517

Protestant Reformation

1521

Hernan Cortés conquers Tenochtitlan

Cause: Arising tensions with Montezuma

Effect: Cortés’ superior European weaponry and alliances with tribes led to the fall of the Aztec Empire

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1550-1551

Valladolid Debate

1584-1590

Failed Roanoke Colony

Cause: Desire for gold

Effect: Colony disappeared

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1607

Jamestown

Cause: The Virginia (joint-stock) Company invests in an expedition of people to find gold in the Americas

Effect: All lot of the colonists die until Tobacco is discovered with John Rolfe’s help as a cash crop and John Smith takes charge to promote trade with the Powhatans

Trick: 07 = o7 Jamestown