APUSH Period 2: Colonial America

Jamestown, Virginia — now part of the United States — sits on a low, marshy peninsula along the James River, which flows into Chesapeake Bay on the Atlantic coast of North America, roughly midway up…

This event took place in Jamestown, Virginia, USA — on a marshy peninsula along the James River, which drains into the Chesapeake Bay on the Atlantic seaboard of eastern North America. In 1619, the…

This event took place at Plymouth, on the northeastern coast of what is now the United States — exactly where a rocky, forested shoreline meets the western edge of the North Atlantic, near the broad…

This landing took place at Plymouth, on the northeastern coast of what is now the United States — a rocky shoreline on the western edge of the North Atlantic, where the continent's northeastern arm…

This is Boston, on the northeastern coast of what is now the United States, where Massachusetts Bay cuts into the Atlantic shoreline just south of the Gulf of Maine — exactly the rocky, forested…

Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA — sitting just inland from the broad harbor on North America's northeastern Atlantic coast, exactly where the rocky New England shoreline curves toward the open ocean…

This event is rooted in Charles Town — modern Charleston — on the Atlantic coast of what is now South Carolina, USA, where the Appalachian piedmont slopes down to a flat, marshy coastline facing the…

This conflict took place in Plymouth, in what is now the state of Massachusetts in the northeastern United States — exactly at that rocky Atlantic corner of North America where European colonists had…

This uprising took place in Santa Fe, in what is now the state of New Mexico, United States — a high desert city nestled in the Rocky Mountains, far inland from the Pacific coast, straddling the…

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania — sitting on the Delaware River as it flows toward the Atlantic along the mid-Atlantic coast of North America — is where William Penn established his Quaker colony in 1681…

This event unfolded in Boston, Massachusetts — the colonial port on the Atlantic seaboard of North America, sitting on a peninsula in Massachusetts Bay, south of the Gulf of Maine and north of the…

This was London, England — a city straddling the River Thames on the large island separated from mainland Europe by the English Channel and the North Sea. In 1689, John Locke published his Two…

This uprising unfolded along the Stono River near Charleston, in present-day South Carolina on the southeastern Atlantic coast of North America — exactly the low, marshy coastal plain where tidal…