UNIT 1 EARLY AMERICA BEGINNING-1800 8/24/16

BEFORE 1800 Native Americans preserved their myths, tales, and songs through oral storytelling. When the Europeans settled in America they wrote their experiences down as a record for future generations. African Americans then came over forcefully as slaves and wrote what conditions they endured.

HISTORICAL TIMELINE 1492- Columbus makes his first voyage to the Americas. 1517- Reformation begins. 1619- First Africans arrive in Virginia. 1620- Pilgrims arrive at Cape Code on the Mayflower. 1642- English Civil War begins. 1704- First Colonial newspaper is published. 1754-1763- French and Indian War begins. 1776- Thomas Paine’s Common Sense is published. 1776- Declaration of Independence is signed. 1781- British surrender at Yorktown, ending the Revolutionary War. 1783- Treaty of Paris is signed, confirming United States Independence. 1788- U.S. Constitution is ratified. 1789- George Washington becomes first president. 1789-French Revolution begins in Paris.

TOWN OF SECOTA, 16TH CENTURY, THEODORE DE BRY Present day-North Carolina Questions: What do you see? How do you think the Native American’s viewed their relationship with the world around them?

WESTMINSTER ABBEY IN LONDON, BY CANALETTO- 1700’S TO PRESENT DAY

RESIDENCE OF DAVID TWINING, 1845-1847, EDWARD HICKS

NATIVE AMERICANS Europeans arrived in the Western Hemisphere in the 1490’s. However, Native Americans were already there. They spoke many different languages, and their culture was significantly different with each tribe. It is believed the Native Americans came from Asian years before.

EUROPEAN CONTACT 1400 Europeans began exploring the rest of the world. In 1492 Christopher Columbus made the first of four voyages from Spain to the Americas. European exploration, conquest, and settlement of the Americas led to the founding of new nations, and the United States. The Native Americans suffered a big loss during this time, with war destroying their lands and disease.

RELIGIOUS BELIEF Protestants from England such as the Pilgrims and Puritans began founding settlements in New England in 1620. Quakers settled in PA, in 1670. The Great Awakening occurred. The Great Awakening, called by historians the First Great Awakening, was an evangelical and revitalization movement that swept Protestant Europe and British America, and especially the American colonies in the 1730s and 1740s, leaving a permanent impact on American Protestantism.

THE SLAVE TRADE Early Americans brought in slaves to work for them because there was a severe labor shortage. By 1750 there were more than 200,000 enslaved Africans in British North America, most of them in Southern colonies. Slave codes were set- set of laws that formally regulated slavery and defined the relationship between enslaved Africans and free people.

THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION Mid 1760’s unrest began to develop in the American colonies, wars left the British in debt so they passed unpopular laws (The Tea Act) and taxes to accumulate funds. July 4, 1776- The Second Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence, asserting the colonists’ right to self- government and establishing the United States of America. To defend their independence, the Americans fought a long war with the British, who finally accepted their independence in 1783

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