EQ: How did immigration impact the early beginnings of America?

  Pp. 2-3  N. America populated by ___________ __________ Native American tribes. (via Bering Strait)  Why were they called “Indians”?  Europeans: missionaries, ____________, explorers, fleeing religious persecution; later – slaves... Was there a difference in the motivations of these groups?  Colonies/towns along the Atlantic to ____ ______________  colonies declared independence from Britain. Snapshot of the Period

  _____: Florida, Jesuit priests to California & Texas; 1565 St. Augustine (circa 1520 Edisto Island!)  _____: Maine & Gulf of Mexico  ______: New Amsterdam (later called New York) & Delaware  ______: 1607 Jamestown. Puritans in Virginia, New England, Pennsylvania, who later took over all the other nations’ colonies ENLARGING territory  ____ _____________: restricted more & more DECREASING territory (though concept of land ownership was different) Peoples

  First Americans: helped the settlers (crops, survival); corn, squash, canoes  Puritans, ________: Mayflower landed at Plymouth, Mass Puritans (who tried to purify the Church of England) were now called Pilgrims. They believed in “____ upon a hill” (model community). Puritanism declined till 1720s Great Awakening. “Puritan ethic” of hard work and self-discipline.  Planters: Southern Colonies differed in______+, crops, social organization, & _______. Large plantations, more aristocratic & elegant than Puritans. (upper class and from Church of England)... Flipside? Historical Background

  Age of _________ valued science, logic, and reason over faith. People are good by nature and can build a better society, a “social contract.” Philosophy

  Birth of a Nation (b/c of taxes like the Stamp Act, Townshend Acts, Tea Act, Coercive Acts “taxation without representation”)  1774 meeting in Philadelphia of the____ ________ ______;  1775 Lexington & Concord fired “the shot heard round the world.”  6 yrs. of war. Allies were __________ & African-Americans. (Rmember THE PATRIOT with Mel Gibson?)  1781 British surrendered.  Conflict existed internally until the Constitution & Bill of Rights were ratified.  First presidents: Washington, ______, Jefferson Politics

  ____________: “city upon a hill”: ideal community founded on moral & religious values  WILDERNESS could be productive (____) & dangerous (_______).  _____________: People are basically good and can use reason to found a better society (education***).  INDIVIDUALISM: independence, self-reliance Key Themes