Some Early American History Background to LA Readings Mr. Calella American Studies I (Honors)

Purpose & Activity Purpose: I want to see how much you remember from past history classes “Remind” you of things you might have forgotten Prepare you for upcoming readings in Mrs. Hardt’s class Activity: Get into groups of 4 I will announce a subject, topic or era in early American history, and each group will have 1 minute to make a bulleted list of everything they know about it Groups will share what they came up with We will discuss a few slides, and you will take some notes Rinse and Repeat!

Pre-Columbian Times

Bering Land Bridge Nomadic Asian hunting parties Perhaps million “Native” Americans by 1490 Over 2,000 separate cultures – varied in size & sophistication due to the development of agriculture No horse, oxen, or wheel, yet

“Vinland”– Leif Ericson 1000 AD

Origins of Atlantic Slave Trade Portuguese creep along the coast of Africa Slavery Spanish first to use slaves in New World (Cuba, Hispaniola)

Christopher Columbus

From Genoa, Italy Persuades Ferdinand & Isabella Nina, Pinta, Santa Maria

October 12, 1492

Jamestown

Jamestown st permanent English settlement in Americas (past failure like Roanoke- “lost colony”) Joint-Stock Companies (Virginia Company of London) Jamestown site (good place for fort; no Indians b/c the land was not suitable for farming- swampy marsh lands)

John Smith Kidnapped “He who does not work, does not eat” “Starving Time” (80% of colonists die of starvation and disease)

Pocahontas save Smith

Powhatan Father of Pocahontas His Indian Confederacy falls to the Three “D”s Disease Disorganization Disposability

Africans sold as slaves in Jamestown

“Plantation Colonies” – Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia & the West Indies Staple Crops Sugar Tobacco Rice Slavery Westward Movement Greater Religious Tolerance

The Mayflower & Plymouth

Separatists – Wanted to Separate from the Anglican Church (Pilgrims)

Pilgrims come to America James I harassed the separatists… They flee to Holland… Board the Mayflower bound for Jamestown… Arrive in Plymouth Bay

Mayflower Compact- (Social Contract)

Thanksgiving

The Great Awakening

Great Awakening- (the 1 st one anyway)

Jonathan Edwards Preached that salvation could not be achieved by good works, only through God’s grace “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”