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Native and Colonial America Unit I AP U.S. History
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Bering Sea Land Bridge Migration
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Natives ► Nomads ► Agriculturally-based (maize/corn) ► Hopewells/Mississippian Moundbuilders ► Iroquois Iroquois Confederacy
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Native Map of North America
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Europe ► Renaissance (rebirth) ► Growth of Nation-States (England, France, Spain, Portugal) ► Protestant Reformation and Religious Wars Lutheranism Calvinism - predestination Church of England aka Anglican Church Catholic Counter-Reformation
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England ► Defeat of Spanish Armada in 1588 makes England a superior naval power ► Population increases ► Joint-stock companies develop ► Religious conflicts divide the nation ► Weak monarchs, civil wars, and revolutions
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English Colonies ► Charters ► Corporate Colony Granted a charter to stockholders Ex. Virginia ► Proprietary Colony Granted a charter to individual or group Ex. Maryland, Pennsylvania ► Royal Colony Under direct control of the monarch Ex. New Hampshire Eventually, 8 of the 13 colonies became royal colonies, including Virginia and Massachusetts
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The First English Colonies ► First Attempt: Roanoke in 1585 ► First Permanent: Jamestown, Virginia in 1607 John Smith – “he that will not work shall not eat” John Rolfe - tobacco
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Who is this?
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Oh yeah…Pocahontas
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Disney’s John Smith
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Hollywood’s John Smith
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This is John Smith.
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Pilgrims ► Separatists to Holland then head for Virginia ► Mayflower takes Separatists and others to Jamestown but weather complicates matters ► Settlers decide to remain and establish Plymouth - 1620
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Mayflower Compact
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The Mayflower (II)
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Look, a big rock.
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Wampanoag Dwelling
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Plymouth Colony
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Pulpit/Religion
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Thirteen Colonies
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New England ► Massachusetts Bay Colony and Puritans (1630) John Winthrop and “city upon a hill” ► Providence, Rhode Island, and Roger Williams (1636) “Wall of separation” ► Portsmouth and Anne Hutchinson (1638) Antinomianism ► Hartford, New Haven, Connecticut, and Thomas Hooker (1636-1637) ► New Hampshire (1679)
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New England Culture ► Massachusetts under strict Puritanical lifestyle ► Religious toleration and dissent lead to Rhode Island ► Halfway Covenant: attempt to increase members ► Salem Witch Trials (1692-1693) Cotton Mather Spectral evidence ► Education by mothers ► Towns with over 50 families required primary schools; 100, grammar schools
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New England Politics ► Fundamental Orders of Connecticut (1639) First written constitution in America ► New England Confederation (1643-1684) Defense alliance among Plymouth, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Haven ► King Philip’s (Metacom) War (1675-1676) New England Confederation defeats Wampanoag alliance
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Middle Colonies ► New Amsterdam transferred to Duke of York in 1664 to become New York ► Lands taken from New York to establish New Jersey by 1702 ► Develop wheat and corn farms and eventually into manufacturing and trade ► Delaware created by Pennsylvania (1702) ► Education by private or churches
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Pennsylvania ► William Penn establishes Quaker-based colony in Pennsylvania (1681) ► Religious Society of Friends aka Quakers ► Holy Experiment Religious refuge Liberal political ideals Economic success Frame of Government and Charter of Liberties
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Southern Colonies ► Maryland (1634) ► Virginia (1607) ► Carolinas (1663) North Carolina (1729) South Carolina (1729) ► Georgia (1732) ► Limited education due to agricultural base
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Virginia ► House of Burgesses in 1619 First legislative assembly in the colonies ► Becomes royal colony in 1624 ► Bacon’s Rebellion (1676) Inequities between large landowners and western farmers Nathanial Bacon vs. William Berkeley ► Headright System 50 acres to each paying immigrant or plantation owner who paid for immigrant
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Maryland ► Lord Baltimore establishes colony for Catholics ► Act of Toleration (1649) Toleration of all Christian sects Death to those who denied Jesus ► Religious civil war brought control to Protestants
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Carolinas ► North Carolina Tobacco plantations Well-established autonomy ► South Carolina Rice plantations Became heavily dependent on slavery
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Georgia ► James Oglethorpe establishes in 1732 Social experiment ► Defensive buffer to Spanish Florida ► Debtors colony
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Colonial Religion ► Diverse among colonies regarding strict adherence and religious toleration ► Domination by Protestants; little influence of Anglican Church; other sects and denominations viewed as bizarre ► The Great Awakening (1730s-1740s) Over time, economics became prominent over religious conviction Jonathan Edwards and “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” George Whitefield Development of evangelism and individual faith
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Colonial Religion
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Colonial Politics ► ► Limited Self-Government Elected legislative assemblies Governors ► ► Voting Limited to adult male educated and/or property owners
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Colonial Culture/Society Urban Rural
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Colonial Society ► ► American Social Structure Wealthy landowners Merchants Small farmers Craftspeople ► ► Opportunity Less dependent on heredity ► ► Gender Roles Men ► ► Patriarchal society, landowners, workers Women ► ► Submissive to men but respected, domestic responsibilities, limited to no political rights
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Colonial American Culture ► ► Becoming American Pragmatism ► ► Dominance of English culture ► ► Folkways Differed by coast/frontier, New England/Middle/Southern colonies
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Colonial Culture - The Arts ► ► Architecture Early colonies centered around a church Urban structures typical of English structures Frontier log cabins ► ► Painting Portrait painters and landscapes ► ► Literature Religious sermons, political essays, non-fiction books Poor Richard’s Almanac - Benjamin Franklin
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Typical Colony Layout
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Colonial Culture - Education and Information ► ► Learning Prominent in New England colonies Education limited to wealthy males; females learned domestic chores ► ► Newspapers Limited content on weekly basis John Peter Zenger case (1735)
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Immigration ► 250,000 in 1701 to 2.5 million in 1775 ► Europeans and Africans along with a high birth rate ► Reasons: religion; economics; political turmoil ► English, Germans (Pennsylvania Dutch), Scottish, Irish, Dutch, Swedish OLD IMMIGRANTS ► Africans forced to America; suffered discrimination and slave labor
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Slavery ► Indentured servitude ► Labor shortages lead to importing slaves ► Cheap labor ► Dependable work force ► Stono Rebellion/Cato Rebellion – 1739 in South Carolina ► New York “Conspiracy” - 1741 ► Slave laws
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Slave Demographics
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Mercantilism and Triangle Trade ► Colonies for the Mother Country ► Acts of Navigation Trade on English ships Imports pass English ports Exports to England ► Triangular Trade Middle Passage
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Dominion of New England (1686-1689) ► Established by King James II to consolidate colonies ► Administrative union of Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey ► Governor Edmund Andros ► Dissolution
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Colonial Economics ► Land was “gold” ► No established monetary system (gold and silver) ► Transportation Rivers and coasts Horse and carriage led to taverns and postal services ► New England Limited land led to shipbuilding, fishing, trading ► Middle Colonies Wheat and corn fields; manufacturing and trade ► Southern Colonies Tobacco, rice, indigo plantations based on forced labor
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PUROPOSEDATEFOUNDERMAJOR EXPORT VIRGINIAcommercial1607Virginia Company John Smith Tobacco PLYMOUTH/ MASSACHUSETTS Religious refuge/ commercial 1620/ 1628 William Bradford/ Massachusetts Bay Company John Winthrop Grain, timber NEW YORKcommercial1613 (1664)Peter Stuveysant (Duke of York) Furs, grain NEW HAMPSHIREcommercial1623John MasonTimber, naval stores RHODE ISLANDReligious refuge1636Roger WilliamsGrain CONNECTICUTexpansion1635Thomas HookerGrain PENNSYLVANIAReligious refuge1681William Penn - Quakers Grain DELAWAREcommercial1638 (1681)Peter Minuit/ William Penn Grain MARYLANDReligious refuge1634Lord Baltimore - Catholics Tobacco NORTH CAROLINAcommercial1663Anthony CooperTobacco, timber, naval stores SOUTH CAROLINAcommercial1663Anthony CooperRice, indigo, naval stores GEORGIABuffer, experiment1733James OglethorpeRice, timber, naval stores () - Becomes an English colony
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