1. Unit 3 American Beginnings

2. A New Land 25,000 years ago Siberian tribes
16th century expansion of Europe
Columbus’ discovery (Bahama Islands)
John Cabot (Canada)
17th Permanent settlements

3. Europe in the 16th and 17th century
Middle ages( AD):
Roman Catholic Church
Serfdom
Emerging forces:
1. development of capitalism--- bourgeois class & working class
2. Renaissance---more confident and more interest in the world
3. Religious Reformation --- Protestant

4. The Settlement in Virginia
1607
London company
Three small ships
144 men survivors --- hunt for gold---food shortage
Tobacco cultivation & marriage

5. The Settlement in Virginia
1619– influence the shaping of American culture
Delegates met as House of Burgesses --- first example of self-government
Negroes brought as servants

6. Puritan New England 1620 Massachusetts Bay English puritans
God is incomprehensible to man and is all-knowing
People are predestined by God, and some are God’s chosen people
Working hard &living a moral life
The Bible --- God’s will and individual contact with God

7. Puritan New England Persecution --- fled to Holland 1620 Mayflower
Mayflower Compact --- set up a civil government for the general good of the colony
Changes of Puritanism: frontier environment & mobility of population
Legacies of Puritans: an ideal community--- sense of mission; cultural heritage--individualism

8. Catholic Maryland 1632 second Lord Baltimore--- son of George Calvert
Captain –general of armed forces, head of church, disposer of all offices
Protestants outnumbered Catholics Protestant governor Maryland Toleration Act --- freedom of worship to all who believed in Jesus Christ

9. Quaker Pennsylvania
Beliefs: people could communicate directly with God because everyone had an inner light
Place of worship: meeting place; anywhere
grant of the king to plant a colony
Holy Experiment --- the idea of melting-pot
encouraged the spirit of liberty and equality;
no restriction on immigration;
liberal self-government

10. The American Revolution
By early 1760s English colonies
wars between France and Britain
Seven Years’ War
Peace of Paris
Britain’s victory --- charge of new taxes --- Quartering Act (house and feed British soldiers)

11. The American Revolution
Boston Tea Party
September First Continental Congress
April 19, the first shot
May second Continental Congress-assume functions of a national government
July 4, adoption of Declaration of Independence
end of war
Treaty of Paris