1. Terms List Expectations
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Due on Unit Test Day
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2. Terms List Expectations
Who was involved?
Where did the event take place?
When did the event take place?
What happened?
Why is it significant?

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5. Terms List Expectations
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7. Louisiana Purchase

8. Louisiana Purchase
Who: Thomas Jefferson (Robert Livingston & James Monroe), United States, France
What: United States bought the Louisiana territory for $15 million; doubles the size of the United States
Where: Louisiana (Mississippi River through the Great Plains)
When: October 20, 1803 (Jefferson’s presidency)
Why: Jefferson wanted to protect American trade routes – New Orleans, France needed money for military supplies (war with Great Britain); Lewis and Clark exploration, route to the Pacific Ocean, contact with Native Americans

9. Exploration
Dutch, English, French, Spanish, Scandinavian explorers(who)
Participated in a race to claim land in America (what)
Explorers from Europe traveled to America (where)
’s (when)
Competition between nations – global leadership (why) Desire for wealth (why) Spread of Christianity (why)
Established colonies in America – beginnings of our country (why significant)

10. Mayflower Compact Guided Reading
Where are these loyal subjects from (lines 2-3)? Great Britain, France, Ireland
Where do these loyal subjects expect to land and settle (line 5)? Northern Virginia
What body/group are these people forming (lines 6-7)? Civil Political Body (government made up of citizens)
This groups is promising to make fair and just laws (line 8).

11. Mayflower Compact Guided Reading
5. True/False: This group is only looking out for the best interests of the rich (line 10).
6. Where did this group land (line 11)? Cape Cod, Massachusetts
7. On what date did this ship land (line 12)? November 11, 1620
8. How many subjects took this pledge? Forty-one

12. So what is the Mayflower Compact?
Setting sail from England
Landing at Plymouth Rock – 1620
Group of 41 survivors
Thinking: What will help allow this colony to survive?
Drafted the Mayflower Compact
Precursor to the U.S. Constitution

13. So what is the Mayflower Compact?
First attempt at self-government here in the colonies
Pact among subjects to govern themselves with the priority being what is best for the whole group (not just the rich)
Create laws that are just and equal

14. Why do people explore/experiment?
If you were searching for wealth on new land, what would you dig up?
Who explores?

15. Why do people explore/experiment?
If you were searching for wealth on new land, what would you dig up?
Who explores?

16. Why do people explore?

17. What European powers began exploring North America around 1400?

18. Early European Exploration
Dutch
English
French
Spanish
Scandinavian

20. Why Explore? Causes Results
Competition between nations (other countries were doing it)
Desire for wealth (natural resources on the new land – I don’t have it and I want it)
Spread of religion (Christianity)
Land acquisition
Countries had more land with resources on it, this makes countries rich, to be rich means you also have power
Colonies were established
Permanent settlements/towns
Columbian Exchange
Natural resources were shared between the mother country and its colonies (see map)
War(s) over this land

21. To take control of an area and have people live there
Colonization
To take control of an area and have people live there

22. Effects/Impacts
Cultures that already existed in North America were destroyed
Who had lived in North American before us?
Destruction of Native American empires
Through war: French and Indian War
Unintentional: Disease
Great Britain wins the east coast of North America
Thirteen original colonies are established

23. Map Day
See Colonial America packet: p. 4

24. British Exploration (why) and Colonization (where)

25. Why the British explored…
Political Strength (competition)
Becoming/maintaining world power status
Spain on the way out, GB on the way up in terms of world power
Everyone else is doing it and I don’t want them to be bigger and better than me
Desire for wealth (wealth=power)
Mercantilism
Earning wealth through trade (GB huge population with few resources, America few people with great resources)
Collect resources/raw materials send them to GB for manufacturing turn them into finished goods and resell them to colonies
Religious freedom
Pilgrims/Puritans

26. Life in the colonies? Brand new world… Began their own traditions…
No “colonial” traditions
Limited/no guidance
No government/authority physically present
Began their own traditions…
What’s in a name? (What’s your name?)
Fly a Flag

27. Baby Names, Groaning Cake and Designer Flags
Read, highlight, annotate What’s Your Name? (packet)
Try some Groaning Cake? – why did they have it?
Fly a Flag – Read the class copy of Fly a Flag; design and make your own colonial flag On the reverse side of your flag – describe each elements’ significance/importance (paragraph)

28. Was life in the colonies all baby names and designer flags?
What/who was there as the colonists landed?
Houses? Businesses? Roads?
People?
Did these Native Americans live life the way colonists had been accustomed to (life in GB)?
Were there ways of life that could be shared though? Exchange of ideas – farming, agriculture, travel

29. Was life in the colonies all baby names and designer flags?
How did colonists get houses? Businesses?
Had to bring people with these skills to the colonies (carpenter, blacksmith, mason, miner, lumberjack, businessmen, wealthy)
Each boat that set sail for the colonies brought with them a new set of skills that Colonial America needed to grow

30. British Colonies
Who (what country) founded the original thirteen colonies?
What are the three regions that make up the original thirteen colonies?
What were the strengths/weaknesses of each of the colonial regions?
What did each of the regional colonies provide for Mother England?

31. British Colonies Southern Colonies
Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia

32. What did the South offer to Great Britain?
Long growing season
Fertile, vacant land
Sun
Access to ports/water
Freedom of religion (Maryland)
What does this mean for Great Britain in the big picture?

33. Southern Colonies First (successful) British settlement
Jamestown, Virginia (1606)
“deadly” experience (initially)
Sent money, no experience and limited skill
Can you survive w/o shelter, food, water and defense?
Finally, colonists recognize the formula for success = diverse population (skills)

34. Southern Colonies
Among the diverse population of the southern colonies were…
Farmers
Bankers
Catholics
Maryland – first American colony established for “religious freedom”
Toleration Act of 1649
Indentured servants
Slaves

35. Economy of southern colonies
Plantations (really big farms)
Tobacco, cotton, indigo, rice,
Required labor: indentured servants (not slaves)
As the demand for cash crops increased (industrial revolution, desire for American tobacco), what happened to the demand for labor?
Slave trade developed
By 1750 slaves were the main source of labor on southern plantations

36. Economy of southern colonies
Was everyone in the south a wealthy plantation owner?
Did everyone have slaves?

38. British Exploration Southern Colonies New England Colonies
Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia
New England Colonies
New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island

39. What did the New England colonies offer Great Britain?
Ports for trading companies
Timber
Whale oil
Fisheries
Religious freedom (reformation)
What does this mean for Great Britain in the big picture?

40. New England Economy
What is the climate/environment like in New England?
Little demand for farm labor/slaves
Subsistence/community farming
Creating demand for skilled professionals

41. New England Economy Trade Raw materials Whale oil, fish, timber/lumber
Natural resources (shipped to GB); manufactured (in GB) and sold back to the colonies
Mercantilism

42. New England Community Diversity among colonists Trades/skills Wealth
Merchants, fishermen, ship builders, lumberjacks, blacksmiths, printers, weavers
Wealth
Education/languages
Religion

43. New England Community Mayflower - 1620 Mayflower Compact
Legal contract that all agreed to have fair law as to protect the general good (of the community)
Attempt at self-government (first in colonies)

44. New England Community
Why was there no government for the colonies? What government had they been used to?
Where was the King?
First to establish local government that included…
Court system
Representative government (elections)

45. New England Community Religion and government closely tied together
What makes that different from today’s US society?
Separation of Church and State
Government leaders were also church leaders
Where do you think the government leaders found their voters/followers?

46. Great Migration Religious escape (1620-1640) Puritans Pilgrims
Wanting to purify the Church of England
Boston, Massachusetts
Pilgrims
Wanting to separate from the Church of England
Plymouth, Massachusetts

47. New England Community

48. New England Community
If we are going to survive as a community, we must…
Be family oriented
Have women and children involved
Maintain faith in religion
Provide education
Why is this a need? Read what?

49. Education John Harvard – 1636 William and Mary College – 1693
Boston, Massachusetts
William and Mary College – 1693
Virginia

50. New England embraced the opportunity to learn from Native Americans
Will you teach us how to grow crops?
Absolutely, in exchange for resources and finished goods.

51. Thanksgiving
Exchange of information, techniques, tools (Native Americans/Colonists)
Celebration of successful harvest
Survival of the new colony

52. New England Colonies

53. British Exploration Southern Colonies New England Colonies
Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia
New England Colonies
New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island
Middle Colonies
New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware

54. What did the Middle colonies offer to Great Britain?
Blend of New England and Southern colonies
Staple crops
Wheat, barley, oats (grains)
Trade (beaver pelts)
Hunting (deer, wild turkey)
Mining (iron, coal)
Minimal slave labor
What does this mean for Great Britain in the big picture?

55. Middle Colonies Community Quakers
Equality of men and women
Nonviolence
Religious tolerance

56. Penn’s Woods: Pennsylvania
William Penn
Establish a safe home for Quakers
Equality of men and women
Nonviolence
Religious tolerance

57. Penn’s Woods: Pennsylvania
1681 granted a charter by King Charles II
Penn limited his own power
Created an elected assembly (representative self-government)
Capital: Philadelphia- City of Brotherly Love (Philadelphia Freedom – Elton John)
Largest colonial city