1. Teaching American History, Year I Peopling North America George S. Vascik Miami University Hamilton February 18, 2009

2. Teaching American History, Year I Benchmarks and Indicators Grade Five, History –Settlement Describe the lasting effects of Spanish, French and English colonization in North America

3. Teaching American History, Year I Benchmarks and Indicators Grade Eight, History –The First Global Age Reasons for colonization, including religion, desire for land and economic opportunity

4. Teaching American History, Year I Speech regions in the US Where did these speech patterns come from?

5. Teaching American History, Year I The argument David Hackett Fischer, Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in America, Oxford University Press, 1989. The colonies were settled by four separate folk groups, each with their own folkways. The influence of those folkways are with us still today.

6. Teaching American History, Year I Different folkways Fischer identifies 24 folkways: –Speech –Building –Family/Marriage/Gender/Sex/Naming –Death/Age –Dress/Food/Work –Religion –Learning/Magic –Wealth/Rank/Order –Power/Freedom

7. Teaching American History, Year I The four cultural areas Borderlands Quakers Puritans Cavaliers

8. Teaching American History, Year I Puritan origins -Anti-Royalist -Religious -Educated -Wealth = salvation -John Winthrop, the Adams family

9. Teaching American History, Year I Quaker origins -Non-Conformers -Anti-authority -Commercial -Most welcoming of Other groups -Penn, Franklin

10. Teaching American History, Year I Cavalier origins -Royalist -Church of England -Hierarchical -Style and fashion valued over education -Fairfax, Washington, Jefferson

11. Teaching American History, Year I Borderlands origin -Anti-Royalist -Lawless -Men = warriors -Women = workers -Unique family patterns -Calhoun, Polk, Jackson

12. Teaching American History, Year I Borderlands settlement

13. Teaching American History, Year I Representative figures

14. Teaching American History, Year I Housing types

15. Teaching American History, Year I Summation Given these disparate folk ways, it will be very difficult for the colonies to unite. What was it about life in America that made these very different people feel more “American” and alike than “British” and dissimilar?

16. Teaching American History, Year I Benchmarks and Indicators Grade Five, History –Settlement Describe the lasting effects of Spanish, French and English colonization in North America

17. Teaching American History, Year I Benchmarks and Indicators Grade Eight, History –The First Global Age Reasons for colonization, including religion, desire for land and economic opportunity