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

2. 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!

3. Pre-Columbian Times

4. Bering Land Bridge Nomadic Asian hunting parties Perhaps 50-75 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

5. “Vinland”– Leif Ericson 1000 AD

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

7. Christopher Columbus

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

9. October 12, 1492

11. Jamestown

12. Jamestown - 1607 1 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)

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

14. Pocahontas save Smith

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

16. 1619- 20 Africans sold as slaves in Jamestown

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

18. The Mayflower & Plymouth

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

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

21. Mayflower Compact- (Social Contract)

22. Thanksgiving - 1621

23. The Great Awakening

24. Great Awakening- (the 1 st one anyway)

25. 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”