Between 1607 and 1763, European powers established colonies in North America through exploration and settlement. Spain claimed territory from Florida to California, establishing colonies focused on gold and silver mining and enforcing Catholicism. France claimed the Mississippi Valley and eastern Canada, focusing on fur trading and coexisting with Native Americans. The Dutch established New Netherland colony in New York from 1624-1664. England's colonies grew through religious dissenters and opportunities for economic and religious freedom. Colonies developed representative governments and economic independence from Britain, laying the foundations for American self-government and identity.
Problems of the Pacific. The interwar years. Why the struggle for Pacific dominance? The Navy realized that if we were to defend the Philippines from Japanese anti-colonialist "liberation" moves we would need to develop three new capabilities.
What prompted European countries to explore, claim and settle lands in the Southeast? (H1c, E1)
Who explored Georgia and where was the first settlement? (H1c)
Problems of the Pacific. The interwar years. Why the struggle for Pacific dominance? The Navy realized that if we were to defend the Philippines from Japanese anti-colonialist "liberation" moves we would need to develop three new capabilities.
What prompted European countries to explore, claim and settle lands in the Southeast? (H1c, E1)
Who explored Georgia and where was the first settlement? (H1c)
U.S. History 1301- prior to 18771. The underlying cause of.docxmarilucorr
U.S. History 1301- prior to 1877
1. The underlying cause of Bacon's Rebellion was the
A. indifference of the colonial government to the threat of hostile Indians on the frontier.
B. planter class's exclusive hold on political and economic power.
C. economic crisis brought on by the decline in tobacco prices.
D. harsh working conditions of indentured servants.
2. Cortes conquered the
A. all of the above.
B. Philippines in the Pacific.
C. Aztec of Mexico.
D. Inca in Peru.
3. Jean-Baptiste Colbert
A. revoked the Edict of Nantes
B. opposed "mercantilistic" government interference in the economy.
C. encouraged French exploration of North America on an unprecedented scale.
D. convinced Louis XIV to establish New Orleans to guard the Mississippi.
4. What did Spanish and Portuguese Christians unite to do in the 1400s?
A. spread Protestant Christianity to northern and western Europe
B. explore the east coast of Africa
C. spread Protestant Christianity around the world
D. drive Muslims out of the Iberian Peninsula
5. Spanish colonization efforts in the Philippines were challenged by the
A. Dutch.
B. English.
C. French.
D. Chinese.
6. After years of marginal survival, Jamestown prospered with
A. the introduction of the profitable crop tobacco.
B. additional financial and military support from the king.
C. the introduction of slave labor.
D. conquest of the Powhatan confederacy.
7. To what class would you attribute most of Bacon's followers?
A. independent family farmers with enough land to support their families
B. wealthy landowners upset at the increasingly influential urban merchant class
C. urban merchants upset at the dominance of wealthy landowners
D. poor with little or no land and slaves
8. Sebastian Vizcaino
A. established a strong Spanish naval base at Monterey, California.
B. was appointed the first Viceroy of Mexico.
C. explored the South Pacific.
D. attempted to establish connections and trade between Japan and Spain
9. The Naval Stores Act helped foster the growth of
A. British shipbuilding.
B. North Carolina.
C. mercantilism.
D. urban ports like New Orleans.
10. After the Indian defeat in Metacom's War, many of the surviving Indians were confined to enclaves or
A. executed for treason.
B. sold as slaves in the West Indies.
C. became forced laborers on English farms.
D. driven over their lands to the western frontier.
11. What policy did the Japanese adopt toward Westerners?
A. They successfully played one western power against another western power.
B. capitulation (to demands to become part of Spain's empire)
C. isolation
D. They adopted no consistent plan, which greatly confused Westerners.
12. By the time of Queen Elizabeth's death in 1603, England possessed all of the following elements to compete for colonial outposts EXCEPT
A. ambitious leaders and experienced soldiers seeking fame and fortune.
B. peace with Spain and other potential rivals in the Americas.
C. a large ...
CH S 245 WEEK 1 NOTES1) Pre-Contact and settlement of the .docxcravennichole326
CH S 245
WEEK 1 NOTES
1) Pre-Contact and settlement of the Americas
2) Racial foundations in the Americas
3) The colonial period in the Americas and its legacy
4) Reform and Revolution in the Americas
5) Social movements of the National Minorities in the United States
6) The war on drugs, the Cold War, and The end of history
What is History?
‘There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document or barbarism.” Walter Benjamin
History?
Interpreting the past
Understanding the present
The study of people across time
A knowledge production process
Primary Source
1) A document or physical object which was written or created during the time under story
2) These sources were present during an experience or time period and offer an inside view of a particular view
Secondary Source
1) Interprets and analyzes primary sources
2) These sources are one or more steps removed from the event
3) Secondary sources may have pictures, quotes or graphics of primary sources in them
Week 2
Pre-Colombian Societies-
Before the Coloumbian Moment
1) First inhabitants migrated from Aisa
2) Migration through the Bering Straight
3) 40,000 BCE
4) Formed nomadic semi-sedentary, and sedentary social groups
5) Three prominent civilizations; Mayas, Aztecs, and Incas
Mayas:
1) Intense exploitation of the extremely inhospitable lowland forests
2) Overcame extraordinary ecological challenges to create a very sophisticated and productive agriculture, key to their development
Aztecs and Incas:
1) Developed at high altitudes and by harnessing of waters from lakes, mountain streams and rivers.
2) Empires were culmination of centuries of agricultural and cultural developments
Some common features:
1)Highly sophisticated irrigation and farming
1) Complex social and cultural organization
2) Sophisticated calendar and astronomical knowledge
3) Highly developed religions
4) Militant ideologies of the conquest and empire building
Mesoamerica:
1) In what is now southern Mexico and Central America
2) Rain forests cover the region
3) Fertile soil made this a good area for farming
4) People first appeared in this area around 12,000 BC
5) Maize (corn) being grown around 3,500 BC
The Maya:
1) Developed in Mesoamerica around 1,000 BC
2) Lived in area of thick forests making framing hard
3) Grew to more than 40 cities of 5,000 to 50,000 people each during the classic age from AD 250 to 900
4) Spread throughout the Yucatan Peninsula
5) Traded good to different areas Mesoamerica
Maya Society:
1) Complex class structure
2) Upper class included kings, priests, warriors, and merchants
3) Lower class included most of the Maya
4) Farmers had to give crops to ruler and serve in the army
5) Slaves held the lowest position in society
6) Slaves included orphans, slaves’ children, and people who owed money
Maya Achievements:
1) Art and architectural achievements
2) Scuplture and jade and gold jewelry
3) Built cities using metal tools
4) Mayan cities larg ...
1)Many of the New World’s early explorers were looking for a.docxcroftsshanon
1)
Many of the New World’s early explorers were looking for a shorter route around Africa to India.
A -
True
B -
False
2)
The introduction of Native American foods, such as corn and potatoes, to Europe spurred a dramatic increase in Europe’s population.
A -
True
B -
False
3)
The original Spanish settlement of New Mexico
A
- experienced little missionary activity because Spanish settlers were preoccupied with farming. \
B
- was enriched by the discovery of an abundance of gold and silver.
C
- rarely came into contact with Native Americans because the Spanish killed them all upon their arrival.
D
- was led by Juan de Oñate who forced Native Americans to pay taxes to Spanish authorities.
E
- relied on hunting rather than crops such as corn because they lacked irrigation networks.
4) Which of the following statements accurately describes the English Puritans?
A
- They successfully converted James I to their beliefs.
B
- They rejected the doctrines of Martin Luther.
C
- They wanted to simplify religion to its most basic elements.
D
- They believed in religious freedom.
E
- They believed people could be saved by their own actions, not just by God’s grace.
5) The first Jews in the colonies arrived in
A
- Maryland.
B
- New Netherland.
C
- Pennsylvania.
D
- Massachusetts Bay.
E
- Rhode Island
6) Why was there so much division within the Anglican Church under James I?
A
- Although he was a Catholic, the church remained Protestant.
B
- Dissenters believed the church needed “purifying” from Catholic rituals.
C
- He granted special privileges to Puritans that were not extended to Catholics and Anglicans.
D
- He was atheist, yet as king, he was also head of the church.
E
- He promoted the Separatist cause and sought to appease its demands.
7) In what way did Cecilius Calvert intend for Maryland’s colonists to be “more committed” to the colony than the colonists at Jamestown?
A
- The colony remained unconcerned with converting Native Americans.
B
- The colonists all came from the same church congregation in England and already knew each other.
C
- The colony recruited families intending to stay rather than single men seeking quick riches.
D -
The colony focused solely on tobacco exports in order to perfect the process.
E -
The colony accepted only Catholics, fearing that they would clash with Protestants.
.
1.Europe’s pioneer in the area of exploration was A) Spa.docxfredellsberry
1.
Europe’s pioneer in the area of exploration was
A) Spain
B) Holland
C) Germany
D) Portugal
2. The greatest loss of life among the Indian population came from
warfare with the European invaders
True
False
3. The expansionist impulse of European monarchs in the latter fifteenth century was
A) temporarily subdued by the growth of Renaissance culture.
B) motivated by a desire to bypass Muslim merchants in trade with Asia and
Africa.
C) nourished by population decline and civil disorder.
D) entirely unsuccessful
4. In the latter half of the fifteenth century, Christopher Columbus
A) reaped significant fame and riches from his four voyages of exploration.
B) argued that Europeans could reach the Indies by sailing west rather than east.
C) received financial backing from Prince Henry the Navigator for a westward voyage.
D) overestimated the distance between Europe and Japan.
5. Spanish and Portuguese explorations of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries
A) helped soothe the Catholic-Protestant division within Christianity.
B) prompted immediate competition from England and France.
C) stimulated the growth of western European economies.
D shifted commercial power from Atlantic ports to those of the Mediterranean.
6. The population of the Americas dramatically declined following the arrival of Europeans
primarily because of the
A) policy of systematic genocide employed by European explorers toward Native
Americans.
B) loss of morale and sense of hopelessness that pervaded Native American societies.
C) Lack of natural immunity among Native Americans to European diseases.
D) enslavement and brutal treatment of Native Americans by Europeans.
7. The massive flow of silver bullion from the Americas to Europe in the sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries
A) delayed further exploration of America.
B) further advanced the European economies into capitalism.
C) hampered capitalist modes of production.
D) increased prevailing wage rates in Europe.
8. The primary enterprise of the Portuguese in Brazil during the late sixteenth and early
seventeenth centuries involved the
A) production of sugar.
B) conversion of the natives to Catholicism.
C) enslavement of indigenous laborers.
D) extraction of silver.
9. English colonizing ventures in the New World differed from prior Spanish and Portuguese
efforts in that English attempts were
A) strictly coordinated and governed by the Crown.
B) Immediate and major successes.
C) privately organized and financed.
D) met with little or no native resistance.
10. A negative image of Native Americans among English settlers
A) explained for them the easy conquest of the natives by the Spanish.
B) resu.
1. From where did the Jamestown settlement obtain the seeds for i.docxdorishigh
1. From where did the Jamestown settlement obtain the seeds for its successful
tobacco crop?
a. Trinidad
b. Cuba
c. Mexico
d. Haiti
2. The British Constitution:
a. was written in the latter part of the eighteenth century.
b. is called the Magna Carta.
c. included English law and acts of Parliament.
d. was ratified by the American colonies.
3. Violations of the Sugar Act were tried in vice-admiralty courts in:
a. Boston.
b. New York.
c. Halifax.
d. Philadelphia
4. What were the two products traded by branches of the Sioux tribe at the yearly trade fair?
a. buffalo robes and corn
b. beaver pelts and buffalo robes
c. horses and beaver pelts
d. corn and rifles
5. White settlement in Oregon had all of the following effects on the Cayuses Indians EXCEPT:
a. the spread of a virulent measles epidemic.
b. the use of the Cayuses as farm laborers for whites.
c. the rejection of Christianity by the Cayuses.
d. the eventual extermination of the Cayuses.
6. Overland immigration to the trans-Mississippi West was highest in:
a. 1840.
b. 1844.
c. 1847.
d. 1852.
7. The election of 1852:
a. was the first contested by the Republican Party.
b. saw the strongest showing ever for the Whigs.
c. focused primarily on troubles with Mexico.
d. was won by a northern Democrat.
8. Members of Young America supported:
a. extending American influence throughout the Americas.
b. universal suffrage for all males.
c. repeal of the unpopular Compromise of 1850.
d. Winfield Scott for president in 1852.
...
Why is this So? ~ Do Seek to KNOW (English & Chinese).pptxOH TEIK BIN
A PowerPoint Presentation based on the Dhamma teaching of Kamma-Vipaka (Intentional Actions-Ripening Effects).
A Presentation for developing morality, concentration and wisdom and to spur us to practice the Dhamma diligently.
The texts are in English and Chinese.
In Jude 17-23 Jude shifts from piling up examples of false teachers from the Old Testament to a series of practical exhortations that flow from apostolic instruction. He preserves for us what may well have been part of the apostolic catechism for the first generation of Christ-followers. In these instructions Jude exhorts the believer to deal with 3 different groups of people: scoffers who are "devoid of the Spirit", believers who have come under the influence of scoffers and believers who are so entrenched in false teaching that they need rescue and pose some real spiritual risk for the rescuer. In all of this Jude emphasizes Jesus' call to rescue straying sheep, leaving the 99 safely behind and pursuing the 1.
A375 Example Taste the taste of the Lord, the taste of the Lord The taste of...franktsao4
It seems that current missionary work requires spending a lot of money, preparing a lot of materials, and traveling to far away places, so that it feels like missionary work. But what was the result they brought back? It's just a lot of photos of activities, fun eating, drinking and some playing games. And then we have to do the same thing next year, never ending. The church once mentioned that a certain missionary would go to the field where she used to work before the end of his life. It seemed that if she had not gone, no one would be willing to go. The reason why these missionary work is so difficult is that no one obeys God’s words, and the Bible is not the main content during missionary work, because in the eyes of those who do not obey God’s words, the Bible is just words and cannot be connected with life, so Reading out God's words is boring because it doesn't have any life experience, so it cannot be connected with human life. I will give a few examples in the hope that this situation can be changed. A375
Exploring the Mindfulness Understanding Its Benefits.pptxMartaLoveguard
Slide 1: Title: Exploring the Mindfulness: Understanding Its Benefits
Slide 2: Introduction to Mindfulness
Mindfulness, defined as the conscious, non-judgmental observation of the present moment, has deep roots in Buddhist meditation practice but has gained significant popularity in the Western world in recent years. In today's society, filled with distractions and constant stimuli, mindfulness offers a valuable tool for regaining inner peace and reconnecting with our true selves. By cultivating mindfulness, we can develop a heightened awareness of our thoughts, feelings, and surroundings, leading to a greater sense of clarity and presence in our daily lives.
Slide 3: Benefits of Mindfulness for Mental Well-being
Practicing mindfulness can help reduce stress and anxiety levels, improving overall quality of life.
Mindfulness increases awareness of our emotions and teaches us to manage them better, leading to improved mood.
Regular mindfulness practice can improve our ability to concentrate and focus our attention on the present moment.
Slide 4: Benefits of Mindfulness for Physical Health
Research has shown that practicing mindfulness can contribute to lowering blood pressure, which is beneficial for heart health.
Regular meditation and mindfulness practice can strengthen the immune system, aiding the body in fighting infections.
Mindfulness may help reduce the risk of chronic diseases such as type 2 diabetes and obesity by reducing stress and improving overall lifestyle habits.
Slide 5: Impact of Mindfulness on Relationships
Mindfulness can help us better understand others and improve communication, leading to healthier relationships.
By focusing on the present moment and being fully attentive, mindfulness helps build stronger and more authentic connections with others.
Mindfulness teaches us how to be present for others in difficult times, leading to increased compassion and understanding.
Slide 6: Mindfulness Techniques and Practices
Focusing on the breath and mindful breathing can be a simple way to enter a state of mindfulness.
Body scan meditation involves focusing on different parts of the body, paying attention to any sensations and feelings.
Practicing mindful walking and eating involves consciously focusing on each step or bite, with full attention to sensory experiences.
Slide 7: Incorporating Mindfulness into Daily Life
You can practice mindfulness in everyday activities such as washing dishes or taking a walk in the park.
Adding mindfulness practice to daily routines can help increase awareness and presence.
Mindfulness helps us become more aware of our needs and better manage our time, leading to balance and harmony in life.
Slide 8: Summary: Embracing Mindfulness for Full Living
Mindfulness can bring numerous benefits for physical and mental health.
Regular mindfulness practice can help achieve a fuller and more satisfying life.
Mindfulness has the power to change our perspective and way of perceiving the world, leading to deeper se
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The Hope of Salvation - Jude 1:24-25 - MessageCole Hartman
Jude gives us hope at the end of a dark letter. In a dark world like today, we need the light of Christ to shine brighter and brighter. Jude shows us where to fix our focus so we can be filled with God's goodness and glory. Join us to explore this incredible passage.
2 Peter 3: Because some scriptures are hard to understand and some will force them to say things God never intended, Peter warns us to take care.
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1. "Big Picture" Statement:
Between 1607 and 1763, North American colonists developed experience in, and the expectation of,
self-government in the political, religious, economic, and social aspects of their lives.
I. Exploration and settlement by France, Holland, and Spain
A. The dynamics of European expansion
1. Desire for spices, fabrics, gold (from Africa), etc. -- goods not available in Europe
2. Desire to break Italian monopoly on trade with Europe
3. Fall of Constantinople in 1453 makes trade more difficult and expensive
4. The Renaissance mindset
5. New aids to navigation/full-rigged ship with stern rudders that can sail into the wind
6. National monarchs who see wealth and prestige in foreign empires
7. Desire of Roman Catholic Church to convert natives to the faith
8. Colonies fit into increasingly popular mercantilist economic policies
B. Spain
1. Claims based on exploration/conquest by Columbus, Magellan, Cortés, Coronado, etc.
a. Cuba and other islands in the Caribbean
b. Mexico, California, the American Southwest, Florida
c. Claims along Mississippi overlap those of France
2. Initial wealth from gold/silver
3. Patterns of settlement
a. Immigration to colonies controlled
b. Colonial administration in the hands of Spanish-born governors
c. Creoles (merchants, large landowners, and professionals) have little power
d. In many areas Indian labor force replaced by African slaves
4. Spain enforces mercantilist polices
5. Intercontinental exchange of goods, disease, people
6. Impact on native people
a. Destruction of long-established civilizations in the Americas
b. Extermination (primarily by disease (Mexico's population goes from 25 to 2 million)
c. Exploitation through enslavement/forced labor and debt peonage
d. Conversion to Roman Catholicism
7. Spanish settlement in the Southwest
a. Native Americans as forced labor
C. France
1. Cartier, Champlain, La Salle establish claims to eastern Canada and Mississippi Valley
2. Claims of France overlap with those of England and Spain
3. Conversion of Indians to Roman Catholicism
4. Patterns of settlement in Canadian territories
a. Immigration to colonies controlled (Huguenots and other dissidents excluded)
b. For the most part, French coexist peacefully with Indians
c. Initial wealth from fur trade
d. Population grows slowly (under 100,000 in 1763)
5. France enforces mercantilist polices
D. Dutch (based on exploration/claims of Henry Hudson) maintain a colony in New York from 1624 to 1664
II. Factors encouraging English settlement in North America
A. John Cabot/Henry Hudson give England claims along east coast of North America, Hudson Bay area, Newfoundland
(claims conflict with those of France)
B. English set few restrictions on immigration to New World
C. Conditions in England that stimulate settlement in American colonies
1. Civil War
2. Religious controversy
3. Glorious Revolution
4. Foreign wars
D. Primary reasons for English immigration to American colonies
2. 1. Opportunities for economic gain
2. Escape from political persecution/turmoil
3. Desire for religious freedom by non-Anglicans
E. Mercantilist and political regulations fall prey to policy of "salutary neglect"
1. Navigation Acts
2. Dominion of New England
III. Patterns of English settlement
A. New England
1. Plymouth Colony, 1620
a. Separatists
b. Mayflower Compact
2. Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1630
a. Puritans
b. John Winthrop's "city upon a hill"
3. Dissenters from Puritan theology establish new colonies
a. Roger Williams establishes colony in Rhode Island
b. Anne Hutchinson
c. Settlement of Connecticut, 1631-1660
d. New Hampshire, 1638-1643
e. Maine annexed by Massachusetts, 1652
B. The Chesapeake region
1. Jamestown, 1607
a. London Company/economic gain
b. Salvation from tobacco
c. Anglican Church
2. Maryland, 1632
a. Proprietary colony (land grant to Lord Baltimore -- expectation of profit by proprietor)
b. Haven for Roman Catholics
C. Middle colonies
1. New York/New Jersey/Delaware taken from Dutch, 1664
2. Pennsylvania, 1681
a. Proprietary colony (land grant to William Penn)
b. Haven for Quakers
D. Restoration colonies (Carolinas), 1665
1. Proprietary colonies established by Charles II
2. Anglican Church
E. Georgia, 1732
IV. Political development in the colonies until 1750
A. Official designations
1. Royal colonies (Virginia, New York, later Georgia)
2. Governance set up in charters (Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island)
3. Proprietary colonies (Maryland, Pennsylvania, Carolinas, New Jersey)
B. Political structure
1. Governor
a. Appointed by king or proprietors (Chesapeake, Pennsylvania, Carolinas)
b. Elected by property-holding men (New England)
2. Two-house legislature elected by property-holding men
3. Local government
a. New England town meeting
b. Appointed justices of the peace run local affairs in Chesapeake
c. Elected county officials common in middle colonies
C. Suffrage -- with property qualifications, granted to men
D. Home rule evolving -- especially in New England
1. Dominion of New England rejected
2. Navigation Acts ignored
E. Bacon's Rebellion shows potential power of lower orders
3. V. The colonial economy
A. Southern colonies
1. Plantations dominant over small farms
2. Cash crops for export
a. Tobacco in the Chesapeake
b. Rice, indigo in the Carolinas
3. Economy compatible with mercantilist policies
B. New England
1. Agriculture -- small farms -- dominant occupation
a. Soil/climate are limiting factors
b. Cash crops sold internally -- not for export
c. Cottage industries (e.g., textiles) part of this economy
2. Fishing -- catch sold primarily to West Indies
3. Wood products -- for export and domestic use
4. Shipping/shipbuilding
5. Some industry (e.g., Saugus Iron Works)
6. Vibrant merchant class dominate activities in urban areas (Boston, Hartford)
7. New England's economy increasingly not compatible with mercantilist policies
C. Middle colonies
1. Agriculture dominant occupation
a. Small farms/commercial farms
b. Produce crops (e.g., wheat, corn) for home consumption and export
c. Modest in scope
2. Small-scale industrial enterprises
3. Vibrant merchant class dominate activities in urban areas (New York, Philadelphia)
4. Middle colonies' economy increasingly not compatible with mercantilist policies
D. Rapidly expanding population (1,200,000 in 1750)
1. Creates markets within colonies
2. Stimulates urban growth
3. Population growth in North from natural expansion and immigration
4. Much of population growth in South from slave imports
E. Colonial commerce
1. Coastal trade (variety of products produced within colonies)
2. Trade with West Indies (rum, grains, fish)
3. Trade with England (raw materials in exchange for manufactured goods)
4. Slave trade a particularly profitable commerce
F. Developing a source of labor
1. Impact of easy availability of lands
a. Limits number of immigrants in labor force
b. Makes hiring of workers difficult in some occupations (e.g., rice and sugar plantations)
2. Indentured servants
3. Slaves (by 1700, slavery legal in all the colonies)
VI. Creating an American identity
A. The Puritan impact
1. America as an ideal ("city upon a hill")
2. Education
a. Colleges (e.g.: Harvard, 1636)
b. Boston Latin School
c. 1642 Massachusetts School Law
3. "Puritan ethic"
4. Intolerance/witch trials
B. Religious diversity and evolving toleration
1. Declining Puritan piety
2. Legislation allowing degrees of toleration (Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, New York, Maryland)
3. The Great Awakening
4. C. Impact of the Enlightenment
1. Acceptance of the concepts of natural laws and natural rights
2. Interest in science
3. Americanization of the Glorious Revolution/English Bill of Rights
a. Validation of self-government
b. Powers of government are limited
c. Free expression of ideas (e.g., Zenger case)
D. The institutionalizing of chattel slavery in all thirteen colonies
VII. The colonies and Native Americans
A. Disease leads to decline in populations (e.g.: in Maine, 90 percent of native population dies between 1616 and 1619)
B. Natives described, and looked upon, as savages
C. Efforts to Christianize and assimilate
D. Different philosophies of land use/ownership lead to conflict
1. No understanding or appreciation of Indian culture
2. Quaker efforts to deal fairly with Indians fail when non-Quakers immigrate to Pennsylvania
E. Numerous treaties made and broken
F. Indian wars and their impact
1. English expansion leads to Pequot War and defeat of natives, 1637
2. Bacon's Rebellion an attempt to open Indian lands to settlers, 1676
3. King Philip's War, 1675
a. Wampanoags (allied with Nipmucks/Narragansetts)
i. Fear that native culture being subverted by Europeans
ii. Want to halt colonial expansion into interior
b. Colonial losses heavy -- 10 percent of male population killed or captured
c. Colonial victory, 1676
i. Power of Indians in New England broken
d. Conflicts between Scotch-Irish and natives in Pennsylvania
i. Many captured Wampanoags sold into slavery in the West Indies
G. English and French exploit/use Indian allies in their wars for empire
VIII. Colonial society
A. Families
1. Patriarchal family structure
2. Early marriages
a. Pregnancies often precede marriages (no stigma attached)
b. High mortality in childbirth -- leads to remarriage
3. Many children
B. Men
1. Head of family/property owner
2. In charge of "outside affairs"
a. Church
b. Politics
c. Law
C. Women
1. Few legal rights
2. Essential to well-being of family
3. In charge of "inside affairs"
a. Child rearing
b. Cultivation of garden
c. Food production/preparation
d. Responsible for manufacture of clothing
e. Responsible for obtaining candles, soap, etc.
4. Women's "underground economy"
a. Textile production
b. Dressmaking/tailoring
c. Sale/bartering of commodities (e.g., soap, candles, textiles, etc.)
5. d. Midwifery
5. Slave women and women in indentured service lack rights of other women
D. Children
1. More valued than in Europe
2. Play major role in household economy
3. Treatment more humane than in Europe
E. Standard of living, general health, diet superior to that of comparable Europeans
F. Class structure evolving
1. Status based on wealth
2. Class lines more fluid than in England
IX. African Americans in the colonies
A. Need for cheap labor, especially in southern colonies
1. European immigrants
a. Have many opportunities for land ownership
b. Will not work on rice/tobacco plantations
2. Native Americans
a. Prone to disease
b. Can escape too easily
3. Indentured servants can only provide a temporary solution
B. First Africans arrive in Virginia, 1619
1. Initially treated as indentured servants
2. As numbers increase whites worry about control (e.g., Carolina)
C. Breakup of Royal African Company's monopoly stimulates slave trade
1. Slaves easy to obtain/prices reasonable
2. Profits from slave trade high
3. Slave trade fits into established trade patterns
D. Factors favoring institutionalizing of "peculiar institution"
1. Southern planters gain a self-renewing labor force
2. In areas with large African population, control easier
3. Escape difficult
4. Belief Africans are inferior to Caucasians
5. Lack of opposition (Cotton Mather, "What God will have to be the thing appointed for you.")
E. By 1750, slavery legal in all colonies
1. Slave population in all colonies
2. Distribution of slaves as percent of population will vary
a. Largest slave population in north in New York (14.3 percent of total)
b. Largest slave population in south in south Carolina (60.9 percent )
3. By 1775, 80 percent of slaves in colonies American born
4. Very few free blacks until after revolution
F. Great Awakening stimulates Christianizing of slaves
G. Harsh treatment of 17th century softens somewhat during the 18th
H. Enlightenment causes some to rethink the legitimacy of slavery
X. The struggle for North America, 1689-1763
A. European wars have colonial components in India, the Caribbean, and North America
B. English colonies involved in fight -- especially against French
C. Colonial war aims differ from those of British
1. New England troops capture key French fortress at Louisburg
2. English -- in exchange for territory elsewhere -- return fort to France
D. Conflicts end with English victory in French and Indian War
1. American colonists (including George Washington) participate
2. Albany Plan of Union
3. Treaty of Paris, 1763
a. France gives up all territory in North America
b. Spain gets New Orleans and control of Mississippi