Chapter 5, US History introduction for 8th grade history.

2. Use as many Cornell Notes pages as you need. I will grade you on the notes, the questions, and the summary the day before every Chapter test.

3. Jamestown- 1607
• 1st Permanent English settlement in
the Americas.
• Colony of Virginia
• 1610- James Rolf

4. Jamestown- 1607
Watch the “Jamestown”
video on the video links
section.

5. Majority
Rule

6. Jamestown
Write complete sentences on your paper about each topic you
saw in the movie:
1) The journey to Jamestown from England.
2) Description of America at that time.
3) The reason the first settlers came.
4) Problems they found.
5) How John Rolf saved the colony.
6) Pocahontas
7) Who had power?
8) Was it a good government?

8. Slide 1:
Land, Rights, and Wealth
Land ownership gave colonists :
political rights
wealth
social position
received the best seats in
church, were treated with
respect from others.

9. Slide 2: Colonial Social Rank
HIGH
large landowners
church officials
government officials
wealthy merchants
UPPER MIDDLE
small farmers
tradespeople
LOWER MIDDLE
renters
unskilled workers
LOW
indentured servants
slaves
Cotton Mather
(Judge at the Salem
Witch Trials)

10. Slide 3 Women and the Economy
Most white women were farm wives
They cooked, cleaned, churned butter, made
soap and candles, spun fibers, wove cloth,
sewed and knitted clothes, and did many
other chores.
Women did not have many rights.
Women could not vote, preach or hold office
A married woman could not own property
without her husband’s permission.
By law, the money a woman earned belonged to
her husband.

11. Slide 4: Young People at Work
Children’s work supported the colonial economy.
Families were large (most had 6 to 8 children)
At six years old, boys were “breeched” or given a pair of
pants & began to help their fathers at work
At 11 years old, boys were apprenticed.
Apprentice – a beginner who learns a trade or craft from an
experienced master

12. Slide 5: Colonial Schooling
Most children were taught to read the
Bible
Only children from rich families learned
writing and arithmetic.
Most children were finished with school by
age 7.
Textbooks emphasized religion
Colonial America had a high literacy rate

15. Slide 6: Newspapers and Books
There were over 100 newspapers by 1790!
Colonists began to publish their own books
Almanacs were very popular.
Published poetry, regional history, autobiographies
“Captive Narrative” was a unique form of literature found in
the colonies- It told the stories of people captured by Indians.

16. Almanacs predicted
what the weather would
be and tides, and many
other things.
Why would colonists
need to know weather
predictions and tides?

17. The Pilgrims:
Watch the “Piligrims” video on the
video links section.

19. Slide 7: Jonathan Edwards
At first, most people believed in
Predestination- That God had decided
your life and there was nothing you could
do about it!
In the 1730’s, Jonathan Edwards was one
of the best known preachers.
He frightened his listeners with hell fire
and brimstone sermons- They needed to
pray to decide the right thing to do,
AND do it!

21. Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.
Watch the “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”
video on the video links section.

22. Slide 8: Great Awakening
People thought they HAD to decide & do the right thing
or they would burn in Hell.
Churches gained many new members
It inspired colonists to help others (George Whitefield
started a home for orphans)
It encouraged ideas of equality and the right to
challenge authority
It contributed to the revolution.

26. Slide 9: The Enlightenment
Emphasized reason and science as paths to
knowledge.
Ben Franklin: famous Enlightenment figure.
John Locke argued people have natural rights-
life, liberty and property
people create government to protect their
rights
if government fails, people have right to
change it

27. Vocabulary Check
Apprentice – a beginner who learns a trade or craft from an
experienced master
Great Awakening – a revival of religious feeling in the American
colonies during the 1730s and 1740s
Jonathan Edwards – one of the best-known preachers who terrified
listeners with images of God’s anger but promised they could be
saved
George Whitefield – drew thousands of people with his sermons and
raised funds to start a home for orphans
Enlightenment – an 18th-century movement that emphasized the use
of reason and the scientific method to obtain knowledge
Benjamin Franklin – a businessperson and inventor who became one
of the best known political thinkers in the colonies
John Locke – an English philosopher who argued that people have
natural rights

28. 1. A religious movement that swept
through the colonies in the
1730s and 1740s
2. A traveling minister who drew
thousands with his sermons and
started a home for orphans
3. A businessperson and inventor
who became one of the best
known political thinkers in the
colonies
4. An English philosopher who
argued that people have natural
rights to life, liberty, and
property
5. A movement that emphasized
reason and science as the paths
to knowledge
A. Jonathan Edwards
B. Enlightenment
C. Benjamin Franklin
D. Great Awakening
E. John Locke
F. George Whitefield

29. Roots of
Representative
Government
Section 2

33. Slide 10: Magna Carta
Magna Carta (Great Charter)
written in 1215
signed by King John
most important document in English law
limited the power of the king for the first
time
listed the rights of the English people

34. Slide 11:Parliament and
Colonial Government
One of the most important rights was
to elect representatives to government
Colonists set up their own
representative governments modeled
after Parliament
Parliament had no representatives from
the colonies, but the laws they passed
affected the colonies.

35. Parliament- Elected representatives
who Make Laws.
Watch the “Parliament” Video on the
video links section of the website.

37. Slide 12:Glorious Revolution
The English Parliament decided to
overthrow King James for not
respecting its rights.
Parliament offered the throne to his
daughter, Mary and her husband
William. James fled and Mary and
William became the new monarchs!
This change in leadership is known as
the Glorious Revolution.

39. Slide 13: English Bill of
Rights1689
spelled out the rights of English citizens
gave Parliament, NOT the king the
right to make laws
established the principle: the
government was to be based on laws
made by Parliament, not on the desires
of a ruler!

40. http://www.lawsch.uga.ed
u/~glorious/

41. The American Colonies

42. Slide 14: Shared Power in the Colonies
The royal
governor, his
council and the
colonial assembly
shared power.
During the first
half of the 1700’s,
England interfered
very little in
colonial affairs.

43. This hands-off
policy was called
salutary neglect.
Parliament made
many laws
regulating the
colonies but the
governors
ignored the laws
and the colonists
got used to acting
on their own!

44. The Zenger Trial
1735
John Peter Zenger was tried for printing
criticism of the New York governor.
The jury found him NOT-GUILTY stating
that people had the right to speak the
truth.
The right of freedom of the press in the
colonies was established!

45. http://www.law.umkc.edu/
faculty/projects/ftrials/zen
ger/images.html

46. The burning of Zenger's New York Weekly Journal (Bettman Archive)

47. Vocabulary Check
Magna Carta – “Great Charter”; a document guaranteeing basic
political rights in England, approve by King John in 1215
Parliament – England’s chief lawmaking body
Edmund Andros – the royal governor of New England who angered
colonists by ending their representative government
Glorious Revolution – the overthrow of English King James II in
1688 and his replacement by William and Mary
English Bill of Rights – an agreement signed by William and Mary to
respect the rights of English citizens and of Parliament, including the
right to free elections
Salutary neglect – a hands off policy of England toward its American
colonies during the first half of the 1700s
John Peter Zenger – publisher of the New-York Weekly Journal who
stood trial for printing criticism of New York’s governor

48. 1. The first steps to limit the power of England’s king were taken in the
A. Parliament
B. Magna Carta
2. British laws that affected the colonies were made by
A. The king
B. The Parliament
3. The ruling family of England changed as a result of
A. The Glorious Revolution
B. The Magna Carta
4. The principle that government should be based on laws and not on the
whims of a ruler was established by
A. The English Bill of Rights
B. The Magna Carta
5. The English policy of interfering very little in colonial affairs was called
A. The Bill of Rights
B. Salutary neglect

49. The French and Indian
War -Section 3

52. VERY VERY VERY IMPORTANT!!!!
The French and Indian War was NOT between the
French and Indians!!!!!!!!!!!!!
IT was a war between the BRITISH and the FRENCH
and their INDIAN allies!!!!!!!!!!
It was for control of North America.
French and Indian War – a conflict in North America from, 1754-1763
that was part of a worldwide struggle between France and England;
England defeated France and gained French Canada

53. Slide 15: French & Indian War
The English and the French were fighting over land and the fur
trade.
They made a lot of money by trapping animals and selling the fur
to other countries.
Britain won the war!!
Britain gained all of North America east of the
Mississippi River.
Britain raised taxes on the Colonies because of all the
money they spent on the war.
French power was forever ended in North America

54. Slide 16:Albany Plan of Union
While Washington was busy
fighting, Benjamin Franklin
suggested the colonies band
together for defense.
The Albany Plan of union was
the first formal written proposal
to unite the colonies.
The colonial legislatures did not
Albany Plan of Union – the first formal proposal to unite
the American colonies, put forth by Benjamin Franklin

56. The Treaty of Paris
Ended the French and Indian
War in 1763
Britain claimed all of North
America east of the Mississippi
River.
France gave Spain New Orleans
and Louisiana for helping them.
Britain got Florida.

57. Slide 17: Pontiacs Uprising
Britain took over French forts and
refused to give supplies to the Native
Americans.
Native Americans attacked settlers
and destroyed almost every British
fort west of the Appalachians.
The British retaliated by giving Indian
leaders blankets contaminated with
small pox. This started a deadly

58. Was this a fair way to
fight a war?

59. MSN Encarta
PONTIAC

65. Slide 18: Proclamation of
1763
The uprising made the British
government see that defending
Western lands would be costly.
The government issued the
Proclamation of 1763 which forbade
colonists to settle west of the
Appalachians.
The colonists were angry!!

66. Vocabulary Check
French and Indian War – a conflict in North America from, 1754-1763
that was part of a worldwide struggle between France and Britain;
Britain defeated France and gained French Canada
Albany Plan of Union – the first formal proposal to unite the
American colonies, put forth by Benjamin Franklin
Battle of Quebec – a battle won by the British over the French, and
the turning point in the French and Indian War
Treaty of Paris – the 1763 treaty that ended the French and Indian
War; Britain gained all of North America east of the Mississippi River
Pontiac’s Rebellion – a revolt against British forts and American
settlers in 1763, let in part by Ottawa war leader Pontiac, in response
to settlers’ claims of Native American land and to harsh treatment
by British soldiers
Proclamation of 1763 – an order in which Britain prohibited its
American colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains

67. Quiz 5.3
A. Albany Plan of
Union
B. Battle of
Quebec
C. French and
Indian War
D. Pontiac’s
Uprising
E. Proclamation
of 1763
F. Treaty of Paris
1. This forbade the English colonists
from settling on lands west of the
Appalachian Mountains.
2. Conflicts over land and fur trade
caused this.
3. This was the turning point of the
French and Indian War.
4. Benjamin Franklin first proposed this.
5. This led to the Proclamation of 1763.