The document provides an overview of colonial American society and characteristics. It discusses that colonists viewed themselves as European and the idea of an American identity was still forming. Primary sources like letters from settlers are used to understand colonial beliefs. Colonists were typically individualistic, self-sufficient, optimistic, and religious. The frontier and interaction with Native Americans also helped shape colonial America.

1. WHO IS THE AMERICAN OF THE COLONIAL PERIOD? AN OVERVIEW

2. CHARACTERISTICS OF COLONISTS INDIVIDUALISTIC SELF SUFFICIENT OPTIMISTIC RUGGED MATERIALISTIC RELIGIOUS BELIEVED IN EQUALITY

3. PEOPLE VIEWED THEMSELVES AS EUROPEAN COLONISTS IDEA OF “AMERICAN” STILL BEING FORMED HOW DO WE KNOW WHAT THEY BELIEVED? USE OF PRIMARY SOURCES

4. HECTOR ST JOHN DE CREVOUCEUR LIVED ON PA.-NY BORDER WROTE “LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN FARMER” DESCRIBED OUTLOOK OF COLONISTS PRIOR TO AMERICAN REVOLUTION

5. FRONTIER THESIS FREDERICK JACKSON TURNER AMERICANS WERE DEFINED BY THE FRONTIER CONTROVERSIAL TODAY WHAT ARE THE HOLES IN THE THEORY?

6. GERM THEORY AMERICAN INSTITUTIONS SPREAD FROM BRITAIN BICAMERAL LEGISLATURE AMERICAN LAW VOTING QUALIFICATIONS

7. WHAT DID THE COLONISTS FIND IN THE NEW WORLD? INDIANS THE FRONTIER

8. AMERICAN INDIANS ARRIVED 12,000-14,000 YEARS AGO NAMED BY CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS ARE THEY REALLY “NATIVE” AMERICANS?

9. COLONIAL INTERPRETATIONS OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN DEVIL THEORY – INDIAN IS EVIL NOBLE SAVAGE THEORY – INDIAN IS INNOCENT. THEY ARE BEGINNING CIVILIZATION ANEW.

10. AMERICAN INDIAN DEMOGRAPHICS HISTORIANS DISAGREE ON POPULATION 3 TO 10 MILLION IN NORTH AMERICA 500,000 ON EAST COAST 40 TO 60 MILLION IN NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICA COMBINED

11. AMERICAN INDIAN DEMOGRAPHICS OVER 25O TRIBES 5 PRIMARY LINGUISTIC GROUPS ALGONQUIN IROQUOIS MUSKOHEGAN SIOUX PUEBLO

12. ALGONQUIAN S MAINE TO CAROLINAS POLITICALLY DECENTRALIZED HOSPITABLE TO EUROPEANS SUSCEPTIBLE TO DISEASE

13. IROQUOIS UPSTATE PA AND NY POLITICALLY ORGANIZED MATRILINEAL LEAGUE OF THE IROQUOIS

14. CHARACTERISTICS OF AMERICAN INDIANS VARIED BASED ON REGION AND CLIMATE HUNTER/GATHERER NOMADIC COMMUNAL APPROACH TO LAND SOME AGRICULTURE SUSCEPTIBLE TO DISEASE

15. EUROPEAN RESPONSES TO INDIANS FRENCH – TRADE WITH INDIANS SPANISH – ENSLAVE AND CONVERT ENGLISH – GET RID OF THEM

16. THE FRONTIER WHERE CIVILIZATION MEETS THE WILDERNESS ENGLISH COLONIES FRENCH COLONIES SPANISH COLONIES

17. WHY DID ENGLAND SUCCEED? AGRICULTURAL FOUNDATION HANDLING OF INDIANS CAME FOR MORE THAN MONEY RESOURCES (NAVY) POLITICAL ACCIDENT SALUTARY NEGLECT

18. POLITICAL ACCIDENT 1603-1763 KING AND PARLIAMENT POWER STRUGGLE COLONIES DEVELOPED POLITICALLY BRITAIN OPPOSES THIS BUT IS UNABLE TO CONTROL IT

19. SALUTARY NEGLECT MERCANTILISM – BRITISH ECONOMIC THEORY BASED ON FAVORABLE BALANCE OF TRADE COLONIES PROVIDE RAW MATERIALS AND PURCHASE FINISHED PRODUCTS BRITISH LAWS NOT ENFORCED

20. SALUTARY NEGLECT OLIVER CROMWELL – DEMANDED ENFORCEMENT NAVIGATION ACTS – RESTRICT COLONIAL TRADE ENFORCEMENT OF NAVIGATION ACTS DECLINES COLONIES DEVELOP ECONOMICALLY

21. SOCIAL ORIGINS OF COLONISTS WHO CAME? MIDDLE CLASS ARTISANS THOSE WITH LIMITED ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY SPECULATORS

22. SOCIAL ORIGINS OF COLONISTS WHY MOVE? ENCLOSURE MOVEMENT RISING PRICES POPULATION GROWTH RELIGIOUS UNREST

23. INDENTURED SERVANTS WRITTEN CONTRACT UP TO SEVEN YEARS OF SERVITUDE NO STIGMA ATTACHED DEBTORS AND CRIMINALS

24. HANLIN’S THEORY SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT BLACKS IN THE COLONIES INDENTURED SERVANTS? RACISM? HOW DO WE KNOW?

25. ROANOKE ISLAND FIRST ATTEMPT AT A COLONY 1585 BY SIR WALTER RALEIGH IT FAILED

26. JAMESTOWN 1607 FIRST SUCCESSFUL ENGLISH SETTLEMENT CHARTER GRANTED TO VIRGINIA COMPANY, A JOINT STOCK COMPANY PURPOSE WAS TO FIND GOLD 900 INITIAL SETTLERS. 6O SURVIVORS

27. JAMESTOWN INDIAN POLICY – “TAKE GREAT PAINS NOT TO OFFEND THEM” VOYAGE – 4 MONTHS WHO WERE THE LEADERS? 1/3 WERE GENTLEMEN NO WOMEN

28. JAMESTOWN JOHN SMITH DEALT HARSHLY WITH SUSQUEHANNA INDIANS FORCED GENTLEMEN TO WORK STARVING TIME SMITH’S DEPARTURE

29. YES, THERE WAS A POCHAHANTAS DAUGHTER OF CHIEF POWHATAN MET JOHN SMITH KIDNAPPED IN 1613 CONVERTS TO CHRISTIANITY IN 1614 MARRIES JOHN ROLFE IN 1615 VISITS ENGLAND IN 1616 DIES SOON AFTER

30. MASSACHUSETTS BAY COLONY 1629 MASSACHUSETTS BAY COMPANY JOHN WINTHROP – LEADER COMPANY AND COLONY ARE THE SAME

31. MASSACHUSETTS BAY COLONY ADVENTURERS – THOSE WHO INVEST PLANTERS – THOSE WHO GO CAMBRIDGE AGREEMENT – MAKES THEM ONE AND THE SAME MASSACHUSETTS BAY IS UNIQUE

32. MASSACHUSETTS BAY COLONY CITY ON A HILL GREAT MIGRATION POLITICAL ACCIDENT AGAIN! COLONY EXISTS UNTIL 1684

33. PURITANS BELIEVED IN PURITY OF CHURCH GOOD SOCIAL CONDUCT IS A RESULT OF SALVATION, NOT A CAUSE COVENANT THEOLOGY COVENANT OF WORKS COVENANT OF GRACE

34. PURITANS ALL RELATIONSHIPS ARE DEFINED BY GOD BELIEF IN MODERATE CONDUCT SOCIAL ORDER – ALL HAVE THEIR PLACE

35. PURITANS CHILDREN WORSHIP WORK LOVE VIOLATORS

36. PURITANS VISIBLE SAINTS CONVERSION EXPERIENCE ROLE OF LINEAGE AND ECONOMICS CIVIL MEN A THEOCRACY? HALFWAY COVENANT

37. QUAKERS WILLIAM PENN GEORGE FOX – QUAKER FOUNDER DIVINE REVELATION SPARK OF GOD NO MINISTRY PLAIN DRESS AND HOUSING

38. QUAKERS CHARLES II GAVE PENN COLONY TO COVER DEBTS THREE OBJECTIVES ENLARGE THE EMPIRE MAKE MERCANTILISM WORK CIVILIZE THE INDIANS

39. QUAKERS PROPRIETARY COLONY LIMITS IN CHARTER LIBERAL GOVERNMENT STRUCTURE CONCEPT OF EQUALITY