Advanced Placement/Dual Credit U.S. History Summer Assignment Book Analysis for THE AMERICAN COLONIES. By Alan Taylor Directions: Students are to carefully read the book by Alan Taylor. Each chapter will have a set of questions/list of topics for which short answer responses will be asked to probe for understanding. Each student currently enrolled in either Advanced Placement or Dual Credit U.S. History is receiving a hard copy of this assignment. Additionally‚ the assignment may be found
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son-Separatist Puritans? ○ Separation of church and state‚ Separatists left the church‚ non-Separatists left How were the early English efforts at settlement paid for? ○ Joint-stock companies According to archaeological findings‚ when did the first humans likely arrive in America? ○ 13‚000 B.C. Where did the French attempt to make their first settlement in North America? ○ St. Lawrence Valley What did the Puritans believe? ○ A purification
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parliament * New face of church: takes tradition and destroys it under his power‚ but faced with debt Elizabeth Bolyn: one who becomes dominant and modernizes England - Begins to patronize men - Patrons of merchants (photographers‚ mapmakers‚ pirates) - Charters corporations willing to trade - Study of navigation start to explore New World - Fish was going to make money - Sir John Hawkins: worked for Elizabeth (amazing navigator) King Philip of Spain wants to invade England * 1588:
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Unit 1: The Foundation of the Spanish‚ French‚ Dutch and English Colonies in North America * Initial Contact (Spanish) * The French and Dutch Colonies * The English Colonies Part I: Initial Contact (Spanish) #1: Who were the earliest inhabitants of the Americas? * About 14‚000 years ago (12‚000 BCE)‚ people started to migrate across BERINGIA to Americas * By 8‚000 BCE‚ they reached to Tierra del Fuego * 3 waves came from Asia‚ 1 from Polynesia
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often viewed as immoral and riotous to the puritan society. The most prevalent vices of sailors include drunkenness‚ sexual immorality‚ and vulgar/offensive language. The more serious behavioral problems include fighting‚ gambling‚ and cheating‚ which have often been associated with the lifestyle of pirates. From the early 1700s thru mid-1800s mariners have been marked by distinct stereotypes that persist in to the modern era. In the age of sail‚ puritan critics often portrayed seamen as rough characters
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Study guide test #1 1. How did the "first Americans" get here and what account for the diversity of their cultures? How and why did Native-American concepts of land usage differ from that of Europeans? What were the motivations that first brought Spanish explorers to the New World? What were they looking for? Which nations had the most success in creating a profitable New World empire prior to the 1600’s? How and why? Understand England’s failures in trying to get into the colony business. In regards
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The Age of Exploration was a period from the early 1400s and continuing into the early 1600s‚ during which European ships traveled around the world to search for new trade routes to feed growing capitalism in Europe. The most commonly sought after new trade route was to the Spice Islands‚ which are now the Indonesian archipelago‚ in southern Asia. Spices were originally brought to Western Europe by land routes‚ but because of a lack cargo space and extremely long travel times the prices were very
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When the Puritans came over‚ they created a society very much like the one they left in England. American Dream The American Dream includes possibilities and tolerance. When the Puritans traveled to America they expected to rid themselves of the controlling Roman Catholic Church. They expected new opportunities in the New World and more tolerance from the government and from the religious authority; instead they got another controlling religion that just changed their name to “Puritan.” Sin
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Robinson Crusoe From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia For other uses‚ see Robinson Crusoe (disambiguation). |Robinson Crusoe
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- people were believed to have crossed a Bering Strait into the Americas 14‚000 years ago - there were 75 million Europeans and by 1500 there were 10 million Americans - in the late 15th century‚ many people came to the Americas and brought diseases that started to kill a lot of people that weren’t immune to the diseases - Conquistadores were able to dominate because the empires were becoming weak from low population 1. America Before Columbus - at first people lived as hunters and gatherers
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