First Twelve 1. COLONIAL ENGLISH AMERICA 1. In 1606‚ the Virginia Company received a charter from King James I to make a settlement in the New World. 2. On May 24‚ 1607‚ about 100 English settlers disembarked from their ship and founded Jamestown. 3. Problems emerged including (a) the swampy site of Jamestown meant poor drinking water and mosquitoes causing malaria and yellow fever. (b) men wasted time looking for gold rather than doing useful tasks (digging wells‚ building shelter‚ planting
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Chapter 2: The Planting of English America I. England’s Imperial Settings >> transformation of the New World > Native American population nearly extinguished due to disease > 10% of India population from 1492 survived > thousands of African slaves were brought over (Caribbean and Brazilian plantations) >> North America > remained largely unexplored Spanish ---> Santa Fe 1610 French---> Quebec 1608
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In 1606‚ hundreds of settlers embarked on a journey from England to the Virginia colony‚ in search of wealth and treasure. Although they experienced much destitution early on in their journey‚ they were able to transform their colony with the use of the indentured servants and slaves by basing their economy around tobacco. With tobacco‚ they were able to create an industry in which the colonists would depend on socially and economically. The journey for the new colonist was brutal. They were crammed
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Chapter 11 Outline I.Federalist and Republican Mudslingers A.The Federalists labored many handicaps 1.The Alien and Sedition Acts hosted many enemies 2.The Hamiltonians split from them 3.Swelled the public debt when making unnecessary war preparations and added taxes B.John Adams became known as “the Father of the American Navy.” C.The federalists took fire on Jefferson becoming a victim of a “whispering campaign” II.The Jeffersonian “Revolution of 1800” A.Jefferson narrowly squeaked through
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Chapter 14 - The Civil War The Secession Crisis The Withdrawal of the South * South Carolina voted Dec 1860 to secede‚ by time Lincoln came to office six more states (Mississippi‚ Florida‚ Alabama‚ Georgia‚ Louisiana‚ TX) seceded * Seceded states formed Confederate States of America Feb1861. These states started seizing federal property but at first lacked power to seize the military instillations at Fort Sumter‚ SC and For Pickens‚ FL The Failure of Compromise * Compromise proposed
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Chapter 19 vocabulary 1. Harriet Beecher Stowe - was an American abolitionist and author. Her novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin was a depiction of life for African-Americans under slavery; it reached millions as a novel and play 2. Uncle Tom’s Cabin - anti-slavery book which alarmed previously unconcerned Northerners and the rest of the world about slavery. 3. Hinton helper - book entitled ’Impending Crisis of the South’ that stirred trouble. Attempted to prove that indirectly the non-slaveholding
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The American Pageant Chapter 2 Notes/Summary: The Planting of English America England’s Imperial Stirrings: -17th century showed that European crops/livestock had altered the landscape of the Americas -New diseases and conquests led by Europeans had eliminated many native tribes‚ and killed many natives. Several hundred thousand Africans were brought from Africa as slaves by Europeans‚ and forced to work in Caribbean and South American plantations (primarily sugar plantations). -Going from New
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1) The Earliest Americans a) The first settlers of the New World arrived over a land bridge between modern-day Alaska and Russia i) There were more than 54 million people inhabiting the two continents by the time that Europeans arrived in 1492 ii) Over time‚ they split into many tribes‚ developing more than 2‚000 separate languages and cultures iii) Native Americans in Central and South America were hunters‚ gatherers‚ and farmers specializing in maize‚ or corn. (1) About 5000 B.C. hunter-gatherers
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Chapter three preview questions. How does the painting suggest freedom of the colonists was becoming less 1. The painting suggests that freedom was becoming less and less. It shows servants working in the fields‚ along with slaves. The slaves were not receiving money from their owners‚ thus meant they could not making a living. The men on horses are most likely delivering an important item to some one. What are the indications of prosperity that are evident in the 7 foot painting? 2
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| * The first reason that led to English colonization in the Americas was the growing ________. | population | * Another reason that led to English colonization was ________ depression. | economic | * The economic depression in England in part was caused by the _______ acts which allowed land owners to fence in open fields surrounding peasants villages to allow their sheep to graze. | enclosure | * Another reason for the colonization by the English in America was _________. These
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