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Origins of the United
StatesIce Age-1796
4,000,000 b.c.
Human Life as we know it begins
10,000 – 8,000 B.C.
Ice Age Ends
Bridge Disappears
Warmth=Loss of Big Animals
Hunting and Gathering(Small Game, Nuts, Rice
etc.)
About 3,000 B.C.Agriculture Begins
About 1,000 B.C.Trade
Native American Civilizations Begins and Continues Until 1400’s
1400’s Time of Explorationin Europe
Printing Press – 1450’s
1477 Marco Polo’s Account
(1200’s) of Asia Published
1492Columbus – Spain
Accidentally “Discovers” our Hemisphere
Land, Gold, Christianity
Spain begins Colonization
Spain Colonizes New WorldSouthern N. America
Central AmericaSouth America
Force Natives Into SlaveryKill Natives – European Weapons,
Disease
ConquistadoresSpanish Lived with Natives
Married Women
As Natives diedSpanish Replace Slaves with
Africans
Jamestown105 settlers
Virgina (Jamestown Island)
Poor land, marshy, mosquitos
Malaria, Indians only 32 survive winter of 1609-1610
JamestownJamestown
Captain John SmithCaptain John Smith
Higher Survival Higher Survival RateRate
OrganizationOrganization
Smith Return to England
Everything collapses
People eat dogs,cats, man stuffs wife w/flour and eats
her
Hard life
1611 John Rolfe Arrives in Jamestown (marries
Pocahontas)Established the Tobacco
Industry
Disease in VA
Indian Problems (Pocahontas dies 1617)
1625 – PowhatanFight white men
Last chance to keep out the white man
Settlers win
First black slaves arriving in colonies
In General Life was improving for immigrants1650’s on
Freedom of Religion
People living into 60’s
80% born live to marry
Bacon’s RebellionNathaniel Bacon – Tobacco
Plantation (Ouskirts)
Royal Council of VA no supportYet Taxed Bacon and fellows
Rebel against Government
1670-1690
Movement to the Carolinas
(Rice)
Slaves were vitalKnew how to raise rice
Immune to Malaria
Dating Customs
PuritansMales Older
No marriage between 1st cousins
Virginians1st Cousins could marry
Men 10+ yrs older
QuakersNo 1st Cousins
Frontier PeopleSame age
Marry Young(13-15)
Southern Plantations
1750 – 200,000 Slaves
Triangular TradeSingleCrop
RiceCottonRice
Indigo
More
On
Slavery
Later
Growing Trade in the North
WheatFish
LumberShips
Immigrants Providing Labor
The EnlightenmentIntellectual Period of History
1700’s
Worldwide
Ben FranklinLighting rods, bifocals, room
heater, catheder
Enlightenment
What groups would be threatened by
advancement in science?
People question authority
Religious RevivalMovement to believe in God but question the
Church
The French-Indian WarFrench (w/Natives) and British fight
over land
British led – Gen. Washington
Defeats make many question British military
British come back strong(William Pitt)
Defeat French-Native American-Spain
Indians would have been better off with French (trade) than British (families)
British infect Natives with Smallpox blanket
The Stamp Act (1765)
Tax on Newspapers, Cards, Willsand other documents
After Boycott British repeal(Sons of Liberty MA)
(pg.49)
Townshend ActsTax on products from Britain
including popular Tea
Samuel Adams and SOL boycott
4,000 British Troops Arrive
The Boston MassacreMarch 5, 1770
Snowball fightCrispus Attucks killed
Coined “Massacre” by Adams and Revere
The Boston Tea Party
Tea Act – Allows British to sell without Tax and bypass Merchants
December 16, 177315,000 lbs British Tea into
Boston Harbor(Dressed like Native Americans)
Intolerable ActsShut down Boston Harbor
Quartering Act – Housing of British Soldiers in Colonial Homes
King George III
United Colonists(pg. 51)
Choose One
Sugar ActStamp Act
Townshend ActsBoston MassacreIntolerable Acts
Tea TaxQuartering Act and British Soldiers in the Colonies
Create Pamphlet
Pages (6)Title-Cover Page (Attention Grabber)Explanation of the Policy (what is it)
Why it is wrongWhat to do about it
Anything Page (It’s up to you)Back Illustration
Fighting breaks out at Concord and Lexington
Bloody Victory for Colonists
Bunker Hill3 British Dead for
1 Colonist
Shot Heard Round the World
Continue Fight
Washington Named General
Print Money
May 17752nd Continental
Congress
July 4, 1776
“Declaration of Independence”
Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness – Locke
Written by Jefferson
All Men Created Equal?
The Fighting
Defeats : New York and Philadelphia
Victory : New Jersey (Cross Delaware)
Saratoga (Inland kept British near the coast and the French join in)
British Forces Move South
Play Patriot
8
YorktownFrench Army and Navy Arrive
(Marquis de Lafayette)
British Surrounded and Blocked from the Sea
British and Cornwallis Surrender
Each student is given a number. This represents the number of people in the
state they represent.
Each group must work out how the following issues will be worked out if
the states are to come together as one.MilitaryTaxes
System of Common Money
Do not discuss these issues but how you will resolve issues like this. The
voting or command system.
Problems with the Confederation
Each state separate not working for the good of the nation
Change difficult (all states needed to change)
Debt (War) = Taxes
Compromise on the Constitution
Big states want many votesSmall states want equal votesCongress Compromise
Slave = 3/5END
Read Creating a New Government
James Madison-Father of the Constitution
THE BILL OF RIGHTSFreedom of SpeechFreedom of Press
Right to arm one’s selfRight to trialRight to bail
No unusual punishment
Ratification – Approval
Federalist PaperJohn Jay, James Madison,
Alexander Hamilton argue why a strong central government was
needed
Anti-Federalists