Colonization in America

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Colonization in America
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Europeans Invade America

• Renaissance(Late 1400-1500s)
• Gutenberg Printing Press
• Portuguese Schools in
  Navigation
• Caravel

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Christopher Columbus

• The Great Voyage
• Significance of Columbus (p. 38)
• Pro Continued Interest
• Con Slavery

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French Spanish Colonization

• Spanish and French Colonies
• Goals..., Religious Conversion
• Spanish - Mercantilism
• French - Fur Trade search for the Great
  Northwest Passage

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First English Colonies

• Roanoke Island ... Sir Walter Raleigh
• Jamestown 1607 ...
• John Smith, John Rolfe, Pocahontas
• House of Burgesses
• Plymouth 1620 ... Pilgrams
• 1621 First Thanksgiving

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Conditions in England

• High Unemployment
• Religious Unrest
• The Great Migration of the 1630s

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Massachusetts Bay Colony

• Puritans and the New England Way
• Towns and Church
• Dissenters

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Southern Colonies

• Ex Virginia, Carolinas
• Spread out (Large Plantations)
• Tobacco - lots of labor
• Indentured Servants - Slaves
• Church not powerful

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Pennsylvania Colony

• Proprietary Colony
• Organized Assemblies
• Quakers
• Pacifists
• Indians as equals

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Georgia Colony

• James Oglethorpe ... Trustee
• Special Purpose
• Utopian Society ... Failed

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Colonial Brochure

• 3 Fold Brochure promoting 1 particular colony
  (Tourism type)
• Historically accurate
• Artistic and Informative
• Present a 30-second commercial

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Family Structure

• Basic Social Unit
• Morals, Education
• Childbearing
• Relationships
• Marriage / Divorce

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Slavery

• Background of African Slavery
• Avg. Southern Plantation - 10
• Dependency ... Seeds of Civil War

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Education
New England South

• Puritans ... Reading!
• Education Act (1647)

• Crops more important than Education

Colleges
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Religion

• Decline in Zeal
• Salem Witch Trials ... 1692
• The Great Awakening

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Analysis of Witch Trials

• Puritan Folklore (Scapegoat)
• Holy Bonds (Lies)
• Tituba - Slave
• Ergot Fungus (LSD)
• Uphams Map - Economics
• Resentment / Grudges
• View of Women (Independent)

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Government

• Governor
• Council
• Assembly
• Royal Colony

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Economics

• Mercantilism
• Navigation Acts
• Lack of Control
• Seeds of a Revolution

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Security Problems

• Western Frontier
• Problems with ??
• Albany Plan of Union
• B. Franklin
• French and Indian War
• Proclamation of 1763

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Finished...!