MR. LIPMAN

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MR. LIPMANS APUS REVIEW

• Unit 1
• Chapters 1-5

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• Portuguese sailors go East around Africa to reach
  India (Dias and Da Gama)
• Spanish sailors go West across Atlantic seeking
  to reach India but instead find Americas
  (Columbus, Balboa, Magellan, Ponce de Leon,
  Coronado, Soto, Pizarro)
• English are late to the settlement era and must
  go North because Spain was in South (Cabot is
  first but few will follow)

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• Treaty of Tordesillas
• Reasons for exploration and settlement include
  the 3 Gs
• Spanish intermarry and assimilate
• English will push Indians away
• Columbian Exchange changes world trade and begins
  1st stage of globalization
• English first settlements
• Roanoke 1585
• Jamestown 1607

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KEY FACTORS FOR ENGLANDS COLONIZATION

1. Defeat of Spain
2. Enclosure Acts
3. Primogeniture Laws
4. Joint-Stock Companies

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• Virginia has house of Burgess , Bacons
  Rebellion, and Tobacco
• Maryland is haven for Catholics (Act of
  Toleration)
• New York Dutch forced out by English
• Rice is big in Carolinas until Tobacco becomes
  popular
• Indentured servants (headright system)are labor
  source until they are replaced by slaves and the
  triangle trade (Stono Rebellion and NYC
  rebellions bring harsher treatment)

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• Religion Issues
• Calvinism (pre-determination)
• Deism (god exists but man creates life he leads)
• Puritans
• Separatists (Mayflower)
• Great Migration begins in 1630s
• John Winthrop (A city upon a hill Boston)
• Anne Hutchinson
• Roger Williams
• King Philips War (shows Indians will not survive)

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• Dominion of New England and Andros
• Navigation Laws and Mercantilism
• William Penn and land of friends
• England to busy fighting at home to watch and
  govern early colonies and this creates feeling of
  independence
• New England colonies prosper based on trade
• Middle colonies based on both trade and
  agriculture
• Religious tolerance of others was mostly a myth
  in the colonies

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• Halfway Covenant (1662)
• Salem witch trial (1692)
• New Englanders would migrate as families but
  Southern settlements featured mostly men
• Women had few rights
• South develops as an oligarchy society
• First Great Awakening Jonathan Edwards and
  George Whitefield(1730s)
• Education begins to gain importance
• Zenger Trial (1735)
• Colonial Assemblys and the Power of the Purse

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Ethnic and Racial Composition of the American
People, 1790