Standard 1: Founding of the US

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Standard 1 Founding of the US

• Standard USHC-1 The student will demonstrate an
  understanding of the conflicts between regional
  and national interest in the development of
  democracy in the United States.

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• USHC-1.1 Summarize the distinct characteristics
  of each colonial region in the settlement and
  development of British North America, including
  religious, social, political, and economic
  differences.

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Standard 1.1 cont.

• The 1st settlement in the US was.
• Roanoke
• The 1st PERMANENT
• settlement was at Jamestown, VA
• Disastrous at first, sickness, death, mostly men
  any success was due to John Smith
• Eventually John Rolfe finds tobacco ?prosper

Real or legend?
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Standard 1.1

• Why did Europeans come over here?
• GOD
• GOLD
• GLORY

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USHC-1.1 Summarize the distinct characteristics
of each colonial region in the settlement and
development of British North America, including
religious, social, political, and economic
differences

• Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay colonies were
  settled next
• More successful in beginning than Jamestown. Why?
• They cooperated with the Native Americans and
  learned about their new land ?survival skills
• The Puritans founded Mass Bay (will become
  Boston)
• Pilgrims founded Plymouth

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• So.the EARLY Northern Colonies
• Had NO RELIGIOUS TOLERATION
• Rhode Island will be founded for more religious
  tolerance
• They were subsistence farmers
• They are known for
• ship building, trading, and fishing
• Education was HUGELY important to them because it
  brought people closer to the Bible
• Town Hall Meetings

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• Standard 1.1 cont.
• Society
• New England and mid-Atlantic colonies initially
  developed egalitarian society based on religious
  equality that fostered the development of
  democratic ideals.
• The Congregational (Puritan) church fostered the
  development of towns and educational institutions
  and shaped N. England society.
• South
• The South developed a hierarchical social
  structure bc of the plantation system and their
  dependence on indentured servants later slaves.
• The slave system was transplanted to the
  Carolinas from Barbados
• Little to no schools land
• Georgia was initially a penal colony but it soon
  became a plantation colony that allowed slavery.

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• Politics
• Political traditions of the mother country
  impacted colonists.
• Magna Carta impacted Parliament ideas brought to
  colonies
• Democracy in colonies Virginias House of
  Burgesses and the New England town meeting.
• South? less democratic slavery
• Civil War in England brought Salutary neglect to
  colonies ?authority of the king in the colonies
  and strengthened the role of colonial assemblies.
  
• British subjects in the colonies were loyal to
  the Crown, but believed that only their colonial
  assemblies had the power to tax them
• The English Civil War, the Glorious Revolution
  and the English Bill of Right all influenced the
  colonists perception of their rights as
  Englishmen

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• Standard 1.1 cont
• Economies
• Geographic location and the natural resources
  determined economy
• Shipbuilding, merchants and fishermen.
• New Englanders didnt need slaves like the
  Southern colonists due to geographic conditions
  ?impacted views of democracy.
• The Mid-Atlantic colonies had fertile soil and
  moderate climate and developed an export trade in
  food stuffs
• The Southern colonies used their wide expanses of
  fertile soil to grow cash crops, such as tobacco,
  rice, and indigo, with slave labor and to export
  these crops on the ships of New England.
• Cotton was not a major export crop of the
  colonial era
• The 3 regions developed were interconnected and
  traded with the British Caribbean as well as
  trade across the Atlantic with Africa and Europe.
  

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• Standard 1.2 Analyze the early development of
  representative government and political rights in
  the American colonies, including the influence of
  the British political system and the rule of law
  as written in the Magna Carta and the English
  Bill of Rights, and the conflict between the
  colonial legislatures and the British Parliament
  over the right to tax that resulted in the
  American Revolutionary War.

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Standard 1.2

• Representative govt developed? experienced in
  England and their new life changed them.
• The English settlers brought with them concepts
  from British govt- ex Magna Carta and the
  English Bill of Rights.
• The Magna Carta recognized the rights of
  Englishmen in relation to taxes and rights of the
  accused.
• Colonial charters declared that English colonists
  continued to enjoy the rights of Englishmen.
• English political tradition also included the
  rule of law, the principle that every member of
  society must obey the law, even the king.
• Laws are clear, well-understood, and fairly
  enforced.
• The English Bill of Rights reiterated that the
  people have the right to be consulted, through
  their representatives, on the levying of taxes.

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1.2 cont.

• It established that the power of the king
  (executive) should be limited by the Parliament.
• The English Bill of Rights states that the
  people have the right to religious freedom which
  is included in the First Amendment in the
  American Bill of Rights.
• The settlers applied the principles of the right
  of the legislature to levy taxes and the rule of
  law to their colonial governments.