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8/9/2019 What is History-Lesson 1
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U.S HistoryBeginnings of Beginnings:
The Race to Colonize
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What is History?The past is useless. That explains why it is past. -Wright Morrisimgres
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A Timeline
1492-1754Discovery,
Settlement,
Expansion
1660-1750Colonial Society
1754-1776Move to
Independence
1775-1783AmericanRevolution,
Drafting the
Constitution
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Europe, 16th CenturyWhat spurred European exploration?
- Crusades puts England in contact with
luxury goods
- new trade routes- technological advances (compass &
astrolab)
- nation states and a competitive rivalry
- adventurous spirit from the Renaissance
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The Age of Exploration(stop at 2:10)
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Simply Spanish
-first colonization efforts by
Columbus (town of Isabella)fails
-The English admire Spanishindustry, but horrified bytheir treatment of natives
-Its Englands arrival that wedate the beginnings of
American history-Richard Hakluyt
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Colony Date Founded By Reasons Importance
Plymouth 1620 Pilgrims Religious Freedom Mayflower Compact
Massachusetts Bay -----Plymouth andMassachusetts Bay joined
1630
1691
Puritans, Mass BayCompany
Religious Freedom; build acity on a hill
representative govtthrough election to generalcourt
New Hampshire & Maine
New Hampshire
1622
1679
John Mason, SirFerdinando Gorges
Royal Charter from CharlesII
Profit from trading andfishing
Colonists from Mass. moveinto area; by 1650s under
Mass. control
Connecticut 1636
1662
Thomas Hooker
Recieves charter from king;
becomes royal colony
Expansion of trade,religious and politicalfreedoms; limited
government
Fundamental Orders ofConn: 1)any man owning
property can vote, 2)
limited power of governor
Rhode Island 1636 Roger Williams buys landfroom Narraganetts
Religious Tolerat ion Separates church and state,unlike Mass. Bay colony
13 New England Colonies
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American History
first expeditions to America were unmarked (a secular effort with
no religious dimension)
Colonists had to rely on England to supply food or grow their own;hence England decided to send out whole families (Why?)
the notion of using human unwanteds (criminals, religiousminorities) was accepted by the 1590s as practical
Virginia Company forms in 1606; founds Jamestown in 1607
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But...before that..
Webquest!
Who was Sir Walter
Ralegh [Raliegh]?
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A Ghost Story?John White and the Aid
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So. American History.
...raises 3 fundamental questions:
1. can a nation rise above the injustices of its
origins?2. can said nation atone for those injustices?3. have we forged a nation where righteiousness
succeeds over self interest, a city on the hill so to
speak?