what is history-lesson 1

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?

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