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History of the United States

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History of the United States

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  1. History of the United StatesPart 1 Professor: Kevin Armando Brand Fonseca

  2. Howdidthefirstpeoplearrive to America? • Land bridge duringthelast Ice Age, 35000 years ago. • Camefrom Asia and lived in Alaska. • Builtvillages and grewcrops. • Oral tradition • Naturewasimportant (piles of earth in theshape of snakes, birds and pyraminds) • Traded and fought • 2 millionnativepeoplelivedbythe time thefirstEuropeansarrived. EarlyAmerica

  3. TheFirstEuropeans in America • TheNorse (vikings) exploredthe Canadian coast (year 985) • Christopher Columbus and thefirstEuropeanSettlements in 1492 (Islands of theCaribbean) • AmerigoVerpucci in 1497 (the New World) • John Smith (firstEuropeansettlement in North America) EarlyAmerica

  4. Culture (TwoPoints of View) • Renaissances Arcadia: lovely natural landscape inhabited comfortably by simple shepherds • Shaped American writers’ response to nature • American landscape: earthly paradise • Devaluation of civilized society • Search for gold: stimulated penetrations into the North American wilderness • Survival in the wilderness: recurring theme in American literature • New type of hero: tough, self-reliant, experienced, in contact with life at its most elemental levels EarlyAmerica

  5. Quiz Page 7 Homework: The New World EarlyAmerica

  6. WhydidtheEuropeans come to the 13 Colonies? • Englands, theNetherlands, Sweden, Germany, France, Scotland, and Ireland. • Reasons to come: • War • Political and religiousfreedom • 13 Colonies • Northern (New England): Massachusetts, Conneticut, Rhode Island. • MiddleColonies: New York, New Jersey, Pensylvannia, Delaware, and Maryland. • RelationshipbetweenNativeAmericans and Settlerswith ups and downs Colonial Period

  7. TheSystem in the 13 Colonies • Governments based on British tradition of citizen participation • The power of the King had been limited in England • Local assemblies claimed the right to act as a local parliament • Laws decreased the power of the royalty and increased their own power • The colonists and the British had different interests • Search for independence Colonial Period

  8. The Road to Independence • Thecolonieswereasked to helppayforthewarbetweenBritain and France (1750s). • Samuel Adams of Massachusetts (therevolutionarymovement) • Regulationson tea broughtaboutthe Boston Tea Party. • Colonieswereangry. • Differentsolutions • Loyalists • Moderates • Revolutionaries Colonial Period

  9. Culture • Pilgrims and Puritans • Bitter religious controversy in England • Voyaging and starting anew • Predestination: the Elect • Anxiety about spiritual state • One person is as good as another (no aristocracy) • The apocalypse is near. • Internal trials and dissension • Prone to superstition and intolerant dissent • Witchcraft and heresy • Strict laws and orthodox practices: proper godly vigilance Colonial Period

  10. Quiz Page 11 and 15 Homework TheCrucible Colonial Period

  11. Howdiditoccur? • Small fights: theredcoats and theminutemen (1775). • Colonial representativesvotedforwar • George Washington (thecommander-in-chief) • Peaceresolution to King George III • TheDeclaration of Independence (Thomas Jefferson) • ThecongressacceptedtheDeclaration of Independence the 4th of July, 1776. • USA and France became allies. • Peacetreaty in 1783 Revolution

  12. Quiz Page 21 Homework ThePatriot Revolution

  13. A New Nation • The thirteen colonies became the United States of America. • First president was George Washington (1789) • John Adams (2nd president) and Thomas Jefferson (3rd president) had different ideas about government. • The Federalists (north) and the Republicans (south) • Another war against Britain • The Constitution (liberty an order) • USA doubled its size by 1803 (LU and FL) EarlyYears

  14. Culture • Quest for a national identity • Culture? Language? Literature? • Little national sentiment among the states • Economically and culturally “underdeveloped” • No unifying religion or national system of education • Religious variety = greater factionalism • Opposing political tendencies • Regional interests • Philosophical and religious tensions • Westward Expansion EarlyYears

  15. Quiz Page 31 EarlyYears

  16. Prior to theWar.. • Contrasts • New England and the Middle Atlantic States: centers of finance, trade, shipping, and manufacturing. • South: farms (slaves) • Middle Western: farms (free men) • Missouri Compromise • No meddling (North and South) • Underground railroad • Slaves living in the North • Abraham Lincoln • Threatsfromthe South Civil War

  17. Whenthewarbrokeout… • Started in April, 1861. • The South to leave the Union • Lincoln to stop rebellion • 4-year war • The bloodiest conflict for USA • Lincoln gave rights to African americans • The South surrendered • Blacks could vote but were segregated Civil War

  18. Culture • Middle-class, revolutionary nation • Age of the common man?: • Concentrations of wealth in a few hands • Wage slavery • From an agrarian to an industrial economy: inequities • Business failures and unemployment • New opportunities, new labor needs: more immigrants • Movement from the country to the city • Public education • Discovery of California gold (1848): providential, confirmation of national grace and mission Civil War

  19. Quiz Page 41 Homework Lincoln EarlyYears

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