Early American History of Immigration & Native Americans

1. Early American History of Immigration & Native Americans EQ: How did immigration impact the early beginnings of America?

2. Snapshot of the Period • Pp. 2-3 • 1492 . . . N. America populated by ___________ __________ Native American tribes. (via Bering Strait) • Why were they called “Indians”? • Europeans: missionaries, ____________, explorers, fleeing religious persecution; later – slaves . . . Was there a difference in the motivations of these groups? • 1699 . . . Colonies/towns along the Atlantic to ____ ______________ • 1776 . . . 13 colonies declared independence from Britain.

3. Peoples • _____: Florida, Jesuit priests to California & Texas; 1565 St. Augustine (circa 1520 Edisto Island!) • _____: Maine & Gulf of Mexico • ______: New Amsterdam (later called New York) & Delaware • ______: 1607 Jamestown. Puritans in Virginia, New England, Pennsylvania, who later took over all the other nations’ colonies ENLARGING territory • ____ _____________: restricted more & more DECREASING territory (though concept of land ownership was different)

4. Historical Background • First Americans: helped the settlers (crops, survival); corn, squash, canoes • Puritans, ________: Mayflower landed at Plymouth, Mass. 1620. Puritans (who tried to purify the Church of England) were now called Pilgrims. They believed in “____ upon a hill” (model community). Puritanism declined till 1720s Great Awakening. “Puritan ethic” of hard work and self-discipline. • Planters: Southern Colonies differed in______+, crops, social organization, & _______. Large plantations, more aristocratic & elegant than Puritans. (upper class and from Church of England) . . . Flipside?

5. Philosophy • Age of _________valued science, logic, and reason over faith. People are good by nature and can build a better society, a “social contract.”

6. Politics • Birth of a Nation (b/c of taxes like the Stamp Act, Townshend Acts, Tea Act, Coercive Acts “taxation without representation”) • 1774 meeting in Philadelphia of the____ ________ ______; • 1775 Lexington & Concord fired “the shot heard round the world.” • 6 yrs. of war. Allies were __________ & African-Americans. (Rmember THE PATRIOT with Mel Gibson?) • 1781 British surrendered. • Conflict existed internally until the Constitution & Bill of Rights were ratified. • First presidents: Washington, ______, Jefferson

7. Key Themes • ____________: “city upon a hill”: ideal community founded on moral & religious values • WILDERNESScould be productive (____) & dangerous (_______). • _____________: People are basically good and can use reason to found a better society (education***). • INDIVIDUALISM: independence, self-reliance