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Origins of the United States Ice Age-1796. First Day of School Review Syllabus Class business Pep Talk. 4,000,000 b.c. Human Life as we know it begins. Beringia Theory. Ice Age Frozen Ice Bridge Disputed Woolly Mammoth 1 ton+.
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Beringia Theory Ice Age Frozen Ice Bridge Disputed Woolly Mammoth 1 ton+
10,000 – 8,000 B.C.Ice Age EndsBridge DisappearsWarmth=Loss of Big AnimalsHunting and Gathering(Small Game, Nuts, Rice etc.)
About 3,000 B.C.Agriculture BeginsAbout 1,000 B.C.Trade Native American Civilizations Begins and Continues Until 1400’s
1400’s Time of Explorationin EuropePrinting Press – 1450’s 1477 Marco Polo’s Account (1200’s) of Asia Published
1492Columbus – SpainAccidentally “Discovers” our Hemisphere Land, Gold, ChristianitySpain begins Colonization
Spain Colonizes New WorldSouthern N. AmericaCentral AmericaSouth AmericaForce Natives Into SlaveryKill Natives – European Weapons, Disease
ConquistadoresSpanish Lived with NativesMarried WomenAs Natives diedSpanish Replace Slaves with Africans
1588England defeats Spanish ArmadaSpain’s Control of Atlantic Ends
French Settlements French came for trade Furs and fish
Dutch Settlements First to settle New York (New Amsterdam)
1584 Roanoke MysterySir Walter RaleighEst. Colony for England Roanoke Island, NC
1590 Other English ArriveThey are goneDid they leaveJoin the IndiansKilled Nobody knows
Jamestown105 settlersVirgina (Jamestown Island)Poor land, marshy, mosquitosMalaria, Indians only 32 survive winter of 1609-1610
Smith Return to EnglandEverything collapsesPeople eat dogs,cats, man stuffs wife w/flour and eats herHard life
1611 John Rolfe Arrives in Jamestown (marries Pocahontas)Established the Tobacco IndustryDisease in VAIndian Problems (Pocahontas dies 1617)
1625 – PowhatanFight white menLast chance to keep out the white manSettlers winFirst black slaves arriving in colonies
Plymouth, MAPilgramsReligious Reasons - PuritansBoston 1000 leave in 163012,000 by 1642
The PuritansNo Catholicism at allDevoted to GodNo SinsThe “Elected” Group to go to heaven
In General Life was improving for immigrants1650’s onFreedom of ReligionPeople living into 60’s80% born live to marry
Bacon’s RebellionNathaniel Bacon – Tobacco Plantation (Ouskirts)Royal Council of VA no supportYet Taxed Bacon and fellowsRebel against Government
Before 1649 Most Afro-Americans were freeSome owned landsSome slaves
1670-1690Movement to the Carolinas(Rice)Slaves were vitalKnew how to raise riceImmune to Malaria
As Slaves outnumbered whites,treatment of slaves worsenedWhy ?
Pennsylvania Charles II owes William Penn Gives him unsettled land Penn leads Quakers to PA.
1660-85 15,000 Quakers Jailed in Englandby 1687 18,000 Quakers in the New World
The Quakers Believe God can inspire all No respect for money or family just spirituality
More Quakers Religious leaders = Friends All friends equal (Women too !) Didn’t bear arms
QuakersSet up organized governmentLeading colonial portPenn dies in debt prison
Dating CustomsPuritansMales OlderNo marriage between 1st cousinsVirginians1st Cousins could marryMen 10+ yrs older Quakers No 1st Cousins Frontier People Same age Marry Young (13-15)
Southern Plantations1750 – 200,000 SlavesTriangular Trade More On Slavery Later Single Crop Rice Cotton Rice Indigo
Growing Trade in the North Wheat Fish Lumber Ships Immigrants Providing Labor
The EnlightenmentIntellectual Period of History1700’sWorldwideBen FranklinLighting rods, bifocals, room heater, catheder