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Explore the diverse history of the United States, from Native American origins to immigration waves that shaped the nation. Discover the impact of European colonization, African slavery, and the fight for independence. Dive into the complexities of American identity. Previewing notes and essential questions help deepen your understanding of this rich history.
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consider the quote: “The United States is a land of immigrants.” Is this true? Why or why not?
essential question: How did Native American land become the United States?
Previewing notes allows you to better understand the lecture. For fill-in-the-blank notes, think about what might go into the blank (like Mad Libs). You may even want to write your guess in pencil (so that you can erase if necessary). Ask questions about any of the words or notes in general before the lecture so that you are prepared.
Populating the Americas • Native Americans came over on ice from Asia during the Ice Age; spread throughout North and South America
Cunne Shote, one of three Cherokee chiefs who visited London in 1762, had this portrait painted there. North American Indian Peoples at the Time of First Contact with Europeans
Women were the principal farmers in most Native American societies, growing corn, beans, and other crops that made up most of their food supply. This sixteenth-century French engraving shows Indian men preparing the soil for cultivation and Indian women sowing seeds in neat rows.
Europeans came to make money (i.e. gold and crops) and convert Native Americans to Christianity; brought many diseases to the Americas Smallpox was one of the deadliest of these imported diseases. This Aztec drawing illustrates smallpox's impact, from the initial appearance of skin lesions through death. Traditional Indian medical practices were unable to cure such diseases, and physical contact between shamans and patients actually helped to spread them. The Great English Migrations, c. 1630–1642
Ethnic Distribution of Non-Indian Inhabitants of British Mainland Colonies, c. 1770. By the third quarter of the eighteenth century, the colonial population was astonishingly diverse. Immigrant Groups in 1775
Estimated Populations of Selected Indian Peoples, 1600–1730; Indian populations shrank dramatically due to diseases brought by Europeans from the Old World. By about 1750, native peoples had become a minority of the inhabitants of America north of the Rio Grande.
Hispanics are rooted in a blending of Spanish and Native Americans from Spanish colonies in central and South America Spain’s North American Frontier, 1542-1823
Africans were brought over from West Africa to work on fields as slaves
Although this watercolor of a slave ship bound for Brazil dates from the 19th century, it depicts a scene common on slavers in the 1700s. This 1769 broadside advertised the arrival of a cargo of West African slaves in Charleston, South Carolina. By that date, slaves made up over two-thirds of the colony’s settlers.
This eighteenth-century painting from South Carolina records the preservation of certain African traditions in American slave communities. The dance may be Yoruba in origin, while the stringed instrument and drum were probably modeled on African instruments.
British Colonies • commercial North (i.e. shipping)
agricultural South (i.e. plantations) While a planter smokes a pipe and confers with his overseer, slaves on this Chesapeake plantation perform all of the tasks related to planting, cultivating, harvesting, sorting, packaging, and delivering the profitable tobacco. Slaves also fashioned the tools for coopering and made barrels for transporting hogsheads of "the weed." Ships in the background navigate right up to the edge of the plantation lands.
French and Indian War • colonies and British defeat French
territory added to west North America After 1763 (after French losses) war North America Before 1754
“No taxation without representation” • British tax colonies to pay war debts (i.e. Stamp Act) Newspaper, pamphlets, and other documents had to have a stamp on it like this one to prove the tax was paid. This cartoon, the first to appear in a colonial American newspaper, was printed in the Pennsylvania Gazette in the spring of 1754. It refers to the plan for a colonial union that was put forward at the Albany Congress. The image alludes to the folk belief that a severed snake could revive if its parts were rejoined before sundown.
Colonists organize and protest (i.e. Boston Tea Party) “The Bostonian’s Paying the Excise-Man; or, Tarring & Feathering.” This print, published in London in 1774, satirizes American resistance to British tax measures. Four men representing a broad range of social classes pour tea down the throat of a tax collector while the Boston Tea Party takes place in the background. depiction of the Boston Tea Party
The Boston Massacre, March 5, 1770, in an engraving by Paul Revere. Copied from an earlier print, Revere’s widely circulated version shows—somewhat inaccurately—well-organized soldiers firing on helpless civilians; the names of the dead, including Crispus Attucks, appear below.
Declaration of Independence begins the Revolutionary War • America wins with help from the French • George Washington emerges as a hero This is a romanticized depiction of Washington crossing the Delaware.
North America after the Peace of Paris, 1783: The results of the American Revolution redrew the map of North America, confining Britain to Canada and giving the United States most of the area east of the Mississippi River, though Spain controlled its mouth for most of the next 20 years.
Articles of Confederation • gave most power to the states an original copy of the Articles of Confederation
a need for strong central government obvious (i.e. infighting, western lands, trade) This clash between Shays’s rebels and government troops at the Springfield arsenal marked the violent climax of the agrarian protests of the 1780s.
Constitutional Convention • sets up government as we know it (3 branches, checks and balances, etc.) Washington presides over the Constitutional Convention.
Bill of Rights leads to ratification • people feared strong central government, so amendments guaranteeing freedoms are added to Constitution
states eventually all agree The Ratification Vote on the Constitution—Aside from some frontier districts exposed to possible foreign attack, the strongest support for the Constitution came from coastal and interior areas tied into a developing commercial economy.
Most pages in your notebook will have a question at the top. Your homework most nights is to make sure that you can answer that question in your own words (not copying notes). To get the hang of it, practice here. If you have trouble, look back over your notes and/or ask Mr. Friedman questions, then try again. How did Native American land become the United States?
The U.S. before 1789 timeline Put the events in the correct order by placing the letters in the blanks.
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