Origins of the United

StatesIce Age-1796

First Day of SchoolReview SyllabusClass business

Pep Talk

4,000,000 b.c.

Human Life as we know it begins

Beringia Theory

Ice AgeFrozen Ice Bridge

Disputed

Woolly Mammoth 1 ton+

10,000 – 8,000 B.C.

Ice Age Ends

Bridge Disappears

Warmth=Loss of Big Animals

Hunting and Gathering(Small Game, Nuts, Rice

etc.)

About 3,000 B.C.Agriculture Begins

About 1,000 B.C.Trade

Native American Civilizations Begins and Continues Until 1400’s

1400’s Time of Explorationin Europe

Printing Press – 1450’s

1477 Marco Polo’s Account

(1200’s) of Asia Published

By 1488 Sailing Improves

1492Columbus – Spain

Accidentally “Discovers” our Hemisphere

Land, Gold, Christianity

Spain begins Colonization

Spain Colonizes New WorldSouthern N. America

Central AmericaSouth America

Force Natives Into SlaveryKill Natives – European Weapons,

Disease

ConquistadoresSpanish Lived with Natives

Married Women

As Natives diedSpanish Replace Slaves with

Africans

1588

England defeats Spanish Armada

Spain’s Control of Atlantic Ends

French SettlementsFrench came for

trade

Furs and fish

Dutch SettlementsFirst to settle New York

(New Amsterdam)

English Settlement(Focus of the Day)

1584 Roanoke Mystery

Sir Walter Raleigh

Est. Colony for England

Roanoke Island, NC

1590 Other English Arrive

They are gone

Did they leaveJoin the Indians

Killed Nobody knows

Jamestown105 settlers

Virgina (Jamestown Island)

Poor land, marshy, mosquitos

Malaria, Indians only 32 survive winter of 1609-1610

JamestownJamestown

Captain John SmithCaptain John Smith

Higher Survival Higher Survival RateRate

OrganizationOrganization

Smith makes Peace with Powhatan Tribe

Pocahontas

Smith Return to England

Everything collapses

People eat dogs,cats, man stuffs wife w/flour and eats

her

Hard life

1611 John Rolfe Arrives in Jamestown (marries

Pocahontas)Established the Tobacco

Industry

Disease in VA

Indian Problems (Pocahontas dies 1617)

Most of 3500 die

1625 – PowhatanFight white men

Last chance to keep out the white man

Settlers win

First black slaves arriving in colonies

By 1630’s Jamestown a Successful

Colony

Tobacco

Plymouth, MA

Pilgrams

Religious Reasons - Puritans

Boston 1000 leave in 163012,000 by 1642

Play Plymouth DVD Clip

The Puritans

No Catholicism at allDevoted to God

No SinsThe “Elected” Group to go

to heaven

Came here to be a separate group out of

society

In General Life was improving for immigrants1650’s on

Freedom of Religion

People living into 60’s

80% born live to marry

Bacon’s RebellionNathaniel Bacon – Tobacco

Plantation (Ouskirts)

Royal Council of VA no supportYet Taxed Bacon and fellows

Rebel against Government

Before 1649 Most Afro-Americans were free

Some owned landsSome slaves

1670-1690

Movement to the Carolinas

(Rice)

Slaves were vitalKnew how to raise rice

Immune to Malaria

As Slaves outnumbered

whites,treatment of slaves

worsened

Why ?

Pennsylvania

Charles II owes William Penn

Gives him unsettled land

Penn leads Quakers to PA.

1660-85 15,000 Quakers Jailed in England

by 1687 18,000 Quakers in the New World

The QuakersBelieve God can

inspire allNo respect for

money or familyjust spirituality

More QuakersReligious leaders = Friends

All friends equal (Women too !)

Didn’t bear arms

Quakers

Set up organized government

Leading colonial port

Penn dies in debt prison

Dating Customs

PuritansMales Older

No marriage between 1st cousins

Virginians1st Cousins could marry

Men 10+ yrs older

QuakersNo 1st Cousins

Frontier PeopleSame age

Marry Young(13-15)

Southern Plantations

1750 – 200,000 Slaves

Triangular TradeSingleCrop

RiceCottonRice

Indigo

More

On

Slavery

Later

Growing Trade in the North

WheatFish

LumberShips

Immigrants Providing Labor

The EnlightenmentIntellectual Period of History

1700’s

Worldwide

Ben FranklinLighting rods, bifocals, room

heater, catheder

Franklin usedhis newspaperto spread theideas of the

Enlightenment

Enlightenment

What groups would be threatened by

advancement in science?

People question authority

Religious RevivalMovement to believe in God but question the

Church

The French-Indian WarFrench (w/Natives) and British fight

over land

British led – Gen. Washington

Defeats make many question British military

British come back strong(William Pitt)

Defeat French-Native American-Spain

Indians would have been better off with French (trade) than British (families)

British infect Natives with Smallpox blanket

Treaty of ParisBritish get Canada, East of Mississippi, Florida from Spain

(w/France)

Today concentrate onTopics for Project 1

The Sugar ActOne judge for smugglers

Lower tax on foreign molasses

New Taxes

(pg. 48-49)

The Stamp Act (1765)

Tax on Newspapers, Cards, Willsand other documents

After Boycott British repeal(Sons of Liberty MA)

(pg.49)

Townshend ActsTax on products from Britain

including popular Tea

Samuel Adams and SOL boycott

4,000 British Troops Arrive

The Boston MassacreMarch 5, 1770

Snowball fightCrispus Attucks killed

Coined “Massacre” by Adams and Revere

The Boston Tea Party

Tea Act – Allows British to sell without Tax and bypass Merchants

December 16, 177315,000 lbs British Tea into

Boston Harbor(Dressed like Native Americans)

Intolerable ActsShut down Boston Harbor

Quartering Act – Housing of British Soldiers in Colonial Homes

King George III

United Colonists(pg. 51)

Choose One

Sugar ActStamp Act

Townshend ActsBoston MassacreIntolerable Acts

Tea TaxQuartering Act and British Soldiers in the Colonies

Create Pamphlet

Pages (6)Title-Cover Page (Attention Grabber)Explanation of the Policy (what is it)

Why it is wrongWhat to do about it

Anything Page (It’s up to you)Back Illustration

September 1774

First Continental Congress

Run Own Affairs

Stockpile Weapons

Minutemen

Fighting breaks out at Concord and Lexington

Bloody Victory for Colonists

Bunker Hill3 British Dead for

1 Colonist

Shot Heard Round the World

Continue Fight

Washington Named General

Print Money

May 17752nd Continental

Congress

Pamphlet – Common Sense

by Thomas Paine

Independence from the Royal Brute

July 4, 1776

“Declaration of Independence”

Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness – Locke

Written by Jefferson

All Men Created Equal?

Playfireworks

Conflicts

Loyalists and Patriots

Native Americans

and Colonists

The Fighting

Defeats : New York and Philadelphia

Victory : New Jersey (Cross Delaware)

Saratoga (Inland kept British near the coast and the French join in)

British Forces Move South

Play Patriot

8

YorktownFrench Army and Navy Arrive

(Marquis de Lafayette)

British Surrounded and Blocked from the Sea

British and Cornwallis Surrender

Showrevolutionary Boston and

PhillyHomeDVD

You are the Founding Fathers

Each student is given a number. This represents the number of people in the

state they represent.

Each group must work out how the following issues will be worked out if

the states are to come together as one.MilitaryTaxes

System of Common Money

Do not discuss these issues but how you will resolve issues like this. The

voting or command system.

Discuss and Post Results

Problems with the Confederation

Each state separate not working for the good of the nation

Change difficult (all states needed to change)

Debt (War) = Taxes

Compromise on the Constitution

Big states want many votesSmall states want equal votesCongress Compromise

Slave = 3/5END

Read Creating a New Government

James Madison-Father of the Constitution

THE BILL OF RIGHTSFreedom of SpeechFreedom of Press

Right to arm one’s selfRight to trialRight to bail

No unusual punishment

Ratification – Approval

Federalist PaperJohn Jay, James Madison,

Alexander Hamilton argue why a strong central government was

needed

Anti-Federalists

Farmers in Trouble

Couldn’t pay tax = Lost Land

Daniel Shays leads army of farmers against

the government(Shay’s Rebellion)