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Give Me Liberty!: An American history, 3rd EditionCopyright © 2011 W.W. Norton & CompanyA map of the Western Hemisphere
• How did the first inhabitants come to the New World?•Bering Strait to tip of S. America•Hunting and Gathering•Agriculture
• 3 sister farming (corn beans squash)
Give Me Liberty!: An American history, 3rd EditionCopyright © 2011 W.W. Norton & CompanyMap 1.1 The first Americans
• What made early Native Americans easy to defeat?•Lack of technology
Give Me Liberty!: An American history, 3rd EditionCopyright © 2011 W.W. Norton & CompanyMap 1.2 Native ways of life, ca.1500
• Native American Religion• Everything has a spiritual component• Single creator
• Land and Property• All communal
• Gender Relations• Men: Hunters Women: Farming• Matrilineal • More rights then European women
• Women could not:•Own property•Control wages•Write wills•Divorce
• European Views of the Indians• Inferior• Uncivilized
• Why was this the perception?• Differences in land use, religion, gender relations
• Lack of European type government
Give Me Liberty!: An American history, 3rd EditionCopyright © 2011 W.W. Norton & Company
Map 1.3 The old world on the eve of Americancolonization, ca.1500
The Expansion of Europe
• Columbus in the New World• Italian sponsored by Spain• Headed west in search of faster route to India/China• “Indians”• Columbian Exchange
• Exploration and Conquest• Spanish
• Cortes and Pizarro• wealth and to spread religion• Indian Slaves (encomienda)• Mestizos
Give Me Liberty!: An American history, 3rd EditionCopyright © 2011 W.W. Norton & CompanyMap 1.4 Voyages of Discovery
Columbian Exchange
Give Me Liberty!: An American history, 3rd EditionCopyright © 2011 W.W. Norton & CompanyAnother scene from the Florentine Codex
• Spanish Florida• Spain in the Southwest
• Onate – Santa Fe, NM (1598)• The Pueblo Revolt (Pope’s Rebellion)
• Destroyed Spanish relics• Later reconquered
Give Me Liberty!: An American history, 3rd EditionCopyright © 2011 W.W. Norton & Company
Map 1.5 A Spanish Conquests and Explorationsin The New World, 1500–1600
• French Colonization• New France (Canada)• Small Numbers
• New France and the Indians• Fur trade• Positive interactions with Natives• Negatives?
• The Dutch Empire•Samuel de Champlain•Henry Hudson
• New Amsterdam (NY) 1624
Give Me Liberty!: An American history, 3rd EditionCopyright © 2011 W.W. Norton & Company
Map 1.6 The New World-New France andNew Netherland, ca. 1650
• Unifying the English Nation• Protestant Reformation• Anti-Catholic
• English Emigrants• Poor in VA and MD
• Indentured Servants• Labor in exchange for passage
• Liberty and Slavery• Abundance of land
• Englishmen and Indians• Land purchase, treaties and war
• The Transformation of Indian Life• Appreciation to Resentment
• Changes in the Land
• The Jamestown Colony (1607)• Virginia Company• In search of wealth• Early failure
• From Company to Society• House of Burgesses• 1619 first slaves
• Powhatan and Pocahantas• The Uprising of 1622
• Powhatan’s successor attacks settlers• Settlers retaliate
Give Me Liberty!: An American history, 3rd EditionCopyright © 2011 W.W. Norton & CompanyMap 2.1 English settlement in the Chesapeake, ca. 1650
• The Maryland Experiment• Tobacco• Feudal
• Religion in Maryland• Catholic haven
• The Rise of Puritanism• Against religious authority in Anglican church• Calvinism - predestination
• Massachusetts Bay• John Winthrop• “City Upon a Hill”
• The Pilgrims at Plymouth• Mayflower: Mayflower Compact• Thanksgiving
• The Great Migration• Men & women• Wealth• Less indentured servitude
• Roger Williams - Rhode Island• The Trials of Anne Hutchinson
• Antinomianism
Give Me Liberty!: An American history, 3rd EditionCopyright © 2011 W.W. Norton & CompanyMap 2.2 English Settlement in New England, ca. 1640
• Puritans and Indians• The Pequot War
• 500 Native American men, women and children killed• Led to expansion
• The New England Economy• The Merchant Elite• The Half-Way Covenant
• Allowed for church membership without conversion
• The Rights of Englishmen• Magna Carta 1215• All free men• Due process before imprisonment and seizure of property