Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Notes for Part 2

Part 2
French Victory
British Surrender
   -Surrender with honor after forts wall have been breached
After Battle
   - French and British- natives response
Having Dinner together. Natives weren't invited.
European Conspiracy.
Natives feel insulted. attack british after french told them they would have a safe passage. Natives Surrounded them. Took everything. Beat them. 75 killed. 500 taken captive, some given back.
British Feel insulted after the treaty signed.
Leaves Canada in crisis. French cant keep indian allies, cant win the war for north america.
Long run- run out of forces and british. 





Events covered in PART II

1755 William Johnson and Iroquois council fire
1755 The Bloody Morning Scout and Battle of Lake George
1758 Capture of Mary Jemison
1755-1758 Virginia Regiment led by George Washington patrols the frontier
1755 New Englanders demand enlistment terms; British command sees shades of rebellion
1756 Montcalm meets Indian allies
1756 Mary Jemison’sadoption into the Seneca nation
1755-1758 Removal of the Acadians from Nova Scotia
1757 French capture Ft. Oswego and Ft. William Henry;
Montcalm frays allegiance with Indian allies



Don't Know Much About History- Say You Want A Revolution- Notes


King Philips War
Summer 1767
Metacom/King Philip
Vicious war/Mahegans Indians

Nat Bacon’s rebellion
1676
Governor Berkeley
-Limits colonist expansion
Bacon raises troops and goes and kills Indians
Berkeley declares bacon an ____
Bacon burns down Berkeley’s mansion
British troops come

Salem Witch Trials
Important: Shows the dangers of church/State connection

The Great Awakening
Jonathan Edwards-
Sinners in the hand of an angry god
Leads to the founding of many Universities
-Princeton, Brown,
Divisions of church/state

French & Indian War
French/English world domination & North America
William Pitt
-Conquests of North America
Able to borrow/reuse money to win the war


Sons of Liberty
Samuel Adams
James Otis
-“No taxation without representation”
-an excuse for war/rebellion

Tea Act
Intolerable Acts
            -Close down Boston harbor
            -Revoked Massachusetts’s charter
            -Soldiers
            -Administration of justice Act
            -Quebec Act


Shot Heard Around the World
            -Lexington and Concord, April 1775
                       




Notes for Part 1

1750- Britain hold east coast
Canada- Mississippi valley- French
Ohio company- empty up for grabs
Both France and Britain want the forks of the Ohio- (Pittsburgh)
Natives own it
Half King is willing to talk to it.
Any friendship with English will not escape the French.
Women elders provide council for important decisions
Indians prefer French
Good trade? Alliance with Britain would be good.
 Natives rely on European good for survival
Wampum- war/peace/friendship- no negotiation would be complete
Half king- playing a game between British and French
British- Except belt- living together as one. Talking for a week. Agrees to the Virginians to have a small trading post at the edge of the forks.
French not going to give up forks without a fight.

Gw helped natives go against French- first taste of war
Makes plans to comnfrount French and take back the forks- half king be britsh alliy
Only Indian alli leaves
Fench come with their Indian alliys
Washington intends to fight face to face in the field.
Battle of necessity- bad one for Washington- open field. Why Half king left
Coundt read French- signed a document that said he assassinated someone.
Half king was assassinated by naticves because he  acts on his own- starts the coming of a war. Political reason- withouth the backing of the iriquiois group.

French go to canansda
British go to____
Edward brafdict- British general- attack fort ducan- forks of ohio. Gets ambushed
Fort ducan- French and idinan allies
British go ___miles in__days
French try to stop them at the river
British don’t know how to fight like the inidians
Frecnch -21 dead
Brirtish -1000 dead or inggereed
General beaddock- to conifident- over come anything in his way, no second plan.

Events covered in Part I:

Date Events Covered
1752-1754 Virginia parleys with Tanaghrisson to build trading post;
Washington’s trek to Ft. Le Boeuf
1754 French expel Virginians who built a small fort at the Forks of the Ohio
1754 Incident at Jumonville Glen
1754 Capitulation of Ft. Necessity
1754 Iroquois neutrality
1754-1755 France and Great Britain prepare for war
1755 Braddock’s Expedition and the Battle of the Monongahela

Sunday, September 18, 2011

pg. 126 questions

8. Immigration played a big role in the growth of the population. Also women married early and had large families.

9. Tidewater plantations were a region of flat low-lying plains along the seacoast. It was a self-containes community, with fields stretched out and surrounding buildings. The backcountry was a region of hills and the Appalachian mountains. They grew corn and tobaccos, with the help of family, or one or two slaves.

10. It was a religious revival that swept through the colonies. Ministers called for a "New Birth," or a return to the strong faith of earlier days. This lead to the formation of many new churches.

11. Quakers

12. In New England the soil was thin and rocky, which made large-scale famring very difficult. They practiced subsistence farming, which only provided just enought to support their familes. In the middle colonies the soil was fertile. They produced larger harvest than in New England.  They grew cash crops that could be easily sold in the colonies and overseas.

13. It was a group of Native Americans that remained independent, that traded with the British and the French, by skillfully playing them against each other.

14. To insure that only Britain benefited trade from the colonies.

15. They started thinking about knowledge, science, and philosophy.

16. The Continent was divided between great Britain and spain with the Mississippi River marking the boundary.

17. Because the people who owned shares in land companies, that had already bought land west of the mountains, their claims had been ignored by Britain.

Pg. 106 Study Questions

1. Subsistence farming only produced just enough to meet the needs of their family, so the triangular trade traded cash crops because it made large quantitates. 


2. Famers grew large quantites of wheat and cashe crops. They also had industrial crafts such as carpentry and making.


3. There land wasn't good for farming. So they traded, built ships, and fished. 


4. Similar- Both Farmed. New England- Not too much farming. Wasn't main income. More fishing. Southern Colonies- Bigger Farms. Main Income. 


5. That slavery played an importnat role in the economic success of the southern colonies. 


6. British Colonies to Great Britain: Rice, Tobacco, Indigo, Furs; West Indies to British Colonies: Molasses, Rum, Sugar

Massacre At Mystic Questions.

Notes.
May 26th, 1637- colonist and indians  
20,000 people left england- came to new england- spiritual element
First encounter- postitve. Trade. 
shocking- lack of dress, women were treated equal. 
Distrutful. Diease from europeans. Natives has no immunity. 13000-4000
Rivals less effected.(naragnsits)
Tensions emerge as everyone tries to gain control over trade
Religious. Purify the religion. Christianity. 
Woods scary for Europeans. -build permentant structure- 
Needed natives off the land. thought they found it. natives had rights to but they could be removed. 
conviced themselves that the pequat were trouble makers- english were strong. 
pequats couldnt cnrol the region. 




1636- native attacks were spreading.
English man murdered- mistakenly blamed pequots. killed a few indians. 
English unleased an attack. tension were about to erupt. 
English sailed boats to make it look like they were leaving. they landed in Narragansett land. they made an alliance. 
Before dawn- english and native allies commeneded them selves to god then went in. Get in without being detected.
natives covered the entrances with brush. started killing everyone. women, children, men. Got a torch. burned down everything, didn't plan on that, wanted to keep the fort. but couldn't kill all natives. if they got out of the fire they would be killed by english, if they got past the english, the Narragansett were behind them. took one hour. Other pequot tried to come help, but it was to late. A week later they tried to get rid of all remaining pequots. 






Comprehension Questions:
1. How would you describe relationships between the Puritan settlers and the Pequot 
before the Pequot War? Why do you think these relationships changed so quickly? 

The first trade was peaceful, and they had no problems. But once they started to get to know each other, and they how they worked, and lived. 


2. Before the arrival of the British, what was the status of the Pequot in the 
Connecticut River Valley? How would you describe their relationships with other 
Native American tribes?
 
The pequot were enemies with the Narragansett and the Mohican. You would think all natives would stick together but they ened up going with the puritans to help kill the pequot. 





3. Why did the Puritans travel to the New World? What were their intentions upon 
arrival? 
 
They wanted to spread their religion of their church. 




4. Compare and contrast Puritan and Pequot ideas about the following: land and 
property, division of labor and gender, and warfare? Give examples to back up 
your discussion.
 
The puritans thought the pequot were babying their men because the women were treated equal. The puritans didn't think the natives could own the land because they hadn't grown crops or built houses on it, so the puritans thought that they could own it. 




5. In this program, one commentator suggests that the Dutch colonists favored trade, 
while the British prioritized land. How did the difference in focus shape their 
interactions with Native Americans, and their goals in the New World? 
Because the Natives liked the dutch better and were able to trade with each other. 



6. Why were British settlers unhappy with the way Pequot organized their economy 
and relationship to the land? Do you think there was any validity to their concerns? 
Who do you think, if anyone, ultimately had the right to decide who should 
control the land?
 
The british thought they could control the land because the natives didn't build any crops on it. I think the natives had the right to control the land because the were their first. 




7. Why do you think the Narragansett and Mohegan tribes fought with the Puritans 
against the Pequot? Were you surprised by their actions? Discuss.
 
Because they have been rivals since the beggining. And yes it was surprising, because i thought the natives would want the land as much as the other natives. 




8. One commentator, Tall Oak, ponders how the early colonies would have been 
different if the Puritans had come in peace. How would you answer this question? 
Do you think a different outcome in relations between the Pequot and the Puritans 
was possible?




9. How did the Pequot manage to resurrect their community hundreds of years after 
the massacre? How do you think it would feel to go from devastation to prosperity? 
Because some ancestors were still alive so they got together to keep their land theirs. Because the tribes started to build casino. 



10. Describe the details of the 1638 Treaty of Hartford, which ended the war. Why 
was the treaty considered to be cultural genocide for the Pequot? 
Becuase all natives that survived would be sold into slavery, and the women anh children would become slaves to the other native tribes. 



11. What sources do you think historians used in order to recount the story of the 
massacre at Mystic? What sources might you use if you were trying to create a 
documentary about the early colonies? Do you think this documentary offers a 
balanced and informed view of the massacre? Discuss.
 
They probably used journals from the natives and english men. 




12. How did the massacre at Mystic changed the United States?



Friday, September 9, 2011

Test Notes



1) What was Columbus looking for?
Trade route to the Indies.

2) Why was a passage to India important for European countries to find?
Because it would be a huge boost in the economy and create a respectable amount of wealth.


3) How did the crusades change European and how did it lead to the exploration of the "New World"?
It gave the Europeans a taste of spices from fighting the Muslims. No bland food. Brought on the renaissance. Europe comes in contact with a culture that is more advanced than its self.

4) How did tobacco change the course of America (particularly the Virginia colony)?
 Save the Colony. Used as Currency. 

5) Discuss the rise of self-government in America (make
sure you note the House of Burgesses, the Mayflower Compact and the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut).
They need to set up self-government because they really don't want to be controlled by the King royalty. Sending messages over the sea thousands of miles was a really inefficient way to rule people. There was too much of a delay, so laws and order needed to be in place for people to stick together in a structured manner so that they can work together and make their colony prosperous.

6) How did religion play an essential role in the shaping of the early colonies?
 Some colonies, particularly Pennsylvania were founded on the idea of freedom of religion and tolerance of all faiths. These places were sought after as a refuge by many people, especially those who were prosecuted in England. 

7) Discuss why early colonists came to America (the various reasons - begin to relate these to the American Dream and the American Character).


8) What was the Great Migration?


9) What was the renaissance and how does it fit with the exploration of the Americas?


10) Where the 1st Europeans to the Americas "Explorers" or "Invaders"? Please justify your answer.
Invaders. The indians were there first. and they brought all their diseases and killed them on their own land. 

11) How did the English distance the relationship between indentured whites and black slaves? Why did they fear a relationship between the two?


12) Please to list at least six colonies and why they were formed (and by what settlers).
Massachusetts, founded in 1620- Religious Freedom- Founded by John Winthrop

Rhode Island, founded in 1636- Religious Freedom- Roger Williams

Connecticut, founded in 1635- Profit from fur and trade- Founded by Thomas Hooker


New York, founded in 1624- Expand Trade- Founded by Dutch settlers                      


Delaware, founded in 1638- Expand Trade- Founded by Swedish settlers
  
New Jersey, founded in 1638- Profit from selling land- Founded by John Berkeley

Pennsylvania, founded in 1682-  religious freedom-   Founded by William Penn
 

13) Know the following people: John Rolfe, John Smith, John Winthrop, Anne Hutchinson, Roger Williams, William Bradford, John Wheelright, Jacques Marquette, Samuel de Champlain, Squanto, Samoset.










14) What is the difference between the Separatists and Puritians?
Puritans- Protestants who wanted to reform the Anglican church
Separatists- Protestants who want to leave and set up their own churches. 

15) Why were women brought to Virginia in 1619?

They were brought to be sold as wives for the settlers. Their price was 120 pounds of tobacco

16) When did the 1st Africans come to the English colonies? Where? What was the purpose of importing them (be specific)?    

17) According to Zinn why were Africans easier to force into labor than Native Americans or poor white immigrants?
Because this was not their territory. If they were to get the native americans they know their way around the land. 


18) What were the first 13 colonies?


1607 Virginia (Jamestown

1620/1630 Massachusetts (Plymouth was founded in 1620. Massacusetts as a whole was founded in 1630)
1626 New York
1633 Maryland
1636 Rhode Island
1636 Conneticut
1638 Delaware
1638 New Hampshire
1653 North Carolina
1663 South Carolina
1664 New Jersey
1682 Pennsylvania
1732 Georgia




19) What was important about the Spanish Armada?


Had the Spanish Armada not attacked the English, England would not have defeated them. If they had not defeated the armada, England would not have aided in the discovery of America

20) List the first three colonies in North America, the current United States (note: two are Spanish).


1564 ~ Fort Caroline in Florida
1565 ~ Saint Augustine in Florida
1585 ~ Roanoke Colony in Virginia Colony







21) When was Quebec founded?


Samuel de Champlain founded Quebec in 1608