AP US Exam Review Unit 1: The Colonial Era Major Themes Exploration and Interaction with Native- Americans Spanish, English and French settlements – similarities.

AP US Exam ReviewUnit 1: The Colonial Era

Major Themes

• Exploration and Interaction with Native-Americans

• Spanish, English and French settlements – similarities and differences

• English Colonies – similarities and differences

• English colonies – democratic elements

New World Beginnings

• Nomadic Asians– Bering Land Bridge

• Connected Eurasia w/North America-present-day Bering Sea, between Siberia and Alaska.

• Bridge exposed during Ice Age (~35,000 yrs ago) Asian hunters followed migratory herds of game -first known humans to arrive in America

Causes of European Exploration

• Improvements in technology, religious conflict (Catholics in Spain, Prot. Revolution in Europe), expanding trade, and rise of nation- states

Crusades- Exploration grew out of fierce competition

• Crusaders started trading when they acquired a taste for Asian & African goods like silk, medicine, spices, and perfume

• Technology – compass, sturdier vessels, printing press

• Portuguese and Spanish went looking for a route to Asia

• Renaissance - Nurtured ambitious spirit of optimism & adventure around the 14th century

American Indians• Central and South America –

Maya, Aztec, Inca – trade, large cities, advanced technology

• Most natives in North America – semi-permanent – hunting and farming - MAIZE

• Some nomadic – Plains – hunt buffalo

• Larger – Pueblo in SW – multi-storied, irrigation, uprising

• Iroquois in NY – “democratic” Confederacy

Spanish and Columbus• 1492 – purpose of voyage?• Interactions with Natives• Legacy? - Columbian

Exchange• Hero or Villain?• The lack of unity between

tribes due to various cultural/ political and language differences caused fighting between groups and left them susceptible to European invaders.

Spanish Explorations and conquest• 1. Conquistadors – Central and

South America, Southwest and West Coast of North America (Texas, California)

• 2. 3 Gs – what are they?• Missions, encomienda system,

mestizos, DISEASE• 3. Explorers –Balboa (Panama/

Pacific), Ponce De Leon (Fl. St. Augustine), Magellan (tip of S. America), de Soto (Mississippi), Cortez (Aztec), Pizarro (Inca)

• 4. 1494 – Treaty of Tordesillas

The Conquest of Mexico• Cortez and the fall of the

Aztec Empire – What happened?

• 1519 and the story of

Quetzalcoatl• The fate of Montezuma• La Noche Triste, 1521• Guns, Germs, and Steel• A “New” Mexico – cultural

diffusion, relations with natives, mestizos

The Spread of Spanish America

• 1565 - St. Augustine, Florida – fortress built to protect the sea lanes to the Caribbean, oldest continually inhabited European settlement in the future US

• Roman Catholic missions – California and SW

• 1680 - Pope’s Rebellion – Pueblo rebels destroyed every Catholic Church in province and killed priests and settlers, rebuilt religious chamber on ruins of Spanish plaza – just like? Why did they do this? Justified?

French Claims

• Fur trade, “good” relations with Native people

• Settled in Canadian region• Explorers – Verrazano (NY),

Cartier (St. Lawrence), Champlain (Quebec – first French settlement)

Spanish and French Settlements

• Long term influences?

• Spanish – settled central and South America, conquistadors enslaved Native population and attempted to erase their culture, sometimes married Native people, exported gold to Spain, spread Catholicism and disease, new class system emerged

• French – settled Canadian region, fur trade

Dutch Claims

• Henry Hudson sought the Northwest Passage

• Sailed “Hudson” River

• Dutch claimed New Amsterdam (later NY) – private joint-stock company (Dutch West India Company) took control of region for ECONOMIC GAIN!

English Claims• Reasons for migration

– 1. Profits (#1)– 2. Religious Freedom– 3. Political reasons– 4. Enclosure movement/

unemployment

• Elizabeth I - promoted exploration, sent Sir Walter Raleigh to explore the “New World” =

• Roanoke Island - (1587) – NC – first colony - disappeared?

Tree – CROATOAN??

Early English Settlements• (1607) - Jamestown, Virginia– First

permanent English Settlement – land at mouth of Chesapeake Bay, easy to defend but swampy, about 100 MEN (40 died on voyage)

• Virginia Company (Joint-Stock Company)-Joint-stock companies enabled a large number of investors to pool their moneyand finance trips to America – sought gold

• Charter - Guaranteed to colonists the same rights as Englishmen - this provision was incorporated into future colonists’ documents

Colonial Era – Jamestown, Virginia

• Early problems- disease, salt poisoning, starving time (1609 – 1610), cannibalism

• John Smith – imposed martial law – “He who will not work shall not eat”

• Settlement aided by the Powhatan Confederacy

• John Rolfe and Pocahontas – married 1614

• Tobacco• 1644 – Powhatan Confederacy

destroyed by English

Growing Political Power Virginia’s House of Burgesses—1619

• First law making body- guaranteed rights to citizens, representative government, control over finances, militia

• High death rates ensured rapid turnover of members

• King James was concerned about the law making body and tobacco, became a royal colony in 1624. (He hated tobacco)

Southern Colonies• Tobacco promoted the use of the

plantation system - Need for cheap, abundant labor.

• Indentured Servants -5-7 years.– Promised “freedom dues” [land, £]– Forbidden to marry.– 1610-1614: only 1 in 10 outlived

their indentured contracts!• Head-right System: Virginian got 50

acres for each person whose passage they paid.

• First Africans arrived in Jamestown in 1619.– Their status was not clear

perhaps slaves, perhaps indentured servants.

– Slavery not that important until the end of the 17c

Origins of Slavery

• Dutch traders• 1650 – 400 African

laborers in Va• 1660s – Va House of

Burgesses – discrimination laws and life-long slavery

• 1750 – ½ Va and 2/3 SC• Increased demand due to

decreased migration, cheap labor, slave laws

• Triangle trade – Middle Passage

Southern Colonies - ChesapeakeVirginia– Bacon’s Rebellion – 1676 – royal Governor

(Berkeley) did not help defend backwoods farmers from Native-Americans, Bacon and rebels burned Jamestown

• revealed social class tensions within the colonies• Colonial resistance to royal controlMaryland (1632)– Lord Baltimore, proprietary colony

(Act of Toleration) – protected Catholics and granted religious freedom to all Christians, later repealedGeorgia (1732) – James Oglethorpe, proprietary colony, defensive buffer from Spanish Florida and haven for English debtors

New EnglandPlymouth, Massachusetts - 1620

• Puritans – wanted to “purify” Church of England• Separatists – upset with corruption in the English

Church• Mayflower Compact – travelers signed and

agreed to majority rule• Assisted by local Native-Americans including

Squanto• Less contact with Natives than in south due to

plague that had wiped out Natives living in that area

• King Philip’s War (1675 – 1676) – Wampanoag Indians, ended Native resistance in New England

New England – Massachusetts Bay

• Established by Congregationalists

• 1629-1642 – “Great Puritan Migration” – led by John Winthrop – The “City upon a Hill”, covenant with God

• Many who settled in New England – escaped religious persecution – tolerant?

• Roger Williams – banished, went to RI

• Anne Hutchinson – banished, antinomianism

• Salem Witch Trials (1692)

First Great Awakening1730s – 1740sGeorge Whitefield and Jonathan Edwards – attempted to bring back religious fervor, preached emotionalism and spirituality, response to the rationalism of the Enlightenment

Chesapeake vs. New England

Chesapeake – immigrants often single males– Cash crops, plantation economy– Swampy, hot, humid– Spread-out farming communities

New England

-Entire families emigrated to New England

-small farms, fishing, lumber

-healthier climate, lived longer, larger families

-larger towns, lived closer to one another

Culture and economy

• New England – fishing, logging, ship building, rum distillers

• Middle – Small farms, wheat and corn

• Southern – plantation owners – rice and indigo

Middle Colonies

• NY – Dutch influence –New Netherlands, large segment of population

• PA – Penn and The “Holy Experiment”, Quakers – religious freedom and civil liberties, pacifists, fair treatment of Native Americans

• NJ – land offers, religious freedom and assembly

• Delaware – created out of Pennsylvania

Colonial Society in the Mid-Eighteenth Century

• Social Structure – 90% lived on farms– 1. Family – – Males – unlimited

power in household

– females – divorce rare, limited legal and political rights

The American Mind

• Architecture – (Georgian)

• Painting – West and Copley, artists were trained in Europe, portraits

• Literature – Mainly religious– Exceptions - Franklin’s Poor Richard’s

Almanac and Phillis Wheatley (Former slave and poet)

• Bartram - botanist

Political Institutions

• 1. Plymouth – Mayflower Compact, majority rule, self government, written laws

• 2. Jamestown – House of Burgesses• 3. Massachusetts – all free men, members

of Puritan Church• 4. limited nature?• 5. Zenger case – Freedom of press –

criticized royal governor – violated English law – jury acquitted Zenger because he was telling the truth

Quick Quiz

• 1. What was the first permanent English settlement?

• 2. What colony was founded by Oglethorpe and was considered a “buffer colony’?

• 3. Identify two Great Awakening ministers.• 4. Identify the founder of Rhode Island who

was banished by the Puritans.• 5. Which colonial court case established

freedom of the press?

Activity

• 1. Use two events from the colonial era to describe conflicts that took place in colonial America.

• 2. Use two events from the colonial era that exhibit the freedom American colonists had.

• 3. Use two events from the colonial era that show the diversity that existed within the American colonies.

Essay Question

• Compare and Contrast the culture and economy of the southern colonies with that of the New England colonies.