This is America A crime in: Texas Alabama Louisiana Florida Fine: $ 500 Or up to six months in jail (in Louisiana)

This is America

• A crime in:• Texas• Alabama• Louisiana• Florida • Fine: $ 500• Or up to six months in jail (in Louisiana)

This is also America

What happened in the meantime?

Capitalism: A Love Story "I refuse to live in a country like this

— and I'm not leaving."

So how did all of this start?

For thousands of years, up until the 15th century…

IndiansIndians

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Indians first.

Bering Strait was a bridge of ice: “LAND BRIDGE”

Hunters (buffalos!) & gatherers

First farmers: Mexican Indians

from Grass to Indian Corn (corn on the cob)

Arizona: Anasazi Indians: Pueblo Bonito

Where did the Indians come from?

Why was owning land a foreign concept for Indians?

The invention of barbed wire is a typically white man’s invention. Why?

What is a teepee and why is it typically Indian?

Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

DiscoveriesDiscoveries

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Who was first?Who was first?Who was first?Who was first?

AA.VespucciVespucci

“Lucky Leif” Eriksson

Father Eric the Red

Archeological proof:

Newfoundland -

Vikings in England


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The Name AmericaThe Name AmericaThe Name AmericaThe Name America


Vespucci, Amerigo (1454-1512), Vespucci, Amerigo (1454-1512),

Italian navigator, Italian navigator,

born in Florenceborn in Florence

expeditions in 1499 and 1500, exploring expeditions in 1499 and 1500, exploring the northern coast of South America. the northern coast of South America.

Vespucci, Amerigo (1454-1512), Vespucci, Amerigo (1454-1512),

Italian navigator, Italian navigator,

born in Florenceborn in Florence

expeditions in 1499 and 1500, exploring expeditions in 1499 and 1500, exploring the northern coast of South America. the northern coast of South America.


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Gold!Gold!Gold!Gold!

AA.VespucciVespucci

Cortes - the Aztecs - 1520, gold

Pizarro - The Incas - 1530, gold

De Soto - Fransisco Coronado, p10

“The Seven Cities of Gold” ,p10

GBGB: 1497 - Henry VII - Cabot- NE-USA, p11

FRFR: 1524 - Verrazano - NY

1534 - Cartier - Canada (St.Lawrence), p11

Defeat of the Moors, triumph of Christianity

Ferdinand and Isabella

so: For King and Country.

Treaty of TordesillasTreaty of Tordesillas between Spain, Portugal & Pope Alexander VI to prevent war between Catholics

Result: - Portugal takes Brazil

- Spain takes the rest.

- Conquistadores


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CONQUISTADORES & Spanish Missions:

"In fourteen hundred and ninety-two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue."

• I took some of the natives by force in order they might give me information of whatever there is in these parts

• Slaves and gold

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The European ImmigrantsThe European ImmigrantsThe European ImmigrantsThe European Immigrants

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First European Settlements:

1565: St. Augustine (Florida): Spanish

1587: Roanoke Island (N. Carolina): English(“Lost Colony”)

1607: Jamestown (Virginia): English

1609: Santa Fe (New Mexico): Spanish

1620: Plymouth (Massachusetts): English

1626: New Amsterdam (New York): Dutch


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The european ImmigrantsThe european ImmigrantsThe european ImmigrantsThe european Immigrants

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Virginia: climate problems

Chesapeake Colonies: Jamestown

The joint-stock Company

Indentured servants: whites from England

1606, James I: The Virginia Charter

Captain John Smithsaved by Pocahontas

from execution by her tribe.


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Money mattersMoney mattersMoney mattersMoney matters

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Pocahontas

Discipline

Cannibalism

The role of women

Mismanagement: change to Royal colony

No representation

Hardly any towns, just plantations:

No schools, home churches


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Plymouth>Leiden>USAPlymouth>Leiden>USAPlymouth>Leiden>USAPlymouth>Leiden>USA

PlymouthPlymouth

1620 Plymouth Rock The Mayflower Compact

Plymouth, Massachusetts: Pilgrims

• Puritans• Squanto • First Thanksgiving • The “Saints”, The “Strangers”• The death penalty for: treason, murder,

witchcraft, arson, sodomy, rape, bestiality, adultery, and cursing or smiting one's parents.


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PlymouthPlymouth

Plymouth plantation


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Pu·ri·tan·ism1. The practices and doctrines of the Puritans.2. puritanism. Scrupulous moral rigor, especially hostility to social pleasures and indulgences:

“Puritanism is the source of our greatest hypocrisies and most crippling illusions” (Molly Haskell).

Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. - H. L. Mencken (1880–1956)

The Puritan through Life’s sweet garden goesTo pluck the thorn and cast away the rose.Kenneth Hare (1888–1962)


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Freedom & DisagreementFreedom & DisagreementFreedom & DisagreementFreedom & Disagreement

PlymouthPlymouth

PURITANS:

Radical political reformers

no do-gooders

Predestination

James I and Charles II: no good caretakers of the Church of England.


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John Winthrop: “For we must consider that “For we must consider that we we shall be as a city upon a hill.shall be as a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people The eyes of all people are upon us”. are upon us”.

On England:On England:

This Land grows weary of her Inhabitants, so as This Land grows weary of her Inhabitants, so as man, who is the most precious of all creatures, is man, who is the most precious of all creatures, is here more vile & base then the earth we tread here more vile & base then the earth we tread upon; masters are forced by authority to entertain upon; masters are forced by authority to entertain servants, parents to maintain there own children.servants, parents to maintain there own children.

The fountaine of Learning & Religion are so The fountaine of Learning & Religion are so corrupted as...most children are perverted, corrupted as...most children are perverted, corrupted, & utterly overthrown by the multitude corrupted, & utterly overthrown by the multitude of evil examples.of evil examples.


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JamestownJamestown


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Roger Williams

Evicted from “Massachusetts Bay”

Founded Rhode Island, p18

“All the cranks of New England retire thither” (Dutch visitor)


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THE QUAKERS: “Friends”

William Penn > Pennsylvania

humility, simple clothing

no predestination:

No oaths in court

Religious tolerance

Pacifists!

•Still a viable force in education, politics and social justice movements


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WitchcraftWitchcraftWitchcraftWitchcraft

PlymouthPlymouth


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WitchcraftWitchcraftWitchcraftWitchcraft

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SALEM (Massachusetts)

Factions in the town: jealously, bitterness, discord over choice of minister.

1691: adolescent girls having “fits”

Witches were pointed out and arrested

1692: the court sent them to the gallows

Dreams and visions were accepted as evidence.

Sudden ending.

Remaining witches were pardoned

Similar to the 1950s: McCarthy hearings (“Witch Hunts”)


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The EndThe EndThe EndThe End

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Summary:

Exploration by Europeans

Native Americans and conflicts with settlers

First two British colonies: Jamestown and Plymouth, similarities and differences

Indentured servants, slavery, capitalism

Plymouth, “The Puritans” and Puritanism now in the USA

This is America A crime in: Texas Alabama Louisiana Florida Fine: $ 500 Or up to six months in jail (in Louisiana)

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