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-Viking explorer
-Banished from Iceland for 3 years (killed 2 men)
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-First European in Greenland
-Named the land Greenland to make it sound nicer than it was and encourage settlement
-Wanted to start a new land without any enemies |
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-Two European countries known for exploration
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-Portugal - first explorers
-Portugal perfected sailing with square and lateen sails
-England came later during the exploration era but took over the New World
-England established colonies in North America |
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| WHEELER AND BECKER, CHAPTER 1 |
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-gives a view of what happened at Roanoke
-Allows the read to view the problem, the background, and the evidence
-Allows the reader to decide what is truth
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-Everything read could be biased depending on the authors point of view
-Are Wheeler and Becker credible sources? |
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-A part of Jamestown Settlement
-Experimented with tobacco
-Married Pocahontas
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-Developed the first profitable export for Europe
-Profit allowed settlers to stay in America |
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-Arrived in Jamestown Virginia in 1607
-Commander of colony
-A proud and Boastful captain
-Documented life of colonists
SIGNIFICANCE
-Difficult to tell which documents are fact and which ones are fiction
-His strong leadership helped the settlement grow |
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| "FROM COLONIES TO PROVINCES" |
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-Colonists who relied on England in order to survive
-Eventually did not need England
-Found confidence and leaders by the mid 18th century
SIGNIFICANCE
-Colonists began to break away from England |
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| "I AM TREATED AS A DAM'D SLAVE" RICHARD FRETHORNE |
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-A poor black male who wrote to his parents
-Was shipped to North America as an indentured servant
SIGNIFICANCE
-Showed slavery was not based on race but economic status |
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| RELIGIOUS FREEDOM (17TH CENTURY) |
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-In the face of European persecution colonists refused to compromise their religions
-Many colonists fled Europe
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-Established the Plantations of Religion
-Some fled for secular reasons but most fled to serve God in the way the believed to be correct |
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| "PURITANS AS UTOPIANISTS" |
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-Puritans were reformers who believed the church of England was corrupt
-Attempted to set up a perfect Utopian Society to be adopted by the rest of the world
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-They were not perfect
-No privacy
-Tried to prevent behavior rather than punishment
-Led to devastation of faith due to human rebellion of orthodoxy. |
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-A woman who immigrated with her family to Massachusetts Bay in 1634
-Was outspoken about her religious views
-Held weekly meetings
-Was found guilty and was banished from the colony
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-Went against Puritan beliefs
-Showed colonies only believed in one religious practice |
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-An Indian woman (often portrayed as a black woman)
-Read girls fortunes and did many many other witch-like things
-Claimed to be a witch
-Put on trial
-Plead guilty and pointed fingers at other townspeople
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-First witch to confess in Salem
-Start of Salem witch trials
-Started to shatter the lifestyle of the Utopian Society |
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-The date in which the first Africans were sold to North America
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-Jamestown introduced to slaves
-Helped John Rolfe aide to tobacco crops
-Slaves were stolen off of a Spanish ship
-Were to be temporary indentured servants (work for a certain amount of time and could live their lives freely just like white English laborers) |
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| AMERICAN REVOLUTION/AMERICAN REBELLION/WAR FOR INDEPENDENCE |
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-The transition of America through time
-Describes the change in American culture
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-bases the ground of what America is today
-Was the separation of the New World from England
-All the names are from the same event but from different point of views |
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| COERCIVE ACTS/INTOLERABLE ACTS |
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-Spring of 1774
-Consisted of four pieces of punitive legislation from King to Parliament
-Punished colonists in Massachusetts who dumped tea into the Boston Harbor in December 1773
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-British Parliament used the acts as a way to fight colonists
-Gave colonists more reasons to break away from England |
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-Colonists challenged and harassed Red Coats
-Red Coats called for back up
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-Killed 5 colonists
-Red Coats ere ruled innocent
-Americans were upset with British
-Started the American Revolution
-"Massacre" is an opinionated term used from one point of view |
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-WHEELER, BECKER, AND GLOVER
-NASH, JEFFREY, HOWE, FREDERICK, DAVIS, WINKLER, MIRES, PESTANA
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-Helps understand point of view |
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-Describes the process of change from Puritan (desire for Utopian society failed due to Salem witch trials) to Yankee (instead of Christians they moved to merchants)
-Religion to Capitalism
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-Moved New England to an entrepreneural society |
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-Trials of numerous people believed to be witches and using their power against other townspeople
-All because someone said so
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-Began to break away from the Utopian Society
-Proof that the Utopian society was not perfect |
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-American colonists who remained loyal to the Kingdom of Great Britain during the American Revolution
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-Wealthy and more influential
-Believed differently than the Patriots |
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-Trade of plants, animals, food, diseases, wealth and culture between Europe and the Americas
-Began during the time of Christopher Columbus
-Continued throughout the exploration and expansion eras
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-Resulted in a significant amount of deaths in the Native American population
-Started the interaction of Europe and the Americas |
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-People began to follow Anne Hutchinson
-Colonists started governing themselves
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-Went from British power to Colonist power |
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-Looking at everything from Europe's point of view
-To see the world from a Europeans mind
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-Made Europeans close-minded to different cultures and rituals and ways of life |
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