...The Southern Colonies made up of Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. The first permanent settlement in North America was Jamestown, Virginia Southern Colonies in North America were established by England (later Great Britain), during the 17th and 18th centuries and consisted of the Province of Maryland, the Colony of Virginia, the Province of North Carolina, the Province of South Carolina, and the Province of Georgia. The English started the Southern Colonies. The Southern Colonies included Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. Jamestown, Virginia was the first successful Southern Colony in America. The surrounding area was full of disease-carrying mosquitoes and the people who came...
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...colonies were much different than they are widely known today. On page 136 of American Horizons, the authors describe that it was not until after the English Civil War that British America truly began to take shape as the thirteen colonies. The civil war pressured the colonists to diversify labor which shaped the colonies into three distinct groups, New England, Middle, and Southern. These colonies were characterized by their major crops and economic makeup, religious practices and customs, demography and settlement structure, and labor regimes. The New England colonies included New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. The British Atlantic lecture describes these colonies and what they were like. There were not...
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...From Predator to Protector: The Paradigm Shift in America’s Werewolf Supernatural entities have been the topic of fiction since the dawn of literature. These entities brazenly manipulate the societal, environmental, and physical norms which dictate much of the living world. Perhaps one of the most renowned literary characters of supernatural fiction is the werewolf. Historically, this literary concept of a wolf-human hybrid is rooted in evil. They are graphically described as “bestial, blood-drinking, human-flesh-eating creatures, endowed with more than human agility and strength” (Rudin 115). Werewolves served as popular antagonists throughout media, including television and cinema; yet, in recent years, the media’s perception of werewolves has taken a noticeable shift in the opposite direction. Stephenie Meyer, the critically acclaimed author of the Young Adult series The Twilight Saga, embodies this shift to the “new” werewolf. Meyer made a drastic change to the very nature of what was once a ferocious beast by characterizing werewolves as more gentle and protective. People wonder, though, what caused this sudden switch of characteristics? Through texts such as Rick Bass’ The Ninemile Wolf, Barry Holstun Lopez’s Of Wolves and Men, Valerie Fogleman’s piece “American Attitudes Towards Wolves: a History of Misperception,” Stephenie Meyer’s The Twilight Saga, and more, this paper will argue that the “original” werewolf belief was founded on America’s misperception of wolves...
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...had passed, meaning settlers established 13 colonies across the eastern seaboard and prospered as farmers, shipbuilders, and merchants. But they were not free, and were bound by British rule on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean. For more than one and a half centuries, colonists fought for and perpetuated a system for self governance, but outside forces kept threatening their way of life and liberty. Throughout the Colonial era, settlers of the New World fought against British governing rule and desired self-government. However,...
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...The southern colonies economy thrived on agriculture(GA,SC,NC,MD,VA) This economy created plantations, large rural society, and a need for slaves. Often built next to rivers so they could directly ship goods. Controlled the economy of the South-more small farms. African slaves became part of the triangular trade (middle passage) Slaves were captured by other Africans. Journey took 5-8 weeks. Once in America, 80-90% worked in the fields while the others became domestic slaves. Thriving industries in the north were grinding wheat, fishing, and lumber. Port cities grew (Boston, NY, PA). The major cash crops were wheat and corn. Persuasive purpose of a slave narrative is to expose the evils of slavery and turn people against it. Olaudah was kidnapped when he was 11, he was in the west indies then Virginia, enslaved 10 years then bought freedom. Abolitionist was someone that wanted to abolish slavery. The time period of the enlightenment was the 1700’s in Europe. “Scientists began looking beyond religion for answers on how the world worked. The world is governed by fixed math laws rather than souly the will of god” encouraged by the Renaissance. Lead colonists to question British monarchy. Rational though 0 discovery of natural laws & principles of governing the world and human behavior (value scientific method & reason) Key players: Galileo Galilei, Ben Franklin(truth through experiment) Tom Jefferson(born w/ natural rights-Locke), Sir Isaac Newton, Nicolas Cofernicus (pub. edu.)...
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...voyages of discovery? a. Portugal b. France c. England d. Italy The conquistadors were primarily interested in: a. founding settlements. b. fighting Muslims. c. spreading Christianity. d. finding gold. 7. 8. What has been dubbed “the Columbian exchange”? a. the spread of Christianity among the Indians b. the spread of trade throughout America c. the transfer of gold from America to Europe d. the spread of European diseases to America England’s first colonization target under King Henry VIII and Queen Elizabeth was: a. France. b. North Africa. c. Ireland. d. Cuba. 9. 10. Gilbert and others believed there was an English population: a. deficit. b. equilibrium. c. surplus. d. none of these answers 11. Which product fueled the demand for furs in Europe in the early 1600s? a. beaver fur hats b. fur coats c. mink hats d. otter fur pouches 12. By 1600, which group had become the leading economic power in Europe? a. the French b. the Dutch c. the English d. the Irish 13. What was the House of Burgesses? a. a large trading center in Virginia b. the home of the colonial governor c. the first legislative body in English America d. the colonial courthouse 14. What were the greatest...
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...most important industry, farmers can grow almost anything. Southern colonies grew tobacco and rice, middle grew grains and wheat, and North grew more for survival, but did a lot of fishing Manufacture = mostly shipbuilding in the North, rum and some small manufactured items. Was a much smaller industry. Skilled craftsmen were highly esteemed. Lumbering was most important, used for building ships masts on British ships. Commerce = used triangular trade to trade for manufactured goods in Britain and slaves in Africa. 8. Describe triangular trade. America would trade manufactured and raw goods for slaves in Africa and manufactured goods in Britain. Made a large triangle. 9. What were the two tax supported churches in the colonies? In which colonies were they found? What challenges or issues did both face? Anglican (Church of England) in Georgia, both Carolinas, Virginia, Maryland, and a part of New York; and Congregational (from Puritan Church) in all NE colonies but RI. The Anglican Church didn’t have enough clergy, and the Congregational church was worried that people weren’t religious or devout enough. 10. What led to the ‘Great Awakening’? What was the difference(s) between the “New Lights” and the “Old Lights”? The original religious fervor had died down, and clergy became worried that people wouldn’t be able to be saved. Also, rural-urban shift, a larger pop, and many more branches of Christianity. New Lights = energetic with vivid descriptions of Heaven. Old Lights...
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...In 1630s a group of English Puritans led by John Winthrop departed from all over Europe and set sail for America landed north than what they intended, and founded the “Massachusetts Bay Colony” Native American population across the New England region decreased due to disease from foreigners. The Massachusetts Bay Colony observed that the land around them was empty, they founded 6 towns in the area including Roxbury. The area was originally a salt marsh but was later filled in. The process of filling in the Boston Harbor the early days was known as “land making”. There were many important reasons the locals filled in the land. Some reasons are, commercial developments, new residential areas, transportation routes, parks, facilities. Roxbury was named after...
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...Primary Sources Document 1.3 Chief Powhatan’s Deerskin Cloak Identify: Chief Powhatan’s Deerskin Cloak depicted himself, surrounded by two deer, and many circles, which likely represented the many territories he governed. All detailing on the Cloak was done with shells, which were of high value to the Pamunkey people. Analyze: The materials suggest that the Pamunkey people were a resourceful group. To them, natural and common objects, such as the shells used, were of great value. Presumably, to an outsider the economy of the Tribe was less than stellar, as their precious shells appeared to be nothing more than shells. Evaluate: Powhatan’s placement at the center of the cloak may have fostered conflict with the Europeans, because the colonists desired to claim...
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...Chapter Summary: The Spanish took over the Caribbean, Mexico, and Peru. They also wanted to conquer the Americas. Most of the native people were forced into slavery or they were swept away by the smallpox. Colonies were made in North America. The Europeans were beginning to mix with the indigenous people, even though there were still social and sexual hierarchies. Silver became quite important, so laborers were sent to mine for silver. There were three different labor systems; one came right after the other. Until the free laborer system got set in place. Europeans began settling in Australia, even though there wasn’t much trade going on at the time. Many more people traveled to the Pacific after Magellan and Captain Cook. I. Colliding Worlds...
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...connect to all the factors that have shaped how they are living today. The next generation learns from the last and ancestral stories are repeated, passed down and incorporated into the fabric of the uniqueness of individuals within a culture. Within the vast boundaries of our nation there are unique and geographical cultures that have succeeded in surviving despite the odds and then there are the stories of those who didn’t succeed. Both cultures build upon bonding born from the hardship of working the soil in rural America, but only one of these cultures has found a way to liberate its people and share the truths associated with those struggles. Maya Angelou speaks to the African American Culture in her work “Reclaiming our Home Place”. She captures the tragic yet rich history of the America’s south and how celebrating this history as a culture has set the once enslaved African American free. (Angelou) Further to the northwest, based in the rural by-ways of America is the story of the people who claimed the plains as their heritage as told by Kathleen Norris in “Can you Tell the Truth in a Small Town?” The plains and her people’s culture faced very different struggles and remain bound to secret societies of shame and shared silent failures which challenge and threaten the loss of their historical heritage. (Norris) Slavery has existed, in one form or...
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...During the age of colonialization, many of the European world powers set out to colonize the new-found continents called the Americas. Two of the powers, England and Spain, mainly focused on North America and the surrounding islands. Spain colonized the South Eastern part of North America, along with the islands in the Caribbean; while England mainly focused on the North-Eastern region. Even though Hispaniola and Virginia were colonized by two very differing countries, their colonies developed in similar ways even with their different starts. The first settlement in the New World for England was founded in 1607 and named Jamestown, as tribute to the current King of England at the time. “The Virginia colony was founded and, at first, run by the Virginia Company of London”. Sir Walter Raleigh had paid for the expedition himself and therefore carried all the risks. But, the company decided to sell shares that were connected directly to the colony’s success, and thereby reliving him of some of the responsibility. A council in England appointed a secondary council that was to attend to and make the rules of the new colony; and would also appoint a president. Seeing that that was rather weak, the King sent a charter that gave the power to private investors from the Crown. Both Thomas Gates and Thomas West were made Governor in 1610 and 1611and put into place some very strict rules for the Colony. Jamestown was always under a change of management. The politics of the town changed...
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...of the Old World as well as the New. The development of America took place when a static and status-bound European was responding to new intellectual stirrings, growing trade, and competition among emerging nation- states in overseas exploration and commerce. In 1585 Raleigh established the firs British Colony in North America on Roanoke Island. English colonization in America differed in character and consequences from that of other European nations. The English Monarchs had destroyed the power of the feudal nobility and had established a strong centralized state and in so doing, the monarchs had encouraged the growth of the business middle classes, the merchants and entrepreneurs who were to be major agents of the modernizing process. By seventeenth centaury, England's imperial reach was global; it stretched west from Ireland to Newfound land to Bermuda, and eastward to the subcontinent of India. It was to the west in the New World in 1606 that King James issued charter to two joint stock companies to colonize the land that Sir Walter Raleigh had named Virginia in honor of the Virgin Queen Elizabeth. The company promptly sent out an expedition of 144 people and after four months arduous voyage they reached Chesapeake Bay in April 1607. The 105 surviving English men than proceeded up a great river, which they named for King James, and founded Jamestown- the first permanent English settlement in North America. For one category of immigrants the Virginia environment...
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...Analyze the impact of the Atlantic trade routes established in the mid 1600s on economic development in the British North American colonies. Consider the period l650-1750 Analyze the cultural and economic responses of two of the following groups to the Indians of North America before l750/ British, French, Spanish Compare the ways in which religion shaped the development of colonial society in 2 of the following regions prior to l740/ New England, Chesapeake, Middle Atlantic How did economic, geographic and social factors encourage the growth of slavery as an important part of the economy of southern colonies between l607 and l775? Compare the ways in which 2 of the following reflected tensions in colonial society/ bacon’s rebellion, pueblo revolt, salem witchcraft trials, stono rebellion To what extent had the colonists developed a sense of their identity and unity as Americans by the eve of the Revolution? Dbq Analyze the impact of the American Revolution on both slavery and the status of women in the period from l775-l800 Evaluate the extent to which the Articles of Confederation were effective in solving the problems that confronted the new nations Analyze the contributions of 2 of the following in helping establish a stable government after the adoption of the constitution/ John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington Although the power of the national government increased during the early republic, this development often faced serious opposition...
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...Tribal Homelands of the Chickasaw and Choctaw Monica N. Griffis Southeastern Oklahoma State University Tribal Homelands of the Chickasaw and Choctaw This paper describes the primary geographic characteristics of the ancestral homelands of the indigenous Chickasaw and Choctaw people in North America, prior to first contact with European nations and continuing into the settlement timeframe of early colonists. These homelands originally included a significant portion of Louisiana and Mississippi, although the most closely held region was near the ancestral Nanih Waiya mound, which according to oral traditions held the origins of these tribal people. Prior to the surge of Western settlement, Chickasaw and Choctaw tribes were similar to other Native American nations in occupying the expanse of their territory not by personal land ownership, but instead through a series of communal villages governed by cultural leaders. Their occupation of the land was driven by natural resources and trade routes, and the prime positioning of these homelands proved to be too valuable to escape aggressive dispossession by colonial settlement. Early Chickasaw and Choctaw homelands occupied a large territory east of the Mississippi River in an extremely favorable location, especially related to waterways, trade routes, fertile land, and climate conditions. According to the research of St. Jean (2003), the centralized location of these tribes was advantageous...
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