Transcript COLONIALISM - Tumwater School District / Tumwater School

COLONIALISM
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North
American
Example
France
2) England
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FRANCE
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1603-1635= Samuel de Champlain
“father of New France”
Made several trips to explore
Canadian wilderness
Important ‘discovered’ places:
St. Lawrence River
Niagara Falls
Lake Champlain
First French settlement
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1608
Trading post called
Quebec
This with St Lawrence
helped France gain
control of fur trade
Settlement grew
slowly
More interested in
trade than in ‘settling’
IN SEARCH OF
FUR!
ENGLAND’S FIRST CLAIM
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1497= King Henry VII sent John Cabot
and son Sebastian (Italians) to seek and
claim land for England
Summer=explored Newfoundland
=sailed south along
Atlantic coast
English not impressed=thought it was
barren and rocky continent
Found fishing grounds and with invention
of curing cod=mid-1500’s fishermen
regularly travel there
John Cabot
Fishermen
ENGLAND
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FIRST PERMANENT SETTLEMENT
2. JAMESTOWN
3.1607
3. Corporate colony
4. Sponsored by the London Company
4. group English merchants given charter
by King James
1. JAMESTOWN
2. Founding of
3. 1606
3. 120-140? men and
boys cross Atlantic
3. three tiny ships but
no real mishaps
3. May 1607 founded
Jamestown on James
River
4. in honor of King
King James
2. FOOLISHNESS
3. Settled in swampy area
4. At water’s edge
4. Flat land good for defense
4. Disease prone
5. Mosquito’s with malaria
5. ‘toilets’ don’t drain
3. Failed to plant crops
3. Wasted time looking for gold
3. Mistreated Indians who had helped
them
BIG PROBLEM
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“GENTLEMEN” don’t do manual labor
summer illnesses= 32 people died
natives saved those left by bringing food
Pocahontas story
1 John Smith
2 became leader
2 got men to work
2 interacted with
natives
3 lied to them
4 we will
leave
2 was not in love
with her
Jamestown timeline
1608= women arrive
1609= Smith injured & leaves colony
1609-10= famine/”starving time”
1610= spring only 60 alive
1610= decide to abandon colony
Pocahontas
John Smith
SAVED
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The survivors meet
an in-coming ship
carrying brand new
settlers
SO- they turned
around and
Jamestown
continued
STATISTICS
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BETWEEN 1606-1622 London Co.
sent 10,000 colonists to Virginia
> 2,000 alive in 1622
Company tried Head Right System:
50 acres of free land per person!
Indentured Servants:
poor promised to work for free passage
to Americas (free after set # of years)
2. TOBACCO
3. cash crop saved
the colony
3. Introduced by
John Rolfe in 1612
4. Pocahontas’s
real husband
3. Could be grown
among stumps of
cut trees
1624 King James disbands the
company and takes control of
colony himself
The Puritan Era
THE PILGRIMS
Early 1600’s
2. Characteristics
3. God centered lives
3. concerned with sin
& salvation
3. God owns all things
3. man is bad by
nature
2. Who they were
3. Called Puritans
4. goal to purify the Church of England from elaborate
rituals
3. Were Calvinists
4.people are sinners
4.predestination
4. must be vigilant about own behavior and that of
neighbors
3. sins
4. Drunkenness
4. Swearing
4.theft
4.assault
4.idleness
Why leave Europe ?
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King James was
determined to punish
those who did not
follow his church’s
rituals
One group of Puritans
separated themselves
from Church of
England and moved to
Holland to get away
from King James I
Why leave Europe?
2. The Dutch (Holland)
3. were tolerant
2. Separatists (Puritans) discouraged
3. children seemed more Dutch than
English SO…
2. set up own religious community in New
World
***WANTED TO PRACTICE THEIR
RELIGION IN PEACE***
1. How they got there.
2. The Mayflower!
3. 1620 set sail in 2
ships
4. 1 was leaky
3. All gathered on
Mayflower
(not all Pilgrims were
separtists)
**Landed on Cape Cod,
Massachutes***
1. How they will govern
2. The Mayflower Compact
3. 41 men gathered in the main
cabin
3. All signed the
‘compact’=agreement
3. Set out type of government
they wanted
4. laws approved by majority
4. authority is in the people
4. choose own governor
(no women or servants could vote)
The Mayflower Compact
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..”combine ourselves together into a
civil body politic, for our better
ordering and preservation and…do
enact, constitute, and frame such
just and equal laws, ordinances,
acts, constitutions, and offices, from
time to time, as shall be thought
most meet and convenient for the
general good of the colony.”
1. Thanksgiving
2. November 1621, one year
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after their arrival
3. Invited local Indians
who had helped them all year
to a feast
3. 3-day feast
4.sqash
4. beans
4.corn
4. turkey,
4. ducks,
4. geese
4. deer
A time of thanksgiving to God
2. Society
3. Simple, no frills
3. Devoted to prayer
3. Church & state the
same thing
4. theocracy
3. Laws based on
Bible
Landing at
Plymouth Rock
2. NO-NO’S
3. NO MUSIC EXCEPT CHURCH HYMNS
3. NO ART
4. IT’S FRIVOLOUS
3. NO LITERATURE
4. EXCEPT Bible, history of life in New World
and personal letters
2. CLOTHING
3. Mostly Black and White
3. Plain style
3. No buttons, lace,
adornments
3. No silk, velvet or satin
Extra credit literature
Primary Sources
*John Smith, “The Founding of
Jamestown”
*William Bradford, “The Mayflower
Compact”
*Anne Bradstreet, “Upon the Burning of
Our House”
*Jonathan Edwards, “Sinners in the Hands
of an Angry God”
*Cotton Mather, “Wonders of the Invisible
World, Salem Witch Trials”
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