Transcript MANY CULTURES MEET

MANY CULTURES MEET
Background Notes/Discussion about the
early American belief system and character.
THE AMERICAN BELIEF SYSTEM
AND CHARACTER
• As an American, we are…..
• The government is….
WHAT IS YOUR DEFINITION OF…
• DEMOCRACY
• REPUBLIC
• SEPARTAION of POWERS
QUICK WRITE EXERCISE
• You will break into your
task groups to share your
stories. (#7 in the book)
• This should take you no
longer than 10 minutes to
complete.
• Have a discussion and
identify common themes in
your notebook (or
computer).
• Example: Columbus was
impressed with the kindess
of Native Americans.
WHAT WERE THE COLONISTS
LIKE?
Determine with your task
group the reasons why
Europeans were coming over
to this strange, new land.
1. What was in it for
them?
2. Primarily which
countries were they coming
from?
TAKE A PEEK AT WHAT THEIR
LIVES WERE LIKE
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EUROPEAN COLONIES in the
AMERICAS
• The Spanish=Primarily
interested in gold, forts,
and conversion to
Catholicism
• The French=Primarily
interested in exploiting fur.
• The English==They knew
what they were
doing….they were raising
cash crops for export!! $$$
for the mamma country
(England)
• NEW ENGLAND
COLONIES= Mostly
Puritan settlements. First
settled at Plymouth Rock.
• Massachusetts, Rhode
Island, Connecticut, and
New Hampshire
• MIDDLE
COLONIES=
• Religious FREEDOM
existed here
• The English conquered
the Dutch and took
over New Netherland
and renamed it New
York.
• Added New Jersey and
Pennsylvania
• The Quakers settled
here.
• Southern Colonies=
• North Carolina, South
Carolina, and Georgia.
• Raised rice and later
tobacco and cotton
• Relied on slave and
indentured labor (convicts)
THE SEEDS of DEMOCRACY
• In task groups, discover
what the MAGNA CARTA
is and list the year it was
written
• The English Bill of Rights
• The Enlightenment
• The Mayflower Compact
PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER
• Explain in your own words:
(in notebook)
• After reviewing these items
with your task group,
explain how the British
colonists were influenced
by EARLY DEMOCRATIC
IDEALS