Period 1
(1451-1607)
(1451-1607)
Historians refer to the causes of Spanish colonization as the 3 G's.
What is Gold, Glory, and God?
These Puritans are the most famous group of Separatists who believed that the Church of England could not be reformed and fled to the New World to escape religious persecution.
Who are the Pilgrims?
This economic system describes how European nations sought to increase their wealth and power by maximizing the exports, and minimizing the imports of its colonies between the 15th and 18th centuries.
What is mercantilism?
a three-legged commercial network connecting Europe, Africa, and the Americas from the 16th to the 19th centuries. Trade included finished goods, raw materials, and slaves.
What is the Triangle Trade? What is the Atlantic System? What is the Atlantic Slave Trade?
Describe how this tea pot demonstrates colonial sentiments prior to 1776.
Growing opposition to British policies which leads to American Revolution
This institution allowed the Spanish government to "commend" or give Native Americans to certain colonists in return for the promise to Christianize them.
What is the encomienda system?
This edict made by King George III after the conclusion of the Seven Years War declared that the American colonists could not settle west of the the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
This concept during the American Revolutionary era considered women to be a custodian of civic virtue responsible for upholding the morality of her husband and children.
What is the Republican Motherhood?
Within the First Party System, this group advocated for a strong central government as a check on the "tyranny of the majority, especially after the horrors of Shays' Rebellion.
Who are the Federalists?
Identify the colonial system these images reinforced and how it impacted colonial society.
Caste system in Spanish colonies, kept Europeans at the top of society
This reform-minded friar wrote The Destruction of the Indies in 1545 to chronicle the awful fate of the Native Americans and to protest Spanish policies in the New World, especially his horror regarding the catastrophic effects of disease on native people and how they were treated.
Who is Bartolomé de las Casas?
These laws reflected the intensifying colonial rivalries of the 17th century as England attempted to prevent colonial trade with other countries outside of its dominion.
What are the Navigation Laws?
This document concluded the end of the first presidency by warning against the dangers of "permanent alliances" with other nations and arguing that new nations should only forge alliances on a temporary basis in extraordinary circumstances.
What is Washington's Farewell Address?
As the 2nd President of the United States, he was able to pass the Alien and Sedition Acts and prevent an all out war with France after the XYZ Affair in spite of attacks from Jefferson's Democratic-Republicans and even his own political party.
Who is John Adams?
Describe how ONE specific historical event or development contributed to the changes in land claims depicted in the map.
7 Years War, England wins more territory
The Incas and the Aztecs were known for their stunningly sophisticated civilizations and agricultural practices, which were primarily based on this crop.
What is maize?
Compare and contrast England’s settlement history in the Americas to Spain’s. Consider the treatment of Indians, the role of the Church, and economic development (Pick 1).
Spain: Encomienda system, Caste system, Converting Natives
England: Seeking religious freedom, family farms in New England and lucrative cash-crop plantations (tobacco, rice) in the South, Indentured servants
Describe how Common Sense and/or the Declaration of Independence reflected the ideas put forth by philosophers such as John Locke.
Reflected the Enlightenment ideas of European philosophers by using ideas like Natural Rights, The Social Contract, and The Right to Revolution.
This Enlightenment philosopher greatly inspired the founding principles of the Revolutionary War, and was a direct influence on the drafting of the Declaration of Independence due to Thomas Jefferson's time abroad in France.
Who is John Locke?
Describe how this image portrays American values at the beginning of the republic.
This 1680 Native American revolt against Spanish rule expelled the Spanish from modern day New Mexico for a period of 12 years and caused Spain to become more accommodating to Native Americans.
What is the Pueblo Revolt? What is Pope's Rebellion?
In what ways did the New England economy and society differ from those in the Chesapeake colonies (Virginia/ Southern)?
New England: The rocky soil and cold climate prevented large-scale cash crop production. Focused on small-scale farming, fishing, whaling, shipbuilding, lumber, and commercial trade.
Southern: Agrarian economy centered on cash crops like tobacco, grown on large plantations. Larger reliance on slavery.
Explain a continuity and a change in the early republic (what changed and what stayed the same?)
Political Change: Shift to a democracy
Social Change: Women gain a particular role in society - educating the future citizens
Political Continuity: Slavery continues and grows, Natives continue to lose land
Social Continuity: Women, slaves, natives remain in inferior status
Economic Continuity: Wealthy elites stay in power
Rebellion that occurred in the early years of the republic where frontier farmers fought a federal excise tax on distilled spirits. US Army successfully defeats the rebellion.
The Whiskey Rebellion
Explain the impact of this image on the push for independence.