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This is America
• A crime in:• Texas• Alabama• Louisiana• Florida • Fine: $ 500• Or up to six months in jail (in Louisiana)
This is also America
What happened in the meantime?
Capitalism: A Love Story "I refuse to live in a country like this
— and I'm not leaving."
So how did all of this start?
For thousands of years, up until the 15th century…
IndiansIndians
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A.VespucciA.Vespucci
Indians first.
Bering Strait was a bridge of ice: “LAND BRIDGE”
Hunters (buffalos!) & gatherers
First farmers: Mexican Indians
from Grass to Indian Corn (corn on the cob)
Arizona: Anasazi Indians: Pueblo Bonito
Where did the Indians come from?
Why was owning land a foreign concept for Indians?
The invention of barbed wire is a typically white man’s invention. Why?
What is a teepee and why is it typically Indian?
Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.
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Who was first?Who was first?Who was first?Who was first?
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“Lucky Leif” Eriksson
Father Eric the Red
Archeological proof:
Newfoundland -
Vikings in England
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The Name AmericaThe Name AmericaThe Name AmericaThe Name America
A.VespucciA.Vespucci
Vespucci, Amerigo (1454-1512), Vespucci, Amerigo (1454-1512),
Italian navigator, Italian navigator,
born in Florenceborn in Florence
expeditions in 1499 and 1500, exploring expeditions in 1499 and 1500, exploring the northern coast of South America. the northern coast of South America.
Vespucci, Amerigo (1454-1512), Vespucci, Amerigo (1454-1512),
Italian navigator, Italian navigator,
born in Florenceborn in Florence
expeditions in 1499 and 1500, exploring expeditions in 1499 and 1500, exploring the northern coast of South America. the northern coast of South America.
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Gold!Gold!Gold!Gold!
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Cortes - the Aztecs - 1520, gold
Pizarro - The Incas - 1530, gold
De Soto - Fransisco Coronado, p10
“The Seven Cities of Gold” ,p10
GBGB: 1497 - Henry VII - Cabot- NE-USA, p11
FRFR: 1524 - Verrazano - NY
1534 - Cartier - Canada (St.Lawrence), p11
Defeat of the Moors, triumph of Christianity
Ferdinand and Isabella
so: For King and Country.
Treaty of TordesillasTreaty of Tordesillas between Spain, Portugal & Pope Alexander VI to prevent war between Catholics
Result: - Portugal takes Brazil
- Spain takes the rest.
- Conquistadores
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CONQUISTADORES & Spanish Missions:
"In fourteen hundred and ninety-two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue."
• I took some of the natives by force in order they might give me information of whatever there is in these parts
• Slaves and gold
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The European ImmigrantsThe European ImmigrantsThe European ImmigrantsThe European Immigrants
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First European Settlements:
1565: St. Augustine (Florida): Spanish
1587: Roanoke Island (N. Carolina): English(“Lost Colony”)
1607: Jamestown (Virginia): English
1609: Santa Fe (New Mexico): Spanish
1620: Plymouth (Massachusetts): English
1626: New Amsterdam (New York): Dutch
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The european ImmigrantsThe european ImmigrantsThe european ImmigrantsThe european Immigrants
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Virginia: climate problems
Chesapeake Colonies: Jamestown
The joint-stock Company
Indentured servants: whites from England
1606, James I: The Virginia Charter
Captain John Smithsaved by Pocahontas
from execution by her tribe.
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Money mattersMoney mattersMoney mattersMoney matters
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Pocahontas
Discipline
Cannibalism
The role of women
Mismanagement: change to Royal colony
No representation
Hardly any towns, just plantations:
No schools, home churches
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Plymouth>Leiden>USAPlymouth>Leiden>USAPlymouth>Leiden>USAPlymouth>Leiden>USA
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1620 Plymouth Rock The Mayflower Compact
Plymouth, Massachusetts: Pilgrims
• Puritans• Squanto • First Thanksgiving • The “Saints”, The “Strangers”• The death penalty for: treason, murder,
witchcraft, arson, sodomy, rape, bestiality, adultery, and cursing or smiting one's parents.
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Plymouth plantation
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Pu·ri·tan·ism1. The practices and doctrines of the Puritans.2. puritanism. Scrupulous moral rigor, especially hostility to social pleasures and indulgences:
“Puritanism is the source of our greatest hypocrisies and most crippling illusions” (Molly Haskell).
Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. - H. L. Mencken (1880–1956)
The Puritan through Life’s sweet garden goesTo pluck the thorn and cast away the rose.Kenneth Hare (1888–1962)
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PURITANS:
Radical political reformers
no do-gooders
Predestination
James I and Charles II: no good caretakers of the Church of England.
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John Winthrop: “For we must consider that “For we must consider that we we shall be as a city upon a hill.shall be as a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people The eyes of all people are upon us”. are upon us”.
On England:On England:
This Land grows weary of her Inhabitants, so as This Land grows weary of her Inhabitants, so as man, who is the most precious of all creatures, is man, who is the most precious of all creatures, is here more vile & base then the earth we tread here more vile & base then the earth we tread upon; masters are forced by authority to entertain upon; masters are forced by authority to entertain servants, parents to maintain there own children.servants, parents to maintain there own children.
The fountaine of Learning & Religion are so The fountaine of Learning & Religion are so corrupted as...most children are perverted, corrupted as...most children are perverted, corrupted, & utterly overthrown by the multitude corrupted, & utterly overthrown by the multitude of evil examples.of evil examples.
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Roger Williams
Evicted from “Massachusetts Bay”
Founded Rhode Island, p18
“All the cranks of New England retire thither” (Dutch visitor)
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THE QUAKERS: “Friends”
William Penn > Pennsylvania
humility, simple clothing
no predestination:
No oaths in court
Religious tolerance
Pacifists!
•Still a viable force in education, politics and social justice movements
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WitchcraftWitchcraftWitchcraftWitchcraft
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WitchcraftWitchcraftWitchcraftWitchcraft
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SALEM (Massachusetts)
Factions in the town: jealously, bitterness, discord over choice of minister.
1691: adolescent girls having “fits”
Witches were pointed out and arrested
1692: the court sent them to the gallows
Dreams and visions were accepted as evidence.
Sudden ending.
Remaining witches were pardoned
Similar to the 1950s: McCarthy hearings (“Witch Hunts”)
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The EndThe EndThe EndThe End
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Summary:
Exploration by Europeans
Native Americans and conflicts with settlers
First two British colonies: Jamestown and Plymouth, similarities and differences
Indentured servants, slavery, capitalism
Plymouth, “The Puritans” and Puritanism now in the USA