APUSH ch1 notes
I. Founding the New Nation
a) Factors that united the first Europeans in America
1. Most were English speaking
2. Most came determined to create an agricultural society modeled n English customs
3. Colonists strove to live lives free by the tyrannies of royal authority, official religion, and social hierarchies that they left behind
Grew to cherish reverence for individual liberty, self-government, religious tolerance, and economic opportunity 4. Willingness to subjugate outsiders (i.e. Indians and Africans)
b) Factors that hindered unity among the Europeans in America
1. Puritans carved tight, pious, and relatively democratic communities of small family farms
A homogeneous world compared to most southern colonies
2. Anglicans built plantations along the coast
Where they lorded over a labor force of black slaves
Looked down upon the poor white farmers who settled the backcountry
3. Diversity reigned in middle colonies
Well-to-do merchants put their stamp on New York City
In the countryside sprawling estates were interspersed with modest homesteads
4. Within individual colonies, conflicts festered over economic interests, ethnic rivalries, and religious practices
5. All the clashes made it difficult for colonists to imagine that they were a single people with a common density
c) General issues that led colonists to rebel against Brittan
1. The stable arrangement between the colonists and Brittan began to crumble, a victim of the imperial rivalry between France and Brittan
2. Once the French were driven from the North American continent, the colonists no longer needed the British for protection
3. The British government made the choice of imposing taxes on colonies that had been accustomed to answering mainly to their own colonial assemblies
4. Issues of taxation, self-rule, and trade restrictions brought the crisis of imperial authority to a head
II. The Shaping of North America: Major geographical features and the
a) Factors that united the first Europeans in America
1. Most were English speaking
2. Most came determined to create an agricultural society modeled n English customs
3. Colonists strove to live lives free by the tyrannies of royal authority, official religion, and social hierarchies that they left behind
Grew to cherish reverence for individual liberty, self-government, religious tolerance, and economic opportunity 4. Willingness to subjugate outsiders (i.e. Indians and Africans)
b) Factors that hindered unity among the Europeans in America
1. Puritans carved tight, pious, and relatively democratic communities of small family farms
A homogeneous world compared to most southern colonies
2. Anglicans built plantations along the coast
Where they lorded over a labor force of black slaves
Looked down upon the poor white farmers who settled the backcountry
3. Diversity reigned in middle colonies
Well-to-do merchants put their stamp on New York City
In the countryside sprawling estates were interspersed with modest homesteads
4. Within individual colonies, conflicts festered over economic interests, ethnic rivalries, and religious practices
5. All the clashes made it difficult for colonists to imagine that they were a single people with a common density
c) General issues that led colonists to rebel against Brittan
1. The stable arrangement between the colonists and Brittan began to crumble, a victim of the imperial rivalry between France and Brittan
2. Once the French were driven from the North American continent, the colonists no longer needed the British for protection
3. The British government made the choice of imposing taxes on colonies that had been accustomed to answering mainly to their own colonial assemblies
4. Issues of taxation, self-rule, and trade restrictions brought the crisis of imperial authority to a head
II. The Shaping of North America: Major geographical features and the