When the Puritans came over‚ they created a society very much like the one they left in England. American Dream The American Dream includes possibilities and tolerance. When the Puritans traveled to America they expected to rid themselves of the controlling Roman Catholic Church. They expected new opportunities in the New World and more tolerance from the government and from the religious authority; instead they got another controlling religion that just changed their name to “Puritan.” Sin
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- people were believed to have crossed a Bering Strait into the Americas 14‚000 years ago - there were 75 million Europeans and by 1500 there were 10 million Americans - in the late 15th century‚ many people came to the Americas and brought diseases that started to kill a lot of people that weren’t immune to the diseases - Conquistadores were able to dominate because the empires were becoming weak from low population 1. America Before Columbus - at first people lived as hunters and gatherers
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past the view of childhood was quite different‚ but through gradual reform became what it is today. The image of childhood has had three major steps of change‚ starting with the “adult” child of the early 15 and 1600’s‚ the true “child” that the Puritans discovered and finally‚ the innocent and playful child of the Victorian Age. Before the reform happened‚ it is important to set the stage of what childhood was like. Picture a home in England’s mid 1500’s‚ where the family sits after dinner around
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Teotihuacan. Hernan Cortes defeated it in 1519 Pequot War- 1637 The Pequot Indians resided near the mouth of the Connecticut River which is also where Puritan settlers led by John Winthrop’s son were trying to launch a town. Fearing the Pequot would recruit all other Indians against the English‚ the English unleashed an all-out war with the Pequot. The Puritans allies were shocked at the carnage. Over 400 Indian men women and children died. New England negotiated most of their land out to keep the peace
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Early American and Colonial Period to 1776 American literature begins with the orally transmitted myths‚ legends‚ tales‚ and lyrics (always songs) of Indian cultures. There was no written literature among the more than 500 different Indian languages and tribal cultures that existed in North America before the first Europeans arrived. As a result‚ Native American oral literature is quite diverse. Narratives from quasi-nomadic hunting cultures like the Navajo are different from stories of settled
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Why did Charles I rule for 11 years without parliament‚ 1629 – 1640? Charles had no intention of ruling for a definite‚ or an indefinite‚ period without Parliament. Charles declared he had been driven ‘unwillingly out of that course’‚ and he intended to recall Parliament ‘when such as have bred this interruption shall have received their punishment’. Apart from Parliament‚ all the normal institutions of government operated. Indeed‚ Charles lacked the financial‚ military and administrative capacity
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1.Early American civilization - Incas in Peru‚ Mayans in Central America‚ and Aztecs in Mexico shapped sophisticated civilizations. Cultivation of Maize fed large pops. Didn’t have oxen‚ horses‚ tech. (wheel). Strikingly accuate astronomical observations. Human sacrifices. 2. Cultivation of Maize - Maize‚ beans and squash were the "three-sister" farming‚ with beans growing on the trellis of cornstalks‚ and squash covering the planting mounds to retain moisture in the soil. Produced high populations
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PENGUIN BOOKS AMERICAN COLONIES Alan Taylor’s previous books include William Cooper’s Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic‚ which won the 1996 Bancroft and Pulitzer prizes for history. He is a professor of history at the University of California at Davis. American Colonies is the first volume in the Penguin History of the United States‚ edited by Eric Foner‚ award-winning author o f Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution and the DeWitt Clinton
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--UNIT ONE & TWO: EXPLORATION AND CONQUEST--- MAJOR EXPLORERS Balboa 1511: goes to Panama and is the first explorer to see the Pacific and the Americas Ponce de Leon (Spain) 1513: getting older seeks Fountain of Youth -- goes to Florida to prevent aging Magellan wants to circumnavigate the world gets killed in the Philippines but one of his boats successfully makes it given full credit -- Spain gains worldly agriculture Cortes major Spanish figure followers were
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