Chapter 1 New World Beginnings 33‚000 B.C. - A.D. 1783 225 Million Years Ago - Pangaea started to break apart. 10 Million Years Ago - North America was shaped by nature - Canadian Shield 2 Million Years Ago - Great Ice Age 35‚000 Years Ago - The oceans were glaciers and the sea level dropped‚ leaving an isthmus connecting Asia
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The American Pageant‚ 13th Edition Textbook Notes Chapter 01 - New World Beginnings I. The Shaping of North America 1. Recorded history began 6‚000 years ago. It was 500 years ago that Europeans set foot on the Americas to begin colonization 2. The theory of Pangaea exists suggesting that the continents were once nestled together into one mega-continent. They then spread out as drifting islands. 3. Geologic forces of continental plates created the Appalachian and Rocky Mountains. 4. The
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Progress 1. What was the significance of Quetzalcoatl? 2. Compare the strategies and motives underlying the conquest of the Aztecs by Cortez and the conquest of the Incas by Pizzaro. 3. What were the major causes of war between the Powhatans and the English settlers? 4. Discuss the significance of Powhatan’s statement‚ “Why will you take by force what you may have quietly by love?” 5. Explain Governor John Winthrop’s legal and biblical justification for seizing Indian land
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HIST 172 Sec 06 Mr. Wisialowski Native Americans and their Great Change From the 1400s to 1877 many historical events have occurred in the growing of the new world. However‚ some of those occurrences have affected many different groups including women‚ African Americans‚ and Native Americans in a negative manner. From the three groups‚ I feel that the Native Americans have seen the most changes in their lives‚ but for the worse. I believe this to be true for many reasons such as; the
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CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS The idea of a glorious earthly paradise far from the known world had existed in the European imagination long before 1492. That idea of a distant paradise on earth shaped the way Europeans came to think of America after Columbus and his successors reported their discoveries. For example‚ the following mythic lands may have served as inspirations for the alluring idea of America as a place of joy‚ ease‚ riches‚ and regeneration: a. the Garden of the Hesperides of Greek myth
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Vasquez de Coronado‚ Ancient and Complex Societies of West Africa‚ France in Canada‚ Protestant Reformation‚ socioeconomic causes of English expansion Theme: Colonial America Chapter 2 Virginia Company as a joint stock company‚ Jamestown‚ Powhatan‚ Pocahontas‚ John Smith‚ Indian-English relations in Virginia‚ “The Anglo-Algonquian Gender Frontier” by Kathleen Brown‚ tobacco‚ indentured servants‚ Maryland as a Catholic refuge‚ Puritanism‚ Puritan beliefs‚ Puritan society‚ John Winthrop‚ Great
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In the 17th century‚ there were two colonies in North America of the East Coast. The colonies were known as the New England colonies and the Chesapeake colonies. The New England colonies included of Connecticut‚ Colony of Rhode Island‚ Providence Plantations‚ Massachusetts and Province of New Hampshire. The Chesapeake colonies consisted of Virginia and Maryland. These colonies were settled in by Englishmen with similar resolutions and ethnicities and faced similar obstacles. But these colonies became
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The Age of Exploration was a period starting in the early 15th century during which European ships‚ mostly belonging to Spain‚ France‚ and England‚ traveled around the world in search of new trading routes leading to India. All three countries set out to explore and possibly colonize‚ all expecting to find what they each set out for. While searching for what they came for‚ they established relationships‚ some friendly and some hostile‚ with indigenous Americans. Spain’s most prominent reasons for
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taking over the Indian lands arises. The White Man’s Burden is the thought that whites are assigned to the task of teaching the native people what it means to be civilized‚ as well as integrating them into the typical white society. As discussed‚ Powhatan and his people already had systems of diplomacy developed just as the whites did. It may have been considered a less sophisticated system‚ determined largely by family structures‚ but despite being considered less complex‚ there was no visibly apparent
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Jamestown Diary of William Wilkinson‚ Surgeon December 5‚ 1606 I am a surgeon. I give medicine to people who are sick. I use needles‚ medicine‚ scissors‚ and lots more stuff. I might take bullets out of people. I don’t really work with others except my assistant. My assistant brings people into my house. He helps me get the tools. My assistant’s name is Ben. I have a big family. I have a wife named Anne. She likes to cook bread. I have four children. Their names are James‚ Emily‚ Sarah‚ and Kathryn
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