American History 4182003

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American History 4/18/2003

• Satoshi Tsukamoto

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Native Americans

• The Pueblo farmers in Arizona New Mexico
• The Apache neighbors of the Pueblo hunters
• The Iroquois hunters fishermen in New York
• (5 NationsMohawk, Oneida, Onondaga,
  Cayuga, Seneca)

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Native Americans continued

• 4. The Sioux wanderers with the buffalo in
  Mid-west

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Christopher Columbus

• 1492
• He discovered the New World
• (San Salvador, Cuba, Haiti)

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Nina,Pinta, Santa Maria
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Explores from Europe

• 1499 - Amerigo Vespucci sailed for South America
• 1502 Vespucci named South America Mundus Novus
  (New World)
• 1565 St. Augustine founded
• 1609 Santa Fe, New Mexico, founded

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Early Settlement in America

• 1607 Colonists founded Jamestown in Chesapeake
  Bay
• Virginia Company of London
• 1609-10 60 out of 500 colonists survived
• 1612 John Rolfe introduced tobacco to Jamestown

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The House of Burgesses

• A burgessa person invested with all the
  privileges of a citizen
• 1619 House of Burgesses met for the first time
  in Jamestown
• (The governor, 6 councilors,
• 4 elected representatives)

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Puritans

• Some religious people in England wanted the
  Church of England (Henry VIII) to become more
  simple and pure.
• They were called Puritans.

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Pilgrims

• 1603 James I persecuted the puritans
• 1620 Some puritans went to America with the
  Mayflower.
• They were called Pilgrims.
• They settled in Plymouth.

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Mayflower
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Mayflower Compact

• The first written constitution in North America
• A short statement of self-government

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Other Early Colonies

• 1630 John Winthrop arrived at Salem,
  Massachusetts
• 1636 Roger Williams founded Providence, Rhode
  Island, separating church state.
• 1681 William Penn founded Pennsylvania. He was a
  Quaker.

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Thats all for today

• Have a nice weekend!
• See you next week.