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1. Advanced Placement
US History
Unit 1 Notes Review

2. Reasons for escape to
the New World
• Tales of spices and treasures
• Protestant Reformers see the new world as
a haven to escape European religious
upheaval

3. Story of Arrival
• The Aztec, Maya and the Incas are there but have no
immunity to “Old World” diseases
• Christopher Columbus came to the New World
with permission from Isabelle and Ferdinand of Spain
• The cultural borrowing from the Old World to the
New World is the Columbian Exchange
• Following this would be 100 years of time Spanish
soldiers and missionaries come to the new world
“Conquistadores”

4. The Beginnings of the
New World
• Henry VIII made England a protestant country, and
his daughter Elizabeth I would make it great
• The colony of Roanoke was lost
• Jamestown was established in 1607 by James I
giving the Virginia Company of London a charter
to colonize English colonies in America
• People went to Jamestown to find gold and silver,
but they found ”green gold” tobacco with John
Smith protecting them in the starving time

5. 1619
• AFRICAN SLAVERY WAS ESTABLISHED
• THE FIRST MEETING AT THE HOUSE OF
BURGESSES

6. The North
• The Slave Codes originated from the West
Indies, where they harvested sugar, the
slaves outnumbered their masters and
these codes spread
• Maryland was established as a “haven for
Catholics”
• Maryland Act of Religious Toleration
protected Catholics from prosecution

7. Chesapeake
• Dominated by the “green gold” of tobacco
planters
• Mostly young unmarried males/indentured
servants who came on a temporary basis who
worked the colony
• They had short life spans and little to no
education or training
• Mostly Church of England or Anglican followers

8. New England Colonies
• Typical relations with natives
• settled by Puritans or separatists
• People lived longer here and the farmers didn’t
have many indentured servants
• Moved here mostly in groups as a family
• Congregational Church theocracy
• Built self from farming, fishing, timber and
shipbuilding

9. Middle Colonies
• Hudson River conquered by English, the Dutch
were trading there and New Amsterdam of
New York becomes a harbor and mercantile
center
• Pennsylvania, founded by William Penn was a
Quake and had fairly good native relations and
religious toleration
• Built from wheat/grain, farming, trade and
cottage industries

10. Southern Colonies
• Built from plantation economies tobacco,
rice, indigo, and a growing slave trade

11. Troubles in England
• Charles I dismisses parliament and pushes
Puritans to the New World known as the
Great Migration
• Governors William Bradford and John
Winthrop are key to the survival of
Puritans in New England

12. Colony Summaries
• Georgia by James Oglethorpe debtors colony
and military buffet zone has slavery, large
farms, rum and Catholics were not allowed
• The Carolinas prosper on tobacco, farming
and slave trade
• North: slaveless white looking for land
• South: Charleston dominated by planters
and slave traders

13. Rocky Relations
• King Phillip’s war is a brutal war which is sparked
by the English massacring a Native American tribe
• Bacon’s Rebellion began because they didn’t have
much protection from the Natives so they
burned part of Jamestown to the ground, which
put fear into the people and led to slavery
• Indentured servants are promised freedom, land
and opportunity but found much worse in the
New World

14. English Difficulty
• The English cannot regain control of the “New
England” colonies after the years of “salutary
neglect” because of Puritanical Theocracy
lading to the 1st American revolution
• “command economy” stops colonial trade
with the Dutch and end “salutary neglect”
• Mercantilism: A policy that forces trade from
New England directly to England

15. Slavery
• African slaves were good for the sugar in the
Caribbean and in Georgia and South Carolina for
rice
• Middle Passage is a horrible experience and
rebellions were common
• The triangle trade went as follows: captains would
voyage to Africa, trade guns/liquor for slaves,
voyages to America and trade slaves for sugar/
tobacco/rice and the on the England to trade for
more guns/liquor etc.

16. Education
• First mandatory public education was
Massachusetts
• Very important in the New England
colonies but did not spread to the south

17. Salem Witches
• Young girls accuse people of witchcraft and
many people are killed
• The Salem Witch Trials destroyed the
credibility of the Puritanical Theocracy
forever

18. Religious Revivals
• Half-Way Covenant is established by the
churches in 1662 to make more money in
the churches because people are losing
“Christianity”
• The Great Awakening is a religious revival
that makes hypes up the church and make
people want to go again (promoted colonial
unity)

19. French-Indian War
• Started when Washington found a French
fort in American Territory
• Ends at Quebec and Montreal when the
English dominate the French and forces
them to sign the Treaty of Paris where they
met at Versailles

20. Proclamation of 1763
• English bans the English from going west of
the Appalachian mountains to protect the
Indians, important because of Pontiac’s
Rebellion (germ warfare), but the colonists
ignore it leading to the Revolutionary War