New France

 

Contextualization for Period 2

* Change from and/or continuity with preceding historical developments

* Similarities and/or differences with contemporaneous historical developments in different regions or geographical areas.

KC 2.1 Europeans developed a variety of colonization and migration patterns, influenced by different imperial goals, cultures, and the varied North American environments where they settled, and they competed with each other and American Indians for resources.

KC 2.1.I Spanish, French, Dutch, and British colonizers had different economic and imperial goals involving land and labor that shaped the social and political development of their colonies as well as their relationships with native populations.

KC 2.1.II In the 17th centruy, early British colonies developed along the Atlantic coast, with regional differences that reflected various environmental, economic, cultural, and demographic factors.

KC 2.1.III Competition over resources between European rivals and American Indians encouraged industry and trade and led to conflict in the Americas. 

HOMEWORK for the WEEKEND:

Read pages 25-33

Make sure you know these key terms:

American Pageant chapter 2

 

Questions:

 

1)    How did Queen Elizabeth unite England?

2)    The defeat of the Spanish Armada was important to England’s venture into the Americans. Why? How did England mirror Spain of the late 15^th century?

3)    Contextualization: What was going on in England to set up its colonial aspirations?

4)    Jamestown set the standard for many things American. Discuss the following:

a)     View and treatment of the natives

b)    Self-Government

c)     Economy

d)    View of Land

e)     Slavery

 

Outline the rest of the Southern Colonies – (why they were founded, who founded them, religion and religious tolerance, economy): Maryland, Carolinas, and Georgia. 

 

B. Glossary

To build your social science vocabulary, familiarize yourself with the following terms.

1.     nationalism Fervent belief and loyalty given to the political unit of the nation-state. “Indeed England now had . . . a vibrant sense of nationalism and national destiny.”

2.     primogeniture The legal principle that the oldest son inherits all family property or land. “. . . laws of primogeniture decreed that only eldest sons were eligible to inherit landed estates.”

3.     joint-stock companies An economic arrangement by which a number of investors pool their capital for investment. “Joint-stock companies provided the financial means.”

4.     charter A legal document granted by a government to some group or agency to implement a stated purpose, and spelling out the attending rights and obligations. “. . . the Virginia Company of London received a charter from King James I of England. . . .”

5.     census An official count of population, often also including other information about the population. “By 1669 an official census revealed that only about two thousand Indians remained in Virginia. . . .”

6.     feudal Concerning the hierarchical, decentralized medieval social system of personal obligations between rulers and ruled. “Absentee proprietor Lord Baltimore hoped that . . . Maryland . . . would be the vanguard of a vast new feudal domain.”

7.     indentured servant A poor person obligated to a fixed term of unpaid labor, often in exchange for a benefit such as transportation, protection, or training. “Also like Virginia, it depended for labor in its early years mainly on white indentured servants. . . .”

8.     toleration Originally, religious freedom granted by an established church to a religious minority. “Maryland’s new religious statute guaranteed toleration to all Christians.”

9.     squatter A frontier farmer who illegally occupied land owned by others, or land not yet officially opened for settlement. “The newcomers, who frequently were ‘squatters’ without legal right to the soil . . . .”

10.   buffer In politics, a small territory or state between two larger, antagonistic powers , established to minimize the possibility of conflict between them. “The English crown intended Georgia to serve chiefly as a buffer.”

11.   melting pot Popular American term for an ethnically diverse population that is presumed to be “melting” toward some common homogeneous national identity. “The hamlet of Savannah, like Charleston, was a melting-pot community.”