1. Colonial America
USHAP Week 2

2. Agenda: Monday 8/20/12
Objective: Practice debriefing notes, check in on quality of ??notes
Content: Early colonial regions
Skills: Identifying and weighing key factors
Essential question: Why did the colonial regions develop ?so distinctly?
Agenda:
1) Inclusion or exclusion in early colonial regions?
2) Virginia Company recipe for success or failure

3. Reading Response Question
Page 61
Prompt: Using examples drawn from this chapter, discuss the differences between colonizing “frontiers of inclusion” and “exclusion.”
Activity:
Discuss reading ? with neighbors
Graphic organizer (volunteers will be called on from the cards)

4. Inclusion Exclusion Graphic organizer
Beaver Hats or Inclusion vs. Exclusion Prompt
Reading prompt  index cards
Explain procedure: call names, record quality of response, free for all. If you’re not prepared say so. If it’s all been said…
Defining terms
Geography: Appalachia, Mississippi River watershed, French crescent, Chesapeake,

5. Virginia Company recipe for success or failure

6. Output
Input
Process

7. Virginia Company Recipe for Failure / Success
Ingredients:
Identify the key factors that led to the outcome (failure or success of the colony)
Indicate relative weight of each ingredient by indicating amount (e.g. ½ cup)
Directions:
Describe how the factors interact, and in what sequence, to result in the outcome

8. Agenda: Tuesday 8/21/12
Objective: Tackle the economic and political impact of ?colonial slavery
Content: Transatlantic slave trade and mercantilism
Skills: Macroeconomic analysis
Essential question: To what extent (how much) was the ?success of English colonial economies in the Americas ?based on the institution of slavery?
Agenda:
1) Share recipes
2) Slavery the Mainspring Jigsaw

9. Share recipes
Recipe for success
Recipe for failure

10. Pre read
Starting on page 91, look at the graphs, images, etc. until page 113

11. Jigsaw introduction
“Slavery was the most dynamic force in the Atlantic economy during the century, creating the conditions for industrialization.”
“But because slave-owning colonists single-mindedly committed their resources to the expansion and extension of the plantation system, they derived very little benefit from the economic diversification that characterized industrialization.”
-Out of Many pg.113
Break down each quote one by one.
Slavery MOST dynamic force in creating industrialization. But South doesn’t benefit, N does.
Slavery fuels N. Then N. destroys slavery as an economic system.

12. jigsaw Prompt: Groups Summarize your section
Explain the connection between the institution of slavery and the building of a commercial empire.
Groups
Pgs : Slavery the Mainspring
Pgs : Politics of Mercantilism & Wars for Empire
Pgs : British Colonial Regulation
Pgs The Colonial Economy
Summarize your section
Who
When
Where
What
Why
Notes:
10-12 million Africans brought to the Americas.
Section 1: Capital from profits 2. Slavery contributes to ec dev of cotton in Eng. 3. Slavery spurs manufacturing.
Mercantilism—ec system where govt intervenes in economy for the purpose of increasing wealth. .
Parliament—uniform money, regulates wages, subsides for agri, tariffs.
Zero sum game. Finite amount of wealth.
Enumerated goods—sugar, molasses, rum, tobacco, rice, indigo.
Navigation Acts ( ). Ships—only Eng/colonists. Other merchants can’t trade.
Salutary Neglect—early 1700s-1740s.
Colonial Economies: North = diverse. South = single product.

13. Agenda: Block day 8/22 & 8/23
Content: Religious dissent, tension between local and imperial governing, sources of colonial conflict
Skills: Cause and effect analysis
Essential question: Why and how was imperial control being extended in British colonial America during the 1600s?
Agenda:
Finish jigsaw
Role of religious dissent in colonial history?
Proprietary colonies and imperial control
Indian policy: Was Penn on to something?
Sources of colonial violence?

14. jigsaw Prompt: Groups Summarize your section
Explain the connection between the institution of slavery and the building of a commercial empire.
Groups
Pgs : Slavery the Mainspring
Pgs : Politics of Mercantilism & Wars for Empire
Pgs : British Colonial Regulation
Pgs The Colonial Economy
Summarize your section
Who
When
Where
What
Why
Notes:
10-12 million Africans brought to the Americas.
Section 1: Capital from profits 2. Slavery contributes to ec dev of cotton in Eng. 3. Slavery spurs manufacturing.
Mercantilism—ec system where govt intervenes in economy for the purpose of increasing wealth. .
Parliament—uniform money, regulates wages, subsides for agri, tariffs.
Zero sum game. Finite amount of wealth.
Enumerated goods—sugar, molasses, rum, tobacco, rice, indigo.
Navigation Acts ( ). Ships—only Eng/colonists. Other merchants can’t trade.
Salutary Neglect—early 1700s-1740s.
Colonial Economies: North = diverse. South = single product.

15. Jigsaw
Explain the connection between the institution of slavery and the building of a commercial empire.
Create a thesis statement that responds to the prompt
Explain that yesterday we looked at a long term trend. Relate it to later periods. We are still in colonial era. On the timeline.

18. Role of religious dissent in colonial history?
Discuss the role of religious dissent in the founding of the New England colonies and in stimulating the creation of others. (p ? 70)
Where
When
Causes
Effects
Maryland
1634
New England colonies
1620

19. Role of religious dissent in colonial history?
Discuss the role of religious dissent in the founding of the New England colonies and in stimulating the creation of others. (p ? 70)
Where
When
Causes
Effects
Hartford
1636
Providence
Hutchinson’s Followers
1638
Pennsylvania
1682

20. Proprietary colonies
How did political developments in England affect the founding and governing of English colonies along the Atlantic seaboard?

21. Proprietary Colonies Needs $, has to summon Parliament
"poore, cold, and useless"
Frame of govt—guarantees religious freedom, elected leader, fair dealing with NAI. Quakers—more democratic.
Charles I: persecuted Puritans, Maryland to the Catholic Calverts
Charles I execution: migration to New England slows down
Cromwell: less immigrants means the growing need to diversify the economy. Also left the colonies alone
Charles II: established new proprietary colonies: the Carolinas, 2nd Anglo Dutch war- New York, Pennsylvania
James II: wanted to strengthen royal control over the colonies, overthrows colonial governments
William and Mary: rebel against James’ appointments
More religious tolerance
Catholic
Protestant

22. Proprietary colonies
By 1701, the British monarchy had tightened the "imperial reins" over its North American possessions. (p.83) What form did this stronger central control take?

24. Compare and contrast Penn's Indian policy with those of the Chesapeake and New England colonies.
Pennsylvania
New England

25. What were the principal causes of colonial violence and warfare of the late 17th century? (p.76-84, ? 79)
Conflict prompt—King Philip’s War (New Eng).
Covenant Chain (1660s NY, Iroquois strengthen position. Trade.
Bacon’s Rebellion—first populist uprising. Explain big P and little P. (ie Rep vs rep and Dem vs dem)
Prayed upon by those above and below in social order. March West (NAI) march East (wealthy). How does elite react? Frontier issues, indentured servants, expectations won’t be met. Violence on frontier is long term trend.

26. Bacon’s Rebellion: Virginia, 1675-1676
Elite Whites
Small Farmers
Poor Whites/Former Indentured Servants
African Slaves
Native Americans
Populism vs. populism
Under Bacon’s leadership, the rebels marched west, and then they marched east.

27. agenda: Friday 8/24/12
Objective: Prepare for the first fluency fact review quiz
Content: Colonial regions
Skills: Compare and contrast, cause and effect
Essential question: Why did the colonial regions develop so distinctly?
Agenda:
1) Text structure: are you using it?
2) Fluency Fact Review Quiz preparation: W,W,W,W,W
3) Colonial regions comparison matrix

28. Are you using the text structure?
P = Preview R = Review
At the front of the book:
Table of Contents outline (R)
AP Guideline correlation (P, R)
Within each chapter:
Chapter Outline (P, R)
Key Topics (P)
Maps, charts, pictures, captions, headings, glossary definitions (P)
Conclusion (R)
Chronology (R)
AP Prep Test (R)

29. Fluency facts
Who
Where
When
What
Why???
60 seconds

30. Colonial regions comparison matrix
Geographic
Economic
Political
Social/Cultural
Indian American
Spanish Borderlands
French Crescent
New England
Middle Colonies
Back Country
South

31. Geographic
Economic
Political
Social/Cultural
Indian 
America
Beyond 
App. Mtns. and in 
Canada, 
pressed by 
eastern 
colonies
Fur trade 
with Fr. 
and Br., 
depen-
dent on 
European 
goods
Some alliances 
with Europeans, 
others fight 
intruders, 
Iroquois 
Confederacy
Increasing European 
influence, diseases 
ravage Native tribes, 
keep being pushed 
east
Spanish 
Border-
lands
SW U.S., 
Florida, 
New 
Mexico, 
Texas, 
California, 
Arizona
Mission 
Indians 
for labor, 
subsis-
tence 
agricul-
ture, 
trading
Tied to Spanish 
crown and 
Catholic church, 
presidios, violence 
at borders
Great Universities, 
model/thriving cities, 
mix of ethnic 
backgrounds (mestizos), mission 
systems, convert NAI 
to Catholicism, Some 
inclusion regarding 
NAI
French 
Crescent
Canada 
(Quebec), 
Mississippi 
R.--> 
Louisiana
Fur trade 
with NAI, 
sugar 
plantation
s
Ally with NAI 
tribes, Catholic 
imperial policy, 
bishopric of 
Quebec
Catholic, long lots, 
frontier of inclusion, 
mixed with NAI, 
France sends few 
settlers to New World

32. Geographic
Economic
Political
Social/Cultural
New 
Eng-
land
Northeastern coast, 
MA, CT, 
RI, NH, 
VT, ME
Agriculture, 
commerce 
in big cities, 
shipping 
and 
insurance 
services
Little distinction 
between religious 
& secular 
authority, 
freemen vote for 
local officials, 
General Court
Life heavily influenced 
by religion, little 
tolerance- hence 
Toleration Act, 
Puritans, dissidents 
exiled, social hierarchy, 
frontier of exclusion
Middle 
Colon-
ies
NY, PA, 
NJ, DE, 
MD
Agriculture, 
worlds 
breadbasket
Quakers, 
appointed justices 
of the peace, 
property owners 
elect local officials
Ethnically diverse, 
religious/social 
toleration, communities 
tightly knit due to barter 
system and kinship 
bonds, high mobility 
rate, decent relations 
with NAI in PA, later 
frontier of exclusion
Back-
coun-
try
Shenandoa
h River 
Valley, 
Appalachia
n highlands 
and west
Commercial 
farming, 
mainly small 
farms and 
hunting
No legal title to 
land, disdain for 
rank, dominated 
by “big men”, 
conflict with NAI
Men-warriors, women-
domestic labor, conflict 
over land disputes and 
with NAI, log cabins, 
less social structure, 
frontier of exclusion
South
Chesapeak
e & Lower 
South
Rice, 
tobacco, 
and other 
cash crops, 
plantations, 
reliance on 
slave labor
Planter elite 
dominate, county 
courts, Church of 
England
Triracial societies, very 
rural, lower south-
plantation dominated 
social structure, 
Chesapeake-Anglican 
church and well 
developed communities, 
frontier of exclusion