Pg. 73 & Pg. 80 Questions

Pg 73 1-6

1.     Often times when people started to seek new land, they would go to their King or Queen and request a charter so they could build a community. They would occasionally get funding from a joint-stock company. Once other communities got settled near one another, they would select burgesses to represent them in meetings between the little towns.

2.     They expected to receive profit from gold and silver immediately. However, they found settling the land was much harder than expected, the living hard. They did end up getting some money back from tobacco, which became a popular crop.

3.     Farming tobacco created a money influx and economy.

4.     It would expand England’s territory and they could potentially grow more powerful, depending on the resources in America.

5.     Growth of Jamestown

a.     Individual plot ownership

b.     Separation form the Virginia Company

6.     30% were children.

Pg 80 1-6

1.     Persecution always causes dissent among people; no one wants to be hated. The Puritans were no exception to this; they became separatists when persecuted by the King of England. The movement for religious purposes made the Puritans pilgrims. They remained loyal to England, despite the lack of toleration, and wrote a contract called the Mayflower Compact. This contract expressed their loyalty to England and set rules and regulations for their settlement.

2.     They wanted to reform a church, but found it difficult. They was much religious difficulty in England at the time.

3.     Rhode Island offered religious freedom to all, also the government was not mixed together with religion as much as other colonies.

4.     Both were plans on how to run their colonies, both important to the future government of America.

5.     Interacting w/ Native Americans

a.     Increased trade

b.     War

c.      Destruction of the power of Native Americans in New England

6.     Furs, Timber, Rum, and possibly fish

Review of Zinn So Far

Zinn seems knowledgeable about the history of the United States. However, I would say he almost is too focused on the unrepresented; he skips the majority of the reasons for the Europeans actions. None of their atrocities are forgivable, but the words he uses to describe of the actions are a bit on the biased side. An example of this is the phrase “stole a small silver cup.” Why couldn’t be have just said a silver cup. He is definitely trying to create sympathy for the losers, which in this case, are the Native Americans. It appears to be a solidly researched and well-executed book, if a tad biased and predictable.

AJ Ch. 1 Q's

Arctic Yupi’k Inupiat Inuit	Present Day Nevada/ Great Basin Northern Paiute Paiute	Great Plains Blackfoot Crow Sioux Omaha Cheyanne	Southeast Choctaw Yuchi
Subarctic Cree Tanaina Ojbway Onondaga	Present Day California Pomo Chumash	Northeast Iroquois Miami Winnebago Shawnee Pawnee Cherokee Powhatawn
Northwest Coast Tlingt Haida Kwakiutl Nootka Chinook Tillamook	Plateau/ Washington Yakima Palus Nez Percé Walla Walla	Southwest Navajo Hopi Zuni Pueblo Apache

2. The North American continent had many different organized groups of people. It resembles, at least to me, earlier Europe during the early/late Medieval times, but more cultured. They nations intersected but were, for the most part, small tribes who are beginning to spend time on art.

3. The Onondga, Seneca, Mohawk, Cayauga, and the Oneida joined together to form the Iroquois league or federation.  They formed this group sometime in the late 1500’s to encourage peace among the different tribes. All of them together as one unified force created a very powerful nation.

4. Hieroglyphs are pictures that represent an idea or thing in real life. They are used to communicate ideas to others. The Mayans used hieroglyphs.

5. In the Southwest adobe houses were the most common type of homes.

6. Maize, or corn, was the first crop raised in modern, Mexico. This stable crop was an essential factor in the development of culture in the Americas.


From Yesterday

How Crusades Affected America?

Roman Empire falls then splits into multiple pockets of countries

1095 – 1291 ---- Technical Crusade           

Come into contact with Muslims

                        Discover a taste for Asian spices, trade

13^th – 14^th – Renaissance begins in Italy

                        Immediate trade through Asia

                        Don’t want to pay tax so they begin to look for different trade routes

1492 – Columbus goes to America looking for resources, trade

How many Native Americans in 1491?

1-100 million estimates by historians

            Some groups almost 90% of certain groups of natives were wiped out

Advantages over the Natives?

Diseases

Weapon Technology

Writing

What did Europe want in the East Indies?

Spices

Sugar

Technology

Competing with other Euro. countries

How was Marco Polo important to discovery of America?

Wrote a book about the Indies and its womders.

The book influenced Christopher Columbus.