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Original inhabitants

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  • 20 million indigenous inhabitants
  • came from Asia across Bering Strait
  • many different tribes
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Who got to America first

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1) the Irish priests
2) the Vikings
3) Christopher Columbus

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The Vikings

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  • Sea-going people from Scandinavia = Vinland
  • Lief Erickson(988-1000)
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Christopher Columbus

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  • 1492
  • an Italian explorer
  • wanted to open a trade route between Europe and Asia - called inhabitants Indians
  • 3 voyages
  • Nina, Pinta, Santa Maria
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Amerigo Vespucci

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  • an Italian sailor and cartographer, described voyages of Columbus
  • called it the land of Amerigo - America
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Spanish colonies

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  • 1565
  • Mexico, Florida
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French colony

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Louisiana

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Dutch colony

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New Amsterdam

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Swedish colony

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Fort Christina

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British colony

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  • 1607
  • Jamestown
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Kiowa tribe

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  • hunter gatherer economy
  • now Oklahoma
  • ghost dance
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Sioux tribe

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  • used canoes for fishing
  • believed in Wakan Tanka - the only god
  • decorated clothes with beads and embroidery
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Maya tribe

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  • sacrificed people for gods
  • loved chocolate
  • created calendar
  • practiced art and mathematics
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Kuna tribe

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  • live in Panama
  • matriarchal society
  • speak kuna and spanish
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Pueblo tribe

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  • famous for the adobe dwellings
  • had rituals such as dancing
  • good farmers
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Types of dwellings

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Adobe, teepee, grasshouse, wigwam, longhouse

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Symbols of native american culture

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Totem pole, peace pipe, warbonnet, hand beaded moccasins, duck decoy, tomahawk

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1607

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The first British colony was found in Virginia - Jamestown

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1619

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  • arrival of the first slaves from Africa
  • first women in English colonies
  • formation of the House of Burgesses
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House of Burgesses

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Primitive government - assembly of chosen people

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1620

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the Pilgrims sailed from Plymouth in a small ship “the Mayflower”

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1692

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Witch hunting, Salem

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Triangular trade

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America to Europe - sugar and tobacco
Europe to Africa - textile, rum, manufactured goods
Africa to America - slaves

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Indebted serviture

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for people who wanted to come to America - plantators paid their trip and they worked for them, for 7 years

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Permanent slaves

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slaves forever

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Plantatioms

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large estates in tropical or subtropical regions
- slave labor

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By the law slave was considered

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property or chattel and was deprived of most of the rights

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How new slaves were generated

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  • Captured in wars
  • kidnapped
  • offspring of the slaves
  • enslaved as a punishment for crime
  • sold into slavery
  • self sale
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The 13 colonies

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Europeans came to North America looking for religious freedom, economic opportunities, and political liberty. They created 13 colonies on the East Coast of the continent. Later, when the colonists won independence, these colonies became the 13 original states.

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1754-1763

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French-Indian war

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Navigation acts

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England passed laws called the Navigation Acts in the 1600s and 1700s to regulate trade in each English colony, or place under the rule of their nation. Goods which were imported, or brought in, and exported, or sent out, were subject to strict regulations.

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Sugar act

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forbidden import of foreign rum and duty on molasses
- 1764

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Currency act

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they had to use the same currency as Britain
- 1751

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Stamp act

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special stamps had to be purchased for every document
- 1765

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Quartering act

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forced colonists to provide food and houses for british troops

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declaratory act

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British Parliament was in charge of passing laws for the colonies

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Townshend acts

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Duties on glass, lead, tea, paper in colonies

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