Pox Americana Flashcards
What is credited as the first quarantine law in the colonies?
Pennsylvania in 1700 - it was a 100 pound fine for landing a ship with sick people.
What was the first federal quarantine law
1799
What happened to Cotton Mather in 1700
His house was fire bombed for his support of inoculation
When did G Washington have Small Pox?
Barbados in 1751, both he and his brother Lawrence after going to a dinner party
Who inoculated John Adams, and when did he get it done?
Joseph Warren 1764..
What were the laws concerning inoculation in the colonies?
Some allowed, some did not - so doctors in Baltimore advertised in the Virginia Gazaette
What did the Massachusetts House of Representatives do as a result of the British army letting infected people leave the city?
It voted that they must be quarantined
What was it about the terms of service of early Continental soldiers that helped spread Small Pox
They had short term enlistments, so they took the disease home with them, or brought it back
When the British evacuate Boston and what was the effect?
March 17 - 1776 - there was an immediate smallpox outbreak
What was the first three major actions of the Revolutionary War before July 4, 1776?
The siege of Boston
the siege of Quebec and
the mobilization of Dunmore’s Ethiopian regiment.
When was Washington’s first inoculation of the army?
January 1777, in Morristown
When was the second inoculation of the army
Valley Forge, winter of 77 through June 78
Dunmore (John Murray) wasn’t the only offer to “Negros” - who else offered freedom?
Clinton as part of the “Phillips burg Proclamation”
How many black slaves left Georgia during 1777-1778
5,000 - almost 1/3
How did smallpox help Americans to see Indians as “savage”
Agricultural societies were decimated by smallpox. It destroyed developed societies
