Don't Know Much About History, Chapter 2

o   King Philip’s war

§  Summer 1676

§  Metacom/ King Philip

§  Vicious war/ Mohegan’s

o   Nat Bacon’s Rebellion

§  1676

§  Governor Berkley limits colonists expansion

§  Bacon raises troops and goes and kills Indians.

§  Berkeley declares Bacon an outlander

§  Bacon burns Berkeley’s mansion

§  British troops come.

o   Salem Witch Trials

§  1692

§  Shows the danger of church/state connection.

o   The Great Awakening

§  1740’s

§  Jonathan Edward

·      Religious reverend “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”

§  Leads to the funding of many universities

·      Princeton, Brown, Rutgers, and Dartmouth.

§  Divisions of church and state

§  Spirit of toleration (religious)

o   John Peter Zenger

§  1732

§  Trial for printing “advertisements” or political cartoons

§  Freedom of press

o   French and Indian War

§  French/ English world domination and North America

§  French had natives on their side because they were more interested in trade while the English just wanted to take land.

§  French was the lesser of two evils.

§  William Pitt

·      Savior of the war for the English

·      Conquest of North America

·      Able to barrow/ raise money to win war

§  James Wolfe and Jeffery Amherst

·      Commanders that helped win war

·      Amherst gave natives blankets from smallpox hospital

o   Events that lead to the Revolutionary war

§  Sugar Act

·      Tax on all sugar

§  Stamp Act

·      Taxes on everything with a stamp on it

§  Townshend Act

·      British troops to America

·      Boston massacre

§  Tea Act

·      1773

·      Boston Tea Party

§  Intolerable Acts  (kings punishment)

·      Closes down Boston harbor

·      Revoked Massachusetts’ charter

·      Soldiers- housed

·      Administration of Justice act

·      Quebec act

o   Upset Massachusetts and Virginia

o   Gave the land of the Ohio country into the hands of Quebec

o   Sons of Liberty

§  Samuel Adams

§  James Otis

·      “No taxation without representation.”

§  Crispus Attucks

·      African American who fought and died in the revolutionary war

§  Paul Revere.

o   Lexington and Concord

§  April, 1775

§  Paul Revere’s ride wasn’t only to warn the fighters, but to tell John Hancock and Sam Adams that the British were coming for them. 

Questions for French and Indian War, Part One.

1) What was the significance of the Forks of the Ohio to each of the

Competing groups?

            The area was good for trade.

2) Why would the British be concerned by the French forts west of the Appalachian Mountains?

Because if they claim land all along the Appalachians, then that would keep the British to the coast and they wouldn’t have anywhere else to go.

3) Which Indians had claims to land at the Forks of the Ohio?

The Iroquois.

           

4) List important individuals in this segment.

Edward Bradik, Half King, George Washington.

5) What qualities did George Washington display as a young military leader? Which of these helped him succeed in his military career?

            George Washington was naive, but one quality that helped him in his later career was that he was ambitious. 

Mystic Questions.

1. How would you describe relationships between the Puritan settlers and the Pequot before the Pequot War? Why do you think these relationships changed so quickly?

It was the first place the English people started killing natives. The first encounter was positive.  They traded with each other. They were friendly with each other. English thought that their way was the only right way and the natives just didn’t know.

2. Before the arrival of the British, what was the status of the Pequot in the Connecticut River Valley? How would you describe their relationships with other Native American tribes?

The Pequots were feared and the most dominating tribe.

3. Why did the Puritans travel to the New World? What were their intentions upon arrival?

To cleans the Christian religion.

4. Compare and contrast Puritan and Pequot ideas about the following: land and property, division of labor and gender, and warfare? Give examples to back up your discussion.

             The natives felt like they didn’t own the land, they moved around a lot. But the british settlers thought that you had to tame the land and make modifications.

Women were treated as equals. They could speak freely and work out in the freild while the men went hunting. The British Thought that womens were lower then men and

5. In this program, one commentator suggests that the Dutch colonists favored trade, while the British prioritized land. How did the difference in focus shape their interactions with Native Americans, and their goals in the New World?

6. Why were British settlers unhappy with the way Pequot organized their economy and relationship to the land? Do you think there was any validity to their concerns? Who do you think, if anyone, ultimately had the right to decide who should control the land?

The British thought they discovered the land they thought that the Pequot Indians were hostile and that thought of them as trouble -makers.

7. Why do you think the Narragansett and Mohegan tribes fought with the Puritans against the Pequot? Were you surprised by their actions? Discuss.

 Because they were already feuding with the Pequot’ and they made a deal with the Puritans. It isn’t very surprising to me.

8. One commentator, Tall Oak, ponders how the early colonies would have been different if the Puritans had come in peace. How would you answer this question? Do you think a different outcome in relations between the Pequot and the Puritans was possible?

I don’t think that the colonies would have been as successful because they wouldn’t have as much land, but at the same time, they could have use the Natives as friends for trade and protection.

9. How did the Pequot manage to resurrect their community hundreds of years after the massacre? How do you think it would feel to go from devastation to prosperity?

 There were other Pequot tribes. A Pequot made friends with John Winthrop’s son, which was a crucial part in their return. There was a reservation where they could go and just be themselves and have their culture back. A group of Pequots had tried to rebuild their tribes. Later on they got federal recognition and opened one of the most successful casinos in us history.

10. Describe the details of the 1638 Treaty of Hartford, which ended the war. Why was the treaty considered to be cultural genocide for the Pequot?

All of the culture was outlawed and the Pequots practically didn’t exist anymore. Women and children were sold as servants and men were all shipped off as slaves.

11. What sources do you think historians used in order to recount the story of the massacre at Mystic? What sources might you use if you were trying to create a documentary about the early colonies? Do you think this documentary offers a balanced and informed view of the massacre? Discuss.

They probably used primary sources such as journals and logs from the British and or Natives. I would use journals and logs and artifacts to try to piece together the events of the Mystic massacre.

12. How did the massacre at Mystic change the United States?

It started the hatred between Natives and the English. It also was the beginning of racism. 

History Sitka Trip Work.

History Trip Work

#8) Easy product movement, deals for large families, tobacco growth, religious freedom

#9) Low, flat, seacoast terrain. Lots of servants and easy product movement.

#10) The strong  religious revival in the 1720’s

#11) Germans

#12) Middle- they had fertile soil so they had bigger crops then resulted in a bigger profit. New England- They had thin, rocky dirt so they had more trouble growing crops, and they didn’t have much farming.

#13) A powerful group of natives in the eastern part of America mad up of five nations: Mohawk, Senecca, Cayuga, Onondaga, and Oneida.

#14) To make certain that only England benefitted from trade with the colonies. 

#15) The movement that spread was that the idea the knowledge, reason, and sciece could better scoiety

#16) Canada, and some land east of the Mississippi

#17) Because people owned land west of the Appalachians.