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The first Europeans to arrive in the Americas were the Norse or Vikings, a people who came from Scandinavi. Leif Ericsson and 35 other Vikings explored the coast of labrador and stayed the winter in Newfoundland.
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Columbus and his three ships left Spain in august 1992. They landed in the Bahamas probably on what is today Watling Island. he called the Taina people he met Indians because he thought he had reached the Indies. Columbus also found the Islands of cuba and Hispaniola. he returned to spain with gold, parrots, spices, native americans.
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Columbus soon left for his second voyage with 17 ships and 1200 colonist. he landed in hispaniol. many of the colonist felt that Columbus had misled them with promises of gold, so they returned to spain. Columbus stayedand found some gold. his brother bartholomew stayed and founded Sante Domingo In Hispaniola.
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3rd journey was bring supplies for the settlement and explore further south. It was May 30, 1498 when Christopher Columbus went from Spain, this time from the port of Sanlucar, with 6 vessels. The group of ships landed on June 19 at the Canary Islands, this was after a brief stop at Madeira and Porto Santo.
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Juan Ponce de Leon the spanish govener of puerto rico discovered Florida in 1513.
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Cortes lead an expedition to the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico to find people who could be forced to work. When they landed they attacked by thousands of warriors near by. The spanish with their swords, guns, and cannons helped them easily kill 200 warriors.
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Searched northern Florida to find a rumored city of gold.
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He was a Spanish army captain, began to explore the Inca empire on the western coast of south america. he took the powerful inca emperors prisoner and executed him a year later. many incas didnt accept the new system and continued to fight the spanish until 1572.
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he led expedition to find Seven Golden Cities of Cibola that were rumored to exist north of New Spain. He didnt find these cities but did explore much of what is present day southwestern United States.
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explored parts of a region north of present-day Florida. His expedition killed many native americans and raided their villages for supplies.
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England was producing mare wool than European would buy, and the price fell
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fur particularly beaver fur had become very fashionable europe
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England granted the Virginia Company permission to establish colonies in Virginia
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Pilgrims landed at the Cape Cod. They sailed on the Mayflower. They were Seperatist.
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Squanto Teaches the England to hunt, fish, and plant corn. Negotiates peace with the Woapanoag. Three day harvest became Thanksgiving
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Roger Williams stood up for Native Americans was separatist (believe in total seperationfrom the Angelican church)
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John Winthrop rich attorney, puritans, stockholder, in Mass. Bay Colony, finanaced migration to America. He thinks they would provide an example to the world Great migration 20,000 settleers arrived in New England. Winthrop becomes govenor had the rules of the colony.
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Maryland became the first colony to recognize slavery. Then virgina enacted a slave code a set of laws that regulated slavery and defined the relationship between the enslaved and free people. Slavery was now a recognized and accepted institution
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The act granted religious toleration to all Christians in Maryland and was intended to protect the catholic minority from the protestants
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Tobacco became the South's first successful cash crop
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Sir William Berkley Governor of Virgina. Dominated Virgina state societies.
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Rice and Indigo was the main cash crop of South Carolina
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New England also had dense forest making lumber a thriving industry. The fall line where water falls appear providing power for the sawmills.
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The rivers transported the lumber to the coast for shipment lumber was also used for making barrels ships and furniture
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Many people from England were willing to become indentured servents in the U.S.COlonist would pay their cost of transportation, food, clothing, and shelter
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She said she was spoken to by God.That was against the Puritan belief. She move to Pocasset( later know as Portsmouth RI)
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War erupted between the backcountry settlers and native americans. Berkeley wanted nothing with it. Under the leadership of Nathaniel Bacon, the backcountry farmers farmers attacked Native Americans, Bacon was popular and this led to the house of Burgess restoring the vote to all free me. Bacon rebelled but the overthrow fell short when Bacon become sick and died
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Puritans in New England were expected to attend Sunday worship at the meeting house and obey strict rules. These rules included watching over a neighbors behavior
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England didnt want goods New England produced. New England wanted Englands goods; so New England had to sell their products elsewhere in exchange for goods England wanted
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New England took their goods to the carribean and recieved raw sugar or bills of exchange would then be traded to England for goods. This was known as the Triangular Trade
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Becomes a refuge for religious freedom
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Thomas Hooker leave Mass. for Connecticut. Settlers and native americans lived alongside one another. Hart Ford Est. states that all male europeans are allowed to vote not just church memebers
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The middle colonies was full of fertile farmland. Surplus crops were produced and wheat became a cash crop. Rivers allowed farmers to transport their products to large ships. Two towns that arose where rivers emptied into the ocean were New York and Philadelphia
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By the 1690's planters in S.C. were importing Africans to cultivate rice.
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Plantation system created a society with distinct social classes. The Gentry lived on self-sufficent communities known Plantations. By this time planters switched from indentured servents to slave laborers.
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New England was located near the Grand Banks, a shallow region of the Atlantic Ocean with an abundance of sea life. Fishing and Whaling become an inportant industry.
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The colonial population increased due to large families and the migration of immigrants. Women in the colonies, particularly married women had no rights. A married woman owned nothing
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Cotton Mather with the aid of African Slaves conducted a successful experiment treating smallpox
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german immigrants settled in pa looking for religious freedom. these immigrants became known as the PA Dutch and were excellent farmers
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The scotch- irish immigrated to the colonies to escape rising taxes, poor harvests, and religious discrimination.
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Jews arrived in the colonies, seeking and opportunity to practice their religion without persecution.
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the enlightenment was a European cultured movement that challenged the authority of the church and elevated the power of human reason. The new emphasis on logic was baked rationalism
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John Locke was t6he premier enlightment writer. He argued that all people had rights
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African Slaves attempted to maintain their language and traditions. Africanism south carolina worked on rice plantation isolated they were able to develop a culture with its own language Gullah
