The story was not written by Columbus himself
The age of exploration
Marco polo’s book of Asia was published and told of tales of great imagination
Trade items were needed.
The renaissance just happened
Colonialization
Technology just improved in that time period
Astrolabe was just improved
Printing press

Prince Henry the navigator thought of technology, and better ways to map the seas and continent of Africa
Vasco de capo does the same as Henry but keeps going to and makes it to India
The idea of god, glory, and gold
The crusades were going on
Most of the men were looking for the paradise land
The Spanish finally beat the moors out of Spain
Inquisition in Spain tried to kick out the Jews or make them covert
The pope divided the world in half which later became South America
He was around and asked everyone about it and sold himself to the highest bidder and would do anything to get the founding.
He has had experience in sailing and knew how to be a good sailor and surviving
And he had miss information about how far it was
Most Europeans believed that the world was round he was the one that was brave enough and had the most information on it
The technology was available at the time of his journey so he could do it
He also had a plan were he would take the wind currents from the canary islands to the new land
Columbus brought syphilis to the native Americans and the common cold

Native Americans came from northern china, Mongolia roughly around 30,000 B.C.
They first migrated south from Canada then to California and then some migrated east towards the east coast and some went even further south to south America
They followed the herd for food so when the herd moved they moved

Blend of western African Native American and European culture.
Natives good at agricultural farming and growing food
Spain shows up and chops down oak trees and kill of the Natives there in California.

The Natives also gave us Arts and Crafts
The natives gave us four structures: teepee, longhouses, igloos, and adobes
The Natives gave us good hunting tips
The Natives had tribal of elders and some on the eastern are martial lineal and run by women
Confederation is a loose association against small tribes
A caucus is a political meeting
The mound builders are actually called the Hopewell people or the Adina people from two thousand years ago and stretched from Indiana to West Virginia
Hernando Desoto almost discovered all the continental united states and killed almost all of them because of the common cold
The Mississippians’, these are the south east tribes. Who were also mound builders and built mounds in square.
Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Utah. Four corners.

They are slaves that were imported for French British and Spanish colony’s
3 million slaves imported but 250000 died on the ship before they got their
Jamaica received half a million slave
1716 to 1766 70000 come to America
1776 to 1800 by law of congress makes importing slaves illegal
Importation 1.81 million slaves into the nation
More than 20 million slaves imported into South America most of them died
Triangular trade is a trade exchange between Europe, Africa and the Americas.
Has three components
The triangular trade was created because each area needed something from each other so they used it plus also supply and demand
Africa change the trade from selling gold and salt to selling Slavery all because Pissarro and Cortez found gold in South American
England is a mercantilist nation (a nation based trade) king as absolute control over trade. Colonies exist only to provided raw materials to the country
The trade system was old and new Africa old trade Americas new
Africa sold their own people because they sold the prisoners of war and eliminated rivals and they were already trading partners so if they needed money so you need something new they get it, but the great kingdom is going down and there is a break down and some of them are not selling of their own kind
African slavery is nothing like American slavery
They didn’t send any letters either because they didn’t know how to write or it would have been in Arabic.
Seasoning- a term applied to dehumanized African slaves in the Caribbean before they were transported to their final destination.
It made them know that nothing ever good would ever happen to them
Many of the 4 million Africans did run away or just sat there and died or even mutinied
African American brought music to us and musical instruments as well
Gave us double speaking , and Ebonics is inner city
They believe there culture
Find a chart on the colonies on whites founded, important person, when founded

The mission of the missionaries was to bring the word of the lord to the natives
Seen as a humanitarian way to bring the lord to the people
The Spanish came as single men
So the breed between natives and Spanish happened.

They came to trade they wanted what the other people had
They came to claim more territory
Came to get religious freedom
And because the French did it to
And looking for the north west passage

In 1580 Sir Humphrey Gilbert Founded New Found Land but dies in attempt and
Half brother Raleigh 1590 Founded Roanoke island but colony disappears
First colony in north America –sir Humphrey first colony in America- Raleigh
Jamestown named after King James and is the first stable colony
Virginia
1619- First African Americans were brought by the British, the first legislature in a British colony, and the first women born
Average age of the population is 16 years old

Corporation a profit making enterprise where a group invests money in a company to make a profit.
These people were looking for gold and spices for money.
Got a grant to find a spot on America for one purpose for making money.
They only came to collect riches.
Jamestown is located at a place called the dismal swap.
When winter hit they have no shelter to protect from the cold. No food stored for the winter, and the people there were already sick all the time and they had disease and spread around this was known as the
Capitan john smith was the man who took control of the colony for the greater good.
Founded for corporate greed.

Royal colony which means their doing it from the king and the king owns it.
Pilgrim- a specific group of puritans that migrated for England to Holland to America
Puritan- people who wanted to purify the Church of England. (Anglican) they don’t want to leave it they just want to change it.
Separatist- puritans that see no way of staying with the church and leave the church completely and split it up.
They came to Plymouth on the may flower.
The Mayflower compact: were suppose to make them act together and work together

John Winthrop founder, the puritans wanted to create a utopia in Massachusetts
A sin among us is a sin against or individual soul
They were already chosen by birth and everyone else is not
Through their good works is how they showed they were

Have swift moving machines that grind wheat in to fine flour

Thanksgiving was made by Abraham Lincoln to win the re election in 1863
The natives at first were ok with the white people at first but started to get annoyed
1621 they did have a picnic in July with family of whites and native
Designed as a day of prayer not a feast

The middle colony seem to be the most diverse in churches
The Congregationalist seem to be the most popular church throughout America
The southern colony is primarily Anglican
Several different catholic division
Protestant has only one division

Roger Williams is kicked out of Massachusetts in 1635
Wants to pay natives for taking land
Another idea is Separation of church and state
We shouldn’t force our religion on other people was another idea
Anna Hutchison also got kicked out of Massachusetts to Rhode island
Mother of fourteen children and is a puritan
Holds private sessions to discus bible in her house with women and gentlemen and without a minister
Says that she talked to god and he talks back and she says that you can be saved by grace
Put here on trail vs. the best attorneys in the state and lose and excommunicated and banned from Massachusetts

Thomas Hooker lead another group of people out of Massachusetts and founded a point in Connecticut
Fundamental Orders is a document made up of the new colonists
Were puritans but changed it to their ways

Described as a salad bowl
Founded by the Swedish and the Dutch
Dutch fought a war for the colony but lost because they do not fight so England won the land
Set it up like feudalism and most of the farmers gave up and flee

Both extensions of bigger colonies to get rid of the more people

Quakers are called society of friends and believe in equality
Do not swear elegances to anyone but god
Will not take a life, women can make decisions, and no one minister they can listen to, and have religious tolerance to everyone else
They discuses together even women can speak
And they are a major impact in Americas
Pennsylvania is owned by one man which is William Penn
Son hangs out with the Society of Friends
Pennsylvania was a land grant from the king to his friend

Thomas hookers lead another group of people out of Massachusetts and founded.
Fundamental orders made is a document made up of new colonies

New York = the salad bowl.
Dutch fight British over the colonies and the British win because the Dutch don’t fight.

They are all about equality, the only speak to god as a higher person
They will not take a life, women can make decisions, and no one minister they can listen to, and have religious tolerance to everyone else.
They discuses together even woman can speak.
-          William pen, William pen Jr., Jr. went to college and wastes his dads money and starts hanging out with a weird cult, stops drinking. Stops being a trouble maker and dad are sad.
William pen, is friends with the king and king gave him Pennsylvania aka pens woods 
 

Brought slaves and shipped them from Barbados.
Whole culture of the plantation slave industry leaves Barbados and goes to South Carolina.
South Carolina grows RICE! (cotton is later)
Tobacco, rice, hemp, indigo, and most importantly cotton.
Cash crops are crops grown for money profit.

James Ogle Thore - socialist utopian bought Georgia for the purpose of the virgin land.
Taking people I debt out of prison and give them another chance.

Great fishing in the area
Crafts man ship make all sorts leather or barrels
Since they were close to the ocean they did trade with others around and the mother land
Making butter
Puritan is Religion in New England
95% of the south are Anglican

Royal crown
Royal crown:
Appointed by the crown
Had final approval on laws
Oversaw colonial trade
Could dismiss colonial assembly
Colonial Assembly
Elected by eligible colonists
Made laws
Had authority to tax
Paid governor’s salary
Council
Appointed by governor
Advisory board to governor
Acted as highest court in each colony

Indentured- a contract between two persons in which one needs land, payments of debts, a skill, passage to America, the other has money need for skill worker and wants to go to America last between 4 to 14 years
Time doubled when pregnant
Can’t get married when Indentured
Not very good servants ran away always and

Mercy Otis Warren is one of the first historian and is a women
The first women came to Jamestown in 1619 and the first Africans came as well and the first legislator
Age 21-23 is when the average women marriage
At 21 is when most indentured women were free so that is why they married
Live birth rate for women is eight children
50 % of the children die before age one
2.5% is an increase in population in the colonies around the 1600-1700
1750; 1,170,800 million is the population in 1650 50,000 population
Most colonial families are a single family house-hold
Widowarchy- women who had many husbands and were very wealthy.
1/3 of families had indentured slaves that were considered part of the family
All children work from the time they can stand up

Period of Salutary Regret 1650-1750
A period in British colonies where they made laws regulating the colonies but didn’t enforce them
1660 navigation acts
All trade must go through British ports
All trades with colonies must have British crews and ships
Certain goods can only be sold to the British or in England
No foreigners can trade with the colonies
Staple Act 1663
Required all foreign objects bond for the colonies to pass through England and be taxed
Woolen act
Couldn’t produce wool and sell it anywhere but her town
The Enclosure Act
The Hat Act
Restricted the production of hats except for in the local population
Iron Act
Same as Hat Act
Individual representation
If your British you are British forever

Washington forced to sign a treaty
Makes him walk home
To never come back
And say that he assassinated the commander
Found the fort and defeated again
General Bradic died at battle Washington buried the body under the road and assumes control of army
Frontier Battles
Cornstalk lead Shawnee and at the battle of Pointpleasent against colonials
Treaty of Paris
End of French and Indian war 1763
French possession lost to British
Florida lost from Spain to Britain n as well (because they were allies)
French Louisiana territory is going to Spain
Results of the French and Indian war
French never a threat in America again
Exchange of territory are going to change the history
We resent the British soldiers present and there British arrogance
The British thinks America owes for being protected and we don’t think we do
The seeds of discontent are sown against the British
Indians can no longer use the French and British for supply’s and peace
George Gremville is the new prime ministers
Helped push taxes through to get money from the colony’s
The proclamation of 1763 says for bayed further settlement across the mountains
The officials in England are now required to collect the taxes them self’s from the colonies
Currency Act 1764 requires that colonial government to stop printing money
Sugar Act 1764 is a revenue raising act and to discourage smuggling reduces the tax on sugar
The stamp act 1765 revenue raising act it requires that a stamp be placed on all:
Business papers
Newspapers
Pamphlets
Commercial papers
Dice and playing cards
The stamp act congress created to see how they should take action against Britain
Send a list of grievances
Agree to not import any British product
The sons of liberty created and burned down stamp collectors house
Lord Rockingham repels stamp act and use the

Too much tea on the market and price had gone down
They reduced the tax on tea
They gave an absolute monopoly to East Indian Trading Company

They won t let the ships dock or unload except for Boston which they through all the tea in the harbor

Closed the port

Revoke chart of the state
And they can’t elect their government

Any British official charge of a capital crime in the suppress of insurrection can be tried in England or any colony

British colonies must house British soldiers

They gave Quebec area all around the west area of colonies to the pacific
Our fur trading region became Quebec’s region
Gives right of self government to Quebec but takes away ours
Grants them religious freedom

Rights and Grievances to the king
They plan a economic boycott on British imports
Everyone is sent to their homes and original colonies, and boycott
Committee of observation/Committee of safety
Committee of correspondence
Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, John Hancock, and most of these kinds of people just right letters to each other. They have intellectual discussion about the letter.
Common people read pamphlets on the revolution
Thomas Paine used pamphlets to tell people about common sense and revolution
Common sense pamphlets sells 100,000 in the first six months

First Battle of the Revolutionary war (the shot heard around the world)
Three riders that warned the country side that the red coats were coming
Civil Ludington giving permission to ride forty miles in Virginia and raise four hundred minute men

Sends the declaration of Independence to George the Third
Conduct the war till 1781
They right the new rules of government in the colony’s called the “articles”

1/5 Americans still support Britain
2/5 American’s are neutral
2/3 are the Patriots
The colonial army of the first two years of the war got 90% of their ammunition from the French

Commanded the Americans at some battles and the Battle of Yorktown
Has an ear to the king. He tells the king that he should be supporting the Americans in their effort.
Helps raise money for America from France

British have a huge navy, America has non
We have Privateers capture over 2,000 ships and 20,000 sailors and that’s America’s Navy

Becomes a mercenary for Catherine the Great after the war
Great ship captain and takes risk

Could have brought over 110,000 men at any point in time
Had 30,000 Hessian in the Army
And had 10,000 loyal Americans
Issued a Draft which broadened the age limit, height, weight too

Highest point ever was 20,000 in the Army
Militia in Army was only six months to a year at a time
They were paid with local founds
George Washington pays the army before they turn on him
75% of the Army didn’t even get a penny during the war

Britain controls the city’s and We own the country side
For the British Army it took 1/3 tons for one Soldier for supply’s for a year
Britain is fighting for money America is fighting for their life
Battle of Bunker hill is actual called Breed’s hill and we still lose but a moral victory for us
Build hills as a blockade
We killed 800 and but we suffer 200 casualty’s
Henry Knox in charge of artillery in Revolution
Later becomes Secretary of War
Fort Knox named after him
The Northern Campaign is a group of battles of New York City, Trenton, and Princeton
32,000 troops brought to fight Americans under command of General Howl and Admiral Howl

Considered a victory for Americans because we don’t lose but we don’t
But France jumps in after war because of this fight

Forget it,
Forgotten.
My imagination draws a blank.
My surroundings dissapear slowly,
as if my eyes were meant to hide my atmosphere from me.
Am I really alone out here,
or is there more that I'm missing.
I need someone to be my candle,
but theres no one here.
Maybe its a lack of desire for anyone else to be here in my mind,
I cannot beleive the darkness,
It sure cannot beleive me.
Its only purpose is to deceive me,
Well its not working.
I saw through your lies the moment that I got here.