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History XI: Kountz Class Notes, 1.1 I. II. Attendance Go over the blog a. How it worksquestions, quizzes, etc.

Use Computers to Sign kids up for writing on blog Question: Where does American History begin, and Why? a. It all depends on what you want to argue. On how you manipulate your lense. i. For example: Why were the Portugese and Spanish motivated to set sail in the so called Age of Discovery? Competition with the Muslim world? Search of new sea-based trade routes after the devastation of land-based routes during Black Death? ii. Right there we have an economic interpretation that moves us to a certain time, 14th, 15th centuries and to Eurasia, not North America. iii. What if we went back to the Crusades, and the taste for wealth developed by Europeans after travelling to the Near East? b. So why are we starting where we are, in the early 17th century, nearly 200 years after the beginning of the widespread European exploration of the seas? Why are we really skipping over the Spanish, here long before the English? c. What about the Protestant Reformation and Englands competition with Spain? What about the Spanish Armada? Why start with the first settlers at Jamestown? Move to Reading a. Question: What clues are there in your reading that might suggest that is all part of a Constitutional theme? How do they relate? (or something like that!) i. Population Growth in England as it relates to Colonization ii. Other Reasons: iii. Spanish Armada? English Nationalism? Economic? iv. Virginia Charter: First and Foremost, this is a business. But, the charter is an important Primary Source document in its own right (Talk about Primary Sources): 1. Virginia Company Charter of 1606, Key Lines: .Also we do, for Us, our Heirs, and Successors, DECLARE, by these Presents, that all and every the Persons being our Subjects, which shall dwell and inhabit within every or any of the said several Colonies and Plantations, and every of their children, which shall happen to be born within any of the Limits and Precincts of the said several Colonies and Plantations, shall HAVE and enjoy all Liberties, Franchises, and Immunities, within any of our other Dominions, to all Intents and Purposes, as if they had been abiding and born, within this our Realm of England, or any other of our said Dominions.

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b. Mention House of Burgesses, 1619 Virginias Indian Tribes a. Powhatan b. Strategic Relationships i. For both English and Indians? ii. What was each side looking for? Hoping to gain? iii. First and Second Anglo-Powhatan Wars iv. Patterns: Three Ds Disease, Disorganization, Disposability (No real economic function for the English, as opposed to large scale slave labor for Spanish) Plantation Colonies i. What are the Plantation Colonies? 1. Maryland and Virginia (Chesapeake), North and South Carolina and Georgia (Security Buffer) ii. Features 1. Mix of small farms and aristocratic class. Slave Labor. Tobacco and Rice. Mainly.

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VIII. Whats Next? a. Comparison of Virginia and Massachusetts Settlement

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