Objectives:
Explain how and why interactions between various European nations and American Indians changed over time.
Explain the causes and effects of slavery in the various British colonial regions.
​Explain how enslaved people responded to slavery

Class Starter: What percentage of Americans say the legacy of slavery affects society today?

Quick Quiz on Slavery: Do You Know More than the Average American?

  1. What document outlawed slavery in the United States?
  2. In how many of the 13 colonies did slavery exist?
  3. Did Lincoln promise to end slavery when he ran for president?
  4. Within 5%, what percentage of the U.S. population was enslaved in 1860?

Recap: Explain the causes and effects of transatlantic trade over time.

Review: Password Game

AMSCO Review: Grab a review book and open to p. 41-42 for questions 3-8

Quiz Today: Colonial Regions

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  1. How did an Atlantic economy develop in which goods as well as enslaved Africans were exchanged between Europe, the Americas, and Africa?
  2. How did the colonies become increasingly “English” over time in terms of culture?
  3. How did resistance to imperial control draw on Enlightenment thought?
  4. How did Africans develop both overt and covert means to resist the dehumanizing aspects of slavery?
  5. How did different frontier cultures emerge and grow to fuel social, political, and ethnic tensions?

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Lecture: Interactions Between American Indians and Europeans

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Contextualization Exercise: Slavery and the Stono Rebellion

  • All the British colonies participated to varying degrees in the Atlantic slave trade due to the abundance of land and a growing European demand for colonial goods, as well as a shortage of indentured servants.
  • Small New England farms used relatively few enslaved laborers, all port cities held significant minorities of enslaved people, and the emerging plantation systems of the Chesapeake and the southern Atlantic coast had large numbers of enslaved workers, while the great majority of enslaved Africans were sent to the West Indies.
  • Africans developed both overt and covert means to resist the dehumanizing aspects of slavery and maintain their family and gender systems, culture, and religion.
  • The Stono Rebellion (1739) was one of the earliest known acts of rebellion against slavery in America.  It was organized and led by slaves living south of Charleston, South Carolina.  The slaves tried to flee to Spanish Florida, where they hoped to gain their freedom.

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Work on LEQ Exercise or Meeting of the Minds

Evaluating thesis statements and SFI
  1. Are you addressing both comparison and contrast?
  2. Did you make generalizations instead of listing specific events/characteristics?
  3. Does your thesis provide organizational categories?
  4. Is each piece of evidence relevant to the prompt and within the time frame?
Adding Contextualization​
  1. ​Start with a broad idea that leads into the time frame of the prompt.
  2. What was going on 20 years before the time frame?
  3. What was going on 20 years after the time frame?
Writing Topic Sentences
  1. Examine your list of SFI and place into categories based on your thesis.  You may need to add a few more.
  2. What pattern do they show?  Comparison or contrast?
  3. Try to make a generalization that aligns with the thesis and allows each SFI to fit.

Sample Prompt: Compare and contrast the goals of the Spanish and English North American colonies between 1500 and 1750.
Thesis: The economic goals of both the Spanish and English colonies reflected the mercantilist goals of their monarchs.  However, they each had unique religious purposes based upon the background of their settlers.  Therefore, while the approach of the Spanish conquistadores was geared toward the conversion of American Indians, British settlers seeking religious refuge often sought to insulate themselves to freely practice their religion.

Paragraph 1: Similarities between economic goals
  • Spain: haciendas, encomienda
  • England: tobacco, Navigation Acts
Topic Sentence: Economically, both the Spanish and English empires based their colonies on the theory of mercantilism, a philosophy that advocated a favorable balance of trade, so each made efforts to locate precious metals and grow profitable cash crops.

Paragraph 2: Spanish religious emphasis
  • missions, Juan Gines de Sepulveda
Topic Sentence: Spanish religious policy was heavily influenced by the Catholic Church, who charged their explorers with bringing all peoples they encountered into their faith.

Paragraph 3: English religious emphasis
  • "City Upon a Hill," William Penn
Topic Sentence: On the other hand, many English settlements were established by small groups of religious dissenters seeking to worship as they pleased, rather than establish a coordinated missionary network.

Closer: Explain how and why interactions between various European nations and American Indians changed over time.

Due Up:

Next Class: Colonial Society and Culture
Assignments Due: LEQ Exercise step 3
Quiz Next Class: Transatlantic Trade
Meeting of the Minds in two class periods
Periods 1-2 Test/LEQ in three class periods

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