70 years after Virginia was founded, the white frontiersmen who were joined by slaves and servants started Bacon’s rebellion. It was a rebellion threatening that the governor had to flee the burning capital of Jamestown. The governor of Jamestown, William Berkeley, had two motives to stop the rebellion: one was to develop an Indian policy which would divide Indians in order to control them; and two was to teach the poor whites of Virginia that rebellion didn’t pay off. The servants who joined the rebellion were part of the poor underclass whites who came to North American colonies from European cities whose governments were anxious to be rid of them. An indenture was signed in which the immigrants agreed to pay their cost of passage by working for a master for five or seven years. To make sure they didn’t runaway, they were held captive until the ship was ready to make sail. In 1619 the Virginia House of Burgesses was created. It was the first representative assembly in America and it provided and enforced contracts between the servants and masters. The servants could not have sexual relations with each other and the women were not allowed to get pregnant, and they couldn’t get married. Indentured servants were bought and sold like slaves. The masters were slightly scared of the servants because there were so many rebellions. After Bacon’s Rebellion, the Virginia legislature passed laws to punish the servants who rebelled. It was easier for them to just run away, so many did. Soon, free men had passports to show which proved that they were free men. One in every ten servants that were later set free were successful. John Locke is often considered as the philosophical father of the founding fathers and the American system. He wrote the fundamental constitution in the 1660s. He set up an aristocratic government. By the 1700s the colonies began to take off and double and triple in size. The number of poor and homeless people also began to grow. Rebellions of all professions started. People in Boston who were in debt wanted paper money to get them out of their debt and didn’t want men to be imprisoned for the military. Through this period England was fighting a series of wars, which meant higher taxes, unemployment, and poverty. There was a constant fear of the slaves, Indians, and poor whites taking over; particularly the poor whites and black slaves banning together. After Bacon’s Rebellions, poor white folks were given muskets, among other things, and the black slaves were given nothing, which started to really separate the blacks from the whites. As the whites separated into upper and lower class, there soon came a middle class of small planters, independent farmers, and city artisans. A fact long true about this country as clearly stated by Richard Hofstadter is: “It was a middle-class society governed for the most part by its upper-class. In order for it to work out, the upper class realized that they had to listen to the middle-class, and in doing so, hoping that they could unite just enough whites to fight a Revolution against England without ending either slavery or inequality.
Monday, September 20, 2010
Friday, September 17, 2010
Mystic Massacre
Comprehension Questions:
3) So they can spread their own religion. They intended to take over with their religion.
4) Puritans believed that in order for you to own the land you had to have a settlement on it, but the Pequot tribe believed that you temporarily lived there. They both treated their women and men differently. The Puritans believed that the men should do all the work and the women do cooking and cleaning. The Pequot were opposite however. They believed that their women did most the work such as cropping, making the huts, cooking, cleaning, and the men mainly hunted. When it came to warfare, the Puritans believed in genocide and killing as a way of settling disputes. The Pequot's on the other hand didn't believe in warfare, but in talking and going to the spirits for help.
5) The Dutch were in the new world for trade, not land so there weren't as many disputes between them and the natives. They got along better than the British because the British had to fight the natives for the land.
12) It changed the united states because the power changed to European power, and since they were successful in the Mystic Massacre, they thought it was ok to perform genocide on the other tribes, potentially wiping them out completely.
Primary Source Exploration:
1) It's a community where they believe strongly in the thought of everyone being equal, a community as a whole, peace, and kindness. Also that they keep believing in god. I think this community could be possible if the Europeans weren't so corrupt.
2) That they should live like kings and be perfect and have everyone look up to them. He expected god to have his eyes on them.
3) No i think he was talking mainly about the European colonies. No, the Europeans did not follow his vision, they did the exact opposite and wiped out many tribes from existence.
Extended Activities:
• Treaty of Hartford:
• Treaty was created to settle Pequot war.
• Massachusetts Bay Colony, Connecticut River Colony, and Mohegan and Narragansett were the tribes at the party. The Pequots weren’t even at the signing of the treaty.
• Surviving Pequot prisoners were divided between the tribes.
• 40% of the Pequots were divided among the tribes that attended the party, and 20% were sent to the tribes on Long island who supported the Narragansett tribe.
• Connecticut River (towns) got Pequot lands
• It outlawed Pequot language, name, and any survivors would be called Mohegans or Narragansett.
• No Pequot town/settlement would be allowed
3) So they can spread their own religion. They intended to take over with their religion.
4) Puritans believed that in order for you to own the land you had to have a settlement on it, but the Pequot tribe believed that you temporarily lived there. They both treated their women and men differently. The Puritans believed that the men should do all the work and the women do cooking and cleaning. The Pequot were opposite however. They believed that their women did most the work such as cropping, making the huts, cooking, cleaning, and the men mainly hunted. When it came to warfare, the Puritans believed in genocide and killing as a way of settling disputes. The Pequot's on the other hand didn't believe in warfare, but in talking and going to the spirits for help.
5) The Dutch were in the new world for trade, not land so there weren't as many disputes between them and the natives. They got along better than the British because the British had to fight the natives for the land.
12) It changed the united states because the power changed to European power, and since they were successful in the Mystic Massacre, they thought it was ok to perform genocide on the other tribes, potentially wiping them out completely.
Primary Source Exploration:
1) It's a community where they believe strongly in the thought of everyone being equal, a community as a whole, peace, and kindness. Also that they keep believing in god. I think this community could be possible if the Europeans weren't so corrupt.
2) That they should live like kings and be perfect and have everyone look up to them. He expected god to have his eyes on them.
3) No i think he was talking mainly about the European colonies. No, the Europeans did not follow his vision, they did the exact opposite and wiped out many tribes from existence.
Extended Activities:
• Treaty of Hartford:
• Treaty was created to settle Pequot war.
• Massachusetts Bay Colony, Connecticut River Colony, and Mohegan and Narragansett were the tribes at the party. The Pequots weren’t even at the signing of the treaty.
• Surviving Pequot prisoners were divided between the tribes.
• 40% of the Pequots were divided among the tribes that attended the party, and 20% were sent to the tribes on Long island who supported the Narragansett tribe.
• Connecticut River (towns) got Pequot lands
• It outlawed Pequot language, name, and any survivors would be called Mohegans or Narragansett.
• No Pequot town/settlement would be allowed
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