The first permanent English settlement was Jamestown (Virginia, 1607), founded by a joint-stock company. It barely survived due to disease, hunger, and conflict with the Powhatan people. John Smithās leadership and John Rolfeās introduction of tobacco as a cash crop finally made Jamestown profitable. Part 2: The 13 Colonies & Colonial Life (1630ā1754) Key Vocabulary: Puritan, Pilgrim, Mayflower Compact, Great Awakening, Mercantilism, Triangular Trade, Middle Passage
Before Europeans arrived, diverse Indigenous cultures thrived across North America. The Ancestral Puebloans (Southwest) built cliff dwellings, the Mississippians (Southeast) built huge mounds like Cahokia, and the Iroquois (Northeast) formed a powerful political league (the Iroquois Confederacy). Most tribes relied on hunting, fishing, and farmingāespecially maize (corn), which allowed populations to grow.
President Thomas Jefferson purchased the Louisiana Territory (1803) from France for $15 million, doubling U.S. size. He sent Lewis and Clark to explore it to the Pacific.
Parliament passed the Intolerable Acts (1774) , closing Boston Harbor and restricting Massachusettsā self-rule. Colonists responded by forming the First Continental Congress and preparing militias. Part 4: The American Revolution (1775ā1783) Key Vocabulary: Militia, Declaration of Independence, Thomas Paine, Loyalist, Patriot, Saratoga, Yorktown, Treaty of Paris 1783
Britain and France (plus Native allies) fought over control of the Ohio River Valley. Britain won but was deeply in debt. To raise money, Parliament began taxing the colonists directly.
The Compromise of 1877 settled a disputed presidential election. In exchange for Rutherford B. Hayes becoming president, federal troops were removed from the South. Reconstruction ended, and Jim Crow segregation laws soon followed. Review: Essential Question Revisited How did the struggle for freedom and unity define the United States from its beginnings through 1877?
Southern states passed Black Codes to restrict freedoms. Sharecropping trapped many Black families and poor whites in debt. Violent groups like the Ku Klux Klan terrorized Black voters.
The first permanent English settlement was Jamestown (Virginia, 1607), founded by a joint-stock company. It barely survived due to disease, hunger, and conflict with the Powhatan people. John Smithās leadership and John Rolfeās introduction of tobacco as a cash crop finally made Jamestown profitable. Part 2: The 13 Colonies & Colonial Life (1630ā1754) Key Vocabulary: Puritan, Pilgrim, Mayflower Compact, Great Awakening, Mercantilism, Triangular Trade, Middle Passage
Before Europeans arrived, diverse Indigenous cultures thrived across North America. The Ancestral Puebloans (Southwest) built cliff dwellings, the Mississippians (Southeast) built huge mounds like Cahokia, and the Iroquois (Northeast) formed a powerful political league (the Iroquois Confederacy). Most tribes relied on hunting, fishing, and farmingāespecially maize (corn), which allowed populations to grow. american history beginnings to 1877 myworld interactive
President Thomas Jefferson purchased the Louisiana Territory (1803) from France for $15 million, doubling U.S. size. He sent Lewis and Clark to explore it to the Pacific. Part 2: The 13 Colonies & Colonial Life
Parliament passed the Intolerable Acts (1774) , closing Boston Harbor and restricting Massachusettsā self-rule. Colonists responded by forming the First Continental Congress and preparing militias. Part 4: The American Revolution (1775ā1783) Key Vocabulary: Militia, Declaration of Independence, Thomas Paine, Loyalist, Patriot, Saratoga, Yorktown, Treaty of Paris 1783 Parliament passed the Intolerable Acts (1774)
Britain and France (plus Native allies) fought over control of the Ohio River Valley. Britain won but was deeply in debt. To raise money, Parliament began taxing the colonists directly.
The Compromise of 1877 settled a disputed presidential election. In exchange for Rutherford B. Hayes becoming president, federal troops were removed from the South. Reconstruction ended, and Jim Crow segregation laws soon followed. Review: Essential Question Revisited How did the struggle for freedom and unity define the United States from its beginnings through 1877?
Southern states passed Black Codes to restrict freedoms. Sharecropping trapped many Black families and poor whites in debt. Violent groups like the Ku Klux Klan terrorized Black voters.