Thursday Sept. 28th Period 6 notes

Today in class we talked about:

The Regulator Movement in the Carolinas:
- In South Carolina the government to the backcountry provided a circuit court system for the entire colony.
- In North Carolina the backcountry was full of corruption but not because of the absence of government.
- Vigilantes imposed order in the absence of any organized government. The Vigilantes took the law into their own hands.

* The Tea Act of 1773 repealed import duties on tea in England but retained the Townshend duty in the colonies.
* Boston Tea Party took place December 16th 1773. This is when the Boston radicals dressed themselves as Indians and threw 342 chests of tea into the Harbor.
* The Coercive Acts (later known as the Intolerable Acts):
* Boston Port Act- closed the port of Boston until the Bostonians paid for the tea.
* Quartering Act- allowed the army to quarter soldiers on civilian property if necessary.
* Administration of Justice Act- permitted a British soldier or official who was charged with a crime while carrying out his duties to be tried either in another colony or in England.
* Massachusetts Government Act- overturned the Massachusetts Charter of 1691 and made the council appointive and restricted the town meetings. This basically shut down the government within Massachusetts.
* The Quebec Act- established French Civil law and the Roman Catholic Church. Extended the administrative boundaries of Quebec to the Great Lakes and the Ohio River.

- The Radical Explosion occurred after all of these new acts were enforced. The colonists were furious and summoned the First Continental Congress. This is when the Government Act was nullified because the colonists weren’t going to obey the laws because Britain couldn’t take the government in Massachusetts away.

Don’t forget Data Key/ Information Sheets are due tomorrow. I hope my notes have been helpful :)

*~*Stephanie~*~

4th Period Notes ~ Sept 28th

• The essay data worksheet is due on friday.
• Briefly went over the Regulator Movements in the Carolinas. Just know that South Carolina had an absent government while North Carolina had corruption.
• The Tea Crisis- Due to the underselling and smuggling of Dutch tea, Britain passed the Tea Act of 1773 to save the West Indian Company from bankruptcy. The act repealed the import duties of tea in England and gave the company a monoploy on the shipping and distribution of tea in America. To resist the act, the colonists threatened all tea ships from landing in any ports.
• In Boston, Governor Hutchinson refused to grant clearance papers to three ships, forcing them to land and pay the duty. With no way to blockade the landing, radicals disguised as Indians dumped 342 chests of tea in to the Boston Harbor. This distruction of private property shocked both Britian and America.
• Intolerable Acts:
• Boston Part Act- closed the port untill the Bostonians paid for the tea (about 11,000 punds)
• Quartering Act- permitted soldiers to quarter on private property
• Administration of Justice Act- permitted British soldiers or officers who have been charged with a crime to be tried in another colony or in England
• Massachusettes Government Act- overturned the Massachusettes Charter of 1691
• Quebec Act- established French civil law and the Roman Catholic Church in Quebec; provided trial by jury in a criminal court; gave legislative power to an appointed governer and council but not the power to tax; extended the boundaries between the Great Lakes and the Ohio River
• Timeline: nonimportation continued; Continental Congress summoned; contribution for all colonies to Boston due to the isolation; Massachusettes Provincial Congress established; creation of minutemen; build up of arms

Period 6 Wednesday

We immediately dived into discussion of pages 184-192.
We begin in the Colonies right after the French and Indian War

• The English needed money and created the Sugar Act of 1764. It focuses mainly on molasses, a major colonial buisness.
• Next is the Currency Act of 1764, banning paper money printed by the colonies.
• The double punch of the Quartering Act and the Stamp Act pushes the colonists to say enough is enough
• The Stamp Act is eventually repealed, but the seeds of dissent were already sown.

In order to save face, Parliment repeals the Stamp Act, drafts the Declatory Act and Revenue Act to prove their control. Then we get into the Townshend Crisis. The Townshend Revenue Act of 1767 taxes tea indirectly, but still upsets the colonists. Their protests center in Boston. When the colonists begin to riot, the British sent in four regiments of troops. The tense situation that followed led to the Boston Massacre and the seizing of John Hancock's ship Liberty. Then we concluded for the day.

AJ

Period 6 Notes

Today we got back our last AP essay data sheet (the one about politics and the economies) and the test. Mum's the word about the test, we still have two people left to take it. Mr. Gottschalk also handed out a new AP essay data sheet (it's about the French and Indian War).
After spending about two seconds going over the test, we took a few short notes.
After the French and Indian war:
-New land was available to colonists, and they wanted to use it
-The British were afraid that the colonists would take the land and anger the Indians
-Proclamation Act of 1763 (remember this date), stated that no one can settle past a line in the Appalachian mountains unless England had bought the land (even though they didn't plan on doing it), angering the colonists.
-The six Indian nations, began to get nervous about their land.
-Pontiac (yes, like the car) led an assault against the colonists by attacking 13 British forts.
-The British responded by giving the Indians blankets contaminated with smallpox.

That's about all we covered since the other classes took longer to review the test.
-Joe

Notes from Friday, September 22: Period 4

In class we watched several video clips and went over the reading.
Important stuff: CHAPTERS 1-4 TEST on MONDAY! STUDY!
Notes:

• Trained British Soldiers vs. Recruitees from America=Not Good. They did not get along because of the British's experience vs. the Americans' military inexperience.

The French & Indian War

• Benjamin Franklin's plan: The Albany Plan.
• proposed inter-colonial harmony
• proposed supervision of the Indian trade
• and it proposed raising a militia from all states to work together in times of need
• This Failed. It was immediately rejected by all, almost unanimously.
• It entailed the creation of a Union, which nearly none of the states were ready for.
• 1754-1763 Actual dates of the war, which occured right after this.
• Fort William Henry was seized by the French
• New France was better prepared for conflict than the colonists and British were, but reliance on France and the small French Canadian white population of 55,ooo compared to America's 500,000+ population doomed them.
• William Braddock, for which the long road in Fairfax County is named for today, fought at the Battle of the Wilderness (not the one during the Civil War)
• The French were victorious for quite a while because of their guerilla warfare, which they had picked up from the Indians.
• In 1758, William Pitt took control of the British army, and the tide turned benefitting the British and ultimitely winning them the war.
• Treaty of Paris (one of many in that city) conditions:
• French ceded ALL of Canada and land West of the Mississippi, except for New Orleans.
• In return, France got back ALL of its former Carribean Islands.
• Spain, which had gotten involved in the latter years of the war fighting with its long-time ally, the French, ceded Western Florida to the British.
• In Return, the Spanish got Cuba back.

Sebastian P.

CFHS AP US History Friday's Notes

Sorry about the delay with the notes for fifth period, I just figured out how to log on here.

Friday's Notes..

British colonies begin expanded into parts of Canada including Nova Scotia, also expand into what is now Maine. Virginia being rather aggressive with their fight for land start the Ohio Company and explore the Ohio River Basin. Pittsburg is set up as a outpost in PA. The Indians, the French, and the British all go after where the Monangahila meets the Allegheny and the Ohio River is formed. George Washington builds a fort in Ohio but is thrown out, later he comes back and attacks the Frnech and sets off the 7 year war or the Frnech and Indian War. Red coats have a strict discipline with long terms while the colonial militants had short terms with a sign on for one event mentality, they didn't obey British orders or serve under a British Captain. This created tension between the two groups. The Albany Congress, Ben Franklin(with cartoon) attempts to dipict the need for colonial unity. Britian orders for a intercontinental Congress, Albany, main goals being peace talks with the Indians and an intercontinental Union, by Ben Franlklin. Ben Franklin drafts the Albany Plan and it purpose power the raise soldiers, build forts, levy taxes, regulate trade, power to buy land, and supervise west colonies. This plan is rejected by every colony. Paris Treaty ends 7 year was. Britian gets disputed land, France leaves Mississippii east and Canada. Spain gets Cuba and Britian gets part of Flordia. This leaves Britain being the major player in North America.

-That is all I have. Thanks Donald.

What Did We Do In Class??

For 6th period AP History on September 22, 2006:
~turned in the essay/data sheet
~took notes on the French and Indian War and the Albany Congress
-Ben Franklin snake cartoon of the snake "Unite or Die"
-Albany Congress was a start for independence but fell apart
-French and Indian War started with George Washington going to the Ohio Rive Basin and having conflicts with the French and Indians (1954-1963)
-Britain and the Colonists started to win after William Pitt came to power as Britain's war minister
-The Peace of Paris ended the war: French gave Canada regions and east of the Mississippi River lands to Britain, Spain gave part of Flordia to Britain, Britain gave parts in the Carribean to the French and Spainish
~watch video clips on:
-The War of Jenkin's Ear
-The Ohio Land Company is Established
-Albany Plan of Union 1754
-The French and Indian War
Do not forget to do the Vocabulary Words on schoolnotes.com for Chapters 1-4 and Study for the Test on Monday. GOOD LUCK!!!!

Thursday, September 21-- Period 5 Tidbits of information.

Today's lesson was based on Wednesday night's Homework assignment found on schoolnotes.com. Reminder: The Essay Data information sheet is due tomorrow!

Now for the Tidbits of Info

• During the 1700s, the political culture became reminiscient of British culture. (i.e. Governor= King, Assembly= Aristocratic parliament.)
• During the 1720s, every colony had an appointed governor, with his advisors; this kept things together.
• The governor was very persuasive and seemt more cooperative with the colonists, causing better relationships between government and colonists.
• An elective legislative assembly run by the colonists was a sign of a democratic element playing in effect in the colonial time; same element seen when land-owning caucasian male were allowed to vote.
• The French strenghten their postion in North America by building forts around the Great Lakes such as Fort St. Fréderic.
• The French expanded into the Mississippi/Louisiana and founded New Orleans.
• Indians and French relations begin to sour as Indians are gradually trade and rely on British supplies than French.
• The Stono Rebellion had occured do to a promise Spanish-Florida had made with the African slaves promising their freedom if they came to Florida, convert to Catholicism, and rebel against the English. (Known as the largest slave revolt in colonial history)
• In 1739, the War of Jenkin's Ear, broke out between Spain and Britain, with Spain trying to capture Georgia and South Carolina but to no avail.
• The Spanish and French join forces to fight against British in what's called the King George's War.
• Britain had the early advantage in the war, but due to impressment of the British navy in order to gain more troops, the colonists begin protest.
• After the war, the French and the British come to form a peace treaty where as the Brits give back Louisbourg to the French.

If any body would like to add on anything else or can better explain this lesson, feel free to express your concerns in the comments section. Thank you.

Sept. 19th Class Notes

Sorry it's late, I had some issues with the whole technology thing.

Comparing the changing economies of the South, Middle, and New England colonies:
-South Carolina became biggest southern economic powerhose
-big social divisions
- rich plantation owners at top, then smaller planters, slavless farmers, laborers/ farm hands, and slaves were at the bottom
-small merchant class, plantation owners would hire them whenever they were needed
-almost all southern colonies were not dependent on the slave trade, save early south carolina due to disease problems
-New England began to lose economic steam
-disease began to kill many of the white settlers
-education was much more prominent up north, mostly everybody was educated
-involved in triangle trade, with many triangles
-Middle Colonies
-engaged in more and more trade due to food surpluses
-most diverse of all the colonies (with the most educated slaves)
-Scot-Irish settlers arrived in late 1600s
-they moved to the backcountry and developed their own culture
-Slavery: Task System vs Gang System
-Gang System
-had an overseer, and slaves were sent out in groups
- most prominent in VA and MD
-Task System
-slaves were given a job, and left to do it, with no overseer
-when they finsihed their job they had free time
-prominent in SC, because of disease in rice fields


Peace.

6th Period Notes for September 19th

In class, we discussed daily questions and thoughts and then moved on to the reading assignment from the previous night. Our Constitution Day packet was passed back graded. Another Essay Data Key sheet was also handed out. That is due Friday.

Notes for September 20th 7th Pd.

Mr. G talked to the class for pretty much the entire class.

Notes on his lecture

James Davenport threw his pants on the fire

During this time the Enlightenment is causing waves

Harvard has a new president and is moving from religion to Enlightenment

Harvard no longer provided ministers for the Puritans

Harvard Grads became Unitarian pastors

This leads to the development of Yale to continue Puritan minister production

This becomes accepted for a while

Then Yale leaves the Puritans and goes over to the Church of England

Methodists, Baptists and Presbyterians gained a ton of ground

This period was called the Great Awakening

One leader of the Great Awakening was Jonathon Edwards

Edwards was a “dead dog” a monotonic preacher who droned on for hours

The charismatic George Whitefield was also a leader of the Great Awakening

Many new universities began to be formed such as Dartmouth and Princeton

South Carolina experiences a Slave rebellion

The Whooping Cough disease becomes prevalent through out the colonies

Poverty came throughout the colonies

Georgia is also formed during this time period

Georgia was supposed to become a Utopia

Obviously that failed miserably

Notes from Wednesday, September 20: Period 4

In class we talked mainly about Religion and change brought on by it in the latter part of the 1600's and through the early part of the 1700's.

NOTES

Religious and Cultural Enlightenment in the colonies

• The old Puritan church of New England was so conservative that people began to leave to faith and create new ones.

• Harvard, previously a school designed to educate Puritan ministers, now refused to do so.
• Yale College (now Yale University) was set up as a Puritan replacement for Harvard, which had become too liberal for many Puritans.
• the entire Yale staff, save one person, publicly declared their loyalty to the Church of England.
• New churches began to be founded in the colonies.
• the Presbyterian Church (different from that in Scotland)
  
• the Baptist Church
• the Evangelical Church
  
• Fanatical leaders such as George Whitefield, Jonathan Edwards, John Wesley and others became popular public speakers.
• George Whitefield was the most heard of.
• His elegant manner and acting skills allowed him to make speeches that would sometimes attract more than 30,000 people! (more than the population of Boston at the time!)
  
• Merchants and lawyers, who were previously looked down upon in the colonies as being immoral, especially in Virginia and Massachusettes (where it was actually illegal to practice law for a time), now gained ground and became more popular and prominent.
• All of these changes helped to cut hostility short between religions.
• They also made social mobility and social statuses less rigid.
  

Georgia

• An attempt to create a Utopian society south of South Carolina was commenced.
• the colony was to center around the Savannah River.
• this area was on land that was claimed by both Spain and Great Britain.
• A group of proprietors/trustees, including James Oglethorpe, were granted permission to settle the land on a charter that would last 20 years.
• Many believe that the King granted the charter because he wanted a natural land barrier protecting South Carolina, the richest colony, provided by Georgia.
• The trustees recruited people all over, especially a group of British called the "wealthy poor"
• They were poor people who were considered able to work and one day build a fortune.
• "lazy poor" were generally denied immigration to the colony.

• The main crops Georgia were to be silk and wine.
• The proprietors/trustees wanted to avoid making Georgia a miniature version of South Carolina.
• They did not set up a legislative assembly, unlike the other colonies, rather, 3 'legislative regulations' were present.
• No Slavery
• Granting of 50 acres who crossed the ocean out of goodwill
  
• Granting of 500 acres to a colonist who paid his own way across the ocean.

• After silk and wine failed, and after many colonists died, Georgia became a Royal Colony, complete with a new legislative assembly, and slavery was legalized.
• Rice was grown, and later in the 18th century, cotton was too.
• The nightmare that the proprietors had faired became true: Utopia failed, and George was a smaller version of South Carolina.

Sebastian Pierre

Notes from Tuesday, September 19

Ok, so today in class we discussed the economies of the colonies.
South:
-major land owners had money and slaves (indentured servants were not used as much)
-chain of wealth: wealthy land owners, small plantations with a few slaves, small farmers with no slaves, and then slaves.
-whites without land usually worked on other people's land
-artisans of this time were part time so they could tend to crops/other duties
-depending on location in the south, the slaves were trained in skills

Middle Colonies:
-produced a lot of the same goods as Europe
-had a lot of grain to export to different colonies, Europe
-the population was more diverse than other colonies
-Irish, Germans, and Scots-Irish came and settled mostly in the country, mountains
-primary job was cattle raising

New England:
-had a large class of rising merchants
-depended on ship building and lumbering (to export) for jobs
-around 1720, the isolation from the other colonies made New England susceptible to diseases
-used the triangular trade to get products, slaves (look up in text book, I zoned out for that part of class)

Gang System vs. Task System (Slave techniques)

Gang System: had a supervisor making sure that the slaves were doing there work, hours of work were from dawn to dusk, they had little free time, mostly practiced in MD and VA, slave families are encouraged because more slaves=more work, the slaves under this influence are more likely to be artisans because they have skilled supervisors who can teach them.

Task System: owner assigns the workload for the day and when the slaves are done with the work, he lets them have the rest of the day to themselves, less supervision, used in the Carolina's.

*Liz Ziek*

Daily Summary

Assigned students please provide a summary of the day's class by "posting" your summary. Take care that you use words and language you would want others to read years from now. You are posting to the internet and this is not "myspace". One student used a questionable choice of words last week in commenting on the Jamestown article. In your Post identify your class period and date. Anyone in the class is free to improve on the post by adding a "comment" at the comment link.

Really Late Post

The article was really interesting in the sense that it conveyed some new facts that are generally unknown about the slave trade. For example, before this year the fact that Portugal was a main catalyst in the Atlantic Slave Trade was new to me. Also how Pirates were associated with the African Slave Trade was also pretty interesting. One big thing that was entirely new to me was how many Africans were literate and how Christianity and in some cases was already present amidst groups of them.

response to article

I found it the article to be very interesting. Especially how the 30 slaves were captured by pirates and only half were traded to virginia and then the other half were dragged around the caribbean for a few months.

Response...better late than never?

Although I found the article very interesting, I don't think it directly contradicts what we've been taught. The means as to how the slaves arrived in Virginia really seems like a minor detail when you look at the whole course that slavery took through history. It was pretty interesting to see the stereotype we as Americans have of uneducated African slaves; the idea of literal, Christian slaves probably seemed like quite a curveball to almost everybody that knows anything about history.

Response........

I fell that this article gives insight to what really happened to the slaves and what they were like. I didn't know that they came over on a Portuguese ship, because I always thought, like the article said, that they came from the West Indies. It's nice to know that we are still investigating what actually occurred, even though it some 400 years ago. I also wasn't aware that the Africans were literate and Christians. I didn't know that the pirates came near North America and definitely not that they were involved slave trading near North America. This is all contradictory to what I learned in elementary and middle school.

Response to Article

I think that it is neat how the historians are still discovering things about Jamestown 400 years after they happened. It is also neat that they know have the information and can build the twenty-five million dollar extension to the museam about the first Black slaves in Virginia. I didn't expect to find that pirates helped get the slaves to Virginia. I didn't realize that pirates were robbing ships of slaves at that time. I was thinking more of just like provisions and goods not slaves. The article was pretty interesting to me.

wow

it kind makes you think about things a little bit. I didnt know that most of the Africans were literate and christian

I don't think this article condradicts anything that I have previously learned. This could be because we never really learned how the African slaves got here, so this article just gave alot of insite to that. I would've never guessed that the way they first landed in Virginia would've been by the means of pirates, but it actually makes alot of sense. The Virginia colonies would've probably not been as successful in the tobacco field, without the use of slaves there would be very scarce cheap labor. I also beileve that it took 400 years to figure this out because, there are so many different things going on in the world at this time. Since pirates were often robbing ships it didn't really seem like such a big deal that they would rob a slave boat, but just to think that they would start the slave movement in the U.S. is mind boggling.

Interesting

I found the article interesting especially the fact that most of the slaves who arrived in Virginia were literate and christen. Also the part about how the human "Cargo" was taken by pirates. As you read it you understand how grave it would have been to have lost a war in Africa during that time period; if you lost you would become a slave and then sold to a European country and possibly shipped half way around the world to a completely new environment.

Wow, it's pretty shocking to know that we are actually wrong about stuff. It really makes you question all the history you've learned. I thought it was interesting that most of the Africans had already been baptized as Christians. I also thought it was interesting that many of them were literate. Although history is not always accurate, you still have to give them credit for all their research. Overall, they usually know what they are talking about.

I don't think anything in the article is a contradiction to what we've learned, but it does help to clarify some things and bring entirely new things to light. I was very suprised to learn that African peoples had converted to Christianity before they were enslaved. It's pretty sad that one of the major "justifications" for slavery was Christianizing people, and here it turns out they were already Christians. I was also suprised that anything significant could be found in the way of documents. Its just a testament to bureaucracy. And who knew there were pirates in Virginia before there were slaves? I wonder how long the pirates had been operating off North America when Jamestown was founded. As sad as it is, without slavery, America as we know it wouldn't exist. Much of the 18th century's economy was made with slave labor. The southern colonies might have folded if it weren't for slavery.