Richard White releases the Middle Ground - NA and europeans learned from each other in the Great Lake from 1650-1815 (fishing, boating, hunting, housing)
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NA and Europeans post 2000
historians concentrated on microhistory - focused on a small area to be more accurate
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Was US land stolen? Land transference
1. Europeans broke treaties 2. fighting 3. shared land - Middle Ground 4. demographic shifts - disease 5. whites showed up where no one had claimed the land
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slavery 1604
104 men came to Virginia looking for land
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slavery 1608
1/2 of the men had died
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slavery 1612
John Rolfe found tobacco - intensive work
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slavery spring 1619
House of Burgesses is formed - assembly
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8/20/1619
1st slaves brought to America - J Rolfe wrote that they needed workers for planting season but had no future plans after that
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slavery 1620-1630
slavery was not racialized - black man, Anthony Johnson, owned slaves
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slavery 1640
first slavery law - no slave can own a gun
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slavery 1662
racialized - all infants assume their mother’s status + mix babies
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slavery 1676
Bacon’s rebellion - NA, escaped slaves, free black men, poor whites burned down jamestown - 100s of slave laws as a result
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slavery 1680s
new slave laws about controlling
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slavery 1691
law banning interracial sex
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slavery 1640-1691
legal blueprint for slavery encodement across America
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FIW 1754-1760
war stayed local and not too expensive
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FIW 1761-1763
war became a worldwide naval struggle + COSTLY
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FIW 1760s
British started taxing the colonists
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FIW 1760s-1770s
there was unrest and anger
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FIW 1775
revolutionary war
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FIW how much debt?
Br = 132 million schillings
Col = 2 million schillings
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1762
Proclamation Act- no colonists can settle west into Indian territory