dual us test 1

NA and Europeans in 1880-1950

NA were noble savages/animals

NA and Europeans in 1960-1970

they fought

NA and Europeans in 1987-1991

Richard White releases the Middle Ground - NA and europeans learned from each other in the Great Lake from 1650-1815 (fishing, boating, hunting, housing)

NA and Europeans post 2000

historians concentrated on microhistory - focused on a small area to be more accurate

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

slavery 1604

104 men came to Virginia looking for land

slavery 1608

1/2 of the men had died

slavery 1612

John Rolfe found tobacco - intensive work

slavery spring 1619

House of Burgesses is formed - assembly

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

slavery 1620-1630

slavery was not racialized - black man, Anthony Johnson, owned slaves

slavery 1640

first slavery law - no slave can own a gun

slavery 1662

racialized - all infants assume their mother’s status + mix babies

slavery 1676

Bacon’s rebellion - NA, escaped slaves, free black men, poor whites burned down jamestown - 100s of slave laws as a result

slavery 1680s

new slave laws about controlling

slavery 1691

law banning interracial sex

slavery 1640-1691

legal blueprint for slavery encodement across America

FIW 1754-1760

war stayed local and not too expensive

FIW 1761-1763

war became a worldwide naval struggle + COSTLY

FIW 1760s

British started taxing the colonists

FIW 1760s-1770s

there was unrest and anger

FIW 1775

revolutionary war

FIW how much debt?

Br = 132 million schillings

Col = 2 million schillings

1762

Proclamation Act- no colonists can settle west into Indian territory

1764

Revenue Act - tax items, paperwork for merchants, maritime police, vice admiralty courts

1765

Stamp Act - tax on paper items + needed stamp

1766

Parliament repealed Stamp Act

1767

Townshend Acts - taxes + Board of Commisioners

Summer 1768

Hancocks boat was pulled over and stoned + 4000 soldiers sent to live in Boston

3/5/1770

Boston Massacre - 9 soldiers vs 250 colonists

summer 1770

John Adams defends the soldiers and 6/8 found guilty

3/5/1770

4000 soldiers moved to charlestown out of boston because of massacre