Silivia Langi-Unasa

American Civilizations History 1700

Summer 2016 / Jordan Campus / Walter R. Jones

10 Chapter Assignment
Chapter 1: A New World - Indians of Eastern North America
I learned.
1. The Indians of Eastern North America lived off of Corn, Squash and beans,
supplemented by fishing and hunting deer, turkeys, and other animals.
2. Tribes frequently warred with one another to obtain goods, seize captives, or take
revenge for the killing of relatives.
3.They conducted diplomacy and made peace.
I think that it would be confusing living in a time like this with the Indians because
there were so many different unintelligent languages being spoken. Its no wonder
why they warred with one another cause they probably couldnt communicate
properly with each other.

Chapter 2: Beginnings of English America The Coming of

the English
I learned.
1. Seventeenth-century North America was an unstable and dangerous
environment.
2.With a population of between 4 and 5 million, about half that of Spain and a
quarter of that of France, England produced a far larger number of men, women,
and chilling willing to brave the dangers of emigration to the New World.
3. Between 1607 and 1700 more than half a million people left England.
It seems like during this time there seems to be a lot of migration going on with
larger number of population and moving to Ireland and New England.

Chapter3: Creating Anglo-America Origins of American

Slavery
I learned.
1. As Africans, they could not claim the protections of English common law.
2. Slaves terms of service never expired, and they therefore did not become a
population of unruly landless men.
3. Their children were slaves, and their skin color made it more difficult for them to
escape into the surrounding society.
I would have definitely hated to live in the time of slavery. Understanding the things
they went through really makes me uneasy.

Silivia Langi-Unasa
American Civilizations History 1700
Summer 2016 / Jordan Campus / Walter R. Jones

Chapter 4: Slavery, Freedom, and the Struggle for Empire

Slavery and Empire
I learned.
1. The Atlantic slave trade would later be condemned by statesmen and general
opinion as a crime against humanity.
2. The slave trade was a vital part of world commerce.
3. In the British empire of the eighteenth century, free laborers, working for wages
were a typical and slavery was a norm.
Slavery in this time was normal and had become something more permanent. I
wouldnt like to see this time of slavery.

Chapter 5: The American Revolution The Road to

Revolution
I learned.
1. In 1767, the government in London decided to impose a new set of taxes on
Americans.
2. The idea of using homemade rather than imported goods especially appealed to
Chesapeake planters, who found themselves owing increasing amounts of money to
British merchants.
3. Urban artisans, who welcomed an end to competition from imported Bristish
manufactured goods, strongly supported the boycott.
Learning what type of things the Daughters of Liberty did and stayed home is
something I would not like to do.

Chapter 6: The Revolution within Toward Religious

Toleration
I learned.
1. Religious toleration, declared one Virginia patriot, was part of the common cause
of Freedom.
2. Freedom of worship before the Revolution arose more from the reality of religious
pluralism than from a well-developed theory of religious liberty.
3. Most colonies supported religious institutions with pubic funds and discriminated
in voting and officeholding against Catholics, Jews, and even dissenting Protestants.
I like that they had a choice and a little better freedom to choose when it came to
religion.

Chapter 7: Founding a Nation A New Constitution

I learned.

Silivia Langi-Unasa
American Civilizations History 1700
Summer 2016 / Jordan Campus / Walter R. Jones
1. The fifty-five men who gathered for the Constitutional Convention included some
of the most prominent Americans.
2. Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, serving as diplomats in Europe, did not take
part. But among the delegates were George Washington and Benjamin Franklin.
3. More than half the delegates had a college education.
I think that all the delegates should have been well educated before serving in high
political positions for better service to their communities.

Chapter 8: Securing the Republic The Rights of Women

I learned.
1. In 1792, Mary Wollstonecraft published in England her extraordinary pamphlet A
Vindication of the Rights of Women.
2. Wollstonecraft had a call for greater access to education and to paid employment
for women that rested on the idea that this would enable single women to support
themselves and married women to perform more capably as wives and mothers.
3. The men who wrote the Constitution did not envision the active and continuing
involvement of ordinary citizens in affairs of state.
The Constitutions use of the word he made the assumption that politics was for
Men.

Chapter 9: The Market Revolution A New Economy

I learned.
1. In the first half of the nineteenth century, an economic transformation known to
historians as the market revolution swept over the United States.
2. The market revolution was an acceleration of developments already under way in
the colonial era.
3. By the eighteenth century many colonists had been drawn into Britains
commercial empire.
During these Centuries America seems to be forming and having new ideas to
produce products for a living and it seems as though they were playing it all by ear,
not know what may or may not happen but are learning as they go. Almost like a
learning time.

Chapter 10: Democracy in America The Limits of

Democracy
I learned.
1. By the 1830s the time of Andrew Jacksons presidency, the axiom that the
people ruled had become a universally accepted part of American politics.
2. The principle of universal suffrage, declared the United States Magazine and
Democratic Review in 1851, meant that white males of age constituted the political
nation.

Silivia Langi-Unasa
American Civilizations History 1700
Summer 2016 / Jordan Campus / Walter R. Jones
3. White males were considered inherently superior in character and abilities to nonwhites and women.
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 swept away restrictions on black voting imposed by
many southern states.