Apush Supplemental Reading Notes- Early Settlements

APUSH SUPPLEMENTAL READING NOTES Early Settlements by James bird of Minerva Please answer each question thoroughly and completely. If you have treated this assignment lightly, you will be at a disadvantage in physical composition essays that call for substantial and appropriate outside information. Read Early Settlements (http//www. gilderlehrman. org/history-by-era/ earliest-settlements/essays/early-settlements ) by James Horn and complete the prompts below. In two or three healthy thought out sentences, summarize the major phase of this reading. (Please be thorough. This will be very important to you late in the year when reviewing for the AP test)In this reading, the causality wrote about the early English settlers of the New World.He opens with a quote from a passage from the 16th century that speaks about the colonies in the new world, and how England should get come to and start to colonize as well. The author then goes into detail on the establishing of the 13 coloni es of England in the New World and later on, the lifestyle in toll of immigrants, diversity, and population. The article ends talking about the expansion from the original 13 colonies to what would make Britain known as the acknowledged master of North America. In a couple of sentences, what was the bias of the author? From what perspective does the author writepolitical, social, and economic? Why is this world-shattering in the document you have read?Related article Apush Taxation Without Representation DbqWhile most essays and articles seem to have some form of bias, I do not pick up in any style a sense of this at any time in the reading. He conveys his message of Englands rise to dominance of North America, maybe slightly hinting at bias in that sense, alone nonetheless, in a writing style hat displays facts one by one, and gets straight to the point. This style of writing is clearly significant in the document simply because it is an easy way to limit bias, and shorten the article, therefore making it more reader-friendly for some- if not most readers. Continued on the next page Different from the what is the main point question above, list several things that you learned from this reading, things that you did not know before doing this reading. Treaty of Utrecht (1713) gave Britain control of the areas of Hudson Bay, Acadia (Nova Scotia), and Newfoundland Spanish were compound in the French and Indian War The British 13 colonies grew in population (nearly 5 times size) over 60 years Surges into the backcountry (west of Appalachian) began so early (early 18th mainly) Black populations grew even more rapidly from about 20,000 in 1700 to 326,000 by 1760 Rice became the third great staple of Britains transatlantic commerce, on board West Indian sugar and Chesapeake tobacco 5,000 Algonquians who lived along the coastal plain of Virginia when the English first arrived, only about 1,000 remained by 1700 The purpose of this assignment is to overhaul you be prepared to refer to historians or historically significant individuals in your AP test essays.In the space below, write down quotes from the document that you think might be useful. Try to be selectivechoose those that are genuinely typical of the writers thinking or that highlight a major point in the writers thinking or argument. Include page numbers so that you can find them again when we review. English indentured ervants, Ulster Irish, Catholic Irish, Scots, French Huguenots, and tens of thousands of Germans from the Rhineland and Swiss cantons moved into the coastal plain flocked to the burgeoning port cities of Boston, New York, and Philadelphia trekked along fertile river valleys into the interior and pressed on toward the Appalachian Mountains Together, Virginia, Maryland, and the Lower South accounted for fully 87 percent of all Africans and African Americans living in the mainland colonies in 1760 The turn of the century witnessed a new direction in En glish colonizing activities. Peace with Spain in 1604 brought an end to privateering, plunder, and the need for a North American base from which to attack Spanish shipping Jamestown, founded on May 14, 1607, barely survived its first five years.A cabal of disease, Indian attacks, faction, and the failure to make any significant discoveries or profit brought the colony to the edge of collapse on several occasions and discouraged act investment. The discovery of a lucrative cash crop, tobacco, which could be cultivated extensively in Virginia and brought a handsome return in England, saved the colony but not the Virginia Company, whose exclusive charter was revoked in 1624. SOURCE http//www. murrayschools. org/MHS/apus/ 10. 1. 2007