Apush Chapter 1 Notes

Chapter 7 refers to the many different types of Federal and State surveys that are nonsectionalized.

People in the hollows of Appalachia who manufactured “moonshine” are doing the same as their ancestors did in the borderlands of northern Britain

Chapter 15 is about the reconstruction after the fight of blacks gaining their freedom. The chapter focus on the reconstruction which will be known as the freedom that black Americans were fighting to gain. The Reconstruction of 1865 meant “to literally rebuild the shattered nation.”, (quoted from chapter 15 paragraph 3). Although the reconstructing era was happening many former slave and their slave owner from the north and south tried relocating to redefine the meaning and boundaries of the American freedom. In other word trying to find a way to continue living the way suited the white and not trying to give the proper freedom to blacks. However, after the Civil War black men were granted the right to vote, ushering that a period of interracial democracy throughout the south. Blacks were also

In June 1744, the Iroquois and representatives from Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania met in Lancaster, Pennsylvania to resolve conflicts and negotiate on agreements. These meetings were called the Covenant Chain.

German settlements dominated certain districts and moved down to western parts of Maryland, Virginia, and Carolinas.

Mayflower Compact-signed before leaving the ship, the Mayflower Compact wad the first form of self government within the colonies. It was not a constitution but an agreement to form a crude government and to submit to the will of the majority under the regulations agreed upon. The compact would set a precedent for future constitutions

Estimated population of the Americas in 1800: 25 million (the vast majority of whom were of European or African descent)

5.5. Spain watched Portugal’s success with exploration and slaving with envy and wanted a piece of the pie.

According to the History Channel by the time the europeans have landed in America, that already 50 million people were already living there. As the years went on the Americas would soon split into 10 separate cultural spaces.

1492 was the year which set the seeds of change in North America. Columbus’ discovery was what prompted nations, like Spain and Portugal, to begin sailing West, instead of East. Shortly after Columbus’ discovery of the Bahamas, Spain and Portugal settled which nation would receive certain parts of the New World with the Treaty of Tordesillas in 1494. The Treaty of Tordesillas was proof that nations were taking Columbus’ discoveries

By the 1500s, when Europeans first began arriving in North America, as many as 10 million Indians lived on a continent mapped by trails and rivers, many of which, were used as an extensive trading network by the, then,

During the 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries, the Europeans decided to embark on many journeys that would change their way of life forever. These journeys and the exchange of people, ideas, animals, food, and diseases between the two groups shaped history for the next five hundred years. When the Europeans arrived at this new-found land, they discovered what they considered to be an entirely new species of humans, the Native Americans. These two newly encountered groups of people had a few of the same characteristics and way of living, but overall the differences between them were extremely immense.

During the sixteenth century European pilgrims migrated across the Atlantic Ocean to settle in North America. North America had just been introduced to the Western Civilization. The America’s were home to the indigenous people, that were made up of several tribes that were called Indians by the early settlers. Together the Indians and settlers began to thrive. Growth and development in the new world was made possible by the abundant amount of natural resources.

There were a large amount of Native Americans before the arrival of Europeans. Before reading 1491 by Charles C. Mann, I believed that there were only a small amount of people in the Americas. According to Henry F. Dobyns, the “Western Hemisphere held 90 to 112 million people”, which was more than the amount of people living in Europe.

Europeans explored and settled in the Americas all throughout the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries, and were generally successful. Although there were a number of factors that contributed to European successes in the New World, biological exchange was foremost. Biological exchange was the most significant force behind Europeans’ success in the Americas because it helped Europeans to wipe out Native American peoples, both physically and culturally, and to introduce European practices and resources that would help Europeans to flourish in the New World.