G10 History Period 2 Review

Period 2 Review: 1607–1754


1. Big Picture

  • Time: 1607 (Jamestown) to 1754 (French and Indian War)
  • European countries fight for land and power in America.
  • The 13 English colonies are born. They develop different economies and ways of life.
  • Slavery grows and becomes a legal, racial system.

2. The 13 English Colonies

Region Colonies Economy Society & Notes
New England Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Rhode Island Small farms (not many slaves), fishing, shipbuilding, trade Puritans & Pilgrims. Towns with churches at the center. Very religious.
Middle New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware Wheat & grain farms (“breadbasket”), trade, some small factories A lot of different nationalities (German, Dutch, Swedish, etc.). More religious tolerance.
Southern Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia Large plantations (tobacco, rice, indigo) using slave labor Spread out plantations. Wealthy landowners in control.
Port Cities All Mostly skilled slaves and house slaves

3. Why People Came

Group Reason for Coming Where They Settled
Puritans Religious freedom (for themselves) Massachusetts
Pilgrims Religious freedom (separate from England) Massachusetts
Quakers Religious freedom and tolerance for all Pennsylvania
Indentured Servants Free trip to America in exchange for 4–7 years of work Chesapeake (Virginia, Maryland)
Enslaved Africans Forced to come; provided cheap labor for plantations Southern Colonies

4. Important Events & Conflicts

Bacon’s Rebellion (1676)

  • Somebody: Nathaniel Bacon and poor frontier settlers (including indentured servants and slaves)
  • Wanted: more land and protection from Native American resistance to their land being stolen
  • But: Governor William Berkeley (representing rich planters) refused and taxed them, without much protection
  • So: Bacon’s Rebellion burned Jamestown. After Bacon died of disease, the rebellion failed, but it scared the rich planters into using more African slaves and fewer white indentured servants.

King Philip’s War A.K.A. Metacom’s War (1675-1676)

  • Somebody: Wampanoag leader Metacom (colonists called him “King Philip” for some reason)
  • Wanted: to stop New England colonists from taking more Native American land and to protect his culture
  • But: the colonists kept stealing land and saying their laws allowed it
  • So: Metacom got tribes to work together to attack colonial towns. It was a very deadly war. The colonists won. Native American power in New England decreased a lot.

Pueblo Revolt (1680)

  • Somebody: The Spanish colonists
  • Wanted: to force the Pueblo to become Catholic and work for them
  • But: the Pueblo wanted to keep their own religion, culture, and freedom
  • So: the Pueblo revolted and pushed the Spanish out of New Mexico for 12 years. It was the most successful Native American resistance against the Spanish.
Note
When the Spanish came back, they were more tolerant of the Pueblos. The Spanish knew that being nicer would make another rebellion less likely, so they were nicer. Still not very nice, though.

The French and Indian War (1754-1763)

  • Somebody: Great Britain and France
  • Wanted: the Ohio River Valley for the fur trade and settlement
  • But: they both claimed the same land, and their Native American allies were also fighting
  • So: they fought a war. Britain won and got almost all of France’s land in North America, but the expensive war led Britain to tax the colonies and say they could not go West, making them angry. France had many allies. Britain had just one major ally: The Iroquois.
Note
The French and Indian War is also called the Seven Years’ War. It ended with the Treaty of Paris (1763). After winning, Britain passed the Proclamation of 1763, which prevented English colonists from moving west of the Appalachian Mountains. This made settlers angry because they wanted the new land.

5. Slavery Grows

  • 1619: The first enslaved Africans arrive in Virginia.
  • At first, they could sometimes earn freedom. But soon, laws made slavery permanent and racial.
  • Slave Codes: Laws that said children of slave mothers were also slaves, and made it illegal to teach slaves to read.
  • Stono Rebellion (1739): A slave uprising that started at the Stono River in South Carolina. It failed and led to even harsher slave codes.

6. Important Years

  • 1607: Jamestown founded (first successful long-term English colony)
  • 1619:
    • First enslaved Africans arrive.
    • House of Burgesses created (first representative government in the colonies)
  • 1620: Mayflower Compact signed (Pilgrims promise to follow their own laws)
  • 1630: Puritans found Massachusetts Bay Colony
  • 1675-1676: King Philip’s War
  • 1676: Bacon’s Rebellion
  • 1680: Pueblo Revolt
  • 1754: French and Indian War begins

7. Must-Know Vocabulary

English Simple Meaning 中文小提示
Indentured Servant Person who works for 4-7 years for a free trip to America 契约佣工
House of Burgesses First elected government in Virginia (1619) 弗吉尼亚议会
Mayflower Compact Pilgrims’ plan for self-government (1620) 五月花号公约
Puritan Very strict English Protestant 清教徒
Cash Crop Crop grown to sell for money (tobacco, rice) 经济作物
Triangular Trade Trade between Americas, Europe, and Africa (rum, slaves, sugar) 三角贸易
Middle Passage Voyage of slave ships from Africa to the Americas 中途航道
Slave Codes Laws that controlled enslaved people and made slavery permanent 奴隶法典
Mercantilism Economic system: colonies exist to make the mother country rich 重商主义

8. Practice Questions

SAQ 1

a. Identify ONE reason the Puritans founded the Massachusetts Bay Colony. b. Explain ONE difference between the economy of the New England colonies and the Southern colonies. c. Explain ONE reason the French and Indian War started.

Y10 Econ Midterm Review

Here’s what you’ll need to be able to do for the midterm:

Key Concepts to Understand

You should be able to define and explain these important terms:

  • Supply and Demand Basics: Supply, Law of Supply, Demand, Law of Demand, Law of Supply and Demand
  • Market Outcomes: Equilibrium, Equilibrium Price, Shortage, Surplus
  • Goods Classification: Substitute goods, Complementary goods, Normal goods, Inferior goods
  • Elasticity Concepts: Price elasticity of demand, Price elasticity of supply, Cross-price elasticity, Income elasticity
  • Economic Foundations: Scarcity, Trade-offs, Opportunity cost
  • Production & Trade: PPF (Production Possibilities Frontier), Efficiency, Absolute advantage, Comparative advantage, Specialization
  • Market Benefits: Producer surplus, Consumer surplus
  • Goods Types: Capital goods, Consumer goods

Equations to Remember

Notice: $Q_d$ or $Q_s$ is always on top.

G10 History Period 1

Period 1 Review 32,000 BCE–1607 CE


1. Big Picture

  • Time: 32,000 BCE–1607 CE (Very large span of time)
  • America was already full of people. After Columbus, plants, animals, diseases, and people start to cross the Atlantic Ocean.
Note

English has one word to mean “Across the Atlantic Ocean”:

Transatlantic


2. Some Native Groups with the type of Information You Must Know (about the tribe you did the project on)

Name Place Housing Known For
Algonquians Northeast USA Wigwams (wood & bark) First to trade with English, fur
Cherokee South Appalachia Longhouses Big farms, later made their own writing system
Chinook Northwest USA Cedar plank houses Salmon, totem poles
Comanche South Plains Tipis Horse culture developed later, trade roads
Hopi Southwest USA Adobe Dry farming, kachina dolls
Inuit Arctic Igloos / skin tents Harpoons, kayaks
Iroquois Northeast USA Longhouses 5-nation union (later 6), women choose chiefs
Mohawk Northeast USA Longhouses Eastern door guards
Muscogee Southeast USA Wattle-daub houses Powerful SE nation, matrilineal clans
Navajo Southwest USA Hogans (6-side logs) Sheep, weaving
Pueblo & Zuni Southwest USA Adobe pueblos Maize, kivas
Sioux The Great Plains Tipis Bison, horse culture developed later
Wampanoag Northeast USA Wetu (bark) Helped Pilgrims

3. European Exploration

  • Spain: Gold, God, and Glory
  • Portugal: Asian spices, gold (from Africa), and sugar islands.
  • France: Fur trade (too late to the party for gold)
  • England: Land, religious freedom
  • The Netherlands: Trade and commerce (The Dutch West Indies Corporation was one of the first corporations in the world and was created to trade in the islands of the Caribbean)
  • New Tools: compasses, astrolabes (for telling time [remember with “clock”]), and caravels, (also guns).

4. Spanish Encomienda System

  1. The Spanish king gives land and any Native people living on that land to a Spanish soldier or settler.
  2. The encomendero (person who owns the encomienda) must:
    • Teach Spanish and Catholicism
    • Protect the Natives
  3. The encomendero can
    • Take workers for farming, mining, or building (much like slavery)
    • Collect tribute (corn, cloth, gold)
  4. Natives are beaten, over-worked, killed, and die from European diseases. Many run away. Replaced by African slaves.
  5. Native Population drops 50–90%. Spanish king makes New Laws (1542) (thanks to Bartolome de las Casas) to stop abuse, but settlers ignore the laws.

5. Columbian Exchange

Old World → New World Horses, pigs, wheat, sugar, smallpox, influenza, African slaves

Y10 Econ Week 4

Assessment

File Name

Pinyin name (English name)-1ENO20-AT1-T2P1.docx

You should DEFINITELY have

  1. A list of stakeholders in your market
  2. A list of events that have happened in your market

You should be working on

a paragraph about how the stakeholders were affected for each event.

Review:

Vocabulary:

  • Qs>Qd = surplus
  • Qs<Qd = shortage

The point where supply and demand cross is called equilibrium. If the market is not at equilibrium because of a shift in demand (HISAGE) or a shift in supply (STORES), the word is disequilibrium.

Y10 Econ Week 3

Please review demand and demand curves, etc. here: https://www.economicshelp.org/microessays/equilibrium/demand/ (Note: this also talks about price elasticity of demand, which we have not covered yet. We will cover that soon.)

Law of Demand and Law of Supply

The Law of Demand is that price and quantity demanded have an inverse relationship. When price goes down, quantity demanded goes up. When price goes up, quantity demanded goes down. Like the Disco dance I did for you.

Week in Review: Grendel's Origins and Job Stuff

This week we continued our study of Beowulf, moving from overview to close reading of the text itself. Here’s what we covered.

Grendel: More Than Just a Monster

We examined Grendel’s introduction in the poem, focusing on one crucial detail: his descent from Cain.

  • As a descendant of Cain (who committed the first murder in the Bible), Grendel is a spiritual threat (obviously in addition to him killing people [physically])
  • He represents everything bad in Christianity, the first murder, exile, sin, etc.
  • The biblical allusion (we have not learned this word yet) would add deeper meaning for the poem’s original audience.

The Hero Interview

We did a mock job interview where Beowulf applied to work for King Hrothgar. This exercise helped us analyze: