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Uni t 1 1

US HistoryMr. Pea l

HOW DID THE

ENGLISH TAKE

CONTROL OF

AMERICA?

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Native Americans

EuropeansAfrican slaves, brought by

Europeans

AMERICA GREW OUT OF THREE

GROUPS OF PEOPLE.

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NATIVE AMERICANS WERE HERE

FIRST.

Hunters andgatherers walkedby land bridgeand by boat from

Asia to NorthAmerica in thelate Ice Ageabout 12,000years ago.

There were manytribes.

Some tribesfarmed, butnever full time.

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Vikings

came from

Norway

England

Netherlands

Spain and

PortugalFrance

Sweden

EUROPEANS CAME FROM NEXT,

FROM MANY COUNTRIES IN

EUROPE.

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EUROPEANS SETTLED IN MANY

PLACES

North America was

divided between the

French, British, and

Spanish.

South America was

divided between theSpanish and

Portuguese.

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SPAIN CONTROLLED MOST OF

SOUTH AMERICA.

Came for gold.

Brought disease, which

killed up to 90% of the

people in North America. Found a mountain of

silver in Bolivia and

discovered that sugar

cane would grow in the

Caribbean.

They became rich.

Controlled the southwest

of what would be the US.

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THE ENGLISH AND FRENCH

CAME FOR MANY REASONS.

Young people came tostart a new family andhave a better life. Theywere settlers.

Pilgrims and Puritanscame to practice theirreligion.

English planters came to

grow rich growingtobacco.

The French wanted totrade, but not stay.

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THE ENGLISH AND INDIANS OFTEN DID

NOT GET ALONG.

At first, Native Americans and

the British cooperated.

As more English came toAmerica and more English

colonists moved west, the

English began to take Indians

land. The British were not always

tolerant of dark-skinned people,

especially non-Christians.

Battles

Pequot Massacre:

1636

Bacons Rebellion:

1676

King Philips War:

1675-6

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THE ENGLISH ALSO BEGAN TO

PUSH OUT THE OTHER EUROPEAN

COLONIES. Before 1700 Around 1750

The Dutch took over the small Swedish colony (near

Philadelphia) in 1650s, but then the English defeated the

Dutch in New York in the 1670s. The English colonies

controlled the East coast by 1750.

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THE ENGLISH BROUGHT SLAVES TO

NORTH AMERICA.

In the southern colonies,

English plantation owners

used slaves to grow cash

crops such as tobacco.

Most slaves came to theAmericas to work on sugar

plantations in Brazil and the

Caribbean islands.

In America, slavery became

more important after 1800when cotton was grown in

the South to supply cloth

factories back in En gland.

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THE FRENCH MOSTLY WANTED TO

TRADE BEAVER SKINS; IT MADE

THEM RICH!

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Both disliked theBritish.

French werentsettlers. They didntwant to take the

Indians land.

The French tradedwith and learnedfrom Indians.

THE FRENCH AND INDIANS GOT ALONG

FAIRLY WELL.

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THE ENGLISH AND FRENCH WENT

TO WAR IN 1754.

English wanted to move

West, into French and

Indian lands.

French traders and someIndian tribes joined

together to fight the

British.

The war was part of a

world-wide conflict

between France and

England for land.

The English won in North

America.

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ENGLAND

WON AND

NOW

CONTROLLED ALL OF

EASTERN

AMERICA.

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Vocab

Settler

Colony

English

Pilgrim

Puritan

Quaker

Slave

Americas

Plantation

Planters

Cash crops

Questions: How did the Englis h take control? How did the colonists take

control from the English and what kind of government did they create?

How did the US grow? How did growth lead to sectional confl ict and C iv i l

War?

NOTES