Crash Course Worksheets 2-4 for Unit 2 Remediation

Crash Course worksheets 2-4 for Unit 2 Remediation

Directions: View Crash Course Videos 2, 3, and 4 and fill in the blanks for each episode. Study the videos, your notes and assigned reading, and submit all required homework prior to taking the remediation version of the Unit 2 Exam.

When is Thanksgiving? Colonizing America: Crash Course US History #2

1.So most Americans grew up hearing that the United States was founded by pasty English people who came here to escape religious persecution, and that's true of the small proportion of people who settled in the Massachusetts Bay and created what we now know is ______.

2.The first successful English colony in America was founded in ______, Virginia in 1607. I say "successful" because there were two previous attempts to colonize the region.

3.Indentured servants weren't quite slaves, but they were kind of temporary slaves, like they could be bought and sold and they had to do what their masters commanded. But after seven to ten years of that, if they weren't dead, they were paid their ______dues which they hoped would allow them to buy ______of their own. Sometimes that worked out, but often either the money wasn't enough to buy a farm or else they were too dead to collect it.

4.Even more ominously in 1619, just twelve years after the founding of Jamestown the first shipment of African slaves arrived in Virginia. So the colony probably would have continued to struggle along if they hadn't found something that people really loved: ______.

5.Ok. So a quick word about Maryland. Maryland was the second Chesapeake Colony, founded in ______, and by now there was no messing around with joint stock companies.

Let's go to the Thought Bubble.

6.Most of the English men and women who settled in New England were uber-Protestant Puritans who believed the ______Church of England was still too Catholic-y with its kneeling and incense and extravagantly-hatted archbishops.

7.While still on board their ship the Mayflower, forty-one of the 150 or so colonists wrote and signed an agreement called the ______Compact in which they all bound themselves to follow "just and equal laws" that their chosen representatives would write-up. Since this was the first written framework for government in the US, it's kind of a big deal.

8.Mystery Document: A Model of ______Charity by John Winthrop.

9.There was also slavery in Massachusetts. The first slaves were recorded in the colony in ______. However, Puritans really did foster equality in one sense. They wanted everyone to be able to read the ______.

10.For one thing, Puritan ideas of equality and representation weren't particularly equitable or representational. In truth, America was also founded by indigenous people and by Spanish settlers, and the earliest English colonies weren't about religion; they were about ______.

The Natives and the English - Crash Course US History #3

1.So as previously noted, relationships, whether between individuals or collectives, tend to go well when they are mutually beneficial, and for a while, both the English and the Indians were better off for these interactions. I mean, you know, post-______.

2.We tend to think of trade between Europeans and Natives as being a one-way exchange, like savvy, exploitative Europeans tricking primitive, pure, indigenous people into unfair deals. But that isn't quite accurate. Both sides traded goods that they had in ______for those they did not.

3.Yes, at one point John Smith was captured by the Indians and had to be "saved" by Powhatan's daughter, ______, but this was probably all a ritual planned by Powhatan to demonstrate his dominance over the English.

4.But the 1622 uprising was the final nail in the coffin of the ______Company, which was a failure in every way. It never turned a profit, and despite sponsoring 6,000 colonists, by 1644 when Virginia became a royal colony, only 1,200 of those people were still alive, proving once again that governments are better at governing than corporations.

5.This was such a concern that in 1642, the Massachusetts General Court prescribed a sentence of ______years' hard labor for anyone who left the colony and went to live with the indigenous people

The Pequot War

6.It was called the Pequot War. After some Pequots killed an English fur trader, soldiers from Massachusetts, the newly-formed colony of Connecticut, and some Narragansett Indians, who saw an opportunity to gain an upper hand over the Pequots, attached a Pequot village at Mystic, burning it and massacring over ______people.

7.The war continued for a few months after this, but to call it a war is, in a way, to give it too much credit. The Indians were overmatched from the beginning, and by the end, almost all of them had been massacred or sold into ______in the Caribbean.

8.Despite the odds, New England natives continued to resist the English. In 1675, Native Americans launched their biggest attack on New England colonists in what would come to be known as ______War. It was led by a Wampanoag chief named Metacom, which was why it is also sometimes called Metacom's War

9.Indians attacked half of the 90 towns the English had founded, and 12 of those towns were destroyed. About 1,000 of the 52,000 Europeans and 3,000 of the 20,000 Indians involved died in the War. As I mentioned before, the War was particularly ______.

10.Mystery Document:

The Laws of War were passed by the General Court of ______in 1675

11.But it's important to know the ways that they resisted colonization, because it reminds us that Native Americans were people who acted in history, not just people who were acted upon by it. And it also reminds us that the history of Indigenous people on this land mass isn't separate from ______; it's an essential part of it.

The Quakers, the Dutch, and the Ladies: Crash Course US History #4

1.New Amsterdam became ______which was a mixed blessing. The population doubled in the decade after the English takeover but English rule meant less economic freedom for women who, under the Dutch were able to inherit property and conduct business for themselves. And under the English, free black people lost a lot of the jobs they had been able to hold under the Dutch.

2.Quakers were a pretty tolerant bunch, except when it came to ______which they opposed vehemently.

3.Quakers had to resort to such tricks because they were ______. I should also mention that they weren't particularly fond of loose living. The government prevented swearing and drunkenness for instance but, you know, it was still pretty great compared to the other colonies.

4.Oh it's time for the mystery document?

Nathaniel ______was the author of the Mystery document

5.Before the rebellion was quelled by the arrival of English warships, Bacon burned ______and made himself ruler of Virginia and looted the Berkley's supporters' land.

6.______rebellion is sometimes portrayed as an early example of lower-class artisans and would-be farmers rising up against the corrupt British elite, which I guess kind of...

But the biggest effects of the rebellion were:

1. A shift away from indentured servants to ______, and

2. A general desire by the English crown to control the ______more.

7.And these new guys imposed the English ______Act of 1690, which decreed that all Protestants could worship freely. As Toleration Acts go, this one wasn't that tolerant-- I mean, it still discriminated against Jews-- but it did mark the end of the Puritan Experiment.

8.Most colonists were ______, or worked on farms, and they were mostly small, unlike the giant plantations that predominated in the Caribbean.

9.So that variety of jobs leads us nicely into our last topic today: colonial ______.

10.Married women in 18th-century colonial America generally couldn't own property, and husbands usually willed their land to their sons and their personal items to their daughters, meaning that almost all landowners were ______.

11.The colonial era often gets skipped for its lack of large-scale drama, but those small scale ______can be found in abundance.