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PERIOD 2:

1607-1754

PERIOD 2 SHORT HISTORIES

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really, Period 2?!

New England featured the first public schools in world history. The community funded the education of the children, which is one reason New Englanders were the most literate people in the world.

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PERIOD 2 ARTIFACTS (aka, primary sources)

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Amerigo Vespucci, explorer, letter to his patron, 1502

A DISCOURSE CONCERNING WESTERN PLANTING

Amerigo Vespucci, explorer, letter to his patron, 1502

INCREDIBLE ABUNDANCE

“Report of Raleigh’s first exploration of the American coast,” Captain Arthur Barlow, 1584

WHY WILL YOU DESTROY US?

Chief Powhatan, speech by John Smith, Virginia, 1609

THE VALUABLE COMMODITY OF TOBACCO

Discourse of the present estate of Virginia, book Ralph Hamor, Colonial Official, 1614.

CONTRACT FOR INDENTURED SERVITUDE

Richard Lowther (laborer) and Edward Hurd (land owner), Virginia, 1627

A CITY UPON A HILL

“Modell of Christian Charity,” speech, (eventual) Governor John Winthrop, 1629

INSTITUTIONALIZING SLAVERY

Slave laws, 1644–1740

WATERCOLORS OF AMERICAN WILDLIFE

John White, English painter, 1585

WATERCOLORS OF AMERICAN INDIANS

John White, English painter, 1585

ODE TO THE VIRGINIA VOYAGE

Poem, Michael Drayton, 1606

CHARITY BEGINS AT HOME

Letter from William Capps,
Virginia House of Burgesses representative, 1623

STARVING TIME IN JAMESTOWN

“Starving Time”: A True Relation
of Proceedings, memoir, George Percy, Jamestown president, 1624

WHAT WARRANT HAVE WE TO TAKE THEIR LAND?

Gov. Jon Winthrop, general considerations for the plantation in New England with an answer to several objections, 1629

THIS COUNTRY ABOUNDETH NATURALLY

A Short and True Description of New England, book, Reverend Francis Higginson, 1629

SENTENCED TO LIFE

Minutes of the council and general court of colonial Virginia, 1640

SLAVES SUE FOR THEIR FREEDOM

Act of the director and council of New Netherland, 1644.

REVEREND MATHER ON WHY WARRE CAME

A brief history of the warre with the Indians in New-England, report, book, Reverend Increase Mather, 1676

KING PHILLIP ON WHY THE WAR CAME

A relacion of the Indyan war, report of interview with Metacomet (King Phillip), John Easton, colonial official, 1675

THE WHITE MAN SET A HIGH VALUE ON THINGS

The Old Indian Chronicle, book, Nathaniel Saltonstall, New England official, c. 1677

PURITAN CHILDREN LEARN THEIR ABCs

New England primer, textbook, 1690

A SURPRISING OCCURENCE

The Indians delivering up the English captives to colonel Bouquet, Pierre Charles Canot, 1765

THE MEXICAN CASTES

Ignacio Maria Barreda, 1777

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