AMH2097 Test 2 Key Terms Formative Wave Migration 1600 1820 WASPs from England only real white group First Wave Migration 1820 1880 First wave of non English settlers Many came to escape problems in home country not treated as fairly as WASPs 13 English Colonies New England Colonies Massachusetts New Hampshire Rhode Island Connecticut Middle Colonies New York New Jersey Deleware Pennsylvania Southern Colonies Virginia Maryland North Carolina South Carolina Georgia Maryland Place for Catholics in New World More about tobacco money than religion Lord Baltimore Catholic Founded Maryland converts to English church because money was more important Pennsylvania haven for Quakers founded by William Penn There was no state church Democratic men who owned land could vote William Penn Est Pennsylvania for Quakers actively promoted immigration to Penn Quaker Protestants with radical beliefs everyone equal in eyes of God didn t believe in hierarchy women could hold leadership positions Pacifists beaten or jailed for their beliefs in England Dutch Migration dominated banking and textile industries New Amsterdam and New Netherland Dutch settlements in US present day NYC Wall Street named after wall on the north boundary of New Amsterdam Old Dutch practiced exogamy New Dutch culturally conservative endogamy protestants successful farmers Endogamy marrying inside of cultural group 1 Exogamy marrying outside of cultural group Ethnic Enclaves communities settled around racial ethnic or nat l identity German Migration Push factors included political religious turmoil idea of drafting very difficult on land and a fued between principality and small states over Protestantism and Catholicism and how to govern Pull factors included the idea of religious tolerance and Pennsylvania Dutch Misunderstanding with English Germans say they speak Deutsch but not availability of land Dutch Penn Dutch German Germantown PA An ethnic enclave Scots Irish Migration Migrated to Ireland with the English to help subdue the Irish Was key for the existence of this ethnic group in the first place Were considered second class and treated poorly because they were not Catholic or members of the Church of England Scots Irish name Influence of Catholic Irish self created stereotypes Other Euro Settlers in Colonial America Scots and Scots Irish were hard to differentiate because they had similar last names British Scandinavian migrants include Swedes Log Cabins Huge impact on American architecture Scandinavian migrants started building Norwegians and Finns them English Colonial attitudes towards immigrants Have a general mistrust of people who came over and didn t speak English or try to assimilate In Virginia not a lot of voluntary migration that are not indentured servants 2 Banishment Took place in Massachusetts and New England People within the colony who disagreed with Puritan Church leadership were forcibly deported and banished Everybody in the community would publically tell them they were wrong and kick them out Many fled New England to New York and Pennsylvania because of high degree of tolerance Benjamin Franklin Wrote how he didn t like Germans Proposed outlawing German printing press and schools Wanted to force German Assimilation Germans voted Franklin out of Pennsylvania legislature Proclamation Line of 1763 English loyal proclamation English claimed all the land to the east of the Appalachian mountains and anything to the west of the line belonged to the Indians It hoped to avoid Indian problems It hoped to restrain settlers from the west and east tension but ended up leading to the American revolution Early US Citizenship Laws Very lenient and open Everybody who comes into the country free white can become citizens within two years Was used primarily to deny African Collapse of Native Societies by the 1700 s 90 of the native population died as a result of Disease Indian Slave Trade Indians were captured and forced through Charleston to the Americans and Asians citizenship disease slave trade and other factors Caribbean or French Canada Fur trade Big economy Indians produced raw materials beaver and dear most sought after Europeans had many uses and high fashion Europeans traded beads kettles pots hatchets muskets 3 New Native Societies Held onto their religious beliefs culture and gender roles Often formed around language groups that were similar enough to communicate with one another and overtime they formed new languages Formed on the common need to protect each other and their land while still getting what they needed from the Europeans Native Governments The new leadership was based on leadership and adaptability People advocated for ideas and trying to win people over Seminoles Were not formed at this time formed around the mid 1800 s Proclamation Line of 1763 English loyal proclamation English claimed all the land to the east of the Appalachian mountains and anything to the west of the line belonged to the Indians It hoped to avoid Indian problems It hoped to restrain settlers from the west and east tension but ended up leading to the American revolution Indian Problem US settlers tried to get rid of Indians Led to warfare forced removal and Civilization Plan Plan to change Indians from hunters to farmers Cultural genocide Nativism Prejudice against non native people Doesn t apply to Native Americans Indians extermination eventually backfires wouldn t be assimilated Tecumseh Opposed US and Civ Plan Brother of Tenskwatawa The Prophet Lalawithica later Tenskwatawa Native American religious and political leader Denounced Americans Brother of Tecumseh William Henry Harrison General of war of 1812 reasons with the Indians War of 1812 Between the US and UK drive out Indians Accommodationists Seeks compromise with an opposing point of view 4 Elias Boudinot A Cherokee with white dad and a Cherokee mom started foreign mission school for him and his Cherokee cousins Indian Removal Andrew Jackson tried to civilize them and says if we remove them theyre going to die off but if we don t remove them everyone that elected him will be mad cause he didn t give them land Cherokee Response to Removal Sued the US government case goes all the way to supreme court Supreme court says yes the Cherokee are there own civilization and have their own boundaries so they cant be removed Jackson still orders military to remove them Slave Codes Keeps strict hold on slaves Slaves Property Illegal for a slave to know how to read and
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