Settling Red, White, and Black in the South - PowerPoint Presentation

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Settling Red, White, and Black in the South

Physiographic Regions and Settlement Patterns in the

Early American SouthSlide2

Points to Consider: Economies

Agricultural

TradeSlide3

EcoregionsSlide4

Divisions in Virginia, John

Lederer

c. 1670Slide5

Virginia Slide6

Physiographic Regions: Descriptions of LandscapeSlide7

BP Oil Spill Gulf Coast Outer Continental ShelfSlide8

Virginia CoastSlide9

Changing CoastlinesSlide10

The Fall LineSlide11

The PiedmontSlide12

Stone Mountain, GeorgiaSlide13
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The MountainsSlide15

Northern Blue RidgeSlide16

Ridge and ValleySlide17

Shenandoah ValleySlide18

Appalachian and Cumberland PlateauSlide19

Interior Low Plateau-

Chattanooga, TNSlide20

Interior Highlands

Ozark Plateau

Ouachita ProvinceSlide21

Vegetation RegionsSlide22

Mississippi TributariesSlide23

The James River Falls- VirginiaSlide24

Glimpsing the Past? John James AudubonSlide25

Coastal Plain

Pine BarrensSlide26

Coastal Plain SwamplandsSlide27
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Highlands and the Chestnut BlightSlide30

Rise of the MississippiansSlide31

ChiefdomsSlide32

Major Settlements at ContactSlide33

Controlling the Landscape: FireSlide34

Reasons for Controlled Burns

Hunting

Crop Management

Improve growth and yields

Fireproof areas

Insect Collection

Pest Management

Warfare & Signaling

Economic Extortion

Clearing areas for travel

Felling Trees

Clearing Riparian areasSlide35

Ponce de Leon

March 28, 1513 arrives on Easter Day,

Pascua FloridaSlide36

North America

Panfilo de Narvaez, one-eyed veteran of Mexico campaign, leaves for North America with 5 ships, 600 settlers and soldiersSlide37

First Sustained European Contact: The Spanish and Hernando de SotoSlide38

Hernando de Soto

Left Havana with 9 ships and arrived in Tampa Bay on May 25, 1539 with 570 men and 243 horsesSlide39

Manic optimism and Conquest

Fought

Mabila

and lost 102 men, likely was wounded during fray with Chief

Tascalusa

Died on May 21, 1542 from a

fever

Sustained settlement in Florida in 1565 @St. Augustine by Pedro Menendez de Aviles, killed French settlers @

CharlesfortSlide40

Settling the South: The EuropeansSlide41

Roanoke

1584, Sir Walter Raleigh

1587, John White

117 Settlers

White returns to England

War with Spain

1590, no trace of colonists foundSlide42

Jamestown

3 ships- 100 men

Soldiers of fortune

Powhatan

paramountcy

1609-10, the “starving time”

(1610-14) First Anglo-Powhatan War

1616, tobaccoSlide43

The Virginia Company

King James I

Joint Stock

Gold

Wine

Citrus

Olive oil

Pitch, tar and Naval Stores

Northwest passageSlide44

Powhatan Chiefdom

Lived along the rivers in the Coastal Plain of Virginia-

Relied on agriculture, and consolidated into a chiefdom BECAUSE of European ContactSlide45

John Rolfe experimented with various strains of tobacco until he was successful in creating North America’s first cash crop which led to the growth of a plantation oriented economy complex in the Southeast.

1618

— Virginia produces

20,000 pounds

of tobacco.

1622

— Despite losing nearly one-third of its colonists in an Indian attack, Virginia produces

60,000 pounds

of tobacco.

1627

— Virginia produces

500,000 pounds

of tobacco.

1629

— Virginia produces

1,500,000 pounds

of tobacco.Slide46

Indentured Servitude

Contracts lasted typically around 7 years.

Importation of servants provided large plots of land for the brokersSlide47

Bacon’s Rebellion

Nathaniel Bacon vs. Governor Sir William Berkeley

Also known as the Susquehannock War, it began as a trade war and escalated into a fight over representation in the Virginia Government

Key ideas: White Identity & Crown AuthoritySlide48

African Slavery