THE COLONIAL FAMILY IN AMERICA MINTZ, Steven, and Susan Kellogg. Domestic Revolutions: A Social History of American Family Life. NY: Free Press, 1988. Deetz, James, and Patricia Scott Deetz. GODBEER, Richard. Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth. Brown, Kathleen M. Bardaglio, Peter W. "The present culture wars over the family are no surprise when we consider the different notions of family that have been held throughout American religious history" (Don Browning et al., From Culture Wars to Common Ground 73). "The Puritan family is important because its heritage figured significantly in the founding religious, political, and legal systems of the United States" (Browning et al. 74). The Family as the Primary Unit of Social Control: Since the family was the primary unit of social control, every individual was expected to be a part of a household, and the head of the household maintained "surveillance over the behavior of all members, ruling the home with an iron hand and an all-seeing eye" (Queen et al 196). Patriarchy: Children:
Divisions within Society Immediatism From the 1829 publication of David Walker's Appeal onward, the antislavery movement shifted into a more radical phase as some abolitionists demanded immediate emancipation of all slaves rather than merely gradual steps toward future emancipation in the South and free soil in the new western territories. William Lloyd Garrison sounded the clarion call with his 1831 launch of The Liberator, an antislavery newspaper based out of Boston. Garrison pledged to continue publishing The Liberator until the day that all American slaves were free. He kept his word, but as it turned out, that took 35 years. A Southern Scapegoat Southerners of the Revolutionary generation were ambivalent about slavery—some freed their slaves, some admitted to hate slavery, some (like Thomas Jefferson) couldn't figure out how to end it but assumed it would die out in the future. Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Patrick Henry, John Laurens, Arthur Lee, George Mason, and St. An Impetus for Action The AAS
Early British Colonial Trade Regulations British Colonial Trade Regulations, 1651-1764 Boston Harbor in the 18th century Based on American Journey by Goldfied, et al., in addition to other sources. Please cite this source when appropriate: Feldmeth, Greg D. Timeline of events leading to the ACW This timeline of events leading up to the American Civil War describes and links to narrative articles and references about many of the events and issues which historians recognize as origins and causes of the Civil War. The pre-Civil War events can be roughly divided into a period encompassing the long term build-up over many decades and a period encompassing the five-month build to war immediately after the election of Abraham Lincoln as President in the Election of 1860 which culminated in the Fall of Fort Sumter (April 1861). Events in the 1850s culminated with the election of the anti-slavery (though not yet abolitionist) Abraham Lincoln as President on November 6, 1860. This provoked the first round of State secessions as leaders of the Deep South States were unwilling to trust Lincoln not to move against slavery. Historian viewpoints[edit] Robert Francis Engs described the issues which caused the Civil War in Slavery during the Civil War in The Confederacy edited by Richard N.
British Empire During the Age of Discovery in the 15th and 16th centuries, Portugal and Spain pioneered European exploration of the globe, and in the process established large overseas empires. Envious of the great wealth these empires generated, England, France, and the Netherlands began to establish colonies and trade networks of their own in the Americas and Asia.[5] A series of wars in the 17th and 18th centuries with the Netherlands and France left England (and then, following union between England and Scotland in 1707, Great Britain) the dominant colonial power in North America and India. The independence of the Thirteen Colonies in North America in 1783 after the American War of Independence caused Britain to lose some of its oldest and most populous colonies. By the start of the twentieth century Germany and the United States had eroded some of Britain's economic lead. Origins (1497–1583) Plantations of Ireland First British Empire (1583–1783) Americas, Africa and the slave trade
10 historians - Why the South Lost Why the South Lost the Civil War Ten Civil War historians provide some contrasting–and probably controversial–views on how and why the Confederate cause ultimately ended in defeat. Interviews by Carl Zebrowski "The art of war is simple enough. Put that way, the business of fighting and winning wars sounds simple enough. But the American Civil War, like any war, was not simple. For the past 130 years Americans have argued over the reasons for the Confederacy's downfall. –Carl Zebrowski Former editor of Civil War Times Illustrated and author of more than thirty books about the war, including the recent "A Government of Our Own": The Making of the Confederacy. Why did the South lose? Despite the long-held notion that the South had all of the better generals, it really had only one good army commander and that was Lee. The South was way outclassed industrially. Industrially the South couldn't keep up in output and in manpower. The miracle is that the South held out as long as it did.
British Involvement in the Transatlantic Slave Trade: The Abolition of Slavery Project For well over 300 years, European countries forced Africans onto slave ships and transported them across the Atlantic Ocean. The first European nation to engage in the Transatlantic Slave Trade was Portugal in the mid to late 1400's. Captain John Hawkins made the first known English slaving voyage to Africa, in 1562, in the reign of Elizabeth 1. Hawkins made three such journeys over a period of six years. He captured over 1200 Africans and sold them as goods in the Spanish colonies in the Americas. To start with, British traders supplied slaves for the Spanish and Portuguese colonists in America. The exact number of British ships that took part in the Slave Trade will probably never be known but, in the 245 years between Hawkins first voyage and the abolition of the Slave Trade in 1807, merchants in Britain despatched about 10,000 voyages to Africa for slaves, with merchants in other parts of the British Empire perhaps fitting out a further 1,150 voyages. Who profited?
Weaknesses in the Boom Causes Overproduction Laissez Faire policies that left the economy unregulated Fraud Over speculation on the stock market Decline in foreign trade While we have spoken about the 20's as a time of great prosperity, it was a tad deceptive. Problems lie under the surface that would not be dealt with by the conservative administrations of Harding, Coolidge and Hoover. The Great Depression did not begin in 1929 with the fall of the over inflated stock market. The early warning signs first came in the agricultural sector. In the 1920's American economic policy was laissez faire. Purchasing dropped internationally as well. At this point you should be asking the question "If no one buying and companies were increasing production levels, wasn't there going to be a problem?" As a result of World War I America had emerged as the worlds leading creditor nation. Throughout this period of time Americans (and it seems this included Harding, Coolidge and Hoover.) Back To RA Notes
History - British History in depth: British India and the 'Great Rebellion'