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Give Me Liberty!
AN AMERICAN HISTORY
FOURTH EDITION
by
Eric Foner
Indians fishing, in a 1585 drawing by John White.
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A self-portrait from around 1680, painted by Thomas Smith.
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A Quaker Meeting
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An Overseer Doing His Duty
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The First Americans
• Indian Freedom, European Freedom
• The Expansion of Europe
• Contact
• The Spanish Empire
• The French and Dutch Empires
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The First Americans
 Focus Question:
What were the major patterns of Native
American life in North America before
Europeans arrived?
France Bringing the Faith to the Indians of New France
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The First Americans:
Settlers
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The Settling of the Americas
World Map produced in 1507.
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The First Americans:
Indians
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Indian Societies of the Americas
Mound Builders of the Mississippi River
Valley
Western Indians
Indians of Eastern North America
Map 1.1 The first Americans
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Map 1.2 Native American ways of life, ca. 1500
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Map of the Aztec capital, Tenochtitlán
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A modern aerial photograph of the ruins of Pueblo Bonita
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Cliff dwellings in Cañon de Chelly
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The Village of Secoton, by John White
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The First Americans:
Indian society
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Native American Religion
Land and Property
Gender Relations
A Catawba map illustrates the differences between
Indian and European conceptions of landed property.
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Indians fishing, in a 1585 drawing by John White.
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The First Americans:
Views
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European Views of the Indians
A seventeenth-century engraving by a French Jesuit
Priest illustrates many Europeans’ views of Indian religion.
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Indian women planting crops while men break the sod.
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Indian Freedom,
European Freedom
 Focus Question:
How did Indian and European ideas of
freedom differ on the eve of contact?
Indian Freedom,
European Freedom:
Indians
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Indian Freedom
The Great Voyage to the Country
of the Hurons
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Indian Freedom,
European Freedom:
Liberty
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Christian Liberty
Freedom and Authority
Liberty and Liberties
The Expansion of
Europe
 Focus Question:
What impelled European explorers to
look west across the Atlantic?
The Expansion of
Europe: Discovery
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Chinese and Portuguese Navigation
Portugal and West Africa
Freedom and Slavery in Africa
Voyages of Columbus
Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
The Slave Trade
1. Existed in Africa before the coming
of the Europeans.
2. Portuguese replaced European slaves
with Africans.
Sugar cane & sugar plantations.
First boatload of African slaves
brought by the Spanish in 1518.
275,000 enslaved Africans exported
to other countries.
3. Between 16c & 19c, about 10 million
Africans shipped to the Americas.
Map 1.3 The old world on the eve of American
colonization, ca. 1500
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A detail from the Cantino World Map
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Contact
 Focus Question:
What happened when the peoples of the
Americas came in contact with
Europeans?
Contact: Columbus
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Columbus in the New World
Exploration and Conquest
The Demographic Disaster
Map 1.4 Voyages of Discovery
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The “Columbian Exchange”
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Squash
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Avocado
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Peppers
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Sweet Potatoes
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Turkey
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Pumpkin
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Tobacco
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Quinine
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Cocoa
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Pineapple
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Cassava
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POTATO
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Peanut
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TOMATO
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Vanilla
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MAIZE
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Syphilis
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Trinkets
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Liquor
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GUNS
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Olive
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COFFEE BEAN
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Banana
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Rice
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Onion
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Turnip
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Honeybee
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Barley
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Grape
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Peach
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SUGAR CANE
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Oats
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Citrus Fruits
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Pear
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Wheat
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HORSE
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Cattle
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Sheep
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Pigs
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Smallpox
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Flu
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Typhus
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Measles
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Malaria
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Diptheria
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Whooping Cough
Columbus’s Landfall
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Engravings, from the Florentine Codex
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An Indian Suffering from
Smallpox, c. 1700
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The Spanish Empire
 Focus Question:
What were the chief features of the
Spanish empire in America?
The Spanish Empire:
Colonists
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Governing Spanish America
Colonists in Spanish America
Colonists and Indians
Plaza Mayor (Main Square)
of Mexico City
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An illustration from the Huexotzinco Codex
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Four Racial Groups
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Cycle of Conquest & Colonization
Explorers
Official
European
Colony!
The Spanish Empire:
Religion
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Justifications for Conquest
Spreading the Faith
Piety and Profit
The Virgin of Guadalupe
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A benign view of Spanish colonization
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The Spanish Empire:
Reforming
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Las Casas’s Complaint
Reforming the Empire
Spanish conquistadores murdering Indians at Cuzco.
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A 1791 view of Mission San Carlos in what is now California
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The Spanish Empire:
Exploration
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Exploring North America
Map 1.5 Spanish Conquests and Explorations
in The New World, 1500–1600
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Table 1.1 Estimated Regional Populations:
The Americas, ca. 1500
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Table 1.2 Estimated Regional Populations
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The Spanish Empire:
North America
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Spanish Florida
Spain in the Southwest
The Pueblo Revolt
Acoma, the “sky city,” as it appeared in 1904
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St. Anthony and the Infant Jesus
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The French and Dutch
Empires
 Focus Question:
What were the chief features of the
French and Dutch empires in North
America?
The French and Dutch
Empires: New France
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French Colonization
New France and the Indians
Map 1.6 The New World-New France and
New Netherland, ca. 1650
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A Native American carved this image of a European
ship on a rock, in present-day Nova Scotia.
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This engraving, which appears in Samuel de Champlain’s
1613 account of his voyages, is the only likeness of the
explorer from his own time.
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The French and Dutch
Empires: The dutch
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The Dutch Empire
Dutch Freedom
New Amsterdam, 1651
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The French and Dutch
Empires: New Netherland
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Freedom in New Netherland
The Dutch and Religious Toleration
Settling New Netherland
New Netherland and the Indians
The seal of New Netherland, adopted by the
Dutch West India Company in 1630
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A map of the Western Hemisphere, published in Antwerp, 1592
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Review
The First Americans
Focus Question: What were the major patterns of Native American
life in North America before Europeans arrived?
Indian Freedom, European Freedom
Focus Question: How did Indian and European ideas of freedom
differ on the eve of contact?
The Expansion of Europe
Focus Question: What impelled European explorers to look west
across the Atlantic?
Review continued
Contact
Focus Question: What happened when the peoples of the Americas
came in contact with Europeans?
The Spanish Empire
Focus Question: What were the chief features of the Spanish empire in
America?
The French and Dutch Empires
Focus Question: What were the chief features of the French and
Dutch empires in North America?
MEDIA LINKS
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Chapter 1
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Title
Media link
Eric Foner on freedom, pt 1: how English
settlers were inspired by freedom
http://wwnorton.com/common/mplay/6.7/?p=/college/history/fo
ner4/&f=ideas_of_freedom
Eric Foner on freedom, pt 2: differing
views of freedom among the American
colonies
http://wwnorton.com/common/mplay/6.7/?p=/college/history/fo
ner4/mp4/&f=question012
Eric Foner on freedom, pt 3: settlers and
the Indians
http://wwnorton.com/common/mplay/6.7/?p=/college/history/fo
ner4/mp4/&f=question013
Eric Foner on freedom, pt 3: settlers and
the Indians
http://wwnorton.com/common/mplay/6.7/?p=/college/history/fo
ner4/mp4/&f=question014
Eric Foner on freedom, pt 5: freedom in
the 15th and 16th centuries
http://wwnorton.com/common/mplay/6.7/?p=/college/history/fo
ner4/mp4/&f=question015
Eric Foner on freedom, pt 6: new ideas of
freedom after the English Civil War
http://wwnorton.com/common/mplay/6.7/?p=/college/history/fo
ner4/mp4/&f=question016
Next Lecture PREVIEW:
—— Chapter 2 ——
Beginnings of English
America, 1607–1660
England and the New World
• The Coming of the English
• Settling the Chesapeake
• The New England Way
• New Englanders Divided
• Religion, Politics, and Freedom
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Give Me Liberty!
AN AMERICAN HISTORY
FOURTH EDITION
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