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Here are bibligraphy references for the pictures that I selected:

 

Indian Massacre:

Indian Massacre

 

Charles I:

Charles I

 

English Parliament:

English Parliament

 

Sir William Berkely:

William Berkeley

 

I apologize, but I couldn't find the source for which the Jamestown picture came from.....I guess I will keep searching.

 

 

10/1/07

Hey guys it's Sierra sorry i'm not there today, but i'm home sick...if there's anything you want me to work on just e-mail it to me. Thanks see you guys tomorrow! 

 

THANK YOU AMY!!  I would be having a panic attack right now if it wasn't for our conversation this morning!!

 

Sunday's Message-I am not willing to add narration.  I am happy to transfer any narration into the Photo Story that's put on here, but that's it.  Anyone willing to step up to the plate?...

 

I know I keep writing, but I can't help it.  Please look at the pictures that I've put together (see directions in the next message) and add narration and comments.  I just did the animation on the title page and it looks very cool...But I can only do so much, I need your help before I have another panic attack!!

 

Nothing ever goes right...I can't get the PhotoStory onto the files page like I said I would.  I'm not really sure what to do.  My guess is that it's too big of a file for the space that's left, but I don't know what the solution is.  Garret, do you know the other Garrett's e-mail?  Maybe he can help us...I have a new idea.  I am going to post the pictures on the link under Links To Other Sources (scroll down)entitled Our PhotoStory Presentation.  That'll make it easier for everyone to add their ideas for narration and then I can compile it!

 

 

Stephen- Thanks for the pictures.  It works out well because I added some last night as well and it's beginning to look like something!  Can you do me a favor and post the sites where the pictures came from I want to make sure that we have a bibliography at the end of our presentation!  If you want to find more that's fine OR I'll put the ones we have in logical order and post it under Files, we can start writing captions and narration and then find where the gaps are then fill those.  I think the latter might be more effective!  I'm also going to do some research outside of what Mr. B. gave us, so whatever you want to do.  Also, if you want to access the pictures you've already put on here, click on Stephen's Pictures in the list of pictures at the bottom and there's another Wiki page that has them!

-Gabriela

 

Gabriela, here are some pictures that I would really like to add to the photostory. It is 12:10 and I have a huge soccer game tomorrow, so there are only a few pictures, but I plan on searching for some other ones tomorrow sometime in the afternoon. Thanks so much for taking charge of this project and adding all of the photos to our Photostory.

 

Stephen and Anyone Else Who Sees This...I am curious whether or not the PhotoStory file you download is the updated one...Mine's the old one without pictures, music, etc.  Basically before all the work we did during class today which really sucks.  The pictures I can easily take care of, but we'll have to do the music on Monday:(  I will take care of ADDING PICTURES TO PHOTOSTORY and so that way they're all on one document that I'll post back on the Wiki and maybe it'll work this time.  Any picture you want added just put it on this page!

-Gabriela

 

No Worries!  I'm going to fix those pictures at the top of the page...I spent a long time trying to get them right in the edit section, but when I saved it the side bar got in the way!  It's 11:00 and I'm going to bed, but I'll fix it in the morning...

-Gabriela

 

 

FROM GARRETT D!!! -  To get to your photostory file, go to the home page, then click on the files menu (its where the edit page option is). The go to the bottom of the page where the list of all uploaded files are. Yours is called Demo.wp3 and has a question mark as a picture. There ya go!

 

 

 

Assignments:

 

For Thursday: Stephen and Garret read A Discourse and View of Virginia and First Encounter with Natives Sierra and Gabriela read Bacon's Rebellion and Persons of Mean and Vile Condition, Amy's going to search for pictures and create links below so we can get booking on our photostory creation!

 

For Monday: Photostory finished except music and having the narration recorded

 

For Tuesday: make sure that project is done and ready to present.  

 

 

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9/25/2007-Hello All!  I decided a bulleted list was the best way to share my "Reading Reactions" from the "Bacon's Rebellion" link.  So here it goes, I can't wait to hear about what everyone else read!

  • Under the rule of Charles III, Parliament passed the Navigation Acts of 1660-1663
  • These acts placed restricitions on the export of tobacco from Virginia to France and the Import of Dutch items.
  • Puritans passed the Navigation Act of 1651, which required that imports from England be shipped on English ships, also partially caused the first Anglo-Dutch War (1 of 3)
  • Virginian tobacco farmers were challenged financially throughout the 1660s
  • Although the first legislation was passed regarding the enslavement of blacks, there was no political help for these farmers between 1661 and 1676
  • Nathanial Bacon held "Bacon's Rebellion" in 1676
  • Officials, including the Governor, were "threatened at gunpoint" and Jamestown was burned
  • Governor Berkeley conducted trading with Indians and therefore denied claims of wrong doings by the natives
  • Bacon was "declared a rebel" after threatening to attack the Indians without consent
  • The public supported Bacon and an election was held for the new house of Burgesses, to which Bacon was elected
  • After only a short time in that position, Bacon left and executed his threats against the Indians as part of a newly formed mob
  • The mob also pressured the House of Burgesses to pass certain legislation
  • After the death of Bacon, the mob fell apart and Berkely punished everyone severely
  • So severely that the king brought him back to England where he died
  • Was Bacon the first "revolutionary seeking liberty" and what part did this play on soon to come events?

That's all for now.  I thought we should each have our own color to identify easily what each of us has contributed, so I picked this purpleish one!  As you add entries you can pick a color and I turned my initial up at the top my color as well! See everyone tomorrow, I'm off to bed!

 

Gabriela

 

9/26/07 - "A Discourse and View of Virginia"

 

  • Sir William Berkeley - Assumed Governorship of Virginia in 1642, English noble, came to Virginia with an intense love of England and loyalty to England's king.
  • Berkeley - The virtues of this aristocrat won the hearts of his Colonists as  the vices of aristocracy were later to make the country run with blood.
  • Execution of Charles the First led to the proclaimation of his son as "King of Virginia"
  •  Arrival of English nobles, who were horrified by the "Rebels," made their way to the banks of the Chesapeake, where they were welcomed by the planters and the generosity of the Governor.
  • English nobles - Strengthened the hands of the loyalists.
  • Virginia "was whole for the monarchy and the last country belonging to England, that submitted to obedience to the Commonwealth."
  • Berkely acknowledge himself "but a servant of the Assembly"
  • Virginia was governed until 1660 - Berkely was again elected Governor
  • Beginning of the Cavalier parliament in England - Virginia had two distinct parties (the Royalists and the People)
  • Since the first English foot touched down on the soil of Virginia, there was a desire for self expression, the hardly articulate desire for liberty and freedom, from which a century later, issued the Declaration of Independence.
  • First ships arrived in Virginia in 1606, but the increase of the number of Planters was hardly perceptible. At first, most of their food came from England. The Indians grew jealous of the ground that they held and one night in 1622 murdered all but four or five hundred Englishmen.

 

 

9/27/07-The first 44 paragraphs of Persons of Mean and Vile Condition are long, but there's a lot of excellent information regarding Bacon's Rebellion and the part that indentured servitude plays in that.  There are some very interesting connections that might be worth portraying in our little movie thing!

 

 

  • More about Nathaniel Bacon, including a descriptive paragraph describing appearance and actions

  • Rebellion began with the nearby tribes of Indians that were threatening the colonists, especially those spreading westward in search of land

  • “The desperation of the government in suppressing the rebellion seemed to have a double motive: developing an Indian policy which would divide Indians in order to control them (in New England at this very time, Massasoit's son Metacom was threatening to unite Indian tribes, and had done frightening damage to Puritan settlements in "King Philip's War"); and teaching the poor whites of Virginia that rebellion did not pay-by a show of superior force, by calling for troops from England itself, by mass hanging.”

  • The House of Burgesses in Jamestown declared war against the Indians, with the exception of those who cooperated

  • 1676-Emergence of upper class, as lower classes suffered drought and low food production(Bacon belonging to the first)

  • After bacon was captured for fighting the Indians as his work as part of the House of Burgesses, two thousand people marched to Jamestown in his defense

  • His Declaration of the People (July, 1676) “indicted the Berkeley administration for unjust taxes, for putting favorites in high positions, for monopolizing the beaver trade, and for not protecting the western formers from the Indians”

  • Died at age 29, had an interesting epigraph that is quoted in this article

  • “It was a complex chain of oppression in Virginia. The Indians were plundered by white frontiersmen, who were taxed and controlled by the Jamestown elite. And the whole colony was being exploited by England, which bought the colonists' tobacco at prices it dictated and made 100,000 pounds a year for the King. Berkeley himself, returning to England years earlier to protest the English Navigation Acts”

  • Rebellion was comprised of lower class citizens-“by forced exile, by lures, promises, and lies, by kidnapping, by their urgent need to escape the living conditions of the home country, poor people wanting to go to America became commodities of profit for merchants, traders, ship captains, and eventually their masters in America”

  • “During the journey the ship is full of pitiful signs of distress-smells, fumes, horrors, vomiting, various kinds of sea sickness, fever, dysentery, headaches, heat, constipation, boils, scurvy, cancer, mouth-rot, and similar afflictions, all of them caused by the age and the high salted state of the food, especially of the meat, as well as by the very bad and filthy water.. .. Add to all that shortage of food, hunger, thirst, frost, heat, dampness, fear, misery, vexation, and lamentation as well as other troubles.... On board our ship, on a day on which we had a great storm, a woman ahout to give birth and unable to deliver under the circumstances, was pushed through one of the portholes into the sea.... “-Gottlieb Mittelberger, a musician traveling from Germany c. 1750

  • Lots of interesting passages about indentured servitude

  • Specifically, legislation is quoted that was passed after Bacon’s Rebellion in an effort to minimize servants rebelling

     

    I copied it out of Microsoft Word, so I apologize for the different formatting!

     

    Gabriela

 

Thanks to Garrett we can now work on our Photostory from home!  I just downloaded Photostory and suggest you all do the same as we will most certainly need to work on this over the weekend A LOT.  PLEASE have your comments posted...That's the only way we're going to be able to be successful this weekend.  I think it has the potantial to be spectacular, but only if we are all willing to put in the effort.

 

 

 9/27/07 The Last 44 paragraphs of Person of Mean and Vile Condition

 

  • "...In all times some must be rich, some poore, some highe and eminent in power and dignitie; others meane and in subjection."
  • You may be pleased to know that the very principle and best of the land; the best for soile; the best for situation; as laying in ye center and middle of town: and as to quanity, nere half, belongs unto eight or night propreitors."
  • "...Men in flaming scarlet caots and waitscoats, laced and fringed with brightest glaring yellow. The Sly Quakers, not venturing on these charming coats and waistcoats, yet loving finery, figured away with plate on thier sideboards."
  • The two-story brick structure was call "Poor House, Work House, and House of  Correction."
  • Black slaves were pouring in; they were eight percent of the population in 1690; twenty-one percent in 1770.
  • Through all that growth, the upper class was getting most of the benefits and monpolized policital power. A historian who studied Boston tax lists in 1687 amd 1771 foudn that in 1687 there were, out of a population of six thousand, about one thousand property owners, and that the top five percent- one percent of the population- consisted of fifty rich individuals who ahd twenty-five percent of the wealth. By 1770, the top one percent of property owners owned forty-four percent of the wealth.
  • "Most of them I persuaded to goe to their Homes, whcih accordingly they did, except about eighty Negros and twenty English which would not deliver thier Armes. ~ Bacon's Rebellion
  •  "If freemen with disappointed hopes should make common cause with slaves of desperate hope, the results might be worse than anything Bacon had done. The answer to the problem, obvious if unspoken and only gradually recognized, was racism, to separate dangerious free whites from dangerious balck slaves by a screen of racial contempt."
  • Those upper classes, to rule, need to make concessions to the middle class, without damage to thier own wealth or power, at the expense of slaves, Indians, and poor whites.

 

9/29/07 I thought I'd read and take notes on Garret's reading since it's really the only thing that's not specifically about the rebellion.

  • "The native people of the region were also deemed to be an interesting but inferior race"
  • "English stereotypes, plans for colonial expansion, and notions of cultural superiority all prohibited" a biracial society.
  • Jamestown Settlers found about thirty tribes under the leadership of Wahunsenacawh
  • Initially willing to cooperate, but soon realized the reality of the demeanor of the settlers
  • Anglo-Powhatan Wars occurred between 1609-1614, 1622, and 1644
  • "colonists’ perceptions of the Chesapeake region…would have been varied and multilayered, but fascination was probably a common reaction."
  • Colonists appointed Berkeley to represent them in defense of the Navigation Acts
  • He didn’t work to his potential because he was entirely too devoted to the Mother Country
  • Upon his return, he found a much more disorderly society and tension between Virginians and both Indians and Puritans
  • Six Indians came for peace, and when they were killed, the craziness between Natives and the Colonists

  • Berkeley refused the Colonists right to arms and this triggered the formation of Bacon’s "rebel army"

 

There are a lot of interesting quotes from Everyday Life in Early America that I thought I'd share!

 

  • "No single response marks the Indian attitude toward the white man"’
  • "The white man took from the Indian what he could use…On the other hand, what the Indian took from the Europeans, along with diseases he caught from them, all but shattered his way of life."
  • "nurtured a general contempt among settlers, but a deep prejudice can rarely be traced to a single cause"
  • "The Indian’s loyalty to his culture had by the end of the century come to enrage most whites."
  • "Without looking at themselves and their own resistance to change, the English had expected the Indian to be "essentially malleable material open to the shaping influence of a high culture and especially of the Christian religion.""
  • "But even among those free of racial prejudice the Indian way of waging war raised fury."
  • 1622-347 Settlers, which made it acceptable to retaliate

 

 

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slave rebellion 

quaker treatment of indians

more indentured servitude

indentured servitude

Ships to america

·         “During the journey the ship is full of pitiful signs of distress-smells, fumes, horrors, vomiting, various kinds of sea sickness, fever, dysentery, headaches, heat, constipation, boils, scurvy, cancer, mouth-rot, and similar afflictions, all of them caused by the age and the high salted state of the food, especially of the meat, as well as by the very bad and filthy water.. .. Add to all that shortage of food, hunger, thirst, frost, heat, dampness, fear, misery, vexation, and lamentation as well as other troubles.... On board our ship, on a day on which we had a great storm, a woman ahout to give birth and unable to deliver under the circumstances, was pushed through one of the portholes into the sea.... “-Gottlieb Mittelberger, a musician traveling from Germany c. 1750

 

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