Staples and Points of Entry, 1492 - 1660

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Staples and Points of Entry, 1492 - 1660

• Intro
• Early Staples
• Gold
• Fish
• Points of Entry
• The St. Lawrence, the Hudson, and Furs
• The South
• New England
• Seminar Question In what ways does Ogborn
  challenge Wallersteins world systems theory?

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Streetcars and Silver Mines Historical
Geographers Go North

• 830 AM Leave NB
• 1030 AM Arrive Cobalt, Meet Dan
• 1030-noon Cobalt Mining Sites
• noon 130 Lunch
• 130 200 Travel to Haileybury Museum
• 200 300 Haileybury Museum
• 315 515 Travel to North Bay

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Early Staples

• Gold
• Cortes Aztecs, 1519
• Hernando de Soto Mississippians
• New Mexico
• Florida
• Gold and capitalism
• Pirates!
• Virginia Co. 1606

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Northern New Spain c.1580
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Early Staples

• Cod fishery
• Cabot, 1497
• 400 vessels by 1580
• Diffuse trade
• French Fur Trading Post, Tadoussac, 1559
• Founding of Quebec 1607

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Points of Entry

• St. Lawrence, Hudson, Furs
• Hudson Bay
• Champlain, Algonquins, Hurons
• 3,000 Euros in New France by 1660s
• Hudson Riv navigable for 160 miles
• Fort Orange
• Iroquois Confederacy
• Collapse of Huronia, 1648
• New Amsterdam, 1625
• New York, 1667

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New York Iroquoia, c.1750
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Quebec
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Points of Entry

• The South
• Delaware New Sweden, 1638
• Chesapeake
• Jamestown, 1606
• Powhatan
• Tobacco 3,000,000 lbs in 1624
• Opechancanough defeated 1644
• Maryland

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The Chesapeake c.1750
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Points of Entry

• New England
• Puritans
• Massachusetts Bay Company
• Boston
• New Hampshire Maine
• Rhode Island Narragansett Bay
• Connecticut River Valley
• 33,000 New Englanders by 1660
• Pequots, Narragansetts, Wampanoags
• King Philips War 1670s
• Boston as entrepot

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Early New England