History Final Essay

Primary Source Boards

Primary Source Board 1:

Artist: Abraham Ortelius & Geronimo Chaves Title: La Florida Date: 1584 Retrieved From:

https://dp.la/item/efa28f897bf30282c138fdf3aad32918?q=Native%20american&after=1400&bef

ore=1600&location=%22United%20States%22&page=1 (Links to an external site.) Comment: La Florida is one of the most important maps of early Southeastern America. It not

only depicts the United States, but Mexico and the Bahamas as well. The hand painted map was

drawn by Geronimo Chaves to be put into an atlas created by Abraham Ortelius. La Florida is so

important because it shows names of Native American towns which in later years, would be

changed due to the colonization of the Americas. The details of this map have been considered to

have come from Hernando De Soto, who was the first European to have crossed the Mississippi

River.

Primary Source Board 2:

Artist: Homann, Johann Baptist

Title: Virginia, Marylandia et Carolina in America septentrionali Britannorum

Date: 1759

Retrieved from: https://www.loc.gov/item/73691852/ (Links to an external site.)

Commentary: This map of Virginia shows the early establishment of the Georgia colony which was founded by James Oglethorpe in his devotion to help the poor and in debt prisoners. It’s establishment also protected South Carolina and other southern colonies from Spanish invasion through Florida. Georgia acted as a safeguard state between the Southern colonies and Spanish Florida to create opportunities for the British citizens to have a fresh start.

Primary Source Board 3:

Artist: Doolittle, Amos

Title: The looking glass for 1787. A house divided against itself cannot stand.

Date: 1787

Retrieved From: https://www.loc.gov/resource/cph.3b42510/ (Links to an external site.)

Comment: In the aftermath of the American Revolution postcolonial unity seemed impossible and the young nation that they had fought so hard for was afflicted by many troubles such as debt, patriotism, and most importantly division; this is what led to the Constitutional Convention. The political cartoon shows the division of two opposing sides of the Constitution and how it affects the nation’s biggest problems. On the left are the anti-federalist who were those who wanted to change the form of the current government and on the right are the federalists who were in favor of establishing a federal government. The overall picture is portraying that if the two continue to pull apart they will break the machine (our country) in half.

Primary Source Board 4:

Artist: Willian Henry Bartlett

Title: "Lockport, Erie Canal"

Date: 1839 Retrieved From: https://brewminate.com/the-market-revolution-in-early-america/ (Links to an external site.)

Commentary: In this drawing, it demonstrates the successful construction of the Erie Canal in the year of 1825 when it was completed. It is a 350 mile long waterway that connects to the Great Lakes with the Hudson River. Hence, connected to the Atlantic Ocean where it gave eastern cities and midwestern farmers the ability to emerge on goods and trade. As seen in the drawing above, one can see such canal was only built manmade. By 1840 Americans were able to create two important navigable links from Lake Erie to the Ohio River. Such success leads to the whole concept of the market revolution along with the transportation revolution. Therefore, leading to a huge western expansion like never before.

Primary Source Board 5:

This source is a photograph of an 1851 power loom:

Item: Power loom by J Harrison and Son Date: 1851 Retrieved from: Science Museum UK (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

Comment: The lecture notes the significance of machinery that could be hooked up to steam engines. According to the Science Museum website, it has an emergency stop mechanism, so that's why it would have to be a later (and safer) model.

Primary Source Board 6:

Artist: John Bower

Title: A VIEW of the BOMBARDMENT of Fort McHenry

Date: 1819 Retrieved from https://oldprintgallery.wordpress.com/2012/10/25/war-of-1812-exhibit- at-the-old-print-shop/ (Links to an external site.) or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Baltimore (Links to an external site.)

Comment: This engraving recounts part of the Battle of Baltimore during the war of 1812. Although there were not many decisive battles during the war between the British and the Americans (most of the fighting was actually between the Americans and the Native Americans who rose up in part due to British encouragement) this was one of the battles along the American coast. Our National Anthem was produced in response to this battle, which took place in 1814.