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Unit 1: Colonization

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Lessons

  • Pre-Columbian America & Spanish Colonization
  • The Chesapeake & Southern Colonies
  • The New England Colonies
  • The Middle Colonies
  • Life & Liberty in the Colonies

Unit 1 Study Guide

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American Pageant

  • Chapter 1 - New World Beginnings, 33,000 B.C.E.-1769 C.E. (Course Notes)
  • Chapter 2 - The Planting of English North America, 1500-1733 (Course Notes)
  • Chapter 3 - Settling the Northern Colonies, 1619-1700 (Course Notes)
  • Chapter 4 - American Life in the Seventeenth Century, 1607-1692 (Course Notes)
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Essential Questions

  • How did Native North Americans live before European contact?
  • How were the lives of Native Americans as well as Europeans and Africans transformed by the arrival of the conquistadors in the Americas?
  • Why did Europeans settle in the English colonies? How did their motivations influence their settlement patterns and colony structures?
  • Why was slavery introduced into the colonies?  And how did the institution of slavery influence European and African life in the colonies?
  • To what extent did the colonies offer religious, political, social and economic freedom to their residents?
  • How did the cultures of Europe, Africa, and the Americas interact in the colonies?
  • How did bloodshed and conflicts reveal tensions in colonial society?
  • To what extent did the colonial regions differ?  In what ways were they similar?
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Unit Project

Unit 1 Document Based Question (DBQ)

Compose a five-paragraph essay contrasting Chesapeake and New England colonization in response to the 1993 DBQ question below.
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DBQ Feedback from 2013

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Unit 1 Test

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