If you finish your test, start KHAN ACADEMY Unit 2. It's been assigned.
UNIT 2: 1607-1754 – readings The American Pageant chapters 2-4. A People’s History of the United States chapter 2. Content: Growing trade; unfree labor; political differences across the colonies; conflict with Native Americans; immigration; early cities; role of women, education, religion and culture; and growing tensions with British. Key Concepts: 2.1 Differences in imperial goals, cultures, and the North American environments that different empires confronted led Europeans to develop diverse patterns of colonization. 2.2 European colonization efforts in North American stimulated intercultural contact and intensified conflict between the various groups of colonizers and native peoples. 2.3 The increasing political, economic, and cultural exchanges within the “Atlantic World” had a profound impact on the development of colonial societies in North America. Activities: History Logs – notes, short writings in response to notes and readings. Primary Source Analysis: Students will read “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” by Jonathan Edwards; an indentured servant’s letter home; Bacon’s Manifesto; The Maryland Toleration Act; a letter about the Small Pox Inoculation; map of a Puritan town; painting of a colonial Virginia tobacco farm; and colonial export chart broken down by region and products. Viewpoints: Students will read articles from Opposing Viewpoints and be ready to discuss the two articles focusing on sourcing and contextualization. “A Defense of the Salem Witch Trials” (1692) by Cotton Mather and “An Attach on the Salem Witch Trials” (1692) by Thomas Brattle. Students will describe the settlements of Northern, Middle, and Southern colonies showing motives, location, religious influences, political system, economic structure, labor source, relations with natives and discuss the environmental and geographic impact on the development of each region. After studying colonial development and utilizing all readings, students will write an essay on the following: Early encounters between American Indians and European colonists led to a variety of relationships among the different cultures. Analyze how the actions taken by BOTH American Indians and European colonists shaped those relationships in TWO of the following regions. Confine your answers to the 1600s. A) New England B) Chesapeake C) Spanish Southwest D) New York and New France Six Degrees of Separation: From Jamestown to the French and Indian War. Unit Test. Students will discuss possible answers to the following essential questions: Identity – What were the chief similarities and differences among the develop of English, Spanish, Dutch, and French colonies in America? Work, Exchange, and Technology – How did distinct economic systems, most notably a slavery system based on African labor, develop in British North America? What was their effect on emerging cultural and regional differences? Peopling – Why did various colonists go to the New World? How did the increasing integration of the Atlantic world affect the movement of peoples between its different regions? Politics and Power – In what ways did the British government seek to exert control over its American colonies in the 17th and 18th centuries? America in the World – How did competition between European empires around the world affect relations among the various peoples in North America? Environment and Geography – How and why did the English American colonies develop into distinct regions? |
