Unit One: The Foundation of the North

American Colonies
Textbook Readings: Chs 1-4 (pp. 2-127)
Tentative Schedule: August 18September 9
Ch Mon 8/22
Qui-Mon 8/22
Ch !!ri" 8/2#
Qui-Mon 8/29
Ch "# Ch $!ri 9/2
Unit Test $e%"&hu" 9/7-8
%ro&ects: Summer Assignments' Ameri() *n%i)n-+urope)n Cont)(t
Qui(,--rite'
Themes:
*mp)(t o. Cont)(t on the /0e- $or1%23 4irgin Soi1 +pi%emi(s" Co1umbi)n
+5(h)nge" )n% +thnogenesis
C)uses )n% 6ire(tion o. +urope)n +5p1or)tion )n% Co1oni)tion o. the 0e-
$or1%3 Sp)nish" !ren(h )n% +ng1ish 7erspe(ti8es
+st)b1ishment )n% %e8e1opment o. $est *n%ies )n% Southern Co1onies3
4irgini)" M)r91)n%" :eorgi) )n% C)ro1in)s
6e8e1opment o. &ob)((o +(onom9" 71)nt)tion S9stem" *n%enture%
Ser8itu%e" )n% S1)8er9.
+st)b1ishment )n% %e8e1opment o. 0e- +ng1)n%3 719mouth"
M)ss)(husetts" ;ho%e *s1)n%" Conne(ti(ut" )n% 0e- <)mpshire.
+st)b1ishment )n% %e8e1opment o. the Mi%%1e Co1onies3 0e- =or,"
7enns918)ni)" 6e1)-)re" )n% 0e- >erse9.
+bb )n% ?o- o. (o1oni)1 in%epen%en(e )n% ro9)1 (ontro1.
Con?i(t -ith 0)ti8e Ameri()ns3 Ang1o-7o-h)t)n $)rs" Met)(om@s (Aing
7hi11ip) $)r" &us()ror) )n% =)m)see $)rs.
;egion)1 +(onomi(" So(i)1 )n% 7o1iti()1 p)tterns3 0e- +ng1)n%" Mi%%1e" )n%
Southern Co1onies" )s -e11 )s the B)(,(ountr9.
Co1oni)1 (rises3 B)(on@s ;ebe11ion" S)1em $it(h &ri)1s" )n% the <)1.--)9
Co8en)nt.
&he rise o. s1)8er9 in the (o1onies C the ro1e o. the institution in the gro-th
o. the British +mpire.

'e( Terms:
$is(onsoni)n *(e Age
Bering D)n% Bri%ge
<9potheses
Ditt1e *(e Age
Reformation
>ohn C)18in C
C)18inism
)ro*uois
Confederac(
&re)t9 o. &or%esi11)s
encomienda
7ope@s ;ebe11ion
(1#8E)
ConFuist)%ores
B)rtho1omG %e D)s
C)s)s
mestizos
B1)(, Degen%
voyageurs
7ropriet)r9" Ch)rter
C ;o9)1
Co1onies
4irgini) Comp)n9
+oint Stock
Com,an(
%lantation-Cash
Cro, S(stem
=eom)n .)rmer
$est *n%ies
.eadright s(stem
7rimogeniture
C)pt)in >ohn Smith
>ohn ;o1.e
Anglo#%o/hatan
0ars
<ouse o. Burgesses
)ndentured
Servant
1iddle %assage
Church of 2ngland
1ercantilism
:re)t 7urit)n
Migr)tion
M)9?o-er Comp)(t
>ohn $inthrop
$i11i)m Br)%.or%
&he He1e(tH/H8isib1e
s)intsH
Antinomi)nism
Anne <ut(hinson
;oger $i11i)ms
7i1grims/ Sep)r)tists
%uritans
7r)9ing &o-ns
6ut(h $est *n%i)
Comp)n9
Navigation 3a/s
4irtual
Re,resentation
I1i8er Crom-e11
Restoration
:1orious ;e8o1ution
Dor% B)1timore
>)mes Ig1ethorpe
Toleration Act
$i11i)m 7enn
BenJ)min !r)n,1in
Qu),ers
Fundamental
Orders of CT
1etacom5s-'ing
%hili,5s 0ar
0e- +ng1)n%
Con.e%er)tion
Sir +%mun% An%ros
6ominion o. 0e-
+ng1)n%
7eFuot $)r o. 1#K7
$i11i)m Ber,e1e9
0)th)nie1 B)(on
6acon5s Rebellion
Deis1er@s ;ebe11ion
Co11ege o. $i11i)m C
M)r9
<)r8)r% C =)1e
7)rtib1e *nherit)n(e
.alf#/a( covenant
S)1em $it(h &ri)1s
7h911is $he)t1e9
Anne Br)%street
S1)8e Co%es
societ( /-slaves7
slave societ(

National History Standards Addressed:
Era 1: Three Worlds Meet (Beginnings to 1620)
Era 1, Standard 1Comparative characteristics of societies in the Americas, Western Europe, and
Western Africa that increasingly interacted after 1450.
!tandard 1A" #he student understands the patterns of change in indigenous societies in the Americas up to
the Colum$ian voyages.
!tandard 1%" #he student understands changes in Western European societies in the age of e&ploration.
Era 1, Standard 2'o( early European e&ploration and coloni)ation resulted in cultural and ecological
interactions among previously unconnected peoples.
!tandard *A" #he student understands the stages of European oceanic and overland e&ploration, amid
international rivalries, from the +th to 1,th centuries.
!tandard *% #he student understands the !panish and -ortuguese con.uest of the Americas.

Era 2: oloni!ation and Settle"ent (1#$#%1&6')
Era 2, Standard 1Why the Americas attracted Europeans, (hy they $rought enslaved Africans to their
colonies, and ho( Europeans struggled for control of /orth America and the Cari$$ean.
!tandard 1A" #he student understands ho( diverse immigrants affected the formation of European
colonies.
!tandard 1%" #he student understands the European struggle for control of /orth America.
Era 2, Standard 2'o( political, religious, and social institutions emerged in the English colonies.
!tandard *A" #he student understands the roots of representative government 0 ho( political rights (ere
defined.
!tandard *%"#he student understands religious diversity in the colonies and ho( ideas a$out religious
freedom evolved.
!tandard *C" #he student understands social and cultural change in %ritish America.
Era 2, Standard ''o( the values and institutions of European economic life too1 root in the colonies,
and ho( slavery reshaped European and African life in the Americas
!tandard 2A" #he student understands colonial economic life and la$or systems in the Americas.
!tandard 2%" #he student understands economic life and the development of la$or systems in the English
colonies.

A()SH To*i+ ,-tline Addressed in this )nit:
1. (re%ol-"/ian So+ieties
3 Early inha$itants of the Americas
3 American 4ndian empires of 5esoamerica, the !outh(est, and the 5ississippi 6alley
3 American 4ndian cultures of /orth America at the time of European contact

2. Transatlanti+ En+o-nters and olonial Beginnings, 1012%1610
3 7irst European contacts (ith /ative Americans
3 !pain8s empire in /orth America 0 7rench coloni)ation of Canada
3 English settlement of /e( England, the 5id9Atlantic region, and the !outh
3 7rom servitude to slavery in the Chesapea1e region
3 :eligious diversity in the American colonies
3 :esistance to colonial authority" %acon8s :e$ellion, the ;lorious :evolution, and the -ue$lo :evolt