Unit 1: Colonization

Lessons

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)

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?

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

dbq_1993_-_comparing_the_chesapeake_and_new_england_colonies.pdf
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