Unit 3: Life in the English Colonies
What will we be learning?- Now that England has firmly entrenched colonies in the New World more Englishmen began to move to America for opportunity. As the number of colonies increases, three distinct regions of colonies emerge and develop their own characteristics. We will be learning about the distinguishing characteristics of each geographic region and how competition between England and France lead to a war that changes the map of North America.
How will we be learning it?- Videos handouts, primary sources, presentations, webquest, and textbook
Topics covered (with page numbers) -
- New England Colonial Region (pages 103 - 108 & 114 - 115)
- Southern Colonial Region (pages 109 - 110)
- Middle Colonial Region (pages 110 - 113)
- Economies of the Colonies (pages 126 -135)
- Political Development in the Colonies (pages 99 - 100, 105,110 120 -125)
- French and Indian War (pages 158 -166)
Your Goals-
- Explain how competition for territory and resources in North America led to conflicts among colonizing powers
- Explain how the practice of race-based slavery led to the forced migration of Africans to the American Colonies.
- Use modern and historical maps and other geographic tools to analyze how historic events are shaped by geography
- Explain how the availability of natural resources contributed to the geographic and economic expansion of the US.
- Describe how the movement of people, products, and ideas resulted in new patterns of settlement and land use that influenced the political and economic development of the US.
- Identify how cultural biases, stereotypes, and prejudices had social, political, and economic consequences for minority groups and the population as a whole.
- Describe how Americans began to develop a common national identity among its diverse regional and cultural population based on democratic ideals
- Explain how choices made by individuals, businesses, and the government have both present and future consequences
- Identify key steps in a text’s description of process related to history/social studies
Study Guide
Identify-
Identify means to write one Sentence to identify what the term, person or event is and one sentence to explain its significance (importance to Life in the English Colonies.)
New England
Middle Colonies
Southern Colonies
Town Meeting
House of Burgesses
Representative Democracy
Geographic Region
Great Migration (Great Puritan Migration)
Limited Government
Legislature (Legislative Branch)
Executive (Executive Branch)
Charter of Liberties
Ohio River Valley
Iroquois
Algonquin
Quakers
Puritans
Mercantilism
People to Identify
William Penn
George Washington
Edward Braddock
Thomas Hooker
William Pitt
Essential Questions
- Compare the New England Colonies, Middle Colonies, and Southern Colonies on the basis of environment, economy, education, settlement patterns, and political traditions
- Explain how competition for land and resources led to the French and Indian War
- Explain how the environment influenced life in each of the three geographic regions of England’s North American Colonies
- Explain how expansion of the English (British) colonies in the New World affected Native Americans
- Explain how political developments in the English colonies influence the contemporary United States government.