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Grade 8, Unit 2: Geography
Label the regions of the American colonies on this map. List the colonies that fell into each region
New England
Middle
Southern
What were some goods
exported to Europe?
What were some goods
imported to the Americas?
List two positive and two
negative effects of the
Columbian Exchange.
Unit 2
Top 10 Vocabulary Terms
1. colonialism
6. Middle Passage
2. Enlightenment
7. colony
3. salutary neglect
8. cash crop
4. mercantilism
9. Mayflower Compact
5. indentured servant
10. cultural diffusion
“I Can” Statements:
Big Ideas:
I can identify how Native Americans lived in the
Pacific NW, desert SW, Great Plains and Eastern
Woodlands.
I can evaluate the relationships between Native
Americans and European explorers
Geographic location contributes to the diversity
of human culture.
I can compare and contrast the characteristics of
the 3 types of colonies that developed in
America.
I can evaluate how the settlement of the
colonies was determied by various factors.
Competition for scarce resources can lead to
conflict in society.
Cultural diffusion may alter a society’s way of life.
Geographic areas differ according to distinct
regional characteristics such as physical features,
culture, political organizations, economic activity
and ethnic make-up.
Economics
[Speaking of indentured servants] Many parents in order to pay their fares [to America] in this way . . . must
barter and sell their children as if they were cattle . . . No one in this country can run away from a master who
has treated him harshly and get far . . . Our Europeans who have been purchased must work hard all of the
time . . . Thus let him . . . who can do this by manual labor in his native country stay THERE rather than come
to America.
This excerpt is from Gottlieb Mittelberger, Journey to Pennsylvania (1754), taken from the Harvard
University edition of 1960, Oscar Handlin, editor. Mittelberger was a German schoolteacher who traveled to
Pennsylvania in the early 1750’s.
Using this passage and your knowledge of social studies, do you think America was a "land of opportunity for
indentured servants?
Civics and Government
Mayflower Compact-
Virginia House of Burgesses-
History
JamestownLost Colony-
Culture
What were some examples of cultural diffusion between Europeans and Native Americans
that took place during colonial America?