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Unit 1 Organizer and Study Guide
FRAME Exploration & Colonization
FRAME Representative
Government
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Texas History
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Unit 1: Colonial America
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Celebrate Freedom Week
UNIT MAP
Reasons for
Exploring and
Colonizing the
Americas
How Europeans began
searching for new
opportunities in North and
South America by . . .
The Economic
Differences within
Colonial (North)
America
FRAME Religious Freedom
The Cartoon Timeline of
Representative Government
FRAME Human & Physical
Geography
The 13 American Colonies
Annotated Map
FRAME Colonial Economics
A Colonist’s Perspective (Letter or
Petition to the King)
Colonial America Museum
Exhibit
Reasons for the
Growth of
Representative
Government in North
America
analyzing
The
Development of
Religious
Freedom in
North America
The Physical and
Human
Characteristics of
Colonial (North)
America
Review Games – Not-SoTrivial Pursuit & Nerf Sports
1. Why did Europeans explore and colonize both South and North America?
2. Why did the English colonists in North America establish representative
governments?
3. Why did the 13 American Colonies develop distinct religious and social patterns?
4. How did the physical geography of North America affect settlement economic choices
in the 13 American Colonies?
Identify
Compare & Contrast
Analyze
Explain
Key Historical
Considerations:
- Context
- Perspective
- Consequence
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UNIT
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Key Vocabulary: exploration, colony, representative government, colonial charter, mercantilism, commercial, absolute chronology,
relative chronology, nobility, peasants, virtue, colonial period, refuge, agrarian, plantation system, subsistence farming, harbors,
cash crop, parliament, social contract, primary source, secondary source, migration, immigration, proliferation, abolition,
temperance, haven, self-governance, population density, “trans-”
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UNIT SELF-TEST
QUESTIONS
Unit 1 Quiz with Analysis
and Annotations
The Unit Organizer
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Unit 1: Colonial America
NAME
DATE
Expanded Unit Map
Reasons for
Exploring and
Colonizing the
Americas
1492
1607
1620
Exploration
- The Crusades
- God, Gold & Glory
Colonization
- Religious Freedom
- Political Freedom
- Economic
Opportunity
- The Columbian
Exchange
Establishing the 13
English Colonies in
North America
- Competition
- Funding
- Mercantilism
- Religious Freedom
- Land Ownership
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New Unit
Self-Test
Questions
How Europeans began
searching for new
opportunities in North and
South America by . . .
Reasons for the
Growth of
Representative
Government in North
America
The
Development of
Religious
Freedom in
North America
1776
Main Reasons
- Distance
- Customs
- Self-Governance
Documents
- Magna Carta
- Mayflower Compact
- House of Burgesses
- Fundamental Orders
of Connecticut
- English Bill of Rights
- The Enlightenment
Individual Minds
- Locke
- Montesquieu
- Blackstone
- Hooker
- Penn
-
Self-Governed Communities
Penn Colony
Disagreement leads to
Proliferation
Development
- Mayflower Compact
- Massachusetts Bay Colony
- Roger Williams & Rhode Island
- Penn’s Frames of Gov’t
- Maryland – Catholic Haven
- The Toleration Act
- Separation of Church & State
- The US Bill of Rights
Motivation
- The Protestant Reformation
- The Puritans
- First Great Awakening
- Second Great Awakening
- Reform – Abolition &
Temperance
The Economic
Differences within
Colonial (North)
America
The Physical and
Human
Characteristics of
Colonial (North)
America
Settlements
- Jamestown
- Plymouth
- Massachusetts Bay
The 13 English Colonial
Regions
- New England
- Middle
- Southern
Major Cities
- Boston
- Philadelphia
- New York
Immigrants to Americas
- French
- British
- Dutch
- Spanish
- Africans
Key Women
- Pocahontas
- Anne Hutchinson
- Eliza Pinckney
Major Economic
Differences
- New England
- Middle
- Southern
Causes and Effects of
the Economic
Differences
- Seasons, soil,
forestation,
population density
Development of
Slavery
- Plantation System
- Transatlantic Slave
Trade
- Cash Crop Demand
Various Factors
affecting Africans in
North America
- Slaves
- Free Men and
Women