Please click on the subheading, Assignments and Homework, for class due dates. The syllabus is posted below.
Chapter 1 Test - Thur 10/8
August/September 2020: Students will be studying European Colonization of the Americas. Students will focus on the following objectives:
*How did the Spanish build an empire in the Americas?
*Why did the Spanish push for settlement in regions of North America?
*How did Native Americans resist the Spanish?
*What were the goals of England's explorers?
*What challenges did Jamestown's early settlers face?
*What was the role of tobacco in Virginia and how did it contribute to Bacon's Rebellion?
*Why were relations uneasy between English settlers and Native Americans?
*What was the pattern of French settlement in North America?
*What were the goals of the Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay Colony?
*Why was there dissent within the Puritan community?
*Why did war break out between the Indians and the English settlers?
*What was the early history of the Dutch in New York?
*What were the characteristics of the other Middle Colonies?\
*Why did people settle in the southern colonies?