Period 5: US History

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?