Period 2: 1607-1754

Chapter 2: Transplantations and Borderlands

Chapter 3: Society and Culture in Provincial America

Key Concepts:

1. Europeans developed a variety of colonization and migration patterns, influenced by different imperial goals, cultures, and the varied North American environments where they settled, and they competed with each other and American Indians for resources.
2. The British colonies participated in political, social, cultural, and economic exchanges with Great Britain that encouraged both stronger bonds with Britain and resistance to Britain’s control.

Learning Targets:

1. I can compare and contrast the economic and imperial goals of Spanish, French, Dutch, and British colonizers involving land and labor that shaped the social and political development of their colonies as well as their relationships with native populations.
2. I can describe how environmental, economic, cultural, and demographic factors influenced the regional differences apparent in the 17th century British colonies.
3. I can explain how competition over resources between European rivals and American Indians encouraged industry and trade and led to conflict in the Americas.
4. I can analyze how transatlantic commercial, religious, philosophical, and political exchanges led residents of the British colonies to evolve in their political and cultural attitudes as they became increasingly tied to Britain and one another.
5. I can describe the development of a system of slavery in the English colonies as well as how that system of slavery reflected the specific economic, demographic, and geographic characteristics of those colonies.

Resources and Assignments:

• Jamestown: A Colony on the Edge of Ruin
• Origins of Slavery
• Colonial Fair
• Test Review (Units 1 and 2)