Chapter 1: Land Bridge, Monte Verde, Cahokia, Ancestral Puebloan, Three Sisters, Hundred Years’ War, sugar, Arawak, Taino, Bartolome de Las Casas, Treaty of Tordesillas, Tenochtitlan, Aztecs, encomienda, peninsulares, mestizo

Chapter 2: Columbian Exchange, St. Augustine, Santa Fe, New Orleans, Quebec, New Amsterdam, Jamestown, Powhatan Confederacy, Virginia Company, Puritans, Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts Bay, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New England, Chesapeake

Chapter 3: Middle Passage, King Philip’s War, Charles Town, “paternal dominion”, English Revolution, Navigation Acts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Salem witch trials, Bacon’s Rebellion, Pueblo Revolt

1. How did the Spanish settlements (ex. Santa Fe and St. Augustine) difer in purpose, religion, composition and economics from English settlements (ex. Jamestown and Plymouth)?

2. Describe the diversity that existed in pre-Columbian America.

3. Explain different patterns of resistance by Native Americans.

4. What does the term“borderlands” mean in the context of  the early colonial period?

5. How did labor evolve  in different colonies in North America?

6. How are the concepts of race formed during the colonial era? 

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