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Unit 1 Overview
Unit 1 will analyze the development of the English colonies in America. Through various teaching strategies, students will connect the reasons for colonization based on movement and migration and how these factors shaped the founding of English North America. Looking through the conceptual lens of location, economy, culture, and social development students will examine the establishment of the original thirteen colonies. The theme of “conflict and change” will help students in examining internal and external interaction that took place as well as the French and Indian War. The theme “distribution of power among individuals, groups, and institutions” will explain how some early American experienced social mobility while others did not.
Unit 1: Georgia Standards
SSUSH1 - The student will describe European settlement in North America during the 17th century.
a. Explain Virginia’s development; include the Virginia Company, tobacco cultivation, relationships with Native Americans such as Powhatan, development of the House of Burgesses, Bacon’s Rebellion, and the development of slavery.
b. Describe the settlement of New England; include religious reasons, relations with Native Americans (e.g., King Phillip’s War), the establishment of town meetings and development of a legislature, religious tensions that led to the founding of Rhode Island, the half-way covenant, Salem Witch Trials, and the loss of the Massachusetts charter and the transition to a royal colony.
c. Explain the development of the mid-Atlantic colonies; include the Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam and subsequent English takeover, and the settlement of Pennsylvania.
d. Explain the reasons for French settlement of Quebec.
e. Analyze the impact of location and place on colonial settlement, transportation, and economic development; include the southern, middle, and New England colonies.
SSUSH2 - The student will trace the ways that the economy and society of British North America developed.
a. Explain the development of mercantilism and the trans-Atlantic trade.
b. Describe the Middle Passage, growth of the African population, and African-American culture.
c. Identify Benjamin Franklin as a symbol of social mobility and individualism.
d. Explain the significance of the Great Awakening.
SSUSH3 - The student will explain the primary causes of the American Revolution.
a. Explain how the end of Anglo-French imperial competition as seen in the French and Indian War and the 1763 Treaty of Paris laid the groundwork for the American Revolution.
Unit 1 Essential Questions
The student will understand that location affects a society’s economy, culture, and development.
What role did geography play in shaping the development of the English colonies?
The student will understand that when there is conflict between or within societies, change is the result.
How did expansion cause tension between the early colonist and Native Americans?
How did the Puritan way of life clash with other colonist?
The students will understand the distribution of power in government is a production of existing documents and laws combined with contemporary values and beliefs.
How does the House of Burgesses reflect our government today?
The student will understand that culture of a society is the product of the religion, beliefs, customs, traditions, and government of that society.
What was the impact of the Great Awakening on American culture?
Why were the colonies viewed as a place for social mobility?
The students will understand that the actions of individuals, groups and/or institutions affect society through intended and unintended consequences.
How is Benjamin Franklin an example of social mobility and individualism?
The students will understand the primary causes of the American Revolution.
How did the French and Indian War lead to the American Revolution?
Unit 1 Power Point Presentations:
1-Arrival of the Europeans.pptxArrival of the Europeans
Arrival of the Europeans
2-Jamestown Colony.pptxJamestown Colony
Jamestown Colony
3-New England Colonies.pptxNew England Colonies
New England Colonies
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