Unit 1 Exploration and Colonization

Reasons for Exploration and Early Colonization

• • • Student can identify reasons (political ,economic ,religous, social ) for English, Spanish, and French exploration of North America.

Physical and Human Geography of the Colonial Regions

• • • Student can explain how physical characteristics of the environment influenced population distribution and settlement patterns in the United States.

      • • Student understands the:

        • racial, ethnic, and religious groups that settled

        • reasons for immigration

        • reasons for the establishment of the 13 English colonies

          • • political

            • economic

            • religious

            • social

Economics of the Colonial Regions

• • • Student can explain how physical characteristics of the environment influenced economic activities in the United States.

    • Student understands the:

      • • impact of slavery on different sections of the U.S.

        • development of the plantation system

        • transatlantic slave trade

        • spread of slavery

        • effects of political, economic, and social factors on slaves and free blacks

Representative Government and Its Growth

• Student can explain the reasons for the growth of representative government and institutions during the colonial period.

• Student understands the:

  • • Mayflower Compact

    • Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

    • Virginia House of Burgesses

    • development of religious freedom; religion and virtue

    • significant individuals: Thomas Hooker, Charles de Montesquieu, and John Locke