Unit 1 - Foundations of the North American Colonies

Ch. 1-5

Objective:

1. Analyze the development of northern, middle, and southern colonies in America during the period 1492-1750.

Unit Themes:

1. Pre-Columbian Societies
   • Early inhabitants of the Americas
   • American Indian empires in Mesoamerica, the Southwest, and the Mississippi Valley
   • American India cultures of North America at the time of European contact
2. Transatlantic Encounters and Colonial Beginnings, 1492-1690
   • First European contacts with American Indians
   • Spain's empire in North America
   • French colonization of Canada
   • English settlement of New England, the Mid-Atlantic region, and the South
   • From servitude to slavery in the Chesapeake region
   • Religious diversity in the American colonies
   • Resistance to colonial authority: Bacon's Rebellion, the Glorious Revolution, and the Pueblo Revolt
3. Colonial North America, 1690-1754
   • Population growth and immigration
   • Transatlantic trade and the growth of seaports
   • The eighteenth-century back country
   • Growth of plantation economies and slave societies
   • The Enlightenment and the Great Awakening
   • Colonial governments and imperial policy in British North America