Colonial America
Colonial America
○ Why did different people come to the English colonies and why did they settle where they did?
○ How did the new colonies impact Native American groups? Our lives today?
○ What kinds of governments, economies, and new ideas developed in the colonies? How has that impacted our government/economy today?
○ The colonists adapted ideas from their European heritage and from Native American groups to develop new political and religious institutions and economic systems.
○ The slave labor system and the loss of Native American lives had a lasting impact on the development of the United States and American culture.