Exploration: The New World
Unit Purpose:
Unit Purpose:
In this Google Site you all will learn about the various explorers and the motivations that drove European countries to fight for land in the New World. We will also tie this unit to the early colonization of North America.
Unit Resources:
Unit Resources:
Unit Standards:
Unit Standards:
- USI.4 The student will apply social science skills to understand European exploration in North America and West Africa by
- a) describing the motivations for, obstacles to, and accomplishments of the Spanish, French, Portuguese, and English explorations;
- b) describing cultural and economic interactions between Europeans and American Indians that led to cooperation and conflict, with emphasis on the American Indian and European concept of land; and
- c) identifying the location and describing the characteristics of West Africa.