Unit 1: Early Colonization and the Growth of Colonies
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Cluster 1: North America's Indigenous Societies Before 1500 (Lessons 1-3)
How did the places they lived matter to the many Indigenous societies of North America? How do they still matter to Indigenous people today?
How did the places they lived matter to the many Indigenous societies of North America? How do they still matter to Indigenous people today?
Cluster 2: European Nations and Their "New World" Colonies (Lessons 4-6)
What changed and why when Europeans came to the Americas?
What changed and why when Europeans came to the Americas?
Cluster 3: Britain's North American Colonies Before 1750 (Lessons 7-13)
How were the North American colonies diverse, and what caused their differences?
What were the early interactions between British colonists and Indigenous people like? What were the causes of cooperation or conflict between them?
How were the North American colonies diverse, and what caused their differences?
What were the early interactions between British colonists and Indigenous people like? What were the causes of cooperation or conflict between them?
Lesson 7: Thirteen Colonies of British North America (Part I)
Lesson 8: Thirteen Colonies of British North America (Part II)
Lesson 9: A Meeting of Worlds: Cooperation and Conflict Between Indigenous & British Peoples (Part I)
Lesson 10: A Meeting of Worlds: Cooperation and Conflict Between Indigenous & British Peoples (Part II)
Lesson 11: Pocahontas—A Case Study
Lesson 12: Labor in British North America
Lesson 13: Sugar: How One Product Shaped the Colonies
Cluster 4: Slavery and the Struggle for Freedom in the Americas (Lessons 14-19)
How did African people survive and resist enslavement?
What role did European beliefs and values play in the origins of slavery?
How did African people survive and resist enslavement?
What role did European beliefs and values play in the origins of slavery?
Lesson 14: The Maafa, or the Great Disaster: The Middle Passage
Lesson 15: European Beliefs and the Origins of Slavery
Lesson 16: Race, Slavery, and Laws
Lesson 17: Preserving Knowledge: the Creation of an African Diaspora
Lesson 18: The Stono Uprising: Resisting Enslavement
Lesson 19: Introducing the Abolitionists
Cluster 5: The British American Colonies in 1750 (Lessons 20-21)
Did most people in the British colonies believe they were American in 1750?
Did most people in the British colonies believe they were American in 1750?
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