Colonial Era 1600-1750: Forging an American Character in the Pre-Revolution Colonies

Essential Questions: Students must be able to answer these five questions in order to show an understanding of the colonial period.

1. How did the settlement of the English colonies give rise to unique political, economic, and social conditions that defined an emerging American identity?

2. How did the need for labor in the colonies give rise to chattel African slavery?

3. How was religion both a unifying and a dividing force inthe English colonies?

4. How did the interaction between Europeans and Native American peoples transform both groups and cultures?

5. How did the colonies develop "democratic" principles such as representative government, written charters, and lists of basic rights between 1607 and 1763?

Colonial Era Study Guide - Unit 1 (doc file - 22 KB)
Colonial Era Unit Web (doc file - 40 KB)
Terms for Early Colonial_Jamestown (doc file - 63 KB)
9/15/09 - Jamestown & Virginia Colony Pre Test (pptx file - 79 KB)
Chesapeake Region Notes outline 1580-1750 Cornell Note Paper (doc file - 562 KB)
Notes - Chesapeake Colonization (ppt file - 13.88 MB)
Adapted from Mrs. Susan Pojer's ppt.
HW - 9/8/11 - Homelink: Immigration (doc file - 151 KB)
HW - 9/8/11 - Terms for Early colonial_New England (doc file - 66 KB)
9/17/09 - New England Colonies pre test (ppt file - 86 KB)
New England Region Notes outline 1580-1750 Cornell Note Paper (doc file - 66 KB)
Notes - New England Colonization (pptm file - 21.21 MB)
Adapted from Mrs. Susan Pojer's ppt.
9/17/09 - Classification Chart_Early Colonies Compare and Contrast (doc file - 28 KB)
9/17/09 - Mayflower Compact Bell Ringer (doc file - 37 KB)
9/17/09 - Mayflower Compact (doc file - 25 KB)
9/17/09 - Religion leads to offshoots of colonies (doc file - 12 KB)
HW - 9/17/09 - Geography of Colonies (doc file - 13 KB)
Bacons Rebellion Simulation Assignment (doc file - 20 KB)
Students are to write two SHORT essay assignments basedo n researching the Bacon's Rebellion. Students will portray the different roles in a trial during hte next class.
Primary Source - Bacon's Declaration of the People (doc file - 24 KB)
Primary source used for researching.
Primary Source - Bacon's Manifesto (doc file - 25 KB)
Primary source used for researching.
Primary Source - Indentured Servant Richard Frethorne's letter home (doc file - 26 KB)
Primary source used for researching.
Building an American Character 1676_1750 Lesson Plan (doc file - 28 KB)
Colonial Era Primary Source excerpts (doc file - 36 KB)
Students interpret primary sources from the Colonial Era in order to recognize the foundation of an American culture.
An American Character Develops (doc file - 33 KB)
Students interpret advice from Ben Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanac and create analogies to paraphrase the meanings.
What then is an American (doc file - 35 KB)
Students interpret a primary source from Hector St. John de Crevecoeur in order to interpret a viewpoint of the early American Culture.
HW - 9/26/11 - Vocab Chart/Key People - Pre Revolution Era_1676-1763 (doc file - 374 KB)
Formative Assessment - Colonial Era 1700-1750 (doc file - 42 KB)
Building an American Character Notes outline 1650-1750 Cornell Note Paper (doc file - 46 KB)
Seperating from Mother 1700_1763 Lesson Plan (doc file - 28 KB)
Colonial Trade Patterns within the English Mercantilist System_Reading (doc file - 35 KB)
Salutary neglect Reading Cognitive Growth Formative Assessment (doc file - 115 KB)

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