Friday, September 11, 2015

Week of September 14-18, 2015

THIS WEEK:
COLONIAL AMERICA
Essential Questions
  • How does geography influence the way people live?
  • How do new ideas change the way people live?
  • Why does conflict develop?
Students will know
  • the reasons colonists migrated to the Americas
  • the complex relationship between colonists and Native Americans
  • the challenges that the colonists at Jamestown and Plymouth faced
  • the society, culture, and economy of the New England, Middle, and Southern colonies
  • how geography played a role in the colonies' economic development
  • the values and beliefs that colonists developed about government
  • the traditional beliefs and values associated with American culture
Founders of every colony and why.
The Great Migration
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
Debtors
Catholics
Quakers
Town-hall meetings
"breadbasket"
Anne Hutchinson
Mercantilism

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