Module 1: Culture, Heritage, and Traditions of the American People Prior to 1500-1600
Concepts to Know:
1. Geographic factors such as climate and weather affected the settlement patterns and living conditions of the earliest Americans.
2. What was the Ice Age? When did it occur?
3. How did Native Americans view land ownership, and what role did religion play in their lives?
4. New Empires in the Americas
5. The exploration by Europeans in the New World affected trade and economics.
Vocabulary, Events, and Important People: All definitions can be found in the Social Studies Class Notebook. Study all notes in the class notebook and use your textbook for further explanation.
migration, Ice Age, environment, culture, Bering Land Bridge, hunter gathers, Olmec, Mayan, Aztec, Inca, Quechua, totem, Quipu, Machu Picchu, teepees, Iroquois Confederacy, wampum, Prince Henry the Navigator, Vasco Da Gama, Roanoke, Christopher Columbus, Ferdinand Magellan, The Columbian Exchange, Hernando Cortes, Francisco Pizarro, Ponce De Leon, The Encomienda System, Armada, Northwest Passage, John Cabot, Henry Hudson, Samuel Champlain, Louis Joliet and Jacques Marquette, Triangular Trade, Middle Passage, Juan Diego, Father Bartolome de la Casa, Virginia Dare
Module 1 Essays:
1. While Native Americans were different socially and culturally, they shared common beliefs. Explain the following points:
a. How did Native Americans view land ownership?
b. What part did religion play in the lives of Native Americans?
c. What was the reason that Native Americans did not form large empires, like the Aztecs and Incas did?
2. Beginning of life in the Americas-Explain the following:
a. How did changes in climate lead to migration to the Americas?
b. How did early peoples in the Americas get their food?
c. What led to the development of different culture groups in the Americas?
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Module 2: Colonial Expansion and Settlement 1605-1774
Concepts to Know:
1. Why the European people immigrated to America and made it their permanent home.
2. How the experiences of the colonists shaped America’s political and social scene.
3. How the French and Indian War was caused and how it affected North America.
Vocabulary, Events, and Important People: All definitions can be found in the Social Studies Class Notebook. Study all notes in the class notebook and use your textbook for further explanation.
Jamestown, John Rolfe, John Smith, plantation, indentured servants, Bacon’s Rebellion, Maryland, The Toleration Act, James Oglethorpe, Puritans, Samoset, Squanto, Pilgrims/Separatists, immigrants, Mayflower Compact, Great Migration, bicameral, Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, Thomas Hooker, Roger Williams, apprentice, Harvard, Peter Stuyvesant, William Penn, Philadelphia, Virginia Assembly 1619, mercantilism, Great Awakening, John Locke, George Washington, French and Indian War, Albany Plan of Union, Quebec, Treaty of Paris 1763, Proclamation of 1763, boycott, Stamp Act, Stamp Act Congress, Boston Massacre, Tea Act, Boston Tea Party.
Module 2 Essays:
3. English Colonies in the Americas
a. Explain the reasons that the Pilgrims and the Puritans left England to settle in the Americas.
b. Compare how the Pilgrim and Puritan colonies were similar and different.
4. Explain the cause of the French and Indian War. In your response, include where and when the war took place, who was involved, at least two events in the war, what was the outcome of the war, and how did the war change the balance of power in North America.
