Unit I Lecture And Textbook Objectives
1. Describe how humans first
arrived in the New
World. What conditions were necessary for this migration?
2. Discuss the diversity of
languages, cultures,
and economies of the Pre-Columbian Indians. Describe how the
environment played
an important role in determining each.
3. Discuss the technological,
scholarly, and
political developments that which enabled Europe to come into
permanent contact
with the New World.
4. Describe how European nation
states developed
and consolidated power.
5. Describe the nature of Spanish
conquest.
Describe how such a small force of Spaniards was able to
conquer the Aztec
nation.
6. Describe France’s intentions
and methods of
colonization.
7. Compare and contrast the
political, economic,
and religious developments between Spain and England in the
15th and 16th
centuries. How did the different developments affect each
country' pattern of
colonization?
8. Identify the reasons for
English colonization of
Virginia and describe the problems the new colony faced.
9. Discuss the importance of
tobacco and how it
affected Virginia’s politics, economy, society and demography.
10. Describe the settlement of
Maryland. How was it
colonized? Why? Discuss the religious tensions in the colony.
11.
Describe the foundation &
society of Georgia
12. Describe the tenets of Penn’s
Holy Experiment
and discuss the founding of Pennsylvania.
13. Discuss the Barbadian Connect
with the
Carolinas
11.
Describe the nature
of English immigration to America in the 17th and 18th
centuries. Who came?
Why? What conditions did they face?
12. Describe the origins of
slavery. How did it
evolve in America?
13. Identify the reasons for
English settlement in
New England. Discuss the Pilgrims’ conflicts with the
governments of England
and the Netherlands. What did they hope to establish in
America? How. Discuss
the results.
14. Describe the social, economic,
political, and
religious characteristics of Puritan society. Why was their
society set up this
way?
15. Describe the major components
of Puritan
thought, particularly their need for a stable social order.
How did these ideas
evolve? What were the results?
16. Assess the impact of the
Glorious Revolution on
the different colonies.
17. Why was Salem was such a
likely venue for the
witchcraft hysteria. Discuss the nature of the trials and the
evidence used to
convict witches.
18. Describe why the Middle
colonies developed such
ethnic diversity.
19. Describe the factors that
precipitated the
Great Awakening. Explain its impact on American society,
politics, and religion.
20. Describe England's efforts to
bring the
colonies in line with mercantilism.
21. Compare and contrast English
and colonial
systems of representation and the evolution of the colonial
assembly. Describe
the English Constitution.
22. Evaluate the beginnings &
results of the Seven
Year's War for Britain & the colonies. Describe the legacy
of the Seven
Year's War
