Unit 1:

Three Worlds Collide1460-1700

Unit Plan and Study Guide!1460s 1492 1517 1521 1533 1588 1607 1620 1630 1676 1688

Why was it that by the 1500s, certain European nations were able to decisively conquer and dominate the various peoples of the New World? In other words, how come it was not Native Americans that invaded Europe?

How did African slavery end up in the Americas? Explain each stage of the slave trade in Africa and beyond, identifying who was involved and how it affected the social, economic, and cultural life of slaves and slave traders.

What was the role of religion in Europe in shaping expansion in the Americas during the Age of Exploration? Explain the tension between Christian and Muslim as well as the split between Catholic and Protestant.

Why was England late to the Atlantic game? Discuss the forces that propelled England into the Atlantic and onto the shores of North America. How were their experiences different from those of the Spanish? How were they similar?

What were the differences in economic, cultural, and social character between England’s first two permanent settlements in North America-- those at the Chesapeake Bay in Virginia as opposed to those near Massachusetts Bay in New England?

What were the traits of English society, government, and culture that benefitted Englishmen as they approached the unique problems of New World settlement? What features of their background proved problematic?

Discuss the role of commerce and migration in defining the different cultural and social character of the New England, Mid-Atlantic, and Southern colonies that came under English control by the end of the seventeenth century.

• Sugar plantations in the Atlantic

• Reconquista of Spain• Conquest of Mexico and

Peru• Pueblo Revolt• Atlantic slave trade

• English defeat of Spanish Armada

• Settling of Jamestown• Settling of Plymouth by

the Pilgrims• Puritan settlement at

Massachusetts Bay

• The Great Migration• English Civil War• Pequot War• French expansion in the

Mississippi Valley• The Restoration• Bacon’s Rebellion

• Transition to black slave labor in Virginia

• The Glorious Revolution• Witchcraft hysteria in

Salem

• Columbian Exchange• caravel• astrolabe• Christian vs. Muslim• Catholic vs. Protestant• conquistador

• mestizo• mulatto• charter• joint-stock company• indentured servitude

• Church of England (Anglicanism)

• Puritans, Separatists, Pilgrims

• “City upon a hill”• middle passage

• Scots-Irish• Society of Friends• “the rabble”• triangular trade• tobacco• “gentle government”

• Christopher Columbus, King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, Hernán Cortes, Francisco Pizarro, Francisco Vazquez de Coronado, Pope’

• Queen Elizabeth, Sir Francis Drake

• Captain John Smith, John Rolfe, Pocahontas, Lord Baltimore, Nathaniel Bacon, Governor William Berkeley

• William Bradford, John Winthrop, Roger Williams, Anne Hutchinson, Metacomet (King Philip)

• William Penn• Powhatan; Pequot,

Wampanoag,

Narragansett; Iroquois; Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw; Pueblo

• King James I, King Charles I, King Charles II, King James II, Governor Edmund Andros

• England, Scotland, (Britain), Ireland

• The Netherlands, France, Spain, Portugal

• The Gulf of Guinea, the Sahara Desert

• Mexico, the Caribbean, Central America, Brazil, the Andes

• The Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, Rhode Island, Connecticut; (New England)

• The Chesapeake Bay, Jamestown;(Virginia)

• The Hudson River, New Amsterdam (New York), Pennsylvania

Timeline

Essential Questions

Events & Trends

Vocabulary & Key Concepts

People

Places

Map

Reading Assignment Discussion questions Due Date

* Bernard Bailyn Atlantic History

* Nash & Jeffrey, 1-48

(See summer writing assignment).Tuesday, Sept. 7

Course Syllabus 1.If an event is “contingent,” what does this mean?2.What do you think an example of a “counterfactual hypothesis” might be?3.What is “agency” as a historical topic?4.What is free will and why might it be controversial for historians?5.What is tyranny?6.What does elite mean?7.Give current examples of the theme of “the Common Man” in U.S. history.8.Give reasons why the topic of “Diversity and Inclusion” might be especially important in American history.

Wednesday, Sept. 8

Nash & Jeffrey, 50-59 1. Why did Virginians have so many difficulties in creating a successful colony?2. What changes eventually allowed them to succeed?3. What were the social structures of early Virginia?4. What does the life of Anthony Johnson suggest about the roles of blacks in earlier Virginia society?

Nash & Jeffrey, 59-67 1. What were the social structures of the New England colonies?2. What were the early problems? Economic? Political? Social? Military?3. Compare the planting of Jamestown with that of Massachusetts Bay. Who was more successful? Why?

Note that America from the beginning developed regional characteristics.

Edmund Morgan, “Slavery & Freedom, An American Paradox,” 14-29

1. What sort of social problems was England dealing with in the early 1600s? What sort of solutions were invented.

2. Why was Francis Drake able to make common cause with African slaves in Panama?3. What conditions does Morgan describe for Africans in Virginia prior to 1660?4. What role did life expectancy play in the shaping of social conditions in Virginia during the 1660s?5. Explain the quote on page 21 that identifies Virginia as "a sinke to drayen England of her filth and

scum."6. Identify the role of guns in the history of Virginia.7. What was really made a man "free" in colonial Virginia?8. What does Morgan mean when he says that "the rights of Englishmen were preserved by destroying the

rights of Africans" on page 24?

Nash & Jeffrey, 67-79 1. What were the origins of the other colonies and how were they different from those of Massachusetts and Virginia?

2. Who were the Quakers? How were they different from the Puritans or the Anglicans?3. What was distinctive about the approach that the settlers of Pennsylvania took to their relations with

Native Americans?4. Trace the origins of New York. Why was cultural diversity part of the picture there?5. Identify the impact of English political history on the the development of the colonies. What impact did

the English Civil War, the Restoration, and the Glorious Revolution have on colonial life. Be specific.

6. What happened in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692? Why?

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Major Assessments

• Summer essay assignment• Summer essay revision• Map quizzes• DBQ 1• Unit Test