Contact between Native American groups and Europeans occurred through cultural exchanges, resistance efforts, and conflict. Students will trace European contact with Native Americans, including the Dutch, the English, the French and the Spanish. Students will examine the impacts of European colonization on Native Americans, who eventually lost much of their land and experienced a drastic decline in population through diseases and armed conflict.
A number of factors influenced colonial economic development, social structures, and labor systems, causing variation by region. Students will examine the impacts of geographic factors on patterns of settlement and the development of colonial economic systems. Students will examine the factors influencing variations in colonial social structures and labor systems. Students will analyze slavery as a deeply established component of the colonial economic system and social structure, indentured servitude vs. slavery, the increased concentration of slaves in the South, and the development of slavery as a racial institution.
Colonial political developments were influenced by British political traditions, Enlightenment ideas, and the colonial experience. Self-governing structures were common, and yet varied across the colonies. Students will examine colonial political institutions to determine how they were influenced by Enlightenment ideas, British traditions such as the Magna Carta, and the colonial experience. Students will examine colonial democratic principles by studying documents such as the Mayflower Compact and the Maryland Toleration Act of 1649, colonial governmental structures such as New England town meetings and the Virginia House of Burgesses, and the practice of the right of petition in New Netherland.
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What was one major consequence of European contact with Native American groups during the era of colonization?
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The immediate acceptance of European customs by Native Americans.
A drastic decline in Native American populations due to disease and conflict.
The establishment of permanent Native American cities.
An increase in trade relationships between cultures.
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What was a significant factor in the decline of Native American populations after European contact?
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A voluntary migration to Europe for better opportunities.
An economic boom due to favorable trade agreements.
The spread of diseases to which Native Americans had no immunity.
The adoption of European agricultural techniques that failed.
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What was one major consequence of European contact with Native American groups during the era of colonization?
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What was a significant factor in the decline of Native American populations after European contact?
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Which factor most significantly influenced the development of slavery as a racial institution in the Southern colonies?
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How did the geographic features of the New England colonies influence their economic activities?
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What was one major difference between indentured servitude and slavery in the American colonies?
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Why did the Southern colonies have a higher concentration of slaves compared to the Northern colonies?
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How did the climate and geography of the Southern colonies influence their reliance on a plantation-based economy?
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Why was indentured servitude more common than slavery in the early years of the American colonies?
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What economic factor contributed to the entrenchment of slavery in the Southern colonies?
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How did the geographic factors influence the patterns of settlement in the New England colonies?
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Why did slavery become more prevalent in the Southern colonies compared to the Northern colonies?
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What role did geography play in the economic differences between the Northern and Southern colonies?
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Which document, signed by the Pilgrims in 1620, established a form of self-government in the New World?
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Which colonial document granted religious freedom to Christians in Maryland?
