Unit 1 Learning Targets
- I can identify reasons for European exploration and colonization of North America.
- I can explain the significance of 1607 and 1620.
- I can compare political, economic, and social (religious) reasons for the establishment of the 13 colonies.
- I can identify selected racial, ethnic, and religious groups that settled in the United States and explain their reasons for immigration.
- I can identify and explain the economic, political, and social differences of the New England, Middle, and Southern colonial regions.
- I can explain how the environment and geography influence where people settle and what they do there.
- I can locate the 13 colonies and the 3 colonial regions on a map.
- I can describe the economic theory of mercantilism and its effect on the colonies.
- I can explain reasons for the development of the plantation system, the transatlantic slave trade, and the spread of slavery.
- I can explain the reasons for the growth of representative government and institutions during the colonial period.
- I can analyze the importance of the Magna Carta, Virginia House of Burgesses, Mayflower Compact, the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, and the English Bill of Rights to the growth of representative government.
- I can explain the role of Thomas Hooker, Roger Williams, and William Penn in the development of self-government in America.
- I can describe how religion influenced social movements such as the First Great Awakening.
- I can describe the political and philosophical movement known as the Enlightenment.
- I can identify types of art, music, and literature in the Colonial Era.