Enduring Question

Colonization

Enduring Question: To understand the present and make plans for their future, you must first understand the past.

Essential Questions: 1. What would make you leave your home to start a new life in a new location?

2. What ideas, beliefs, and institutions did colonists bring to the Americas?

3. How did different ways of life create cultural diversity in the colonies?

4. How did democracy take root in the 13 colonies?

5. How did lifestyles differ from region to region within the colonies?

Guiding Questions: Section 1 1. How did investors raise money to start colonies in North America? 2. What were some of the hardships that early colonies were faced with? 3. What three things saved Jamestown? 4. What was the first form of a representative government in the colonies?

Section 2 1. What forced the Pilgrims to leave England? 2. How did the Pilgrims prosper where past colonies struggled at the beginning?

Section 3 1. Why did settlers leave the Plymouth colony? 2. What were the attitudes the Puritans had toward other colonies? 3. How did the expansion of colonies create conflict with the Native Americans?

Section 4 1. How were the Middle Colonies instrumental to the survival of the other colonies? 2. What was the diversity like in the Middle colonies (religion, patrons….)? 3. Why did William Penn and the Quakers come to the new world?

Section 5 1. What group of religious people settled in Maryland? 2. What steps did the southern colonies take to offer religious tolerance? 3. What were the reasons the southern colonies were developed? 4. Why was Georgia different? Colonization

Enduring Question: To understand the present and make plans for their future, you must first understand the past.

Essential Questions: 1. What would make you leave your home to start a new life in a new location?

2. What ideas, beliefs, and institutions did colonists bring to the Americas?

3. How did different ways of life create cultural diversity in the colonies?

4. How did democracy take root in the 13 colonies?

5. How did lifestyles differ from region to region within the colonies?

Guiding Questions: Section 1 1. How did the New England colonies make a living? 2. How did Yankees start or develop the first educational system in America? 3. What was life like living in the New England colonies? 4. What impact did Triangular trade have on colonists and the rest of the world?

Section 2 1. Why were the middle colonies known as the Breadbasket colonies? 2. Why was the Conestoga wagon an essential mode of transportation for the next 150 yrs? 3. What was life like on the frontier? 4. How did education in the middle colonies differ from the New England colonies?

Section 3 1. What’s the difference between rural and urban areas? 2. How did agriculture play a role in the southern economy? 3. Why were enslaved Africans important to agriculture? 4. What measures did southerners use to oppress the enslaved Africans?

Section 4 1. How did the Glorious Revolution affect the colonies? 2. What conflicts caused change in America and across the world? 3. Why were colonies important to England’s policy of mercantilism? 4. How were most colonial governments organized? 5. What was England’s goal with the Navigation Acts? 6. How did the colonists try to establish their rights as citizens?