Unit 1: From New World
to New Empires - the 16th Century to 1763 |
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Possible Essay Questions
for This Unit
The
possible essay questions for the Unit tell you all possible essay questions on
the Unit exam. They show you what combinations of facts to examine so you can
notice how history changed during the Unit.
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here
for the Possible Essay Questions for the exam that ends Unit 1.
3 Parts of the Unit, Resources, and Check
Your Knowledge Quizzes A, B, and C
Parts in the Unit and Chapter #s |
Check Your
Knowledge Quizzes for Tips or Recording |
Seeing How
History Changes Over Time, Over Space, and Sometimes Both Simultaneously at
One Time (The purpose says what you look for in the link.) |
Part
A: Foundations (Where We Began) and Colonization: Spain, France, England, and
the Netherlands Chapters
1, 2 |
·
Quiz A - Check Your Knowledge – Has tips for locating information ·
Quiz A for Recording – Is printable for
recording such things as what you missed and why, textbook page numbers where
you found the answer, and what quiz questions are also part of essays
questions. Optional Reference: Native Americans (North and
South) and African States: How European Colonization Differed . |
Providing a
baseline of the past 1. Religion Purpose: § Notice the differences between the religions on their
Major Beliefs and on their Organization. § Which religious groups go to the English colonies and to
what part of those English colonies? 2.
Economy and politics (and religion) - feudalism and
serfdom and the rise of the nation state and mercantilism ·
Background for
colonization: Click here for sections of our textbook that
cover attempts to establish feudalism and serfdom in the colonies. ·
Background on the city-state and the nation-state and the
rise of mercantilism 3.
Economy and servitude (forced labor) ·
Feudalism and servitude – when labor was a surplus and
land was finite ·
Varieties of servitude in the new colonies in North
America – when labor was scarce and land seemingly infinite 4.
Seeing the baseline with together Purpose: We are not covering all of these things. You
are looking for these patterns: § Notice how feudalism is attempted by these nations. § Notice the role of religion in some of their relationships
with the Native Americans (such as the Spanish and the French, but not so
much with the English). § Notice the wars of religion. |
Part B: Comparing the English
Colonies: Examining Events in the 3 Sections Chapters
2, 3 |
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Quiz B - Check Your Knowledge Optional Reference: ·
Summary: Land,
Indians, Laborers, and Political Development |
·
Comparison
of Events in the 3 Sections of the English Colonies – This provides the
blank table used for notes in class. You also can take notes just as well on
the left and right pages of a spiral. Optional
Reference that Shows How history Changes: ·
Summary of English Rulers from 1485 to 1820 – Notice that in
the era of colonization, the changing religions of the English rulers
repeatedly provide different religious groups with motivation to leave
England. ·
Summary of Religious
Groups in the Colonies during the 1600s and 1700s |
Part C: Comparing the English Colonies:
Examining Traits of the 3 Sections; Examining Empire and the Colonies (1-page
summary) Chapters
3,4, with some background information from Chapter 2 |
·
Comparison Tables for Provincial America (the provinces
of Great Britain) (PDF) §
What are the differences in the sections? Except for
common issues in government, which two of the three sections are most alike
in this period from the late 1600s to about 1763? §
What sections will fight in the Civil War in the 1860s? ·
Examining Empire and the Colonies Without
answers for self-testing: Why Do the Wars for Empire Matter? §
Notice how the
colonists feel about these wars: what do their name for the wars tell you. §
Notice how the wars end: how will the colonists feel about
the results. §
Finally, notice the frequency of the wars: what is
distracting the English government at home and the English government in the
colonies (a government that will need support from the colonial assemblies) |
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History
Changes Quiz |
After you take the History Changes Check Your Knowledge
quiz, you find: § A
link with a table to help you compare the time periods side-by-side and with the specific pages you must read for each of the periods you
will write about § A file of definitions (such as servitude, slave,
indentured servant, bondage, and master) that may help you |
Copyright C. J.
Bibus, Ed.D. 2003-2014 |
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History – Dr. Bibus |
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Last Updated: |
2014 |
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