Unit 1

Exploration and Colonization

• What impact did Columbus voyage have on European exploration?

• Why did European countries explore in the Americas?

• Where did the different groups settle?

Exploration

Jamestown

• What important events occurred in 1607 and 1619?

• Why did the English establish colonies?

• What was an effect of the marriage of John Rolfe and Pocahontas?

Jamestown• What are the differences between

settlement of Jamestown and Plymouth?

• What hardships did the colony of Jamestown endure?

• What helped the colony of Jamestown survive?

Plymouth and MA Bay• Why did the Pilgrims and Puritans come

to the Americas?

• What is the major difference between these two groups?

• What was the Puritan way of life?• Why did Winthrop refer to MA Bay as

being the “City Upon a Hill”?

• What a cause and effect of the Salem Witch Trials?

Colonial America• How did geography influence

economy?

• Why was slave labor used more in the south than north?

• What are the geographical boundaries for the colonies?

Colonial America• Why were the colonies of

Pennsylvania and Maryland established?

• What were early forms of representative government in the colonies?

• What was the Maryland Act of Toleration?