1. Learning-Focused Toolbox
Date: August 10, 2010 ET
Teacher / Team Name: APUSH (Boyer-Switala & Temple)
Topic: APUSH: Colonial America Days: 5
Subject(s): Social Studies Grade(s):
Key Learning: Colonial America (1492-1763)
Unit Essential Question(s):
How did North American colonists
develop experience in, and the expectation of, self-
government in the political, religious, economic, and
social aspects of their lives between 1607-1763?
Concept: Concept: Concept:
New World Beginnings The Planting of English Settling the Northern Colonies
America (1500-1733) (1619-1700)
Lesson Essential Question(s): Lesson Essential Question(s): Lesson Essential Question(s):
How did the "3-G's" motivate Europeans to How did the Protestant Reformation impact How did geography shape colonial
explore & colonize? (A) the decision of Europeans to come to the settlement patterns?
New World? What were the geographic, economic, and
How did the indigenous Americans (Indians) religious differences among the New
react to the presence of the white settlers? England, Middle, & Chesapeake colonial
How did the shift of power in Europe impact regions?
exploration and colonization in the How did colonial settlement patterns effect
Americas? indigenous Americans (Indians)?
What was life like in the early years of What was life like as a Puritan man?
Jamestown? woman? (A)
How did tobacco impact the colonies?
Europe? (A)
Vocabulary: Vocabulary: Vocabulary:
Treaty of Tordesillas (1494), Columbian Protestant Reformation, Roanoke Island, Calvinism, predestination, conversion,
Exchange, encomienda system, Spanish Armada, joint-stock company, Puritans, Separatists, Mayflower Compact,
conquistadores , Battle of Acoma, Popé's charter, Jamestown, Anglo-Powhatan Wars Massachusetts Bay Colony, Great
Rebellion, Black Legend, (2), the starving time, Act of Toleration, Migration, antinomianism, Fundamental
PEOPLE: Ferdinand of Aragon, Isabella of Tuscarora War, Iroquois Confederacy, Orders, Pequot War, King Philip's War,
Castile, Christopher Columbus, Bartolomé PEOPLE: Elizabeth I, Sir Francis Drake, Sir English Civil War, Dominion of New
de las Casas, Hérnan Cortés, John Cabot Walter Raleigh, James I, John Smith, England, Navigation Laws, Glorious
Powhatan, Pocahontas, John Rolfe, Lord Revolution, salutary neglect, patroonships,
Baltimore, Oliver Cromwell, Hiawatha blue laws, PEOPLE: Martin Luther, John
Calvin, William Bradford, John Winthrop,
Anne Hutchinson, Roger Williams, Sir
Edmund Andros, Charles II, Mary II, Henry
Hudson, Duke of York, William Penn
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2. Learning-Focused Toolbox
Date: August 10, 2010 ET
Teacher / Team Name: APUSH (Boyer-Switala & Temple)
Topic: APUSH: Colonial America Days: 5
Subject(s): Social Studies Grade(s):
Concept: Concept: Concept:
American Life in the 17th Colonial Society on the Eve of The Duel for North America
Century(1607-1692) Revolution (1700-1775) (1608-1763)
Lesson Essential Question(s): Lesson Essential Question(s): Lesson Essential Question(s):
If you were a free person in England, why How, by the 18th century, had the colonies What kept France from exploring the New
would you agree to become an indentured changed economically? politically? socially? World until the late 16th century? what was
servant in the New World? religiously? the result?
How were dreams realized in the New What was the "Great Awakening" and how How did the fur trade impact colonial
World? did it change life in the colonies? economics and society?
How were dreams shattered in the New How did the government of the French
World? colonies differ from that of the English
What is the significance of Bacon's colonies?
Rebellion in terms of government? How did political tensions and wars in
Why do you think the colonists resorted to Europe affect life in the colonies?
slavery? Why Africa? What was the aftermath of the series of
What was life like in the Southern colonies? Anglo-French colonial wars on the colonists
How was family a reflection of New England & the indigenous Americans?
"culture"?
Why were the witch hunts confined to New
England? (A)
Vocabulary: Vocabulary: Vocabulary:
indentured servants, headright system, Paxton Boys, Regulator movement, Huguenots, Edict of Nantes, coureurs de
Bacon's Rebellion, Royal African Company, triangular trade, Molasses Act, Arminianism, bois, voyageurs, King William's War, Queen
middle passage, New York slave revolt, Great Awakening, old lights, new light, Poor Anne's War (War of Spanish Succession),
South Carolina slave revolt, Congregational Richard's Almanack, Zenger trial, royal War of Jenkin's Ear, King George's War,
Church, jeremiad, Half-Way Covenant, colonies, proprietary colonies, PEOPLE: Acadians, French & Indian War (Seven
Salem witch trials, Leisler's Rebellion, Michel-Guillaume Jean de Crèvecœur, Years' War), Albany Congress, Battle of
PEOPLE: William Berkeley, Nathaniel Jacobus Arminius, Jonathan Edwards, Québec, Pontiac's Uprising, Proclamation of
Bacon, Anthony Johnson George Whitefield, John Trumbull, John 1763, PEOPLE: Louis XIV, Samuel de
Singleton Copley, Phillis Wheatley, John Champlain, Edward Braddock, William Pitt,
Peter Zenger James Wolf, Pontiac
Additional Information:
Attached Document(s):
Unit 1: Colonial America Overview & Objectives
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3. Learning-Focused Toolbox
Date: August 10, 2010 ET
Teacher / Team Name: APUSH (Boyer-Switala & Temple)
Vocab Report for Topic: APUSH: Colonial America Days: 5
Subject(s): Social Studies Grade(s):
Concept: New World Beginnings
Treaty of Tordesillas (1494) -
Columbian Exchange -
encomienda system -
conquistadores -
Battle of Acoma -
Popé's Rebellion -
Black Legend -
PEOPLE: Ferdinand of Aragon, Isabella of Castile, Christopher Columbus, Bartolomé de las Casas,
Hérnan Cortés, John Cabot -
Concept: The Planting of English America (1500-1733)
Protestant Reformation, Roanoke Island, Spanish Armada, joint-stock company, charter,
Jamestown, Anglo-Powhatan Wars (2), the starving time, Act of Toleration, Tuscarora War, Iroquois
Confederacy -
PEOPLE: Elizabeth I, Sir Francis Drake, Sir Walter Raleigh, James I, John Smith, Powhatan,
Pocahontas, John Rolfe, Lord Baltimore, Oliver Cromwell, Hiawatha -
Concept: Settling the Northern Colonies (1619-1700)
Calvinism, predestination, conversion, Puritans, Separatists, Mayflower Compact, Massachusetts
Bay Colony, Great Migration, antinomianism, Fundamental Orders, Pequot War, King Philip's War,
English Civil War, Dominion of New England, Navigation Laws, Glorious Revolution, salutary
neglect, patroonships, blue laws -
PEOPLE: Martin Luther, John Calvin, William Bradford, John Winthrop, Anne Hutchinson, Roger
Williams, Sir Edmund Andros, Charles II, Mary II, Henry Hudson, Duke of York, William Penn -
Concept: American Life in the 17th Century(1607-1692)
indentured servants, headright system, Bacon's Rebellion, Royal African Company, middle
passage, New York slave revolt, South Carolina slave revolt, Congregational Church, jeremiad,
Half-Way Covenant, Salem witch trials, Leisler's Rebellion -
PEOPLE: William Berkeley, Nathaniel Bacon, Anthony Johnson -
Concept: Colonial Society on the Eve of Revolution (1700-1775)
Paxton Boys, Regulator movement, triangular trade, Molasses Act, Arminianism, Great Awakening,
old lights, new light, Poor Richard's Almanack, Zenger trial, royal colonies, proprietary colonies -
PEOPLE: Michel-Guillaume Jean de Crèvecœur, Jacobus Arminius, Jonathan Edwards, George
Whitefield, John Trumbull, John Singleton Copley, Phillis Wheatley, John Peter Zenger -
Concept: The Duel for North America (1608-1763)
Huguenots, Edict of Nantes, coureurs de bois, voyageurs, King William's War, Queen Anne's War
(War of Spanish Succession), War of Jenkin's Ear, King George's War, Acadians, French & Indian
War (Seven Years' War), Albany Congress, Battle of Québec, Pontiac's Uprising, Proclamation of
1763 -
PEOPLE: Louis XIV, Samuel de Champlain, Edward Braddock, William Pitt, James Wolf, Pontiac -
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