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Period 2:  1607-1754

Chapter 2- The Planting of English America (1500-1733)

-Ch. 2 Reading Questions

-Character Sketches (Smith, Pocahontas, Rolfe)

-Jamestown/Maryland chart

-Carolinas/Georgia chart

-Crash Course: Colonizing America video clip

-Crash Course: Natives and the English video clip

 

Documents

-Jamestown Charter

-Pocahontas/John Smith

-Maryland/Toleration

Chapter 3- Settling the Northern Colonies (1619-1700)

-Ch. 3 Reading Questions

-Character Sketches (Winthrop, Hutchinson, Penn)

-New England colony chart

-Middle colony chart

-Ch. 1-3 Test Review

 

Documents

-Mayflower Compact

-John Winthrop City Upon a Hill

-Roger Williams A Plea for Religious Liberty

-William Bradford, excerpt from Of Plymouth Plantation

-Smallpox epidemic in New England, William Bradford, from History of Plymouth Plantation, 1633-1634

-Anne Hutchinson is Banished (1637)

Chapter 4- American Life in the 17th Century (1607-1692)

-Ch. 4 Reading Questions

-Character Sketches (Bacon, Mather, Clinton)

-The Growth of Colonial Population (1740-1780)

-Religion and Great Awakening Handout

 

Documents

-Bacon's Manifesto Document

-Salem testimony Against Bridget Bishop

Chapter 5- Colonial Society on the Eve of Revolution (1700-1775)

-Ch. 5 Reading Questions

-Character Sketches (Edwards, Franklin, Peale, Wheatley)

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Documents

-Excerpts from Jonathan Edwards- Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

-Benjamin Franklin on George Whitefield

Chapter 6- The Duel for North America (1608-1763)

-Ch. 6 Reading Questions

-Character Sketches (Champlain, La Salle, Washington)

-Crash Course: Seven Years War and the Great Awakening

 

Documents

-French and Indian War- Franklin's account 1755

-Proclamation of 1763

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