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US History Objectives
Unit 1
Standards Based Questions
SSUSH1: European settlement in North America during the 17th century.
1. What was the Virginia Company? How did tobacco cultivation save the colony? Describe relationships
between the colonist and Native Americans such as Powhatan? What was the House of Burgesses &
Bacon’s Rebellion?
2. Describe the settlement of New England; include religious reasons, relations with Native Americans
(King Phillip’s War for example), the establishment of town meetings and development of a legislature,
religious tensions that led to colonies such as Rhode Island, the half-way covenant, Salem Witch Trials,
and the loss of the Massachusetts charter.
3. Explain the development of the mid-Atlantic colonies; include the Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam
and subsequent English takeover, and the settlement of Pennsylvania.
4. What were the reasons for French settlement of Quebec?
SSUSH2: The economy and society of British North America.
5. What were mercantilism and the trans-Atlantic trade?
6. Describe the Middle Passage, growth of the African population, and African-American culture.
7. What was the Great Awakening?
Essential Questions:
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How did the arrival of European settlers on the east coast of North America impact the Native
Americans? (USH1 a, b, d)
What was the impact of slavery on the development of Colonial America? (USH1a; USH2b)
How did American colonies become wealthy in the later colonial period? (USH2a)
How was each colonial region a reflection of its colonists? (USH1 a, b, c, d)
How have the colonial ideas of civil liberties and rights changed over time? (USH1a,b)
Why was America’s idea of representative government different from the English idea? (USH1a, b)
How did religion play a role in creating the American character? (USH1b; USH2d)
How was the Great Awakening more than a revival? (USH2d)
US History Objectives
Unit 1
Important People
Important Terms
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Conquistador
St. Augustine
Northwest Passage
Protestant Reformation
Enclosure Movement
Roanoke
Joint-Stock Companies
Jamestown
Powhatan Confederacy
Headrights
Indentured Servants
Pilgrims
Plymouth
Mayflower Compact
Virginia Company
House of Burgesses
Powhatan
Bacon’s Rebellion
Massachusetts settlement
Rhode Island settlement
Half-Way Covenant
King Philip’s War
Salem Witch Trials
Mid-Atlantic Colonies
Pennsylvania
New Amsterdam (New York)
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Puritans
Massachusetts Bay
Colony
Great Migration
Glorious Revolution
Salutary Neglect
Slaves
Triangular Trade
Stono Rebellion
Salem Witch Trials
Backcountry
Albany Plan of Union
Sugar Act
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Juan Ponce de Leon
Hernan Cortez
John Cabot
Jacques Cartier
Samuel de Champlain
Martin Luther
John Calvin
Walter Raleigh
John Smith
John Rolfe
William Bradford
Squanto
John Winthrop
Roger Williams
Anne Hutchinson
William Penn
Lord Baltimore
James Oglethorpe
Thomas Jefferson.
Jonathan Edwards
John Locke
Baron Montesquieu
EOCT Vocabulary
 Quebec
 Mercantilism
 Trans-Atlantic Trade
 Middle Passage
 African American Culture
 Benjamin Franklin
 Individualism
 Social Mobility
 The Great Awakening
 French and Indian War
 1763 Treaty of Paris
 Proclamation of 1763