Week 4 - Sept. 7-11, 2k20

 Welcome to Week #3!  Time is flying by!

Monday - No Classes - No Laboring Today!

Day 1  

In Class:  Go over the 13 Colonies Q's in class --  We will watch the flicks below the Q's together.

HW:  None!  13 Colonies and Slavery Quiz on Sept. 14/15 (Day 1) 

The 13 Colonies Q's

1. What was the biggest impact of Christopher Columbus' voyages (we learned this last year!)
2. What is a colony?
3. Provide two reasons why a nation would want to set up colonies (opinion!!!)
4. Which colony was the "lost" colony and what happened to it?
5. What were some difficulties the Jamestown colonists faced in their first few years? What do you think was the hardest thing for the colonists?
6. Who was Peter Stuyvesant and what colony was he the leader of?
7. Who were the settlers of the Plymouth & Massachusetts Bay colonies?
8. Provide two pros and two cons of European colonization from the POV of Europe. (kinda an opinion)
9. What might be 2 pros & cons of European colonization from the indigenous people’s POV? (kinda an opinion)
10. List the New England Colonies.
11. List the Middle Colonies.
12. List the Southern Colonies.
13. What group of people were brought to Jamestown, VA in 1619?
14. What was the main reason for settling the Southern Colonies?
15. How did the New England colonies make money?
16. How did the Middle colonies make money?
17. Who were the settlers of the Georgia colony?
18. How did the Southern colonies make money

The following Q’s are inference-based questions. You have to answer these Q’s the best you can based on what you have read in the Doc. The answers are not in the doc. Take an educated guess!

1. Which region do you think would be the hardest place to live and why? (opinionated)
2. Did more people live in cities or on farms? (You have to guess this one)
3. How do you think knowledge & news spread throughout the colonies? (You have to guess this one)
4. What do you think was the most important part of colonial life? (aside from surviving..You have to guess this one)
5. Do you think most colonists were formally educated? Why/Why not? (opinionated)
6. The colonies grew tremendously from 1607—1750s from 50,000 to just over one million. What impact do you think this had on the colonies/colonists? Provide two examples.

13 Colonies!

Columbus Sailing the Seas!

DEATH at Jamestown!

Day 2 and 3

In Class:  Introduce Slavery in Colonial America 

HW:  None!  13 Colonies and Slavery Quiz on Sept. 14/15 (Day 1) 

1. What is slavery? (Define it and explain what it means)**
2. What European nation introduced “race-based” slavery in the 1400s? Why/how did they do this?
3. What was the name of the route slaves endured from Africa to the West Indies/North America?**
4. Why were Africans specifically chosen to be slaves?**
5. What did some Africans do to help Europeans with the slave trade?
6. Approximately how long did it take for ships to sail from Africa to North America?
7. Approximately how many Africans were torn from their homelands and sold into slavery? Why don’t we know the exact number?
8. The first Africans were brought to which colony?
9. Why do you think slaves revolted? How do you think they revolted? Why do you think revolts would/would not be successful.
10. What were some of the jobs of slaves (what did they do) in the American colonies?
11. Opinion: What do you think was the hardest thing Africans struggled with?

Many Rivers to Cross

The Middle Passage Across the Atlantic Ocean