VAUS 2: Pre-Colonial America

VAUS 2: Pre-Columbian America

VAUS 2A: Characteristics of early exploration and settlement in North America.

• Early European exploration and colonization resulted in the redistribution of the world's population as millions of people from Europe and Africa voluntarily and involuntarily moved to the New World.

• Exploration and colonization initiated worldwide commerical expansion as agricultural products were exchanged between the Americas and Europe. In time, colonization led to ideas of representative government and religious toleration that over several centuries would inspire similar transformations in other parts of the world.

ESSENTIAL UNDERSTANDING:

Multiple Choice

Early European exploration and colonization resulted in the redistribution of the world's population as millions of people from Europe and _ voluntarily and involuntarily moved to the New World.

• Slavery

• Tobacco

• Agricultural

• Africa

Multiple Choice

Exploration and colonization initiated worldwide commercial explansion as _ products were exchanged between the Americans and Europe.

• Slavery

• Tobacco

• Agricultural

• Cooperative

Multiple Choice

In time, colonization led to ideas of _ goverment and religious freedom that over several centuries would inspire similar transformations in other parts of the world.

• Slavery

• Jamestown

• Cooperative

• Representative

VAUS 2A: Characteristics of early exploration and settlement in North America.

• New England was settled by Puritans seeking freedom from religious persecution in Europe. They formed a "covenant community" based on the principles of the Mayflower Compact and Puritan religious beliefs and were often intolerant of those not sharing their religion. They also sought economic opportunity and practiced a form of direct democracy through town meetings.

• The Middle Atlantic region was settled chiefly by English, Dutch, and German-Speaking immigrants seeking religious freedom and economic opportunity.

• Virginia and the other Southern colonies were settled by people seeking economic opportunities. Some of the early Virgnia settlers were "Cavaliers" (i.e., English nobility who received large land grants in eastern Virginia from the king of England). Poor English immigrants also came seeking better lives as small farmers or artisans and settling in the Shenandoah Valley or western Virginia, or as indentured servants who agreed to work on tobacco plantations for a period of time to pay for passage to North America.

Multiple Choice

New England was settled by Puritans, who were seeking freedom from:

• Slavery

• Religious Freedom

• Persecution

• Direct Democracy

Multiple Choice

The Puritans formed a __ based on the principles of the Mayflower Compact

• Religious Freedom

• Direct Democracy

• Covenant Community

• Indentured Servants

Multiple Choice

The Puritans were often _ in regards to other religious groups.

• Persecution

• Cooperative

• Intolerant

• Representative

Multiple Choice

The Puritans sought economic opportunity and practiced a form of __ through town meetings.

• Religious Freedom

• Direct Democracy

• Representative

• Indentured Servant

Multiple Choice

The Middle Atlantic region, or the Middle Colonies, was settled chiefly by English, Dutch, and German- Speaking immigrants seeking __ and economic opportunity.

• Religious Freedom

• American Indians

• Economic Opportunities

• Indentured Servants

Multiple Choice

Virginia and other Southern colonies were settled by people seeking:

• Economic Opportunities

• America Indians

• Cooperative

• Indentured Servants

Multiple Choice

The early Virginia settlers were _, English nobility who received large land grants in Eastern Virginia from the King of England

• Slavery

• American Indians

• Cavaliers

• Indentured Servants

Multiple Choice

Poor English immigrants also came seeking better lives as small farmers or artisans and settled in the Shenandoah Valley or western Virginia, or as __, who agreed to work on tobacco plantations for a period of time to pay passage to the New World.

• Slavery

• Virginia House of Burgesses

• American Indians

• Indentured Servants

VAUS 2A: Characteristics of early exploration and settlement in North America.

• Jamestown, established in 1607 by the Virginia Company of London as a business venture, was the first permanent English settlement in North America. The Virginia House of Burgesses, established by the 1640s, was the first elected assembly in the New World. It has operated continuously and is known today as the General Assembly of Virginia.

• The Virginia House of Burgesses wrote the Virginia Slave Codes. All of the English colonies established slavery between the period of their founding or no later than the 1750s. Each of the colonial governments used Virginia's Slave Codes as a model for restricting the rights of free blacks and for the treatment of enslaved people.

Multiple Choice

_ was established in 1607 by the Viriginia Compay, and was the first permanent English settlement in North America.

• Jamestown

• Viginia House of Burgesses

• General Assembly of Virginia

• Cavaliers

Multiple Choice

The _ was established in 1619, and was the first elected legislative assembly in the New World.

• Virginia House of Burgesses

• General Assembly of Virginia

• Covenant Community

• Indentured Servants

Multiple Choice

The Virginia House of Burgesses is today known as the:

• Virginia House of Burgesses

• General Assembly of Virginia

• Covenant Community

• Indentured Servants

VAUS 2B: The student will apply social science skills to understand the impact of Age of Exploration by analyzing the culture interactions among American Indians, Europeans, and Africans.

Essential Understanding:

Exploration and colonization initiated worldwide commercial expansion and cultural interactions as products and people were exchanged between Africa, the Americas, and Europe.

VAUS 2B: The student will apply social science skills to understand the impact of Age of Exploration by analyzing the culture interactions among American Indians, Europeans, and Africans.

• The explorations and settlements of the English in the American colonies and of the Spanish in the Caribbean, Central America, and South America often led to violent conflicts with the Native Americans. The Native Americans lost their traditional territories and fell victim to diseases carried from Europe. By contrast, French exploration of Canada did not lead to large-scale immigration from France, and relations with native peoples were generally more cooperative.

• The first Africans forcibly brought against their will to Old Point Comfort (Fort Monroe), Virginia, in 1619 to work on plantations, were taken from the Ndongo which is modern-day Angola. The growth of an agricultural and mercantile economy based on large landholdings in the Southern colonies and the Caribbean, and trade in the New England colonies, led wealthy English colonists to adopt an enslaved labor force despite their fear of brining an unfamiliar people into the colony.

Multiple Choice

By contrast, French exploration of Canada did not lead to large scale immigration from France, and relations with native peoples were often more:

• Persecution

• Cooperative

• Intolerant

• Representative

Multiple Choice

The Native Americans lost their traditional territories and fell victim to _ carried from Europe.

• Slavery

• Tobacco

• Indentured Servants

• Diseases

Multiple Choice

The explorations and settlements of the English in the American colonies, and the Spanish in the Caribbean, Central America, and South America, often led to violent conflicts with the:

• Slavery

• Virginia House of Burgesses

• Native Americans

• General Assembly of Virginia

Multiple Choice

The growth of an agricultural economy based on large landholdings in the Southern colonies and in the Caribbean led to the introduction of:

• Slavery

• Tobacco

• Agriculture

• Direct Democracy

Multiple Choice

The first African Americans were brought against their will to Jamestown in 1619 to work on _ plantations

• Slavery

• Tobacco

• Agricultural

• Cavalier

VAUS 2B: The student will apply social science skills to understand the impact of Age of Exploration by analyzing the culture interactions among American Indians, Europeans, and Africans.

• English colonization and enslavement were parts of an interconnected system of domination across the Atlantic world.

• By the time of English settlement in North America, a vast network of chattle slavery had long shipped enslaved people from African ports to plantations and mines in South America and the Caribbean.

• The First African people brought to British North America had been seized from slave-trading ships by pirates, who then brought "twenty and odd" Africans to trade for food in Virginia.

• British North America would remain on the margins of the Atlantic slave trade, importing six percent of all enslaved africans brought to the New World, and yet enslavement would grow in importance over the decades after 1619.

VAUS 2B: The student will apply social science skills to understand the impact of Age of Exploration by analyzing the culture interactions among American Indians, Europeans, and Africans.

• Virginia's English colonists struggled to adapt Atlantic slavery to their law, culture, and religion.

• Over the half century after 1619, white Virginians made those adaptations so that by the 1660s, racial slavery had been firstly established.

• Conversion to Christianity would not free people from bondage and any child born to an enslaved woman was claimed as the property of the people who held title to her.

Essential Understanding: Exploration and colonization initiated worldwide commercial expansion and cultural interactions as products and people were exchanged between Africa, the Americas, and Europe.

Reorder

Place the following in Chronological order.

• Christopher Columbus Discovers the Western Hemisphere

• Jamestown is established in the lands known as Virginia

• Puritans arrive in the new world establishing the Plymouth Colony

• Tobacco becomes the primary crop of Virginia

• The first enslaved peoples are sold in Virginia

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