USH - Unit 2 European Colonization of North America (1500-1750)

Open Ended

Bell Ringer

Imagine you’re an early settler looking to establish a colony. What are the three most important things you would want in a new settlement? Why?
(Think about factors like resources, governance, and trade that influenced colony establishment.)

Open Ended

Why do you think England wanted control over New Netherland? How might New Amsterdam’s location have played a role?

Multiple Choice

Which reason best explains why the British took control of New Amsterdam?

• • They wanted the wealth from trade.

• • They feared conflict with the Dutch.

• • They wanted to expand religious influence.

• • They wanted Peter Stuyvesant as governor.

Multiple Choice

What was the main reason the colony of New Jersey was originally formed?

• to keep England’s influence in New York

•  to discourage loyalty to the British monarch

• to establish religious freedom in new colonies

• to govern more easily than one large New York colony

Multiple Choice

Which reason best explains how a free-market economy developed in New Jersey?

• The proprietors encouraged traders to settle in the colony.

• The proprietors allowed settlers to farm or run businesses as they pleased.

• The proprietors gave land for free to farmers who would develop it.

• The proprietors allowed only free farmers, and not slaves, in the colony.

Open Ended

EXIT TICKET - EQ
How did William Penn’s beliefs shape the development of Pennsylvania, and what set the Middle Colonies apart from other colonies?

Open Ended

BELL RINGER

William Penn wanted Pennsylvania to be a ‘holy experiment.’

What do you think he meant by this? How might it affect who chose to live there?

Multiple Choice

How did William Penn influence self-government in America?

• He weakened it by giving political power to English officials.

• He strengthened it by having a constitution and general assembly.

• He insisted that settlers pay for Native land.

• He gave the right to vote to all men and women.

Multiple Choice

How did William Penn attract so many people to his colony?

• By promoting military strength and conquest.
• By promoting religious freedom and fair governance.
• By establishing a strict set of laws and regulations.
• By offering freedom from slavery.

Open Ended

How might Pennsylvania’s promise of religious freedom and William Penn’s fair treatment of Native Americans have influenced the population and culture in the colony?

Open Ended

EXIT TICKET - EQ
How did William Penn’s beliefs shape the development of Pennsylvania, and what set the Middle Colonies apart from other colonies?

Open Ended

BELL RINGER

If you could create a new colony today, what laws or rules would you make to ensure people are treated fairly?

Multiple Choice

The colony Lord Baltimore established in Maryland encouraged

• land grants for every settler.

• a role for colonists in government.

• religious freedom for Roman Catholics.

• the settlement of wealthy people.

Open Ended

What challenges do you think settlers faced when trying to create religious tolerance in Maryland?

Multiple Choice

The most significant difference between the northern and southern Carolina settlements was that

• the southern settlement attracted settlers from England while the northern settlement attracted settlers from Virginia.

•  the southern settlement grew rich on rice while poorer farmers in the north grew tobacco.

• the northern settlement was free of slavery while the southern settlement relied on enslaved workers.

• the southern settlement was more loyal to English nobles than the northern settlement.

Multiple Choice

The reason that James Oglethorpe and other trustees founded a colony in Georgia was to solve a...

• social problem.

• political problem.

• religious problem.

• economic problem.

Multiple Select

Which of the following are reasons for the establishment of Georgia? Choose the TWO correct answers.

• to create a haven for Baptists and Methodists who were persecuted in Britain

• to create trading posts among the Native Americans of the Southeast

• to create a buffer zone between Spanish Florida and the British colonies to the north

• to create a refuge for debtors and other poor people in Britain

Open Ended

EXIT TICKET

Why were the Southern Colonies established, and how did their geography and leadership shape their development?

Open Ended

BELL RINGER
Imagine living on a small farm versus a large plantation. What do you think your daily life would look like?

Multiple Choice

 The increase in the number of enslaved Africans arriving in America was largely due to

• the development of the plantation system.

• greater efforts to capture Africans by other Africans.

• an increase in the number of European slave traders.

• changing attitudes about the justice of owning slaves.

Multiple Choice

What factor best explains the difference in settlement patterns between the Tidewater and the backcountry?

• differences in attitudes about slavery

• differences in the characteristics of the environment

• differences in the length of the growing season

• differences in where the settlers had immigrated from

Open Ended

SHARE

How might life in the backcountry have been different if slavery had been as prominent there as in the Tidewater region?

Multiple Choice

As a result of _________, William and Mary became the monarchs of Britain. They agreed to the _________, which protected individuals from certain government actions.

• the French and Native War; Declaratory Act

• King Phillip’s War; Magna Carta

• the Glorious Revolution; English Bill of Rights

• the English Civil War; Act of Toleration

Open Ended

EXIT TICKET

How did geography and economics influence the lives of people in the Southern Colonies?