2: Colonial America
Colonial Origins	English Tension	Great Awakening	Middle Passage	French & Ind. War
Text: Chapter 3:1,2,3	Text: Chapter 3:1	Text: Chapter 3:3	Text: Chapter 3:2	Text: Chapter 3:4
Essay Question: Religion has always played a vital role in the history of individuals and nations.  In colonial America, this was no different.  In what ways did religion influence the personal behavior, the political structure and policies, the regulation of wealth and trade and interpersonal relations in colonial America?  In what ways has religion in modern America remained the same or changed in analyzing the power of religion over the above factors today?
Project Based Lesson: Middle Passage Artwork: Students will use paints or sketches to demonstrate the connection between historical events, the emotions they produce and the power of art to communicate those feelings to the world.  Students will examine a psychological perspective to understanding trauma represented in  historical analysis by using art to demonstrate not only perspective, but also reality.
Readings/Internet: Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God by Jonathan Edwards
Links Lesson: 1) Compare and Contrast chart of the origins of various colonies, 2) Cause and Effect chart of England's decisions to control the colonies (Navigation Acts, Dominion of NE, salutary neglect, etc.), 3) Concept Web on the culture of colonial America (women, religion, trade, politics, etc.)
Essential Questions: 1) What method is best in establishing a new colony? 2) Is there a benign way to rule others or is all colonialism wrong? 3) What causes changes in peoples beliefs concerning religion?  Why? 4) Are profits more important than people today?  How or why? 5) When is war justified and when isnt it?
Identification Terms
Edmund Andros	Great Awakening	Mercantilism	Jesuits	French & Indian War
Navigation Acts	Jonathan Edwards	New Light Colleges	William Penn	Dominion of NE
George Whitefield	Old Lights	Peter Stuyvesant	New Amsterdam	New Lights
Roger Williams	James Oglethorpe	Salutary Neglect	Quakers	Act of Toleration
Narragansett Tribe	Deism	Lord Baltimore	Middle Passage	Slave Block
Triangular Trade	Treaty of Paris 1763	Proclamation of 1763	Colonel Washington	Runners of the wood
Short Answer Questions
1.  What is the impact of organized religion and religious faith on society?  How did it specifically affect American society?
2.  Examine Great Britains policy of colonial rule in colonial America and justify a more effective alternative for England.
3.  Describe the differences between English and French relationships with Native American tribes in North America.
4.  Why did African tribes collaborate with Europeans in the slave trade?  Explain and examine from all perspectives.
5.  How did the colonies differ from one another in origin?  Which offered the best model for English citizens?  Why?
6.  In what way was Roger Williams a progressive leader for his times?  Did he change the world in which he lived or not?
7.  What are the strengths and weaknesses of a mercantilist economy between mother country and colony?
8.  Describe the Middle Passage from the perspective of an African slave and explain its psychological impact on history.
9.  Compare the Quakers to the Puritans in colonial America.  How did each affect the development of colonial settlements?
10.  Colonial governments began with experiments of direct democracy.  Did America continue or change over the years?