Unit 1 Geography, Early Americans, Exploration, & Colonization

Section 1 – Geography

Section 2 – Early Americans:

Beringia land bridge: possible migration route

Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site, Illinois

Section 3 – Exploration

Voyages of Christopher Columbus World

East Indies West Indies Columbus

World

Columbus World

Hernando De Soto

Spanish Fort in St. Augustine, Florida

St. Augustine Fort

Magellan

Jacques Marquette Louis Joliet

La Salle explored the Great Lakes and discovered mouth of the Mississippi River

English sailor Henry Hudson claimed New York for the Dutch

John Cabot

Section 4 – Colonization

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Reasons for starting Jamestown Religious freedom Political freedom Money (economic, farmland) Adventure

John Smith

Pocahontas Powhatan

Bartholomew Gosnold

John Winthrop N.E.

Roger Williams N.E.

Anne Hutchinson

Thomas Hooker N.E.

William Penn M

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Nathaniel Bacon 13 Col

Lord Baltimore, George Calvert 13 Col

James Oglethorpe

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African Slaves – Middle Passage

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Education in British Colonies

Puritan Education in the New England Colonies Girl with Hornbook (wooden paddle) East to hold handle Hole in handle for leather thong Carried on belt or around neck Transparent Horn kept lessons from being spoiled

Puritan Education in the New England Colonies Typical Hornbook Alphabet Vowel and consonant combinations Lord’s Prayer Form of a cross Praise of the Trinity (hand written on piece of parchment & tacked to wooden paddle)

Puritan Education in the New England Colonies New England Primer Textbook used by students in English settlements in North America First published and used in London First printed in Boston in 1690 Over 5 million copies sold Used into the 19 th C

Puritan Education in the New England Colonies Scene from a dame school

Puritan Education in the New England Colonies A stern and austere Puritan worship service

Puritan Education in the New England Colonies Harvard College yard