History 8-1, Assignment Ten Early European Migrations

Asignment Ten

Early European Migrations to the Americas and the Establishment of the British Colonies in North America

Deadline Nov. 19, 240 points

Why did Europeans come to the Americas?

How did they replicate their European ways in the Americas?

How did their actions affect the indigenous people?

How did colonies function? Why?

Signing the Mayflower Compact, 1620, Ferris, 1899

Description

See the in-class materials on the right side of the page.

Objectives

Students will identify and explain key factors connecting English expansion into the North America and the lives of the British-American colonists.

Instructions

Note > This assignment will take some time. Don’t be overwhelmed by it, and don’t expect to do it all  at once. That just won’t work.
Be sure to use our in-class discussions and our inc-lass work time. You will also need the online resources and the textbook - especially chapters 2, 3, 4, and 5.
Keep your packet materials together.
Use these assignment sheets as the title pages for your packet.
Organize your answers by topic.
Keep your work neatly organized.
Each of the short essays and short biographies should be a paragraph or two.

1. Finish all parts of the assignment.
2. Keep your short essays, biographies and vocabulary definitions together by category.
3. Complete the questions.
4. Staple the entire packet together with the assignment sheet on top.

Links to use for this assignment

Printed files

Click here to view a printed copy of this assignment.

Other files

To view the PowerPoint about early European colonies we used in class, click here.

Click here to view the PowerPoint about the Columbian Exchange.

Click here to access the textbook chapters for this assignment. We will be especially using chapters 2, 3, 4, and 5.

To view the PowerPoint file about two religious reformers, click here.

To view the PowerPoint about changes in the colonies, click here.

Click here to view the PowerPoint about Jamestown and Plymouth.

To view the PowerPoint about the Separatists coming to America, click here.

Click here to view the PowerPoint about the historical roots of education.

Click here for the PowerPoint file about colonial charters and maps.

Click here for the PowerPoint file about social classes in colonial America.