Unit 1: Three Worlds Collide 1460-1700 Unit Plan and Study Guide 1460s 1492 1517 1521 1533 1588 1607 1620 1630 1676 1688 Why was it that by the 1500s, certain European nations were able to decisively conquer and dominate the various peoples of the New World? In other words, how come it was not Native Americans that invaded Europe? How did African slavery end up in the Americas? Explain each stage of the slave trade in Africa and beyond, identifying who was involved and how it affected the social, economic, and cultural life of slaves and slave traders. What was the role of religion in Europe in shaping expansion in the Americas during the Age of Exploration? Explain the tension between Christian and Muslim as well as the split between Catholic and Protestant. Why was England late to the Atlantic game? Discuss the forces that propelled England into the Atlantic and onto the shores of North America. How were their experiences different from those of the Spanish? How were they similar? What were the differences in economic, cultural, and social character between England’s first two permanent settlements in North America-- those at the Chesapeake Bay in Virginia as opposed to those near Massachusetts Bay in New England? What were the traits of English society, government, and culture that benefitted Englishmen as they approached the unique problems of New World settlement? What features of their background proved problematic? Discuss the role of commerce and migration in defining the different cultural and social character of the New England, Mid-Atlantic, and Southern colonies that came under English control by the end of the seventeenth century. • Sugar plantations in the Atlantic • Reconquista of Spain • Conquest of Mexico and Peru • Pueblo Revolt • Atlantic slave trade • English defeat of Spanish Armada • Settling of Jamestown • Settling of Plymouth by the Pilgrims • Puritan settlement at Massachusetts Bay • The Great Migration • English Civil War • Pequot War • French expansion in the Mississippi Valley • The Restoration • Bacon’s Rebellion • Transition to black slave labor in Virginia • The Glorious Revolution • Witchcraft hysteria in Salem • Columbian Exchange • caravel • astrolabe • Christian vs. Muslim • Catholic vs. Protestant • conquistador • mestizo • mulatto • charter • joint-stock company • indentured servitude • Church of England (Anglicanism) • Puritans, Separatists, Pilgrims • “City upon a hill” • middle passage • Scots-Irish • Society of Friends • “the rabble” • triangular trade • tobacco • “gentle government” • Christopher Columbus, King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, Hernán Cortes, Francisco Pizarro, Francisco Vazquez de Coronado, Pope’ • Queen Elizabeth, Sir Francis Drake • Captain John Smith, John Rolfe, Pocahontas, Lord Baltimore, Nathaniel Bacon, Governor William Berkeley • William Bradford, John Winthrop, Roger Williams, Anne Hutchinson, Metacomet (King Philip) • William Penn • Powhatan; Pequot, Wampanoag, Narragansett; Iroquois; Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw; Pueblo • King James I, King Charles I, King Charles II, King James II, Governor Edmund Andros • England, Scotland, (Britain), Ireland • The Netherlands, France, Spain, Portugal • The Gulf of Guinea, the Sahara Desert • Mexico, the Caribbean, Central America, Brazil, the Andes • The Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, Rhode Island, Connecticut; (New England) • The Chesapeake Bay, Jamestown;(Virginia) • The Hudson River, New Amsterdam (New York), Pennsylvania Timeline Essential Questions Events & Trends Vocabulary & Key Concepts People Places