United States History Student Edition

Looking Ahead In this topic, you will learn about the English colonies that developed along the Atlantic coast of what is today the United States. In two Inquiry Activity Lessons, you will examine Compelling Questions and develop your own questions about life for the colonists. You can preview some of the important events, groups, and colonies that you will learn about by reviewing the time line. What Will You Learn? In these lessons about the settlement and growth of the English colonies, you will learn: • the reasons for the settlement of the various English colonies. • the economic, political, and social characteristics of the New England, Middle, and Southern colonies. • the development of representative government in the English colonies, including the Mayflower Compact and the House of Burgesses. • the effects of English settlement on the Native Americans in the various regions. • the development of society and culture in colonial America. ? COMPELLING QUESTIONS IN INQUIRY ACTIVITY LESSONS • How did people survive the hardships of a new environment? • How did physical geography affect the economies of the different colonies?

KEY EVENTS OF THE ENGLISH COLONIES ARE SETTLED AND GROW

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1587 Colony at Roanoke is founded; it disappears within three years

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1607 Jamestown Colony is founded

1620 Plymouth Colony is founded Burgesses, the first elected legislature in the colonies 1619 Virginia Colony forms House of

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1664 New Amsterdam surrenders to English forces

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1729 Colony of Carolina splits to form North Carolina and South Carolina

1730s The Great Awakening begins in the colonies

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1751 James Oglethorpe turns over the colony of Georgia to the British government

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Sequencing Time Which occurred first, the Great Awakening or the formation of the House of Burgesses?

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