Life in Colonial America
           1607- 1775

1607-- Jamestown

        1775-- Shot heard around the world

   13 original Colonies   -

1.  New England -  long winters
                              short growing seasons

2.  Middle           - bread colonies

 

 3.  Southern        - plantations , tobacco, indigo & later cotton and slavery

    90% livelihood -- Agriculture

    Colonial Social Classes: Aristocracy, middle class, indentured servants, slaves

        Slave Trade  - Middle Passage

 

Watch USS Constellation  and the Middle Passage 17 min video

 Mercantilism- colonies exist for the good of the mother country.

 bartered - trading or exchanging goods
    domestic system -  manufacturing at home

Colonial Education
        Education was important to early colonial settlers

        1.   New England Primer

        2.  Harvard  first institution of higher ed in Am

        3.  apprentices trainees that worked for a master craftsman

        4.  Ole' Deluder Satan Act - law which established the first modern school system in America

    1.  any town that has over 50 families has to hire a teacher.

        Colonial Newspapers

        1.  Boston News-Letter  1st newspaper 
                         published in the colonies.
 

Benjamin Franklin  Poor Richard's Almanac

 

John Peter Zenger  - How did this printer's   trial set an important precedent for American freedom of the press? p 59

   John Singleton Copley       Colonial Portrait Painter

     

    John Hancock                Paul Revere
 

   William Billings -  conducted "Singing Schools

 Benjamin Banneker
was a scientist, astronomer, inventor, writer and antislavery publicist. Banneker created the first American built striking clock, invented the first Farmers' Almanac and actively campaigned against slavery.
  Benjamin Banneker

 

    Daniel Boone
   Power Point by Elin Atteberry  PP

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Lesson Objectives

OBJECTIVES: Students will be able to:

1. list

2. explain the difference between

3. describe the

4. chart on a map the

5. define the terms

6. Explain the significance of

Knowledge: Recall of data.

Comprehension: Understand the meaning, translation, interpolation, and interpretation of instructions and problems. State a problem in one's own words.

Application:
Use a concept in a new situation or unprompted use of an abstraction. Applies what was learned in the classroom into novel situations in the workplace.

Analysis:
Separates material or concepts into component parts so that its organizational structure may be understood. Distinguishes between facts and inferences. 

Synthesis:
Builds a structure or pattern from diverse elements. Put parts together to form a whole, with emphasis on creating a new meaning or structure.

Evaluation:
Make judgments about the value of ideas or materials.