American History Honors Study Guide
Unit 1: The New World and the Colonies (Chapters 1-3)
Text - America: Pathways to the Present
Mr. Peters

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Events, terms, and people you should study
Settlement of the Americans (pg.4-5)
Native Americans and Land (pg.9)
Christopher Columbus, A Daring Expedition (pg.22-23)
Columbus's Impact, Columbian Exchange, Native Americans Devastated (pg.26-27)
Europeans Gain Wealth, Treaty of Tordesillas (pg.27)
Africans Enslaved (pg.27-28)
Spain's Major Explorers (pg.37)
Cortes and Pizarro (pg.38)
Setting the scene, English Explorers (pg.42-43)
The Jamestown Settlement (pg.44-45)
Growing Tobacco (pg. 40)
Indentured servants, Conflict with Native Americans, Native Americans React (pg.47-48)
Fur Trade, Voyage of the Mayflower, Puritans (pg.50-51) King Philip's War (pg.56)
The Colonies in America (pg.61)
Origins of Self-Government (pg.73)
Diverse Colonial Economies, The Southern Colonies, The Middle Colonies, The New England Colonies (pg.74-75)
Colonial Society (pg.77-78)
Trades and Occupations (pg.79-80)
The Nature of Work (pg.81)
The Middle Passage (pg.84)
Slavery in the Colonies (pg.85)
Laws and Revolts (pg.88)
Western Expansion (pg. 89-90)
Native American and French Reaction (pg.90-91)
The Great Awakening (pg.92)