Early Colonial America I Can Statements
I can list two reasons why Europeans were exploring far from home.
I can describe how Columbus differed from earlier explorers.
I can give the reason why the area in which he landed was called the West Indies.
I can give the definition of a colony.
I can name the country that initially settled Alaska.
I can give the primary use home countries made of colonies.
I can name the two categories of push factors.
I can list the four economic push factors.
I can describe the difference between Pilgrims and Puritans.
I can give the major pull factor drawing people to America.
I can list the three categories of the 13 original colonies and which colonies were in each.
I can describe the climate and terrain of New England.
I can describe what happened to Native Americans the first 400 years Europeans were on the continent of
North America.
I can name the major cause of that decrease.
I can name two early settlements in which Native Americans helped the settlers and who helped the help in
each instance.
I can give the reason why Africans replaced whites as laborers in the Americas.
I can name the three countries that brought the greatest numbers of slaves to America (in order) and where they
brought them (in order from first through third).
Late Colonial America I Can Statements
I can give the reasons why the Southern colonies were begun and also the New England colonies.
I can name the founder of Georgia.
I can describe three parts of the Navigation Acts.
I can say what England’s role was in the Navigation Acts and what the colonies roles were.
I can give the result of the Navigation Acts on the New England colonies.
I can give the significance of the Magna Carta and what it demonstrated.
I can tell by what means Parliament later further lessoned the king’s power.
I can give the name of the organization for which Parliament served as a model.
I can give the purpose of the English Bill of Rights and two examples of those rights.
I can state two things the American colonists learned to do from studying all of these English events.
I can state with what part of people’s lives the Great Awakening began.
I can give the result of the formation of so many new churches being formed in the English colonies.
I can list the three steps that led to our political independence as a result of the Great Awakening.
I can write the definition of the Enlightenment and list the English philosopher who started it as well as the
American who encompassed those ideas in writing.
I can name the American who put these ideas to practical use and in what ways he did that.
I can name three ways these new ideas were spread more easily in the colonies.
I can state what the English had to guarantee to get people to come to America.
I can name the first elected law-making body in America.
I can describe the Crown-appointed governors.
I can tell how the colonial assemblies gained control over the governors.
I can name the area the English and French both claimed as their own.
I can name the two commanders at the battle of Quebec, and the piece of ground on which they fought.
I can name the treaty ending the French & Indian War.
I can name two results of the war.
I can explain who was causing trouble after the war.
I can name the means by which England tried to stop those problems.
I can give the reaction of the colonists to that decision and give the reasons why they felt that way.