Monday, January 13th

Bell Work: Please pick up a copy of the vocabulary worksheet from the front table. You will have the first 15 minutes of class today and tomorrow to look up and record identifications for each of these terms. As you research each term, consider its definition and significance before writing your identification.

Daily Agenda:

• Bell Work: Vocab Development

• WOD Gerrymander• Review: Exploration• Primary Document:

Examining Passenger Lists• Crash Course: British/Native

Relations (with Discussion)

Essential Question: How did the diverse backgrounds of Native Americans, Europeans, and Africans both enhance and limit the development of an American society?

Homework: No Homework.

Word application Jan. 13, Block 2

GERRYMANDER- to divide a geographic area into voting districts so as to give unfair advantage to one party in elections

Pronunciation

Why would a political party use Gerrymandering?

Word application Jan 13, Block 2

GERRYMANDER- to divide a geographic area into voting districts so as to give unfair advantage to one party in elections

Pronunciation

Why would a political party use Gerrymandering?POSSIBLE RESPONSE

Gerrymandering is done to benefit parties, not individual politicians. Thus, seats grow safer only for the party: gerrymandering makes general-election challenges less likely. Gerrymandering is a hallmark of American politics. The tactic serves the self-interests of whichever party is in power, and has become thoroughly entrenched in the political process.

GERRYMANDER- to divide a geographic area into voting districts so as to give unfair advantage to one party in elections

PronunciationAnalyze the following cartoon by writing down your observations and

discuss with your class.

Jan. 13, Block 4

Jan. 13, Block 4

GERRYMANDER- to divide a geographic area into voting districts so as to give unfair advantage to one party in elections

Pronunciation

The blue represents the Democratic donkey who is pleased with the amount of representation his party has according to the state map. The idea of gerrymandering is to change electoral districts to get an advantage at the polls so if there are more people, they count more.

Push / Pull Factors in Exploration

The Crusades CentralizedNation-States

Renaissance

Bubonic Plague

Marco Polo Reformation

Rebirth of Trade

Prince HenryThe Navigator

Mercantilism

ChristopherColumbus

Joint-Stock Companies

Ferdinand Magellan

Notable Concepts: French Colonization

• Lands Claimed: St. Lawrence River, Great Lakes, Mississippi River Valley

• Source of Wealth: Fur Trade

• Unique Trait: Forged deep trusting ties with the Natives (essentially dependent upon the Algonquin)

Notable Concepts: Dutch Colonization

• Large, active merchant fleet sought trading post in Americas

• “Patroons” = feudal landlords

• Unique Trait: First to promote heavy immigration for trade purposes

• Outcome: Diverse settlement remained loosely united with weak leadership (British takeover)

Notable Concepts: British Colonization

• Motivation: Economic ventures and religious toleration

• Unique Trait: Maryland, Massachusetts Bay, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Pennsylvania all founded by religious groups seeking freedom of worship

• Roanoke Jamestown Plymouth

• Form of Colonies: – Chartered: Rhode Island,

Massachusetts Bay, and Connecticut

– Proprietary: Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Georgia, Carolinas, Delaware

– Royal: All colonies (eventually)

– Why the change?

Reflection Questions• What long-term impacts did Spanish colonies

have on what would be the United States?• Why did the Spanish settle Florida and

California?• How was the treatment of Native Americans

by different European Countries?• What is the real story behind the story of

Pocahontas and Jamestown?

Settling the Colonies:• Between 1150-1650, England’s population increased from 3 to 5 million.• The colonies provided an outlet and an opportunity for people who

needed jobs or who lost farmland in England.• Many of these people became indentured servants but the number of

indentured servants differed from colony to colony.• 75-80 percent of the English men and women who came to

Virginia/Chesapeake in the 1600s were servants. 35 percent of those who came to New England were servants.

• In 1634, the King of England told officials in London to record information on all the people sailing abroad. He didn’t want England to lose its wealthier subjects and he wanted to make sure that passengers were loyal to the King and Church of England.

• Today, we’re going to look at two passenger lists from ships headed to the colonies.

Discussion:• What are the biggest differences between the two ships?• What does this information tell you about the differences between

New England and Virginia in the 1630s?• What do you think will change once plantation owners in the

Chesapeake area begin replacing indentured servants with African slaves?

• Imagine the setting: Officials are collecting this information as passengers board the ship? Is the setting noisy or orderly? Are officials guaranteed to get accurate information? How do you explain the fact that all the passengers swore allegiance to the Church of England (we know that many immigrants were religious dissenters, like the Puritans who were escaping because of religious persecution)?

• What more do you want to know about these passengers? What information is missing from these lists? How might you go about finding that information?

Avoiding Generalizations:

Were all British settlements the same? How did Jamestown and

Plymouth Differ?

The painting The First Thanksgiving 1621 is a useful resource for historians who wish to understand the relationship between the Wampanoag Indians and the Pilgrim settlers in 1621.

Do you agree or disagree?

The First Thanksgiving 1621 by J. L. G. Ferris (1932).

Homework:

None.