LESSON TWO

GENESEE ACADEMY SOCIAL SCIENCE

LESSON TWO

COLONIAL ENGLISH

The English claimed a part of the area that would become the United States. However, they began 100 years after the Spanish. Why? What part did the English Civil War play in English colonization? Who were the people who began the thirteen different colonies? What were the goals for these separate groups?

TERMS TO CONSIDER

New England

Puritans

Mayflower Compact

Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

Quakers

Virginia

Oliver Cromwell

Cavaliers

AP EXAM QUESTION

2006 FORM A, PART B

Question 2

Analyze the difference between the Spanish settlements in the Southwest and the English colonies in New England in the seventeeth century in terms of TWO of the following.

Politics

Religion

Economic development

READING TO CONSIDER

after reading: SOAPS

MAYFLOWER COMPACT

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,..." Declaration of Independence, 1776