1. Settling the Northern Colonies

2. Unit Overview
Essential Question: Analyze the development of northern, middle, and southern colonies in America during the period
Themes
Tentative Due Dates
American diversity
Environment
Slavery and its legacies
Demographic Changes
Religion
Chapter 1-2: Summer Homework
Chapter 4 – Quiz Sept 11
Test Sept 17
Chapter 3 – Quiz Sept 5
DBQ Sept 17

3. Lecture Outline
Guiding question: Was colonial society a “transplant” of English society, or was its own unique culture?
Borderlands history
Northern colonies
Middle colonies
Hybrid cultures?
Development of Empire

4. Borderlands history
Borderlands
Syncretism

5. Northern Colonies Pilgrims Massachusetts Bay and the City Upon a Hill
Connecticut
Rhode Island
New Hampshire

7. Middle Colonies
New York
New Jersey
Pennsylvania

8. Hybrid cultures? Middle Ground Indian Agriculture Indian trading
King Philip’s War

9. Development of Empire
English Civil War
Dominion of New England

10. Bibliography
John Smith & Native Americans:
Captivity narrative:
John Winthrop:
Pilgrims:
Anne Hutchison:
Northern colonies map from Unfinished Nation by Alan Brinkley page 39
New Amsterdam:
William Penn:
Richard White:
Colonists/Indians trading:
Matchlock rifles in King Philip’s War:
Charles II:
Dominion of New England: