US Era One
Era 1: Three Worlds Meet (Beginnings to 1620)
Standard 1
Comparative characteristics of societies in the Americas, Western Europe, and Western Africa that increasingly interacted after 1450.
Standard 1A: The student understands the patterns of change in indigenous societies in the Americas up to the Columbian voyages.
Teaching Unit: Early Jamestown
Standard 1B: The student understands changes in Western European societies in the age of exploration. World
Standard 1C: The student understands developments in Western African societies in the period of early contact with Europeans.
Standard 1D: The student understands the differences and similarities among Africans, Europeans, and Native Americans who converged in the western hemisphere after 1492.
Standard 2
How early European exploration and colonization resulted in cultural and ecological interactions among previously unconnected peoples
Teaching Unit: Three Worlds Meet
Standard 2A: The student understands the stages of European oceanic and overland exploration, amid international rivalries, from the 9th to 17th centuries.
Standard 2B: The student understands the Spanish and Portuguese conquest of the Americas. WorldWorld
Era 2: Colonization and Settlement (1585-1763)
Standard 1
Why the Americas attracted Europeans, why they brought enslaved Africans to their colonies, and how Europeans struggled for control of North America and the Caribbean
Standard 1A: The student understands the European struggle for control of North America.
Standard 1B: The student understands the European struggle for control of North America.
Teaching Unit: Early Jamestown
Standard 2
Why the Americas attracted Europeans, why they brought enslaved Africans to their colonies, and how Europeans struggled for control of North America and the Caribbean
Standard 1A: The student understands the European struggle for control of North America.
Standard 1B: The student understands the European struggle for control of North America. World
Standard 3
How the values and institutions of European economic life took root in the colonies, and how slavery reshaped European and African life in the Americas.
Standard 3A: The student understands colonial economic life and labor systems in the Americas.
World History
Era 6
Standard 1
How the transoceanic interlinking of all major regions of the world from 1450 to 1600 led to global transformations
Standard 6
Major global trends from 1450 to 1770.
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