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Unit 01

Unit 01. European Exploration and Colonization. The Rationale. Diverse motivations, interests, and needs that brought settlers to North America Geographic regions that were first settled Factors that influenced the early colonists to come to the New World and why people migrate today

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Unit 01

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  1. Unit 01 European Exploration and Colonization

  2. The Rationale • Diverse motivations, interests, and needs that brought settlers to North America • Geographic regions that were first settled • Factors that influenced the early colonists to come to the New World and why people migrate today • Economic, religious, and political factors of the new colonies • Geographical tools to construct and interpret maps • Patterns of settlement that result from human and physical features that influence where people live

  3. TEKS • 5.1A • 5.6AB • 5.7ABC • 5.8ABC • 5.9AB • 5.10A • 5.17D • 5.24C • 5.25BD Other TEKS as applicable • 5.24ABCDE • 5.25ABCDE • 5.26AB

  4. The Key Understandings • People explore and colonize new geographic regions for different reasons and needs. • People use geographic tools to collect, analyze, and interpret data on geographic factors that influence where people live.

  5. Key Vocabulary • Exploration – to make a careful search for something by traveling to different places • Colonization-the process by which one nation establishes its presence in another region of the world • Region-area of the Earth’s surface with similar physical or human characteristics that are distinctive from the characteristics of neighboring areas • Geographic factors-physical characteristics of a place such as landforms, bodies and sources of water, vegetation, climate and weather patterns, and animal life • Migration- process of moving from one place to another place; social, economic, or environmental factors are involved

  6. Key People • Ponce de Leon • Pedro Menendez de Aviles • Christopher Columbus • Fernando Cortes • La Salle

  7. Key Events • 1565: St. Augustine founded • 16th-17th Century: European Exploration • 17th-18th Century: European Colonization

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