Content Specification - SS.11.1.a.1:
Students will trace European contact with Native Americans including the Dutch, the English, the French and the Spanish.

Content Specification - SS.11.1.a.2:
Students will examine the impact of European colonization on Native Americans who eventually lost much of their land and experienced a drastic decline in population through diseases and armed conflict.

Content Specification - SS.11.1.b.1:
Students will examine the impact of geographic factors on patterns of settlement and the development of colonial economic systems.

Content Specification - SS.11.1.b.2:
Students will examine the factors influencing variations in colonial social structures and labor systems.

Content Specification - SS.11.1.b.3:
Students will analyze slavery as a deeply established component of the colonial economic system and social structure, indentured servitude vs. slavery, the increased concentration of slaves in the South, and the development of slavery as a racial institution.

Content Specification - SS.11.1.c.1:
Students will examine colonial political institutions to determine how they were influenced by Enlightenment ideas, British traditions such as the Magna Carta, and the colonial experience.

Content Specification - SS.11.1.c.2:
Students will examine colonial democratic principles by studying documents such as the Mayflower Compact and the Maryland Toleration Act of 1649, colonial governmental structures such as New England town meetings and the Virginia House of Burgesses, and the practice of the right of petition in New Netherland.