Era 2: Themes From The Larger Picture: The Western World and America

A.  the unprecedented movement of peoples, products, ideas, and ways of life around and across the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans

B. colonization of non-European areas by Europeans, and the struggles for control in the Americas

C. the arrival of Europeans and Africans in the Americas, and how these people interacted with Native Americans

D. the emergence of political, social, and religious institutions in the Americas

E.  the transplanting of European economic values and institutions to the colonies

F. how slavery reshaped European and African life in the Americas

Era 2: New Hampshire Themes

A. the movement of people, products, ideas, and ways of life to and from New Hampshire [ Focus Questions II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII]

B. the arrival of Europeans and Africans in New Hampshire, and how they interacted with the Abenakis and with each other [ Focus Questions I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII ]

C.  the emergence of political institutions in New Hampshire and the tensions that resulted [ Focus Questions I, IV ]

D.  the emergence of religious institutions and practices in New Hampshire and the tensions that developed [ Focus Questions III, VI, VIII ]

E. European economic beliefs and practices such as mercantilism that affected New Hampshire [ Focus Questions I, II, III, VII]

F. how labor systemsincluding apprenticeships, indentured servitude, and slaveryshaped and were shaped by New Hampshire society
[Focus Questions II, IV, VI, VII ]

G. the impact of the environment on the early European settlement of New Hampshire [ Focus Questions I & II ]