What motivated the European world powers to explore the Americas.

Pick one (1) of the following topics. Then, address the corresponding questions/prompts for your selected topic:
Option 1: Exploration and Effects on Native Americans
• Explain what motivated the European world powers to explore the Americas.
• Describe the economic effects of exploration based on the Colombian exchange.
• Analyze the effects of exploration on Native Americans.
• Based on research, analyze if Europeans might be held accountable for transmitting Old World diseases to people in the Western Hemisphere.
Option 2: Slavery vs. Indentured Servitude
• Explain how and why slavery developed in the American colonies.
• Describe in what ways the practice of slavery was different between each colonial region in British North America.
• Analyze the differences between slaves and indentured servants.
Option 3: Women in Colonial America
• Pick two colonies (New England, Middle, or Southern colonies) and explain how women’s roles differ in the two colonies of your choice.
• Describe what legal rights women held during the colonial period.
• Analyze how Native women’s lives were different from colonial women’s lives.

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