·Portuguese and Spanish exploration and conquest
·Columbian Exchange
·Patterns of Spanish colonization
·Encomienda system
·Capitalism
·Pueblo Revolt (called Popé’s Rebellion in American Pageant, pp. 21–22)
·Patterns of British colonization
·Development of British American system of slavery
·Chesapeake colonies (Virginia and Maryland)
·British colonies along Southern Atlantic Seaboard (Carolinas and Georgia)
·British colonies in West Indies
·Patterns of British colonization
·New England colonies
·Puritans
·Protestant evangelism
·“Atlantic World”
·Diversity in middle colonies
·Patterns of Dutch colonization
·British imperial system
·Mercantilism
·Salutary neglect (stated in Curriculum Framework as half century of the British government’s relative indifference to colonial governance) 
·Atlantic slave trade
·Indentured servants
·British imperial system
·Anglicization
·Protestant evangelicalism
·Trans-Atlantic print culture