Help your students strengthen their historical thinking skills with this focused and easy-to-use exit ticket activity! Aligned to APUSH Topic 2.1 and the MIG (Migration and Settlement) theme, this resource guides students through writing a contextualization paragraph about European colonization in the early 1600s. Students are prompted to connect broader historical developments—such as religious conflict, economic ambition, and imperial rivalry—to the colonization efforts of England, Spain,