Document / Reading Assignment #1

Source: “Our Plantation Is Very Weak” - The Experiences of an Indentured Servant in Virginia (1623)

Questions:
1.What were the goals and motivations behind English colonization of the Chesapeake?
2.Why was the survival rate so low for the English settlers of early Virginia?
3.What was the headright system? How did this policy promote British migration to the New World?
4.What was the nature of the early relationship between the Virginia colonists and the local native Indian tribes? What
happened in 16ss that changed that relationship?
5.How did the introduction of tobacco to the Chesapeake region affect the colony of Virginia?
6.Explain the system of indentureship. What was life like for indentured servants?
7.Why did indentured servants become important to the early Virginia economy and society?
8.Describe the changing population, social patterns, and daily life of the Chesapeake tobacco coast in the 17c.
9.Why was Maryland founded? How did it differ from the Virginia colony?

Terms:

Jamestown, VA Virginia Company Captain John Smith Powhatan (1) (2) Pocahontas John Rolfe headright system House of Burgesses

royal colony George Calvert proprietorship Maryland Toleration Act (1) (2) - 1649 indentured servant [poem] freeholder Maryland House of Delegates

Document / Reading Assignment #2

Sources: The Mayflower Compact (1620)
A Model of Christian Charity - John Winthrop (1630)

Questions:
1.What were the factors in 17c England which led to colonization in North America?
2.What were some of the religious beliefs of the early Puritans who settled in New England? Why were they called
Puritans?
3.What were the differences between Puritans and Pilgrims?
4.How did the Pilgrims' experiences with Native Americans differ from that of the Virginia settlers?
5.According to their leader, John Winthrop, what did the Puritans believe to be their purpose in coming to America?
6.What factors caused relations between the Native Americans and the colonists in New England to result in the Pequot
War?
7.List some of the reasons for dissent in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
8.What threat did Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson pose to the Massachusetts Bay leadership?
9.What did the challenges to Puritan authority reveal about Puritan religious and social beliefs?
10.What was the basis of economic wealth in the New England colonies?
11.How was agriculture and the economy in New England different from that in the South?
12.How was New England society different from that created in the Chesapeake colonies?

Terms:

English Reformation "The Great Migration" Puritan(1) (2) (3) Church of England [Anglican Church] Congregationalists "middling sort" Pilgrims [Separatists] the "elect" Mayflower Compact (1620)

Pokanokets [Wampanoags] Massoit Squanto MA Bay Colony John Winthrop (pic) covenant Fundamental Orders of CT(1) (2) New England town meetings

Pequot War John Elliot "praying towns" Roger Williams Anne Hutchinson "covenant of grace" antinomianism

Document / Reading Assignment #3

Sources: textbook:

Questions:
1.What events in England between 1640 and 1720 had a major impact on colonial American society?
2.Why was there a new wave of English colonies founded after 1660?
3.Why were the Dutch unable to maintain a colony in New York? How were the British able to acquire it?
4.What plans did William Penn have for the establishment of a new colony from the land granted him by King Charles II?
5.Identify the key beliefs and practices of the Quakers.
6.How did the influence of the Quakers make Pennsylvania an unique colony?
7.Why did social and political tensions eventually occur in the Pennsylvania colony?
8.What sort of social order took root in the Carolinas? Why did the different from that proposed under Carolina's Fundamental
Constitution?
9.What were the long-term effects of trade with the Europeans for Native Americans?
10.Distinguish between Native American and European concepts of land ownership. How did these differences impact land control?
11.Why did the Pueblo Indians revolt in 1680? What were the long-term consequences of the rebellion?
12.What were the causes of King Philip's War? What were the long-term affects on Native Americans? on the New England colonists?
13.Why did Bacon's Rebellion occur in 1675-1676? How was it related to the general political unrest in Virginia at the time?

Terms:

Restoration colonies Duke's Laws Dutch Reformed Church Sir George Carteret Quakers [Society of Friends] William Penn Fundamental Orders of Connecticut (1) (2) Iroquois Confederacy

Popé Pueblo Revolt Wampanoags King Philip's War Gov. William Berkeley Nathaniel Bacon

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