Chapter 3 Focus Questions
1. As you read the chapter, think about the following prompt" Especially along the rocky shores of New England, it was not worldly wealth but religious devotion that shaped the earliest settlements." Support, refute, or modify this statement.
2. Compare and Contrast the Chesapeake and New England colonies. Why did they develop differently? Make sure to focus on climate and natural resources. You can create a chart with two columns, one for New England and one for the Chesapeake. Now create rows for different categories such as environment, geography, religion, economics, politics and society.
3. What were the causes of the demographic, religious and ethnic diversity in the middle colonies?
4. Explain how competition over resources among European rivals led to conflict between countries and the American Indians?
5. Explain and give examples of conflicts in Europe spreading to North America. Did various colonizers arm, trade and ally with Native American groups? Give examples. Did this cause instability? Explain.
6. Explain and give examples of European attempts to change American Indians beliefs and world views on the relationship of people with the natural environment. How did the American Indians respond to these attempts?
7. Explain how the British started to strengthen their imperial control in the face of growing internal and external challenges in the latter half of the 1600s. Give examples and explain mercantilism.
8. Did the colonies resist these efforts? How? How did Native Americans respond?
9. Once initial colonial resistance occurred, what was the British response? Why? Explain. Was this a turning point? Why or Why not?
10. What effect did the Puritans' distinctive religious outlook have on the development of the New England colonies? Did Religious leaders wield much power? Explain.
11. Why did Separatists and Puritans migrate to America?
12. Explain how the Great Migration promoted diverse colonies in different regions.
13. The New England and middle colonies were more similar than different in terms of motives for founding, religious and social composition, and political development. Support, refute, or modify this statement. Create a Venn diagram and then write a complex thesis statement to answer this question
14. Identify Anne Hutchinson and Roger Williams and their dissenting opinions about Puritan society. Which posed more of a threat to Puritan society? Explain.
15. Identify and describe the Dutch colonies. Continue to add to your chart of differences of Spanish, English, Dutch and French colonies in North America.
16. How are Dutch patroonships similar to and different from headrights in Virginia?
17. What Dutch traditions and folkways found their way into American society?
18. Identify Quakers and William Penn. What were the relations between Quakers and Natives?
19. Create a list of similarities and differences between the three groups of British colonies: New England, Middle and Southern.
20. Read Varying Viewpoints and explain each historians view in chronological order and then discuss how the era in which the historian lived influences their view.
Chapter 4 Focus Questions
1. As European nations competed in North America, explain how colonies focused on new sources of labor and acquiring commodities valued in Europe.
2. Discuss how the increasing exchanges within the Atlantic World and the growth of the Atlantic economy impacted the development of colonial societies in North America.
3. Trace the development of British racial and cultural superiority and discuss the impacts of this world view on Africans and Native Americans.
4.Explain how clashes between European and Indian social and economic values caused changes in both cultures.
5. Continue to trace the differences between the English patterns of colonization and the Dutch, French and Spanish.
6. Assess the change from indentured servitude to slavery in the British colonies. When did it happen? Where? Why? What were the impacts?
7. Identify Bacon's Rebellion and relate it to other rebellions in the colonies at the time. Did rebellions represent a resistance to Anglicization? Explain.
8. Read Examining the Evidence: An Indentured Servants Contract to gain a deeper understanding of this form of labor.
9. What are the causes of the development of the transatlantic slave trade?
10. Create a T chart of the strengths and weaknesses of indentured servitude and slavery as forms of labor.
11. What were the similarities and differences in the role of women in the three groups of British colonies.
12. Keep building on number 19 from Chapter 3 above.
13. What is the context behind the Mass. School law of 1647? What were its impacts?
14. What were the causes of the Salem Witch Trials? Did the trials illustrate tension in New England society? Explain.
15. Return now for one last look at the similarities and differences of the three major groups of British colonies and the British colonies to the Spanish, Dutch, French.
Chapter 5 Focus Questions
1. Colonial America was a melting pot from the outset. Do you agree or disagree after reading the chapter.
2. Identify the ways that the Great Awakening and colonial forms of gov't provide the roots of democracy in colonial society.
3. Discuss how differences between the British colonies diminished over time as culture. laws, governance and institutions became more uniform.
4. Discuss how protestant evangelism, religious toleration, and Enlightenment ideas promoted Anglicization.
5. Explain how resistance to imperial control in the British colonies drew on colonial experiences with self gov't and greater religious independence and diversity.
6.. How have changes in migration and population patterns affected American life and identity? Apply this to new backcountry cultures and explain how they fueled social and ethnic tensions.
7. What were the causes and effects of Leisler's Rebellion, the march of the Paxton Boys, and the regulator movements?
8. Explain ways African-Americans resisted slavery in the 1700s.
9. What were the causes of the stratification of colonial society in the 18th century?
10. What were the leading industries in America 1700-1775 and how was the economic success of the colonies tied to European markets and transatlantic trade? Which groups were involved with which industry?
11. Identify and explain the importance of triangle trade routes.
12. European leaders and colonial leaders had divergent interests. Give examples and relate this to resistance to imperial control.
13. Why were churches initially publicly funded and then this status changed over time?
14. How did the Great Awakening of the 1730s and 1740s strengthen the colonists' belief in themselves as the chosen people? How did this later lead to greater resistance to imperial control?
15. To what extent did life in the colonies change from the 17th to the 18th century. To help answer this create a T chart with the 1600's in one column and the 1700's in the next column. On the left hand side pick topics to explore such as politics, religion, culture, social norms, economics etc.
16. Are the British colonies becoming more European or less? Explain.
17. Identify the Zenger Trial and its importance.
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