• textbook --> pp. 38-44
• Summer reading --> documents from the chapter on the Jamestown settlement.
• AMSCO --> pp. 7-9; 23-26.

1. What were the basic motivations for settlement of the joint stock company which bankrolled the Jamestown colony?
2. What type of individual did they recruit?
3. Why was the survival rate so low for the English settlers of early Virginia?
4. What was the headright system?  How did this policy promote British migration to the New World?
5. What was the nature of the early relationship between the Virginia colonists and the local native Indian tribes?  What happened in 1622 to change that relationship?
6. Why did Virginia eventually become a royal colony?
7. How did the introduction of tobacco into the Chesapeake region affect the Virginia colony?
8. Explain the system of indentureship.  What was life like for indentured servants?  Why did they become important to the early Virginian economy and society?
9. Why was Maryland founded?  How did it differ from Virginia?
10. How did political turmoil back in England affect colonial politics in Maryland?

                          ASSIGNMENT 2:

• textbook --> pp. 44-51.
• summer reading --> documents from the chapter on the Puritans.
• AMSCO - pp. 9-10; 26-28.

1. What were some of the religious beliefs of the early Puritans who settled in New England?  Why were they called "Puritans"?
2. How were the Pilgrims different theologically from the Puritans?
3. How did the Pilgrims experience with the Native American Indians differ from that of the Virginia settlers?
4. Why did the turbulent events in England generate interest in colonization among certain English Puritans?  
5. According to their leader, John Winthrop, what did the Puritans believe to be their purpose in coming to America?
6. Describe the Massachusetts General Court and compare its structure and function to the Virginia House of Burgesses.
7. What factors caused relations between the Native Americans and the colonists in New England to result in the Pequot War?
8. List some of the reasons for dissent in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.  What threat did Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson pose to the Massachusetts 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?  How was agriculture and the economy in New England different from that in the South?
11. What was the function and importance of the New England town?  How was New England society different from that created in the Chesapeake colonies?

                         ASSIGNMENT 3:

• textbook --> pp. 51-59.
• AMSCO --> pp. 28-32.
• American Colonies (brief chart)

1. What circumstances led to English colonization in the Caribbean?
2. What conditions led English planters to begin importing labor to the Caribbean islands?
3. How did sugar transform the West Indies?
4. Why did Caribbean planters fear slave revolts?  What steps did they take to prevent uprisings?
5. Why was it difficult to establish a stable society and culture in the Caribbean colonies?
6. How did the political, economic, social, and religious institutions established in the Carolinas reflect the proprietors' motives for starting the colony?
7. What sort of social order took root in Carolina?  Why did it differ from that proposed under Carolina's Fundamental Constitution?
8. What plans did William Penn have for the establishment of a new colony from the land granted him by King Charles II?
9. What beliefs and practices characterized the Quakers?
10. How did the influence of the Quakers make Pennsylvania a unique colony?  Why did social and political tensions eventually occur in the Pennsylvania colony?
11. Why were the Dutch unable to maintain a colony in New York?  How were the British able to acquire it?
12. Why did power in New York remain widely despised?  Why shared this power?

DBQ --> New England v. the Chesapeake
AMSCO book --> pp. xiv-xxxii