• textbook --> 64-74.

1. What were the three features of the new society that developed in the Carolina colony as described at the beginning of Chapter 3?
2. What were the long-term effects of trade with the Europeans for the Native Americans?
3. Distinguish between Native American and European concepts of land ownership.  How did these differences impact land control?
4. Identify the differences and similarities between the French, Spanish, and British approaches to religious conversion of Native Americans.
5. What were the factors which led to the failed attempts by British colonists to enslave Native Americans?
6. Why did the British decide to convert to slave labor?
7. What were the causes of King Philip's War?  What were its long-term affects on Native Americans?    on the New England colonists?
8. Why did Bacon's Rebellion occur in 1675-1676?  How was it related to the general political unrest in Virginia at the time?
9. How did the Pueblo Indians respond to attempts by the Spanish to convert them to Catholicism?

                          ASSIGNMENT 2:

• textbook --> pp. 75-89.
• AMSCO -- > pp. 33-34.

1. Why were Native Americans not able to meet the labor needs of the English colonists?
2. What factors led to the shift from white indentured servants to slave labor in the Chesapeake colonies of Virginia and Maryland?
3. How did the purposes for which Georgia was founded differ from those of previous colonies?  How were they the same?
4. Why did fewer slaves live in the North?
5. What was the purpose of the slave codes which began to appear in the British colonies by the 18c?
6. What were the conditions of the Middle Passage for newly captured Africans?
7. What was the distinction between African-born and creole slaves?
8. How did the nature of slavery change by the 18c?  What caused this change?
9. How did the African slaves attempt to maintain their African culture and family life?
10. What was the cause of the Stono Rebellion?  What impact did it have on the emergence of the Negro Act in SC?
11. How did the Spanish methods of controlling Indian labor differ from those used by the French?    by the British?
12. How did geography and economics affect the choice of labor supply in New England?

                         ASSIGNMENT 3:

• textbook --> pp. 94-109.
• AMSCO --> pp. 44-50.

1. Explain the concept of mercantilism.  Create a CHART which illustrates the different types of mercantilist regulations, the goals of that type and the benefits gained and by whom.
2. How did the British government encourage the spirit of colonial enterprise?  How did the colonial system of credit impact colonial consumption of British goods?
3. What was the "God trade"?  What does it reveal about colonial economics?
4. What were the characteristics of 18c colonial urban centers?  How did they differ most from the interior settlements?
5. Describe the intellectual development of the colonists including literary rights, the nature of popular literature and the intellectual development of women.
6. List the major beliefs of the Enlightenment philosophers.  How was the Enlightenment a huge intellectual shift from the thinking of the past?
7. Why would Benjamin Franklin be considered the embodiment of Enlightenment ideals?
8. What were some of the growing tensions within the Puritan religious communities in the early 18c?  How was the Halfway Covenant a move to address these tensions?
9. How was religious life different in the South from that in New England?
10. What was the characteristic of religion in the Middle Colonies?
11. What was the "Great Awakening"?  Who brought it about and what groups supported or opposed it?  What was its impact on the theological and religious style in the American colonies?   on American educational institutions?
12. How did the Great Awakening and the Enlightenment influence colonial political behavior?

                          ASSIGNMENT 4:

• textbook --> pp. 109-113.

1. How did the character of Britain's Empire in the Americas change when James II became king in 1685?
2. What was the Dominion of New England?  Why did it fail?
3. Why did people accuse someone of witchcraft?
4. What was the "normal" profile of an accused witch?  Who were the typical accusers?
5. Why did "witchcraft" seem to appear so suddenly in Salem, MA in 1692?
6. What happened in Salem five years after the witch trials had ended?
7. What was the historical significance of the Salem witch craze hysteria of the late 17c?
8. Why was the period of the late 17c and early 18c called the "Era of Salutary Neglect"?
9. Why was it so difficult to reproduce the traditional social order from England to the colonies?
10. What was the difference between the concepts of virtual representation and actual representation?
11. How was the colonial government structure less centralized in practice than it appeared on paper?  Why were the colonial assemblies unique in the 18c?