COLONIZATION
Questions and Thinking Points

Note:  these terms and questions are for study purposes only--you do not need to submit them for a grade

King James I
joint stock companies
Jamestown
Captain John Smith
John Rolfe
indentured servitude
House of Burgesses
First Anglo-Powhatan War
Second Anglo-Powhatan War
Bacon's Rebellion
John Calvin
Pilgims (aka Leyden Separatists)
William Bradford
Mayflower Compact
Plymouth Plantations
Puritans
King Charles I
Massachusetts Bay Co.
John Winthrop
The Great Migration
Roger Williams
Anne Hutchinson
Rhode Island

1.  What was the original purpose of the Jamestown/Virginia colony?  How and why did this change over time?
2.  What group settled the Plymouth Colony?  Why did they decide to settle there?
3.  Who settled Massachusetts Bay and why?
4.  What kind of communities emerged in Massachusetts Bay?
5.  What were relations like between New England colonists (in general) and local Indians?
6.  What challenges to the French face in their effort to settle North America?  In what ways were these settlements the same as, or different from, the English settlements in New England?
7.  What kind of colony did the Dutch build in New Netherland?
8.  How did the English Civil War affect the English colonies in North America?
9.  What was the main purpose behind the foundation of the Restoration colonies?
10.  Compare and contrast slavery in Virginia and the Carolinas.
11.  How did colonial reaction to the Dominion of New England establish a "model of resistance"?

This page last updated August 12, 2005.

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