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| 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"? |