 | TRANSPLANTATIONS AND BORDERLANDS
Main themes of Chapter Two:- The origins, objectives, and shaping influences of England's first settlements in the New World
- How and why English colonies in the Chesapeake, New England, and Mid-Atlantic differed from one another in purpose and administration
- The problems that arose as colonies matured and expanded, and how colonists attempted to solve them
- The impact that events in England had on the development of colonies in British America
A thorough study of Chapter Two should enable the student to understand the following:- The differences between the Jamestown and Plymouth colonies in terms of objectives, types of settlers, early problems, and reasons for success
- The origins of representative government, slavery, and religious toleration in the Chesapeake
- The importance of Indian agricultural techniques to the survival of early English colonies
- The differences in origin and outlook between the two Chesapeake colonies, Virginia and Maryland
- The causes and consequences of Bacon's Rebellion in 1676
- The background of the Massachusetts Bay colony and its founders, the Puritans
- The conditions in Puritan Massachusetts Bay that spawned such dissenters as Thomas Hooker, Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson
- The expansion of the original settlements and the influences of the New World frontier on the colonists
- The events contributing to the deterioration of English relationships with Native-Americans in the Massachusetts Bay colony area
- The reason for the lack of new English colonies in the New World for the nearly thirty year period after 1632
- The origins and development of Carolina and the colonies of the Mid-Atlantic: New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania
- The significance of the Caribbean colonies in the British-American colonial system
- The character of African slavery in Barbados and the Caribbean
- The continued flourishing of the Spanish empire and the impact this had on the British-American colonial system
- The practical and ideological considerations that spurred the founding of Georgia
- The early economic, religious, and political factors in the colonies that tended to produce sectional differences
- The effects of the "Middle Grounds" on the development of the American colonies
- The political events leading up to the Glorious Revolution, and the impact it had on the English colonies in the New World
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