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1 | | What conditions shaped the character of English settlements in America? |
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2 | | What serious difficulties did the Virginia colonists face from the moment they landed? |
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3 | | How did the motives of the Virginia colonists differ from those of the separatists who settled in Plymouth? |
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4 | | Explain the importance of tobacco in the development of the Virginia colony. |
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5 | | Explain how exchanges of agricultural technology between Europeans and Native Americans helped Jamestown survive. |
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6 | | What led to Virginia becoming a royal colony? |
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7 | | What were the origins of the colony of Maryland? How did Maryland's early development differ from that of Virginia? |
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8 | | What were the origins of the political turmoil in Virginia during the 1670s? |
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9 | | How was Bacon's Rebellion related to the political unrest in Virginia, and what effect did the rebellion have on the development of that colony? |
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10 | | Describe the background of the Pilgrims and their motives for coming to America. |
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11 | | How did the Pilgrims' experience with the Indians differ markedly from that of the settlers in Virginia? |
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12 | | How did the turbulent events in England generate interest in colonization among certain English Puritans? What did these Puritans hope to accomplish? |
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13 | | How did the charter of the Massachusetts Bay Company influence the colony's first government? |
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14 | | What did the Puritans believe to be their purpose in coming to America (their "mission"), and how did church and state cooperate to achieve this goal? |
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15 | | How did the colony of Connecticut originate? Rhode Island? What does this expansion ("exodus") reveal about the colony of Massachusetts Bay? |
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16 | | What was the controversy surrounding Anne Hutchinson, and what does it reveal about Puritan religious and social beliefs? |
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17 | | What factors made relations between Indians and colonists in New England such a disaster for Native Americans? |
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18 | | What obstacles did the colonists have to overcome if they were to be successful in America? |
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19 | | How were conflicts between natives and settlers affected by earlier exchanges in technology between the English and the tribes? |
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20 | | How did the Stuart Restoration affect those colonies already established in America? How did it affect attitudes about founding more settlements? |
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21 | | How did the political, economic, social, and religious institutions established in Carolina reflect the proprietors' motives for starting the colony? |
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22 | | What sort of social order took root in the colony of Carolina? Why did it differ from that proposed under Carolina's Fundamental Constitution? |
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23 | | How did the existing Dutch settlements and institutions influence the development of New York? |
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24 | | What beliefs and practices characterized the Quakers, and how did their influence make Pennsylvania a unique colony? |
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25 | | Why were the Caribbean colonies the "most important destinations" for English immigrants throughout the first half of the seventeenth century? |
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26 | | What circumstances led to English colonization in the Caribbean? |
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27 | | What conditions led English planters to begin importing labor to the Caribbean Islands? |
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28 | | Why did Caribbean planters fear slave revolts? What steps did they take to prevent uprisings? |
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29 | | Why was it difficult to establish a stable society and culture in the Caribbean colonies? |
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30 | | Which colonies made up the Spanish borderlands and what sort of people settled there? |
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31 | | What role did the Spanish borderlands play in Spanish relations with England? |
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32 | | How did the purposes for which Georgia was founded differ from those of previous colonies? How were they similar? |
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33 | | What were the middle grounds? Which groups competed for them and what role did competition for this land play in the settlement and development of colonial North America? |
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34 | | What attempts did England make to regulate its colonies between 1660 and 1700? What moved the mother country to consider regulation at this time, and how was it enforced? |
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35 | | What were the origins of the Dominion of New England, and what was the colonial reaction to it? |
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36 | | What impact did the Glorious Revolution have on England's North American colonies? |
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