Review Questions Chapter 3 pages 75-78 and Chapter 4 pages 80-96


1. How did the English Mercantile system try to regulate American possessions in the seventeenth century? What did the Navigation Acts call for and what were they trying to do?

2. What was the Glorious Revolution all about? What were the result in the colonials?

3. What does the Salem witchcraft incident reveal about the nature of colonial social order?

4. What were the characteristics of northern agriculture? Why did many New Englanders turn to trade or move west? What did northern farmers do besides farming?

5. What were conditions like for indentured servants and black slaves?

6. How were values changing in northern colonies?

7 After marriage what happen to a women's property rights?

8. What happen to the size of the slave population in the south? How did a women roles vary between planters and small frontier farmers?

9. What were the roles of religion and family for people who were slaves?

10. What position had France achieved in the New World by 1690? What were the causes and results of conflicts between France and England to 1713?

11. How the Spanish settlement doing in North America in the early 1700s?