Review Questions

Chapter 3 pages 70-94, 96-102 and Chapter 2 pages 59-67

2. What is a joint-stock company? What role did the Virginia Company play in colonization of Jamestown? Why did colonists go to Jamestown? What was the relationship between early Virginia settlers and the natives?

3. Why was it a slow and difficult evolvement of colonial settlement in Virginia? Despite the many hardships, what crop started Virginia toward prosperity? How did they fill the need for more settlers/laborers in Virginia and Maryland?

4. Why is Maryland started? Who is the Proprietor of Maryland?

5. Describe the course and the consequences of Bacon's Rebellion in Virginia and King Philips War in New England. According to the text why does the south make the transition to slave labor?

6. What events led the Pilgrims to Plymouth?

7. Describe the beliefs, social patterns, education, and character of village life of the New England Puritans in early 17th century Massachusetts. What is New England's relationship to slavery?

8. How did Rhode Island come about? How was it politically different from the other New England colonies?

9. Most of the southern colonies are proprietary colonies. Why did this happen? How did the Carolinas develop?

10. How was the development of Pennsylvania different from the rest of the colonies? How were the Quakers viewed by other Christians? How did the colony reflect the later development of the United States?

11. Compare the different colonies to each other in the areas of how they started; their religion; toleration of other religions; political systems; and who had the right to vote.

12. Discuss whether you think utopian idealism (religion) or economic necessity was a more important motivation in the settlement and development of the English colonies.

13. Why did the African slave trade begin? When and why was it expanded to the Americas?