Virginia Company
Prince Henry
Lord Baltimore
Roger Williams
Sir Walter Raleigh
Middle Passage
Anne Hutchinson
Roanoke
Half-Way Covenant
Squanto
Indentured Servants
John Smith
Humphrey Gilbert
Jamestown
General Court
John Rolfe
Navigation Acts
Crusades
Ireland
John Winthrop
Slave Factories
Covenant
Starving Time
New France
St. Augustine
Maryland
Anasazi
Puritans
Joint Stock
Company
Seperatists
Eastern Woodland
Indians
Beringia
Staple Crops
Columbian
Exchange
Plymouth
William Penn
Mercantilism
Sea Dogs
Salem Witchcraft
Trials
Mayflower Compact
Christopher
Columbus
Massachusetts Bay
Cahokia
Vikings
William Bradford
Bacon’s Rebellion
Francis Drake
Town meeting
Essays:
1. Discuss the impact of the transfer of plants, animals and diseases on both the Old
and the New World.
2. Examine the similarities and differences between the lifestyle of the Chesapeake
colonists and that of the New England colonists around 1640.
3. What did John Winthrop mean when he spoke of his “city upon a hill”? To what
extent were the Puritans successful in building that city?
4. Examine the forces present in Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
that lead to colonization of the New World.
5. Discuss the cases of Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson. Why were Williams
and Hutchinson perceived as threats by the Puritan authorities? What do these
cases tell us about the belief system of the Puritan authorities in Massachusetts?
6. What was mercantilism and how did it shape the economic and political
relationship between England and her colonies?
7. Discuss England’s colonial efforts before 1620, and indicate the causes for
failure. How did the experiences of the English in Ireland influence their colonial
policies in America.
8. Pre-Columbian Native Americans were not exclusively nomadic, nor did they live
exclusively in small villages. Many lived in major cities. Describe such preColumbian cities, using Cahokia as an example.