CHAPTER 2 ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS
1. What factors prevented England from
colonizing North America before 1558?
Why/How did the situation change after
1558?
2. What challenges did England initially
encounter in colonizing North America?
3. Describe the significance of England’s
defeat of the Spanish Armada.
4. What factors set the stage and
encouraged English colonization in North
America?
5. What challenges did Jamestown
settlers face?
How did they overcome them in the short
term? In the long-term?
6. Describe the 3 D’s and how they each
contributed to the decline of Indians in
Virginia.
7. Why was tobacco a poor man’s crop?
8. What were the negative effects of
Virginia’s reliance on tobacco?
9. Who settled Maryland? Why? How did
it develop?
10. Explain the significance of the Act of
Toleration.
11. How was sugar a rich man’s crop?
12. How did English colonization of the
West Indies affect North America?
13. Explain the significance of the
Barbados Slave Code.
14. Who settled South Carolina? Why?
How did it develop?
15. Who settled North Carolina? Why?
How did it develop?
16. How did the English subdue Indians in
the Carolinas?
17. How was Georgia a “buffer”?
18. What characteristics were shared by all
the plantation colonies?
19. Who made up the preferred labor force
in the colonies in the first half of the
1600s? Why were they preferred over
other groups?
CHAPTER 3 ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS
1. How did the Reformation influence the development of colonies in North America?
2. Who were Puritans? Explain their central beliefs.
3. Who were Separatists? How did they differ from Puritans? Why did King James I feel they
were a threat?
4. Where was the Mayflower originally headed?
5. What are squatters?
6. Explain the significance of the Mayflower Compact.
7. How did the Massachusetts Bay Colony differ from Plymouth?
8. What was the Great Migration? Where did most migrate to?
9. How did the New England economy develop? What were the main economic activities?
10. Explain the “covenant” colonists made in Massachusetts Bay.
11. To what extent was Massachusetts Bay democratic? To what extent was it tolerant?
12. How did Puritan settlements differ from Virginia?
13. Explain the significance of the Fundamental Orders.
14. Summarize the interactions between the English and Indians in New England.
15. Explain the significance of King Philip’s War.
16. What were the” seeds of colonial unity and independence”?
17. Who was Sir Edmund Andros? How did New England Colonists respond to him?
18. What were the Navigation Laws?
19. What is salutary neglect? Why did it occur?
20. Who originally settled what is now New York? Why? How did the English take it over?
21. Who settled Pennsylvania? Why? How did it develop?
22. What characteristics were shared by the middle colonies?