1Why did European settlement lead to the expansion of hostilities among the Indians?
Many settlers found only hard labor and an early death in the New World. Others flourished only because they exploited the Indians, indentured servants, or Africans.
2What were the consequences of the trade and commerce between the English settlers and the southern indigenous peoples?
Resistance by Native Americans to relocate resulted in conflicts that caused the deaths of 3000 Native Americans. Forcing tribes to relocate and to adjust to isolated reservations often unsuitable for the subsistence farming they were encouraged to undertake, made many of them dependent on the US government for annuities and supplies. They had difficulty trying to develop economic systems of their own.
3How were the relationships between the settlers and the members of the Iroquois League different from those between settlers and the Indians in other regions?
4What did the stockholders of the Virginia Company hope to gain from the 1st 2 English colonies in North America?
They hope to attract new settlers with the promise of free land after 7 years of labor.
5How were the 1st English settlements different from the Spanish settlements in North America?
English colonists in both New England and Virginia fought regularly with the tribes on their borders. The Spanish settlements did not.
6What were the major differences between Jamestown and Plymouth?
7Why did Lord Baltimore create Maryland?
To let Catholics have religious freedom. He established a code of laws for the protection of catholics called "act of toleration" which protects Catholics from being persecuted.
8How was Maryland different from Virginia?
Maryland was the 1st proprietary colony. Virginia's colonial government structure resembled that of England's country courts and contrasted with the theocratic government of Massachusetts Bay.
9What were the main characteristics of Maryland's 1632 charter?
10Why did European settlers 1st populate the Plymouth colony?
11How were the settlers of the Massachusetts Bay colony different from those of Plymouth?
12What was the origin of the Rhode Island colony?
It began as a refuge for dissenters who agreed that the state had no right to coerce religious belief.
13How were the Carolina colonies created?
14What were the impediments to settling North Carolina?
15How did the lords proprietors settle South Carolina? What were the major items traded by settlers in South Carolina?
Tobacco, cotton, corn, vegetables, grain, fruit, and livestock.
16Why was New Jersey divided in half?
The Duke of York granted his lands between the Hudson and Delaware rivers to Sir George Carteret and Lord John Berkeley (brother of Virginia's governor) and named the territory for Carteret's native Jersey, an island in the English channel. In 1676, by mutual agreement, the colony was divided by a diagonal line into East and West Jersey, with Carteret taking the East.
17Why did Quakers choose to settle in Pennsylvania?
William Penn, who was given the land that became Pennsylvania, was a Quaker, and established the colony of one of complete freedom, and thus, the quakers flocked.
18How did the relations between European settlers and Indians in Pennsylvania differ from such relations in the other colonies?
The relations between the Indians and the Quakers were cordial from the beginning, because of the Quakers' friendliness and Penn's careful policy of purchasing land titles from the Indians.
19How were Africans captured and enslaved?
20What were some of the experiences faced by most Africans on the Middle Passage?
The men were usually shackled together in pairs using leg irons or shackles. People were packed so close that they could not get to the toilet buckets and so lay in their own filth. seasickness, heat, and lack of air all contributed to the terrible smell.
21How did enslave African Americans create a new culture?
Each clung to their own tribal memories, and did their best to preserve them by story-telling.