Question 1

Unlike the English, the Spanish projected a place in their colonies for ________.

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Question 2

The medieval religious order that would become key to the settlement of Spanish North America was the ________.

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Question 3

Describe Powhatan's reactions to the arrival of the English in the Chesapeake. Why did Powhatan allow the settlement at Jamestown to survive?

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Question 4

What was mercantilism? Why did the logic of mercantilist ideas encourage King James to grant a charter to the Virginia Company?

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Question 5

Discuss the causes of Bacon's Rebellion in Virginia. Compare and contrast the causes and character of that rebellion with the causes and character of Coode's Rebellion in Maryland.

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Question 6

Describe how the Virginia colony was transformed from a colony in which most unfree laborers were white servants to one in which black slavery was firmly established.

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Question 7

Discuss the ways in which the character and composition of the black population and the institution of slavery in the Chesapeake changed between the middle of the seventeenth century and the early decades of the eighteenth century.

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Question 8

What explains the greater stability of white society in South Carolina after about 1730?

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Question 9

Why did Georgia's idealistic founders fail in their plan to create a small farmer's utopia?

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Question 10

Compare and contrast the Spanish treatment of native peoples in the Southwest with relations between Indians and English settlers in the colonial American Southeast.

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Question 11

Does the text's account of Powhatan's confederacy reinforce or contradict the notion of the Chesapeake Indians as "noble savages"who lived a simpler life than did the Europeans who reached their shores? Explain why.

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Question 12

Imagine that you were one of the leaders of the English settlement at Jamestown. What could you have done to lessen the hardships or to prevent the tragedies that took place during the first fifteen years of settlement?

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Question 13

Without tobacco, the Virginia Colony would never have survived. Make a case for that thesis, using what you know of the colony's history.

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Question 14

Explain how sugar and tobacco played similar roles in Virginia and in the Caribbean colonies.

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Question 15

Discuss and assess the following statement from the textbook: "All that saved white society in the Chesapeake from renewed crisis and conflict [after Bacon's and Coode's rebellions] was the growth of black slavery."

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Question 16

One of Virginia's biggest planters, William Byrd, boasted that, "I am dependent upon no one but Providence."In what ways were Byrd and other planters like him powerful and independent? In what ways were they more dependent than Byrd realized?

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Question 17

Was it inevitable that black slavery emerged as the dominant labor system in the Chesapeake? In South Carolina? Could planters in either colony have adopted alternatives-free white workers? White indentured servants? Indian slaves or servants?

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Question 18

Discuss the relationship that existed between the Spanish in the Southwest and the Pueblo Indians.

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Quiz 3: Colonization and Conflict in the South 1600-1750