 | Transplantations and Borderlines
Chapter Two Main Themes- The origins, objectives, and shaping influences of England's first settlements in the New World.
- How and why English colonies in the Chesapeake, New England, and Mid-Atlantic differed from one another in purpose and administration.
- The problems that arose as colonies matured and expanded, and how colonists attempted to solve them.
- The impact that events in England had on the development of colonies in British America.
A thorough study of Chapter Two should enable the student to understand:
- The differences between the Jamestown and Plymouth colonies in terms of objectives, types of settlers, early problems, and reasons for success.
- The origins of representative government, slavery, and religious toleration in the Chesapeake.
- The importance of Indian agricultural techniques to the survival of early English colonies.
- The differences in origin and outlook between the two Chesapeake colonies, Virginia and Maryland.
- The causes and consequences of Bacon's Rebellion in 1676.
- The background of the Massachusetts Bay colony and its founders, the Puritans.
- The conditions in Puritan Massachusetts Bay that spawned such dissenters as Thomas Hooker, Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson.
- The expansion of the original settlements and the influences of the New World frontier on the colonists.
- The events contributing to the deterioration of English relationships with Native-Americans in the Massachusetts Bay colony area.
- The reason for the lack of new English colonies in the New World between 1632 and 1663.
- The origins and development of Carolina and the colonies of the Mid-Atlantic - New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.
- The significance of the Caribbean colonies in the British-American colonial system.
- The character of African slavery in Barbados and the Caribbean.
- The continued flourishing of the Spanish empire and the impact this had on the British-American colonial system.
- The practical and ideological considerations that spurred the founding of Georgia.
- The early economic, religious, and political factors in the colonies that tended to produce sectional differences.
- The effects of the "Middle Grounds" on the development of the American colonies.
- The political events leading up to the Glorious Revolution, and the impact it had on the English colonies in the New World.
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