Exam 2: American Experiments, 1521-1700

How were Spanish,French,and Dutch colonial strategies similar? How did they differ? In what ways were the similarities and differences reflected in the nations' settlements in the New World?

Which of the following was true of the English outwork textile industry that emerged around 1500?

What caused the Spanish Netherlands revolt against Spanish rule in 1566?

Answer the following questions : -Pueblo Revolt

Compare the Indian uprising in Virginia in 1622 with Bacon's Rebellion in 1675.What were the consequences of each for Virginia's economic and social development?

More than 200,000 Spaniards from Castile migrated to America in the 1500s in order to escape

For this question,refer to the following two quotations. "This Island [Barbados] is one of the Richest Spots of ground in the World....The gentry here doth Hue [appear] far better than ours do in England: they have most of them 100 or 2 or 3 of slaves ...and they have that Liberty of conscience which wee so long have in England fought for: But they do abuse it.This Island is inhabited with all sorts: with English,French,Dutch,Scots,Irish ...with Indians and miserable Negroes borne to perpetual slavery they and their seed....This Island is the Dunghill whereon England doth cast forth its rubbish....A rogue in England will hardly make a cheater here: a Bawd brought over puts on a demure comportment,a whore if handsome makes a wife for some rich planter." Henry Whistler's Journal,1655 "But it may be objected that it is too cold a country for our English men,who have been accustomed to a warmer climate.To which it may be answered ... ,there is wood good store and better cheap to build warm houses and make good fires,which makes the winter less tedious....[W]hereas many do disparage the land,saying a man cannot live without labor,in that they more disparage and discredit themselves in giving the world occasion to take notice of their dronish disposition that would live off the sweat of another man's brows.Surely they were much deceived,or else ill informed,that ventured thither in hope to live in plenty and idleness....For all in New England must be workers of some kind....And howsoever they are accounted poor,they are well contented and look not so much at abundance as at competency." William Wood,New England's Prospect,1634 An important cause for the varying accounts of colonial life described in these excerpts was the

Answer the following questions : -town meeting

What were the major social and environmental developments that made America a new world for both Europeans and Indians?

Answer the following questions : -predestination

Answer the following questions : -Metacom's War

Explain why there were no major witchcraft scares in the Chesapeake colonies and no uprising like Bacon's Rebellion in New England.Consider the possible social,economic,and religious causes of both phenomena.

Answer the following questions : -Puritans

Why was William Berkeley significant in the Chesapeake region in the seventeenth century?

Answer the following questions : -headright system

Answer the following questions : -indentured servitude

King Henry VIII started the English Reformation by

For this question,refer to the following two quotations. "This Island [Barbados] is one of the Richest Spots of ground in the World....The gentry here doth Hue [appear] far better than ours do in England: they have most of them 100 or 2 or 3 of slaves ...and they have that Liberty of conscience which wee so long have in England fought for: But they do abuse it.This Island is inhabited with all sorts: with English,French,Dutch,Scots,Irish ...with Indians and miserable Negroes borne to perpetual slavery they and their seed....This Island is the Dunghill whereon England doth cast forth its rubbish....A rogue in England will hardly make a cheater here: a Bawd brought over puts on a demure comportment,a whore if handsome makes a wife for some rich planter." Henry Whistler's Journal,1655 "But it may be objected that it is too cold a country for our English men,who have been accustomed to a warmer climate.To which it may be answered ... ,there is wood good store and better cheap to build warm houses and make good fires,which makes the winter less tedious....[W]hereas many do disparage the land,saying a man cannot live without labor,in that they more disparage and discredit themselves in giving the world occasion to take notice of their dronish disposition that would live off the sweat of another man's brows.Surely they were much deceived,or else ill informed,that ventured thither in hope to live in plenty and idleness....For all in New England must be workers of some kind....And howsoever they are accounted poor,they are well contented and look not so much at abundance as at competency." William Wood,New England's Prospect,1634 The two excerpts quoted above would be most useful to historians analyzing

Why did Plymouth begin to thrive after its first year while Jamestown struggled for many years?

How were the Spanish conquistadors,Nathaniel Bacon's frontiersmen,and the Puritans similar?