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Questions:
1. What factors allowed Europeans to increase their contact with the rest of the world and how did their efforts lead to contact with the Americas? In what ways did Spain, France, and England differ in their approach to colonization? What was each looking for and what did each expect to find? How did each define success?
2. What religious, political, and economic conditions in England influenced how the English people colonized North America? What led people to leave England? What did they hope to find? How did contact with North America shape the English colonies' development?
3. Describe the development of the Chesapeake colonies beginning with the foundation of Jamestown. What types of colonists were attracted to Virginia? How did the local geography shape the colony's development? What allowed the colony to succeed? How did the colony's economy and labor system change over the course of the 17th century? In what ways did Bacon's Rebellion reflect the economic and social trends in Virginia?
4. Describe the economy of Virginia. How did its economy shape the colony's development? How did it influence the settlement patterns? What type of labor system did it have and how and why did it change over the 17th century? Why did the Virginians increase their dependence on slavery and in what ways did race begin to shape the colony's society and economy?
5. What were Puritans? Why did they decide to leave England? What did they hope to accomplish by settling in North America? Describe the origins of their religious beliefs and analyze how these beliefs shaped the development of New England. In what ways did religious dissent increase over the 17th century and how did the Puritans attempt to maintain a commitment to their religious communities?
6. The origins of the British colonies in the Chesapeake and in New England were dramatically different. Yet, by the early 18th century the two regions had come to resemble each other in numerous ways. In what ways did they begin so differently from each other? In what ways did they come to resemble each other by the early 18th Century? In answering, consider differences in geography, demography, economy, and religion.