Focus Questions
Chapter Focus Questions
Directions: Answer the questions below and turn in by each due date. They should be written in ink (not typed).
Chapter One: New World Beginnings
1. What was Native American society like before European contact? What similarities and differences existed?
2. What factors led to Europe’s increased exploration and to the discovery of the New World?
3. What was the role of conquistadores and encomienda in establishing a Spanish Empire in the New World?
4. What was the geographic extent of the Spanish Empire in the New World? What nations were challenging Spain’s dominance in the New World and where?
Chapter Two: The Planting of English America
1. What international events and domestic changes prompted England to begin colonization?
2. What was it like for the early settlers of Jamestown?
3. Why were Native Americans unable to repel the English colonization of North America?
4. What crops were important to the English colonies in the south of North America? How did the cultivation of those crops shape those colonies?
5. How did the English sugar plantations of the Caribbean differ from the English colonies in the south of North America?
6. How did slavery develop in North America during colonization?
Chapter Three: Settling the Northern Colonies
1. What religious turmoil in the Old World resulted in the little colony of Plymouth in the New World?
2. Why was the initial and subsequent colonization of the Massachusetts Bay Colony more successful than Plymouth?
3. How did the colony of Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay Colony contribute to the origins of American independence and government? What were the contributions to American independence and government from the New England Confederation, the Dominion of New England and the Glorious Revolution?
4. What role did religious intolerance play in the founding of New England colonies other than Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay and in the founding of some middle colonies?
5.
Directions: Answer the questions below and turn in by each due date. They should be written in ink (not typed).
Chapter One: New World Beginnings
1. What was Native American society like before European contact? What similarities and differences existed?
2. What factors led to Europe’s increased exploration and to the discovery of the New World?
3. What was the role of conquistadores and encomienda in establishing a Spanish Empire in the New World?
4. What was the geographic extent of the Spanish Empire in the New World? What nations were challenging Spain’s dominance in the New World and where?
Chapter Two: The Planting of English America
1. What international events and domestic changes prompted England to begin colonization?
2. What was it like for the early settlers of Jamestown?
3. Why were Native Americans unable to repel the English colonization of North America?
4. What crops were important to the English colonies in the south of North America? How did the cultivation of those crops shape those colonies?
5. How did the English sugar plantations of the Caribbean differ from the English colonies in the south of North America?
6. How did slavery develop in North America during colonization?
Chapter Three: Settling the Northern Colonies
1. What religious turmoil in the Old World resulted in the little colony of Plymouth in the New World?
2. Why was the initial and subsequent colonization of the Massachusetts Bay Colony more successful than Plymouth?
3. How did the colony of Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay Colony contribute to the origins of American independence and government? What were the contributions to American independence and government from the New England Confederation, the Dominion of New England and the Glorious Revolution?
4. What role did religious intolerance play in the founding of New England colonies other than Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay and in the founding of some middle colonies?
5.