(Virginia and Maryland)
Directions:
a) Read American Pageant Chapter 2: The Planting of English America pp. 24-32.
b) Complete the Guided Reading Assignment (above) Part 1
c) Be able to complete discussion questions for chapter below
a) Read American Pageant Chapter 2: The Planting of English America pp. 24-32.
b) Complete the Guided Reading Assignment (above) Part 1
c) Be able to complete discussion questions for chapter below
Chapter 2 Guided Reading: Read Chapter 2 (pp. 24-39) in American Pageant textbook.
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Student Notes for Virginia and Marlyand
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Discussion Questions: You should be able to form answers. Any question that gives you trouble should be researched further through the textbook or outside sources.
- What were the goals and motivations behind English colonization of the Chesapeake?
- Why was the survival rate so low for the English settlers of early Virginia?
- How did the introduction of tobacco to the Chesapeake region affect the colony of Virginia?
- What was the headright system? What incentives were established by the Virginia Company to promote British migration to the New World?
- Explain the system of indentureship. What was life like for indentured servants?
- How did the evolution of the Virginia colony between 1607 and 1625 reveal the impact of New World conditions on aims and expectations?
- What was the nature of the early relationship between the Virginia colonists and the local native Indian tribes? What happened in 1622 that changed that relationship?
- What agricultural techologies and methods did the English settlers learn from the Native Indians?
- Why was Maryland founded? How did it differ from the Virginia colony? How were they similar?
- What powers did a proprietor have?
- What problems plagued the Maryland colony? How did Lord Baltimore attempt to resolve these problems?
- How did Governor William Berkeley's rule in Virginia change from 1642 to the mid-1670s?
- Why were the back-country settlers such an annoyance to the colonial government in the tidewater area?
- Why did Bacon's Rebellion occur in 1675-1676?
- Identify the reasons why Bacon's Rebellion was so significant for the Virginia colony in the early colonial period
CAROLINA and Georgia
Directions:
a) Read American Pageant Chapter 2: The Planting of English America pp. 32-39.
b) Complete the Guided Reading Assignment (above) Part 2
c) Be able to complete discussion questions for chapter below
d) Complete the Chapter 2 Reading Evaluation
a) Read American Pageant Chapter 2: The Planting of English America pp. 32-39.
b) Complete the Guided Reading Assignment (above) Part 2
c) Be able to complete discussion questions for chapter below
d) Complete the Chapter 2 Reading Evaluation
Presentation Notes for Carolinas and Georgia
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Questions for Discussion:
- How did the Stuart Restoration [1660-1688] affect attitudes about founding more settlements?
- How was the charter for the Carolina settlement similar to that of Maryland?
- What incentives did the Carolina proprietors offer for settlement? Why was it different from that proposed under Carolina's Fundamental Constitution?
- How did southern Carolina's close ties with the British island of Barbados influence the development of the colony's society?
- Why were the Carolinas one of the most unstable of all the English colonies in America?
- Why did African slavery almost immediately become the dominant labor system in South Carolina, while only taking firm hold in England's other southern colonies?
- Create a chart that identifies the similarities and differences among the southern colonies of Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia.
Chapter 2: Pageant Reading Evaluation
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