Chapter 2 Reading Response Questions

This assignment must be e-mailed to spartan.hoa@gmail.com by 11:59pm July 1, 2008:

1) What nation appears to have been the training ground for English soldiers who ended up in the New World? In what ways did this place "prepare" them for the New World?

2) Identify the motivations of explorers and "sea dogs" employed or encouraged by the English crown.

3) Examine how a 1588 sea battle started to change the balance of power in Europe.

4) Explain how social and economic change served to motivate the growth of an English empire.

5) Briefly describe the initial interactions between English settlers in Jamestown and the local indigenous peoples.

6) In what ways did European contact with indigenous peoples sometimes influence inter-tribal relations?

7) Compare and contrast the effects of tobacco and sugar cane cultivation in the New World.

8) Explain how two significant events in 1619 would foreshadow events for English North America and the future United States.

9) To what extent was the Act of Toleration tolerant?

10) Compare and contrast the relationship between indigenous peoples and their English neighbors in the various colonies of British North America.