Chapter 4 Reading Response Questions

SPARTANS,

Thank you for your patience in waiting for the Chapter 4 Reading Response Questions. Although the reading should already be done and it should only take you a couple of hours to answer the questions before tomorrow's deadline, I will extend the deadline to Thursday, 31 July (11:59pm in my inbox). The Chapter 5 deadline for next week will remain the same (August 5). The Ch. 5 Reading Response questions will be posted by the end of the week.

Please remember the heading format, the purpose of the command terms, and to answer each question accurately and fully. Please also be mindful of grammar and punctuation.

As always, e-mail me with any questions or concerns.

CHAPTER 4 READING RESPONSE QUESTIONS

1) Describe the difficulties experienced by colonists in the Chesapeake Bay region.

2) Examine the effects of tobacco cultivation on on relations between European colonists and Native Americans, and on immigration.

3) Distinguish the short- and long-term effects of the headright system on "men of at least modest financial means" and workers (Kennedy, Cohen & Baily, 2002, p. 67).

4) Explain Bacon's Rebellion and how it reflects the distinctions between life in the tidewater and life on the frontier.

5) Explain the conditions under which slavery began to grow in the 1680s.

6) Compare and contrast the lives of servants and slaves.

7) Explain how a unique culture developed from the brutality of the institution of slavery.

8) Describe the social hierarchy in the early southern colonies.

9) Compare and contrast southern and New England societies.

10) Explain how the meetinghouse helped to promote democracy in colonial New England.

11) Discuss the causes and effects of the witch hunt and ensuing trials in New England in the late-17th century and beyond.

12) Explain how the topography, geology, and climate of New England helped form its culture. How did this culture impact the rest of the nation and its history?