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Chapter 3 | Creating New Social Orders: Colonial Societies, 1500–1700
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9.
The founders of the Plymouth colony were:
A. Puritans
B. Catholics
C. Anglicans
D. Jesuits
12. What was the Middle Passage?
A. the fabled sea route from Europe to the Far
East
B. the land route from Europe to Africa
C. the transatlantic journey that African slaves
made to America
D. the line between the northern and southern
colonies
13. Which of the following is not an item Europeans introduced to Indians?
A. wampum
B. glass beads C. copper kettles
D. metal tools
14. How did European muskets change life for native peoples in the Americas?
15. Compare and contrast European and Indian views on property.
10. Which of the following is not true of the Puritan religion?
A. It required close reading of scripture.
B. Church membership required a conversion
narrative.
C. Literacy was crucial.
D. Only men could participate.
11. How did the Chesapeake colonists solve their labor problems?
Critical Thinking Questions
16. Compare and contrast life in the Spanish, French, Dutch, and English colonies, differentiating between the Chesapeake Bay and New England colonies. Who were the colonizers? What were their purposes in being there? How did they interact with their environments and the native inhabitants of the lands on which they settled?
17. Describe the attempts of the various European colonists to convert native peoples to their belief systems. How did these attempts compare to one another? What were the results of each effort?
18. How did chattel slavery differ from indentured servitude? How did the former system come to replace the latter? What were the results of this shift?
19. What impact did Europeans have on their New World environments—native peoples and their communities as well as land, plants, and animals? Conversely, what impact did the New World’s native inhabitants, land, plants, and animals have on Europeans? How did the interaction of European and Indian societies, together, shape a world that was truly “new”?