Classwork for Thursday and Friday

CLASSROOM for THURSDAY and FRIDAY

Read Chapter 2 of The American Pageant

Questions to think about as you read:

1) What was the impact of England's defeat of Spanish Armada?
2) What was the status of England as it began colonization?
3) How was the first permanent English settlement financed?
4) How were Virginia, Maryland, the Carolinas, and Georgia similar?  Different?
5) Why was it important that all English settlers in the New World retained the rights of Englishmen?
6) How would one characterize the early years at Jamestown?
7) How did Captain John Smith "save" Jamestown?
8) What were the factors leading to the downfall of the Powhatans?
9) What was the impact of the tobacco industry on Jamestown?
10) What was the House of Burgesses an important precedent in the American colonies?
11) Why was Maryland established?  Who founded it?
12) What was the Barbados slave code?
13) Why was Georgia founded?  By whom?
14) What were the similarities/differences in the southern plantations colonies by 1750?