CHAPTER 2
THE CHALLENGE TO SPAIN AND THE SETTLEMENT OF NORTH AMERICA
MAIN THEMES:
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The origins and objectives of England’s first settlements in the New World.
How and why English colonies – mainland and Caribbean -- differed from one another in purpose and
administration.
The problems that arose as colonies matured and expanded, and how colonists attempted to solve
them.
The impact that events in England had on the development of colonies in British America.
IDENTIFICATIONS
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John Smith
joint-stock company
patroonship
Anne Hutchinson
coureurs de bois
John Calvin
Sir Walter Raleigh
James Harrington
predestination
covenant theology
FILL-INS
1.
The Englishman who explored the North River was ____________________.
2.
The colony of Maryland was founded by the ____________________ family.
3.
For Puritans, the agreement between God and man under which all humans deserve damnation was
the ____________________.
4.
More thought went into the planning of ____________________ than into the creation of any other
colony.
5.
The German monk who launched the Protestant Reformation by nailing his 95 Theses to the door of
Wittenberg Cathedral was ____________________.
6.
____________________ was the first Englishman to circumnavigate (sail around) the Earth.
7.
The Puritans wanted to push the Church of England in a more ____________________ direction.
8.
Henry IV granted limited toleration to ____________________ through the Edict of Nantes in 1598.
9.
Samuel de Champlain founded ____________________.
10. After 1750, ____________________ became the world’s richest colony.
11. ____________________ became North America’s first experiment in ethnic and religious pluralism.
12. After victory in the Irish wars of the 1560s, Sir ____________________ sought to colonize
Newfoundland for England.
13. ____________________ was responsible for introducing tobacco to Virginia.
14. ____________________ was the first royal colony.
15. Henry IV of France was ____________________, which meant that he insisted that the survival of
the state took precedence over religious differences.
16. ____________________ was governor of Plymouth almost continuously from 1620 to his death in
1656.
17. ____________________ formulated the idea that New England would be a “city upon a hill.”
18. The Body of Liberties, formulated in ____________________ in 1641, may be history’s first bill of
rights.
19. ____________________ drafted the West Jersey governmental plan known as the Concessions and
Agreements.
ESSAY TOPICS
1.
Compare and contrast the colonies of Virginia and Massachusetts Bay. Describe the similarities
and differences as well as the objectives of settlement.
Essay should address several key points:
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Reasons for settlement
New World experience
Economic and social development
Compare and contrast the settlers’ relations with Indians in early Virginia and New England.
Essay should address several key points:
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3.
Early contact
 Jamestown
 New England
Developing relations
Examine the role of religion in stimulating seventeenth-century English colonization efforts in
North America.
Essay should address several key points:
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The English Reformation
Maryland
The New England Colonies
Pennsylvania