Chapter 3 and 4 Guidance
for Review Questions
Answers to the assigned chapter review questions are due by 11:59 pm on January 26, 2016 (the day of the quiz).
It is recommended that you read the entire chapter first (while completing your guided reading chart), review the content
by completing the Learning Curve, and then answer the following questions- using the provided guidelines:
Chapter 3 Review Question Guidance:
1. What strategies did Charles II and James II employ to try to gain more centralized control over England’s
American colonies? What did James hope to accomplish by creating the Dominion of New England?
Sections to read:
3a) Colonies to Empire (not including the Glorious Revolution)
Concepts to cover:
territorial acquisition/administration, legislation and warfare
2. How did the long era of imperial warfare beginning in 1689 affect the colonies, Native Americans, and relations
between them?
Sections to read:
3b) Imperial Wars and Native Peoples
Concepts to cover:
demands of war, tribalization, Iroquois and Indian goals
3. What was the South Atlantic System, and how did it shape colonial society?
Sections to read:
3c) Imperial Slave Economy
Concepts to cover:
economic effects, trade networks/connections, and class differences
4. How did the institution of slavery develop, and why did it develop differently in the Chesapeake, the Carolina
low country, and the West Indies?
Sections to read:
3c) Imperial Slave Economy (Slavery in the Chesapeake and South Carolina as
well as Thinking Like a Historian)
Concepts to cover:
Economic and social reasons for development, as well as differences in
geography and crops produced in the above listed regions
5. THEMATIC UNDERSTANDING. Trace the developments outlined in the section entitled “Politics and Power” from
1660 to 1750 on the thematic timeline on page 79. What pattern of political evolution do you see in colonial
interactions with Britain?
Sections to read:
3a) Colonies to Empire, 3e) The New Politics of Empire (including American
Voices), and the Chapter Summary
Concepts to cover:
Focus only on 1660-1720 and political relationship between Britain and
colonies: how does power shift and what role do repeated wars play?
Chapter 4 Review Question Guidance:
1. Compare colonists’ “pursuits of happiness” in New England, the Middle colonies, the backcountry, and the
South. How did poorer colonists in each of these regions seek to maintain their autonomy from powerful
landlords and institutions, and how did this effort shape the formation of regional identities?
Sections to read:
4a) New England Freehold Society, 4b) Diversity in the Middle Colonies, and
4d) Midcentury Challenge (Western Rebels & Regulators)
Concepts to cover:
New England: competency, inheritance and household mode of production
Middle colonies: squatters, redemptioner system, and ethnic cultures
Backcountry and South: regulators and challenges to social hierarchy (including
Baptist revival- 4c Commerce Culture and Identity: Social and Religious Conflict)
2. How did the print and transportation revolutions transform colonial culture and the economy in the eighteenth
century?
Sections to read:
4c) Commerce, Culture, and Identity
Concepts to cover:
Spread of new ideas from Enlightenment and Pietism thanks to improved
transportation and print. Effects of new ideas on existing power structure.
3. The Great War for Empire delivered the eastern half of North America into British hands. How did that massive
territorial acquisition affect ordinary colonists? What impact did it have on Native Americans’ strategies for
coexisting with their European neighbors?
Sections to read:
4d) The Midcentury Challenge: War, Trade, and Social Conflict
Concepts to cover:
Native strategies before, during, and after war (Iroquois Covenant Chain).
Reasons for colonial expansion west and the British response.
4. THEMATIC UNDERSTANDING. Review the events listed under “Work, Exchange, and Technology” and “Identity”
for the period 1720–1750 on the thematic timeline. How did economic developments in the colonies influence
the formation of new cultural identities in this era?
Sections to read:
Entire Chapter, but may focus on 4b) Diversity of Middle Colonies (Economic
Growth, Opportunity, and Conflict), 4c) Commerce, Culture, and Identity
(Enlightenment in America), and 4d) The Midcentury Challenge: War, Trade, and
Social Conflict (British Industrial Growth and the Consumer Revolution)
Concepts to cover:
After viewing the thematic timeline, try connecting the following:
Price of wheat and religious diversity and conflict in Pennsylvania
British trade dominating Atlantic and cultural evolution of colonial elite
Opportunity in Middle colonies and Benjamin Franklin’s contributions
(or make some other connection not already mentioned in #2 above)