Chapter 3
Guided Reading
1. Why did Britain implement the Navigation Acts? What were the
stipulations of the Navigation Acts? What was the outcome? How would
you describe the economic philosophy toward the colonies?
2. What event provoked a major crisis for the Puritans in Massachusetts in the
17th century?
3. Why did King James II create the Dominion of New England? How did the
colonists react?
4. What was the impact of the Glorious Revolution? Why is this important to
American history?
5. Describe the process of tribalization that occurred in America?
6. What was the result of the transatlantic slave trade in the 18tn century
America?
7. How did the planter society in the Chesapeake region prevent slave revolts?
8. Describe the treatment of slaves in Chesapeake compared to the slaves in the
West Indies. How would you describe the life of slave in the North American
colonies?
9. What led to the Stono Rebellion? How did planters in South Carolina respond?
10. What changes occurred in the Chesapeake colonies when slavery was being
forced on Africans?
11. How did the Virginia planter society reduce social discontent between 1676
and 1750?
12. What occurred as a result of the British policy of salutary neglect?
13. Describe the colonist’s major objection to the Navigation Acts?
Short Answer questions
1. What kind of society did Wm Penn create in Pennsylvania? How did it differ
from New England?
2. Explain the causes and the results of the Glorious Revolution in the American
colonies?
3. What role did mob violence play in early colonial politics between 1650 and
1750?
4. How did Native Americans attempt to turn European rivalries to their
advantage in the 17th century? How successful were they?
5. What was the British policy of salutary neglect? Why did the British follow this
policy? What consequences did it have for the British colonies in North
America?
6. What were some of the causes of rising friction between the colonials and the
British in the first half of the 1700s?