Assignment task: The first European contact in the New World. Discuss what Christopher Columbus was hoping to find. Note immediate changes that took place in the Americas following European contact.
Q1. Discuss the early English settlements in North America in the early 1600s. What were the reasonings behind these new settlements and why did the English want to establish these. How were the settlements in Virginia and Massachusetts alike and different. Did these settlements affect the non-English people of the Americas and Africa?
Q2. Describe life in English colonial America from the late 1600s to mid-1700s. How did life vary amongst men, women, and children. How did events such as the Great Awakening and the Middle Passage influence this era in colonial American history?
Q3. What were some events in America in the 1700s that led to the American colonists breaking apart from England and attempting to form an independent nation of states. What were some of the key moments and actions that led to the path to revolution?