Early Colonies, 1600-1680.
1. What different colonial projects did Spain, England, France, and the Netherlands initiate in North
America, and why?
2. In what crucial ways did the New England and Chesapeake colonies differ?
3. Why did tensions arise between colonists and Indians in the various lands Europeans settled in the first
half of the seventeenth century?
4. How did the three major eruptions of violence in colonial North America between 1676 and 1680 differ
from one another?
NEW SPAIN IN NORTH AMERICA
1. Why were the Spanish unprepared for a violent rebellion among an indigenous population that they had
subjugated?
2. Why might the rebels have chosen to deface and defile Catholic religious symbols?
NEW FRANCE AND NEW NETHERLAND IN THE IROQUOIS WORLD
1. What distinguished European and Indian uses of beaver pelts?
2. Why were Europeans unable to supply their own beaver needs?
NEW NETHERLAND
1. Catalina's first language was French, not Dutch. Why might she have joined an expedition to create a
Dutch-speaking colony in North America?
2. If Catalina Trico was neither the designer of the New Amsterdam settlement nor its governor, in what
sense could she be called one of the city's founders?
BACON'S REBELLION
1. What makes Virginia so unpleasant, according to the song?
2. What had been the speaker's expectations before sailing across the ocean?
3. Who exactly might have "betray'd" the maiden?
4. What does this text suggest about attitudes toward drinking water in seventeenth-century English
culture?
5. Why might Virginia have been especially eager to attract female migrants, and why might
Englishwomen have been especially reluctant to emigrate there?