Homework for 10/8/09

Please read pages 48-59, and answer the following questions:

How did the Stuart Restoration affect those English colonies already established in America? How did it affect attitudes about founding more settlements?

What sort of social order took root in the Carolinas? Why was it different from that proposed under Carolina's Fundamental Constitution?

How did southern Carolina's close ties with the British island of Barbados influence the development of the colony's society?

Why did the English resent the Dutch presence in America?

Why did power in New York remain widely dispersed? Who shared this power?

Why were the Dutch unable to maintain a colony in New York? How were the British able to acquire it?

List some of the major social and economic characteristics of the royal colony of New York.

Identify the key beliefs and practices of the Quakers. Why can it be said that they were the most anarchistic and democratic of all the Protestant sects?

What plans did William Penn have for the establishment of a new colony from the land granted him by King Charles II?

How did the influence of the Quakers make Pennsylvania an unique colony? Why was it called a "holy experiment?"

Why did British colonists in the Caribbean turn to African slavery as a source of labor?

Why was it difficult to establish a stable society and culture in the Caribbean colonies?

Why was Georgia founded? How was it different from the other British colonies?

What were the colonization policies of James Oglethorpe and his fellow trustees in Georgia? Why did the strict rules governing life in the colony ensure the failure of Oglethorpe's vision?

Explain the relationship between Europeans and Native Americans in the "middle grounds."