American History: Pre-Columbian to the New Millennium
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This will open to a table of contents. Please read chapters 2-5 clicking on the chapter titles. After you complete the readings, simply type the answers to the questions below:
1. What country dominated Europe and the New World in the 1600s, according to your text? (one word)
2. In chapter 2, Richard Hakluyt, a 16th-century geographer interested in explorers and travel narratives, suggested to Queen Elizabeth that New World colonies could serve two purposes. What were the two purposes?
3. Growing tobacco was very labor intensive. What group became, “the first meant to meet this need for labor?”
4. Why was the literacy rate so high in the colony of Massachusetts? (one paragraph)
5. What were some of the physical evidences of witchcraft? (discuss at least 4 evidences)
6. The Middle Colonies presented an assortment of religions. Name four of these religions (denominations).
7. For what purpose, did the King of England have the colony of Georgia established? (one paragraph)
8. According to the textbook, only about ________ percent of indentured servants lived to complete the terms of their contracts.
1. What country dominated Europe and the New World in the 1600s, according to your text? (one word)
Britain
2. In chapter 2, Richard Hakluyt, a 16th-century geographer interested in explorers and travel narratives, suggested to Queen Elizabeth that New World colonies could serve two purposes. What were the two purposes?
According to Richard Hakluyt, the colonies would be challengers to Spanish domination of the New World, which was the predominant colonial conflict at the time. The second is that Britain's population and resource issues would be alleviated by decreasing the population struggling to share resources.
3. Growing tobacco was very labor intensive. What group became “the first meant to meet this need for labor?”
The group that was meant to meet the need for the labor of growing tobacco was the indentured servants' group.
4. Why was the literacy rate so high in the colony of Massachusetts? (one paragraph)
The literacy rate in the colony of Massachusetts was so high because of the religious views of the Puritans. Because many families in the colony wanted their children to be able to read the Bible, many tax-supported schools were erected to support te...
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