Question 1

Compare and contrast the Spanish treatment of native peoples in the Southwest with relations between Indians and English settlers in the colonial American Southeast.

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Question 2

Does the text's account of Powhatan's confederacy reinforce or contradict the notion of the Chesapeake Indians as "noble savages"who lived a simpler life than did the Europeans who reached their shores? Explain why.

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Question 3

Imagine that you were one of the leaders of the English settlement at Jamestown. What could you have done to lessen the hardships or to prevent the tragedies that took place during the first fifteen years of settlement?

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Question 4

Without tobacco, the Virginia Colony would never have survived. Make a case for that thesis, using what you know of the colony's history.

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Question 5

Explain how sugar and tobacco played similar roles in Virginia and in the Caribbean colonies.

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Question 6

Discuss and assess the following statement from the textbook: "All that saved white society in the Chesapeake from renewed crisis and conflict [after Bacon's and Coode's rebellions] was the growth of African slavery."

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Question 7

One of Virginia's biggest planters, William Byrd, boasted that, "I am dependent upon no one but Providence."In what ways were Byrd and other planters like him powerful and independent? In what ways were they more dependent than Byrd realized?

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Question 8

Was it inevitable that black slavery emerged as the dominant labor system in the Chesapeake? In South Carolina? Could planters in either colony have adopted alternatives-free white workers? White indentured servants? Indian slaves or servants?

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Question 9

Discuss the relationship that existed between the Spanish in the Southwest and the Pueblo Indians.

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Quiz 3: Colonization and Conflict in the South 1600-1750