study unit 1

Question 1

** What impelled European explorers to look West across the Atlantic?

Answer 1

God, Glory, Gold

Agriculture

Question 2

** What made the English settlement of New England distinctive?

Answer 2

Puritans - Religion

Fishing industry

Question 3

** One of the most striking features of Indian societies at the time of the encounter with Europeans was their diversity. Support this statement with several examples.

Answer 3

Indians didn’t have as many laws
Europeans thought they had no structure
Indians though Europeans were gross and unclean

Question 4

The English believed that, unlike the Spanish, their motives for colonization were pure, and that the growth of empire and freedom would always go hand in hand. How did the expansion of the British empire affect the freedoms of Native Americans, the Irish, and even many English citizens?
(How did the British Expansion affect Indian freedom?)

Answer 4

• King Philips war
• Famine
• High taxes

Question 5

How did King Philip’s War, Bacon’s rebellion, and the Salem witch trials illustrate a widespread crisis in British North America in the late seventeenth century?

Answer 5

• British conflict with Natives
• Bacon’s rebellion - Crisis with British government
• Salem witch trials - Religion

Question 6

ESSAY
(SPANISH)

Answer 6

Bad relationship w/ the Natives
- Enslaved them
- Forced their religion

Question 7

ESSAY
(FRENCH)

Answer 7

Good relationship w/ the Natives
- Traded
- Allies

Question 8

ESSAY
(BRITISH)

Answer 8

Neutral relationship w/ the Natives
- Neither wanted to trade or slave
- Just wanted them out
- Didn’t want anything to do with them