Reading Guide for Week Three
Text Assignment:
Text: Divine, Chapter 2 & Chapter 3, pp. 65-75
& 92-95: 2/1/00
Special Topics: The Family and the Town in New
England & the Chesapeake
Social Tensions: Dissent end Disorder
Answer one of the following text questions:
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Why and in what status did Europeans emigrate
to Virginia, New England, and Pennsylvania?
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What was the significance of the "covenant" in
colonial New England?
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What role did diversity play in the Middle Colonies?
In New England?
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What were the sources and limits of freedom in
Massachusetts Bay Colony? In Pennsylvania? In Virginia?
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What were the roles of women and the family in
colonial America? Did they differ by region?
Primary Source Assignment:
Choose one of the following:
1.) Lists
of Settlers by Occupation Taken from John Smith's writings
Answer at least two of the following primary source questions:
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What kinds of people came to the colony in 1607
and 1608? What were their occupations? What else stands out
about them?
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What kinds of people were in the majority?
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What kinds of people are conspicuously absent
from the list?
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What does all this tell you about the ways that
prior expectations clashed with the realities of life in Virginia?
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How do the Jamestown colonists compare with their
counterparts in New England?
N.B. If you need help figuring out what
some of the occupations actually were, go to Paley Library and consult
the Oxford English Dictionary. For a comparison with the passengers
on the Mayflower, click here.
2.) John Winthrop, A Modell of
Christian Charity
Answer at least two of the following primary source questions:
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Who was John Winthrop and why did he write this
sermon before he and his fellow Puritans landed in the New World?
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What kind of relationship did Winthrop think the
Puritans colonists should have withGod? With each other?
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What did Winthrop mean when he referred to their
prospective settlement as a "citty upon a hill?"
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