Planting Colonies in North America, 1588-1701
The Spanish and French in North America
New Mexico
The First Communities of New France
England in the Chesapeake
Jamestown and the Powhatan Confederacy
Tobacco, Expansion, and Warfare
Maryland
Indentured Servants
Community Life in the Chesapeake
The New England Colonies
The Social and Political Values of Puritanism
Early Contacts in New England
Plymouth Colony and the Mayflower Compact
The Massachusetts Bay Colony
Indians and Puritans
New England Communities
The Politics of Gender in Massachusetts
Dissent and New Communities
The Restoration Colonies
Early Carolina
From New Netherland to New York
The Founding Of Pennsylvania
Conflict and War
King Philip's War
Bacon's Rebellion
Wars in the South
The Glorious Revolution in America
King William's War
Maps
Images
Vocabulary
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Algonquian |
Chesapeake |
Pueblo |
Nova Scotia |
Acadia |
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Powhatan |
Roanoke |
Pocahontas |
Opechancanough |
Indenture |
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Pacifism |
Barbados |
Separatists |
Wampanoags |
Puritan |
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Quakers |
Metacomet |
Massasoit |
Tammany |
Susquehannock |
People and Events
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Francisco de Coronado |
Samuel de Champlain |
Mayflower Compact |
Oliver Cromwell |
The Bay Psalm Book |
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Roger Williams |
Thomas Hooker |
Anne Hutchinson |
Restoration Colonies |
William Penn |
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Navigation Acts |
Nathaniel Bacon |
John Winthrop |
Henry Hudson |
William Bradford |
Review Questions
Discuss the differences between colonizing "frontiers of inclusion" and "exclusion."
What factors turned England's Chesapeake colony of Virginia from stark failure to brilliant success?
Discuss the role of religious dissent in the founding of the first New England colonies and in stimulating the creation of others.
Compare and contrast William Penn's policy with respect to Indian tribes with the policies of other English settlers, in the Chesapeake and New England, and with the policies of the Spanish, the French, and the Dutch.
What were the principal causes of colonial violence and warfare of the late seventeenth century?
Recommended Readings
James Axtell, The European and the Indian: Essays in the Ethnohistory of Colonial America (1981).
Carl Bridenbaugh, Vexed and Troubled Englishmen, 1590- 1642 (1968).
W.J.Eccles, France in America (1990).
Andrew L. Knaut, The Pueblo Revolt of 1680 (1995).
Edmund S. Morgan, American Slavery, American Freedom (1975).
Neal Salisbury, Manitou and Providence: Indians, Europeans, and the Making of New England (1982).
David J. Weber, The Spanish Frontier in North America (1992).
Peter H. Wood, et al., eds., Powhatan's Mantle: Indians in the Colonial Southeast (1989).