Reading Journal #2: American Colonies Boyer 48-53 (Stop at "The Spread of Slavery") 1.

In what ways was life in New England superior to life in England?

2. What were the key threats to the self-image of the Puritan colonists in the 1600's?

3. What was the impact of the Halfway Covenant?

4. In what ways did the presence of English settlers undermine Native American culture?

5. What were the main results of King Philip's War?

6. What do you think was the main reason behind the Salem Witch hysteria?

A. Boyer 53-56 1. Where did the slaveholding class in the Carolinas largely migrate from? 2. Why did English planters come to prefer African slaves over white indentured servants, even though it cost more to acquire them?

3. How were sugar and rice similar in their effects on the Americas?

4. Jot down one interesting fact or statistic about South Carolina.

B. Narrative of Olaudah Equiano (listen along to an actor's reading using link from email) and illustration of loading plan for slave ship 5. In the space below, do one of the following three things using your powers of empathy and imagination: A) Write a short paragraph from the perspective of one of the older Africans Olaudah encounters on the ship, perhaps about his conversation with Olaudah; OR B) Imagine that time travel has made it possible to bring the captain of a slave ship before a modern human rights court. You are the captain on trial. Write a short defense of your actions; OR C) Draw a picture capturing a moment in the experience of the Middle Passage.

Boyer 65 -70 1. What were the sources of tension between the Stuart monarchs and the colonists?

2. Do you think the American Revolution could have occurred 100 years early if the Glorious Revolution had not happened? Why or why not?

3. What was the Glorious Revolution? Why did colonists react with violence when most of them were in favor of this event?

4. What were the results of the uprisings of 1688-9 in the colonies?

5. What were the consequences of the imperial wars in America for Native Americans? For Anglo-Americans?

70-76 (Stop at "The Urban Paradox") 1. What is mercantilism, and how did the Navigation Acts embody this philosophy?

2. What were the four consequences for the colonial economy of the Navigation Acts?

3. Name at least two of the reasons that England slowly eclipsed Spain and France in North America.

4. Name two interesting demographic trends apparent from the map on page 73.

5. By 1750, what percentage of the North American colonies consisted of blacks?

6. What were the legal constraints and opportunities for rural white women?

7. Why did North American settlers not use the frontier land sustainably?

76-82 1. Thomas Jefferson wrote,"I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health, and the liberties of man." What about cities in colonial America might have led Jefferson to this view?

2. Why and how did internal divisions develop within the population of African slaves?

3. What was the Stono Rebellion? What were its consequences?

4. How did Europeans make possible the lifestyle of the Plains Indians?

5. Why did James Oglethorpe's idealistic visions for Georgia fail?

6. What were the main differences between the Spanish and French colonies in North America, on the one hand, and the English colonies?

83-88 1. If Flintridge Prep were set in the colonies during the early 1700's, who do you think would have the right to vote? What if Prep were in England?

2. What was the significance of the Zenger trial?

3. What was the Enlightenment? How did Benjamin Franklin embody it?

4. There is an ongoing debate about how Christian the Founding Fathers were. Based on this chapter, in what ways were Thomas Jefferson and Ben Franklin Christians? In what ways weren't they?

5. What was the Great Awakening? What parts of modern American culture does it most resemble?

6. What were the consequences of the Great Awakening? List four or more.