American History: A Survey (Brinkley), 13th Edition

Chapter 2: TRANSPLANTATIONS AND BORDERLANDS

Main themes of Chapter Two:

• The origins, objectives, and shaping influences of England's first settlements in the New World



• How and why English colonies in the Chesapeake, New England, and Mid-Atlantic differed from one another in purpose and administration



• The problems that arose as colonies matured and expanded, and how colonists attempted to solve them



• The impact that events in England had on the development of colonies in British America

• The differences between the Jamestown and Plymouth colonies in terms of objectives, types of settlers, early problems, and reasons for success



• The origins of representative government, slavery, and religious toleration in the Chesapeake



• The importance of Indian agricultural techniques to the survival of early English colonies



• The differences in origin and outlook between the two Chesapeake colonies, Virginia and Maryland



• The causes and consequences of Bacon's Rebellion in 1676



• The background of the Massachusetts Bay colony and its founders, the Puritans



• The conditions in Puritan Massachusetts Bay that spawned such dissenters as Thomas Hooker, Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson



• The expansion of the original settlements and the influences of the New World frontier on the colonists



• The events contributing to the deterioration of English relationships with Native-Americans in the Massachusetts Bay colony area



• The reason for the lack of new English colonies in the New World for the nearly thirty year period after 1632



• The origins and development of Carolina and the colonies of the Mid-Atlantic: New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania



• The significance of the Caribbean colonies in the British-American colonial system



• The character of African slavery in Barbados and the Caribbean



• The continued flourishing of the Spanish empire and the impact this had on the British-American colonial system



• The practical and ideological considerations that spurred the founding of Georgia



• The early economic, religious, and political factors in the colonies that tended to produce sectional differences



• The effects of the "Middle Grounds" on the development of the American colonies



• The political events leading up to the Glorious Revolution, and the impact it had on the English colonies in the New World