For Wednesday, 10/2:  Society and Culture in Colonial America: Read 84 – 105
This is a section that you do not need to take many notes on.
1. For our discussion Wednesday write down in your notes at tleast three things that you see in this chapter that you either see as important to the later development of America or that might have helped make Americans more inclined to break away fom England in 1776.
2. What was the Great Awakening, and why was it important?

Know the significance of the following: Enlightenment; proprietary colony; royal colony; charter colony; established church;  Great Awakening; Jonathan Edwards; George Whitefield; Deism.

Middle Colonies

For Wednesday, 9/25:  Read 52-65

1.       What distinguishing characteristics did Pennsylvania, New York, and New Jersey hold in common in terms of their economy and society?  Have any of these characteristics survived to today?  Are they a part of American culture, society, economy, and/or politics?
2.         How was Pennsylvania different from all the other colonies?
3.         What was the Dominion of New England and why might it be important to the long-term history of the colonies and the American revolution?

Know the significance of the following:

William Penn; Holy Experiment; Society of Friends (Quakers); Peter Stuyvesant; Iroquois; Benjamin Franklin.

The Puritan Mission in New England

The Puritan Mission. Read 43-52 for Friday, 9/20.  Read 76-82 for Monday, 9/23.
1.    What was the Puritan mission?
2.  How were the Puritans different from the Pilgrims (Separatists)?
4.   How did the New England economy, society, culture, and government differ from the southern colonies?  Why were these differences present?
5.   Can you see any long-term affects that the New England colonies had on American society, culture, economy, and politics?

Know the significance of the following:

Pilgrims; Puritans; Separatist; Non-Separatists; Church of England; John Winthrop; Calvinism; Anne Hutchinson; Roger Williams; “elect” or “saints”; Thomas Hooker; Fundamental Orders of Connecticut; Old Deluder Act; King Phillip’s War; Salem Witch Trials; Dominion of New England

Southern British Colonies

For Friday, 9/13:  England’s First Colony:  Read 25-33.
1.      What events and new ideas enabled English colonization of the Americas?
2.      Was Jamestown a success?

For Monday,  9/16: The Chesapeake Colonies & The Carolinas:  Read 33-39, 66-76

1.      In what ways were Maryland and Virginia the same and different?
2.      What affect did tobacco have on Chesapeake economy, culture, and society?
3.      Why was Bacon’s Rebellion important?
4.      What important precedents do you see developing in Virginia by 1700?
5.      Describe the development of slavery in the southern British colonies.
6.      How were the Carolinas different from the Chesapeake colonies?
7.      Can you see any long-term affects that the southern colonies had on American society, culture, economy, and politics?

Know the significance of the following: joint stock company; headright system; John Smith; John Rolfe; House of Burgesses; Bacon’s Rebellion; James Oglethorpe.

Homework For Monday, September 9:
Read Course Outline.

Read the section on Christopher Columbus from Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States (distributed in class).  Answer the following reflection questions in your notebook.  Be ready to discuss them in class.

1. What do you think of Christopher Columbus after reading Zinn's article?  Is this a different opinion than you had before the reading?  Does this change your perspective on American history?
2. What do you think of Howard Zinn?  Does he write good history?
By Wednesday read Chapter 1 in your textbook.

The podcast below is a great interview of Charles Mann about his book, 1493, which discusses how Columbus' discovery of the new world radically changed both the Old World and the New World by exchanging germs, plants and animals between the two.