Chapter 3: Founding The English Mainland Colonies, 1607-1732

After reading this chapter, you should be able to do the following:

1. Explain the constraints in England that continued to encourage people to migrate to America.
   
   
2. Describe the settlement of Maryland and Virginia, the constraints that affected the colonists there, and the causes and outcomes of the internal conflicts that occurred in both.
   
   
3. Describe the society that the Puritans hoped to create in New England, the constraints that they faced in doing so, their reaction to those who differed with their views, and the results that ensued because of the activity by dissenters.
   
   
4. Analyze the expectations and choices of the people who settled in the middle colonies, with particular emphasis on the Quakers’ plans for Pennsylvania.
   
   
5. Evaluate the expectations of the founders of Carolina and Georgia and explain why Carolina differed from these expectations.