1. "In the course of the seventeenth century, New England evolved from a highly religious, community-oriented society to a region characterized by rising worldliness, individualism, and competitiveness." Discuss how and why this evolution took place.
2. Compare and contrast the economies, social structures, and racial and ethnic compositions of New England, the Chesapeake colonies, the Carolinas, and the Middle colonies in the seventeenth century.
3. Discuss the evolution and spread of slavery in the Chesapeake colonies in the seventeenth century. Why did African slavery develop there? How did the gradual shift from a plantation labor force of indentured servants to one of African slaves affect life in Virginia and Maryland?
4. Discuss the course of European and Native American relations during the 1600s in the French, Spanish, and different regions of the British North American empires.
5. Discuss the Salem witchcraft trials, telling first the known facts about what happened and then reviewing and evaluating the interpretation of the causes of the witchcraft accusations and hysteria offered in Chapter 3.