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Additional Class Topics
For Further Interest: Additional Class Topics
Chapter 2:
The Planting of English America, 1500 - 1733
- Contrast the pattern of English colonization
with that of Spain described in Chapter 1 (or, perhaps, with that of France
described in Chapter 6). Examine similarities and differences in motivation,
population patterns, race relations, economic development, and the like.
- Compare the legends of early English colonization
with the often harsh realities: for example, the tale of John Smith and Pocahontas
with the actual patterns of relations between whites and Indians in Virginia.
Consider why many early settlers tried to paint a rosier portrait of the colonies
than their actual conditions warranted (to satisfy investors and lure new
colonists).
- Contrast other English New World settlements,
particularly in the West Indies, with those on the North American mainland.
Note especially how in the West Indies many white plantation owners became
absentees who spent much of their time in England, whereas the North American
colonies developed as more complete, autonomous societies. (South Carolina
can be used as an example of a partially West Indian pattern in North America.)
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