Possible Essay Questions for Unit 1: From New World to New Empires - the 16th Century to 1763

General Tips

Possible Choices You Will Have for Question 1

Possible Choices You Will Have for Question 2

 

General Tips

When you read, you identify significant and representative events. When you write, you select from those significant and representative events. You are not writing every fact in the textbook.

You can identify information about significant and representative events that you need to read about carefully by:

1.     Using the index at the back of the textbook with the general words in the question

2.     Using the quiz questions for this Unit to find specific words to use in the index at the back of the textbook

If those two things are not enough, I will provide tips to resources or to specific locations in the textbook. For examples, look at the tips for the possible choices for question 2 at the bottom of this webpage.

Possible Choices You Will Have for Question 1

You must use the required readings provided at the same link that you used for the History Changes Essay.

 

You will have two of these to choose from. You write on either one.

1.     Servitude in English Colonies in South – Early 1600s (What varied things happened to Africans sold in early Virginia)

2.     Slavery in English Colonies in South – Late 1600s

3.     Indenture– Pre-1676 in South (Before Bacon’s Rebellion) Tip: Stop reading “The War in the Chesapeake” about 1670...
Note: In the textbook, the phrase used for indentured servants in some locations is English servants.

4.     Indenture– Post-1676 in South (After Bacon’s Rebellion) Tip: Start reading “The War in the Chesapeake” about 1670.

Possible Choices You Will Have for Question 2

You will have two of these to choose from. You write on either one.

 

1.     nation-states competing in North America from about 1600 to about 1763 (Tip: Look at the Resources and the nation states compared with Quiz A’s content. Then notice how they change especially by the wars for empire covered in Quiz C’s content.)

2.     feudalism and how nation-states applied it in North America until about 1700 (Locations in the textbook) Tip: Think about feudalism and why it worked in Europe and when it works and doesn’t work in the colonies listed in the link.

3.     John Calvin and the influence of his beliefs on at least one colony in New England (Tip: Look at the Resources and religions introduced in Quiz A’s content. Then notice how they change in Quiz B and C’s content.)

4.     Protestant Reformation and the development of the Middle Colonies (Tip: Look at the Resources and religions introduced in Quiz A’s content. Then notice how they change in Quiz B and C’s content.)

5.     The Great Awakening (Tip: Usually the word the is not included in an index.)

6.     The Enlightenment

 

 

 

 

 

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