Links from Your Instructor for Chapter 2: England and Its American Colonies, 1607–1732

 

Most links place historical facts in a table so you can easily compare them. You are not memorizing all of the facts placed in these tables. Instead, you are using those facts to notice changes and patterns. To help you, most links provide tips on what to notice.

 

·         Reference that Shows How History Changes with Rulers, Settlements, and Religions:  This and are other things labeled reference in this course are not something to be memorized. They are a tool to get things straight while you are learning.
Summary of English Rulers from 1485 to 1820

Purpose of This Link to Understand Facts:
Notice that in the era of colonization, the changing religions of the English rulers repeatedly provide different religious groups with motivation to leave England.

Using the Link to Think about History Through the Early Settlements:

§  No one religious group dominated all the early settlements pre-1700. Think about what that means.

§  This continues post-1700 as this link shows: Summary of Religious Groups in the Colonies Pre-1700s and Post-1700s - If you are having trouble with the differences in religions, this lets you see them all in one page.

 

·         Without answers for self-testing: Major Issues in Colonization: Comparing Spain, France, England, and the Netherlands 
With answers for observing patterns: Completed Table Comparing Spain, France, England, and the Netherlands

Purpose of This Link: We are not covering all of these things. You are looking for these patterns:

·         Notice how the Spanish begin the 1500s with gold and with great success, but notice how the shift in power is to nations with markets (furs and the slave trade).

·         Notice how the nation states shift to colonization.

 

Optional Reference

·         Reference Because of a Student’s Question on These Interconnections between Land, Native Americans, Labor, and Voting and Assemblies – It has some information beyond your textbook.
Summary: Land, Indians, Laborers, and Political Development

·         Repeat from Chapter 1: Without answers for self-testing: What Were the Broad Patterns in Religion with Consequences on the English Colonies?
With answers for observing patterns:
Comparison with Answers.
(Optional: content in the 4th column of the table as a hierarchical chart—something a student requested.)

Purpose of This Link to Understand Facts:

§  Notice the differences between the religions on their Major Beliefs and on their Organization.

§  Which religious groups go to the English colonies and to what part of those English colonies?


Using the Link to Think about History:

§  What does the comparison show you about why the United States did not have 1 religion as the Puritans planned with their theocracy and as the Anglicans set up with their established church?

§  What does the comparison start to show you about why the United States not only does not have 1 religion, but also protects varied religions?

 

This continues post-1700 as this link shows: Summary of Religious Groups in the Colonies Pre-1700s and Post-1700s - If you are having trouble with the differences in religions, this lets you see them all in one page.

 

Copyright C. J. Bibus, Ed.D. 2003-2016

 

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