1. Compare and contrast settlement patterns, treatment of Indians, and religion of the Spanish and English in the Americas.  

2. For English settlers, land was the basis of independence and liberty.  Explain the reasoning behind that concept and how it differed from the  Indians' conception of land.  

3. Describe the factors promoting and limiting religious freedom in the New England and Chesapeake colonies.  

4. Describe who chose to emigrate to North America from England in the seventeenth century and explain their reasons.  

5.  In what ways did the economy, government, and household structure differ in New England and the Chesapeake colonies? 

6.  The English believed that, unlike the Spanish, their motives for  colonization were pure, and that the growth of empire and freedom would  always go hand in hand. How did the expansion of the British empire  affect the freedoms of Native Americans, the Irish, and even many  English citizens? 

7. Considering politics, social tensions, and debates over the meaning of  liberty, how do the events and aftermath of the English Civil War  demonstrate that the English colonies in North America were part of a  larger Atlantic community? 

8. How did the tobacco economy draw the Chesapeake colonies into the greater Atlantic World? 

9. How did the idea of freedom help letitimize English colonization? 

10.  In England, how were unemployed and economically dependent people viewed?