Organize the Evidence for Thinking through Sources 2

Document Links:

Document 2.1 JOHN SMITH, The Commodities in Virginia (c. 1612)

Document 2.2 Powhatan’s Viewpoint, as Reported by John Smith (1608)

Document 2.3 JOHN WINTHROP, A Model of Christian Charity (1630)

Document 2.4 RICHARD FRETHORNE, Letter Home from Virginia (1623)

Document 2.5 Letter Home from Massachusetts Bay (1631)

Organize the Evidence for Thinking through Sources 2

The following exercises provide an opportunity to use the sources collectively to respond to a guiding question.

Guiding Question: Based on these sources, how did the goals, expectations, and experiences of the groups who settled and lived in the Virginia colony differ from those of the people who settled and lived in the Massachusetts Bay colony in the seventeenth century?

Instructions

Below are three topics that might find a place in organizing an essay responding to the guiding question. This exercise asks you to identify which sources would provide relevant evidence for that topic. Select the best answers for each question. Choose ALL that apply. Click the “submit” button for each question to turn in your work.

Question 2.16

1. Which of the sources provide specific evidence about the factors that motivated the English migrants who decided to seek new lives in the North American colonies? Choose ALL that apply.

R6Xlb9MAHXF7O4A0MNT1YQ== Document 2.1: John Smith, The Commodities in Virginia
kcVtUDKfaIWTKrqEI7di7A== Document 2.2: Powhatan’s Viewpoint, as Reported by John Smith
R6Xlb9MAHXF7O4A0MNT1YQ== Document 2.3: John Winthrop, A Model of Christian Charity
kcVtUDKfaIWTKrqEI7di7A== Document 2.4: Richard Frethorne, Letter Home from Virginia
kcVtUDKfaIWTKrqEI7di7A== Document 2.5: Letter Home from Massachusetts Bay (1631)
Correct: Document 2.1: Smith’s description of Virginia’s plentiful resources attracted English migrants who sought new lives in the colony. Document 2.3: Winthrop’s sermon, which outlined the group’s religious agenda, motivated its migration to Massachusetts Bay.
Incorrect: Document 2.2: This record, created by John Smith, provides evidence about Native Americans’ experiences with English colonization and does not shed light on the reasons Europeans came to North America. Document 2.4: Richard Frethorne demonstrates the hardships English settlers faced when they reached Virginia. Document 2.5: This document sheds light on the hardships English settlers faced in Massachusetts Bay.

Question 2.17

2. Which of these documents provide specific evidence about the interactions between English settlers and Native American populations in Virginia and Massachusetts Bay in the seventeenth century? Choose ALL that apply.

kcVtUDKfaIWTKrqEI7di7A== Document 2.1: John Smith, The Commodities in Virginia (c. 1612)
R6Xlb9MAHXF7O4A0MNT1YQ== Document 2.2: Powhatan’s Viewpoint, as Reported by John Smith (1608)
kcVtUDKfaIWTKrqEI7di7A== Document 2.3: John Winthrop, A Model of Christian Charity (1630)
R6Xlb9MAHXF7O4A0MNT1YQ== Document 2.4: Richard Frethorne, Letter Home from Virginia (1623)
R6Xlb9MAHXF7O4A0MNT1YQ== Document 2.5: Letter Home from Massachusetts Bay (1631)
Correct: Document 2.2: Powhatan reports on the troublesome relations between his people and the English settlers. Document 2.4: Frethorne describes his fears of the Indians and their frequent conflicts with the English settlers. Document 2.5: William Pond describes his views of the Indians and reports on the ways English settlement affected them.
Incorrect: Document 2.l: Smith discusses the possibility of converting the Indians to Christianity, but he does not describe any interaction with them. Document 2.3: John Winthrop gave this sermon before his Puritan followers left their ship and encountered Indians. He does not describe interactions with Native Americans.

Question 2.18

3. Which of the following documents provide specific evidence that might make a comparison possible about the daily experiences of English settlers in Virginia and Massachusetts Bay in the seventeenth century? Choose ALL that apply.

kcVtUDKfaIWTKrqEI7di7A== Document 2.1: John Smith, The Commodities in Virginia (c. 1612)
R6Xlb9MAHXF7O4A0MNT1YQ== Document 2.2: Powhatan’s Viewpoint, as Reported by John Smith (1608)
kcVtUDKfaIWTKrqEI7di7A== Document 2.3: John Winthrop, A Model of Christian Charity (1630)
R6Xlb9MAHXF7O4A0MNT1YQ== Document 2.4: Richard Frethorne, Letter Home from Virginia (1623)
R6Xlb9MAHXF7O4A0MNT1YQ== Document 2.5: Letter Home from Massachusetts Bay (1631)
Correct: Document 2.2: Powhatan describes his interactions with English settlers in Virginia, providing evidence about both Native Americans’ and English settlers’ daily lives in that colony. Document 2.4: Richard Frethorne describes his life in Virginia, providing evidence about the ways English settlers lived in the 1620s. Document 2.5: William Pond describes his daily experiences as a settler in Massachusetts Bay, making a comparison with Virginia possible.
Incorrect: Document 2.1: John Smith’s advertisement for Virginia does not convey any information about English settlers’ real experiences in the region. Document 2.3: John Winthrop gave his sermon aboard the Arbella before the settlers disembarked in Massachusetts Bay. It does not give provide any evidence about Puritans’ experiences in the colony.

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