Comparative Questions

1. What do these documents reveal about attitudes toward Native Americans among English and Spanish colonists? What do the documents reveal about Native American attitudes toward English and Spanish colonists?
2. How did the production of tobacco influence the experiences of the individuals described by these documents? How did experiences differ according to social rank, gender, race, age, religion, and ethnicity?
3. Opechancanough's uprising, Bacon's rebellion, and the Pueblo revolt reveal fundamental conflicts over land rights and religion that arose in the southern colonies during the seventeenth century. To what extent did the three events display similar (or contrasting) conflicts?
4. Each of the documents provides evidence of important concepts of order and disorder. To what extent do the documents suggest broad agreement among free white colonists about the fundamental patterns of order and sources of potential disorder? To what extent did Indians, slaves, and servants share those notions?