STEP 3: PUT IT ALL TOGETHER

CHAPTER 4 STUDY GUIDE

PUT IT ALL TOGETHER Now, take a step back and try to explain the big picture. Remember to use specific examples from the chapter in your answers.
NEW ENGLAND
  • What kind of society did the early settlers of New England hope to create?

  • What forces challenged Puritan domination of New England?

THE MIDDLE COLONIES
  • How did the settlement of the middle colonies differ from that of New England?

  • What explains the religious and ethnic diversity of the middle colonies?

THE EMPIRE
  • How did the English crown seek to regulate colonial trade?

  • How did the colonists respond to the English crown’s efforts to assert political authority?

LOOKING BACKWARD, LOOKING AHEAD
  • How did European colonization of the Americas in the seventeenth century differ from Spanish colonization in the previous century?

  • How did growth and development of English colonies in the seventeenth century set the stage for conflict between England and its colonies in the eighteenth century?