American History: A Survey 10/e   Alan Brinkley
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Objectives

1. The differences between the Jamestown and Plymouth colonies in terms of objectives, types of settlers, early problems, and reasons for success.

2. The causes and significance of Bacon's Rebellion.

3. The significance of the Caribbean colonies in the British-American colonial system.

4. The background of the Massachusetts Bay colony and its founders, the Puritans.

5. The conditions in Puritan Massachusetts Bay that spawned such dissenters as Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson.

6. The expansion of the original settlements, and the influences of the New World frontier on the colonists.

7. The efforts made by the Dutch to establish a colony, and the reasons for their failure.

8. The reasons for the founding of each of the original thirteen colonies.

9. The early economic, religious, and political factors in the colonies that tended to produce sectional differences.

10. The effect of the Glorious Revolution on the development of the American colonies.

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