What regional differences in native societies and economies existed on the North American continent before European arrival? How did Europeans make sense of native societies? Compare and contrast motivations and early settlement patterns of the Chesapeake
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What regional differences in native societies and economies existed on the North American continent before European arrival? How did Europeans make sense of native societies? Compare and contrast motivations and early settlement patterns of the Chesapeake colonies and those in New England. Explain the rise of slavery in the Chesapeake, and the effect of Bacon’s rebellion on slavery. What triggered the Great Awakening in the colonies? What did the religious revival offer colonists and what were its consequences? How did the Seven Year’s War change the approach of the British imperial government toward the colonies? Explain how that led to a crisis over representation and taxation. Discuss the participation of women in the American Revolution, and changes the political philosophy of republicanism brought for women in the wake of the Revolution. How did the authors of the Constitution create a balance between federal and state governments, and between large and small states? What compromises did the Constitution make on the institution of slavery? In what ways did Jefferson's presidency betray his original vision for the new republic? In what ways did it fulfill that vision What improvements did the new “cult of domesticity” bring to women’s lives, and what disadvantages did the new conception of femininity have?
