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Raleigh agreed in their feelings toward Spain. 14. What conclusions can you draw from the fact that Drake would not now be permitted to treat the Spaniards as he did? 15. What two motives influenced Raleigh to plant a colony? Do you think that Queen Elizabeth agreed with him? 16. What causes made Gilbert and Raleigh fail? 17. Which of these causes probably worked against any new colony of that day? 18. Why did Raleigh give up the attempt to plant a settlement, and what did England learn from his failure? 19. Draw on a map lines showing the regions claimed by each nation. 20. Did each nation claim more than it really owned? Prove your answer. 21. Compare the regions as to climate, soil, and products. 22. Prove that England claimed the best region. 23. Give some reasons why the Englishman and the Indian could not live together peaceably. 24. State the advantages and the disadvantages which the Indian had in a war with the white man.

Histories: Fiske's Discovery of America, II., 184, 188-189, 190-207 (Magellan); 245-255 (Cortez); 385, 391-408 (Pizarro); 390, 398, 509 (De Soto). Parkman's Pioneers of France, 175-180 (Verrazano); 210-227 (Cartier); 228-253 (The Huguenots); 254-258 (Raleigh). Hale's Stories of Discovery, 59-85 (Magellan); 86-106 (Sir Francis Drake). Thwaites" Colonies, 7-19. Fisher's Colonial Era, 5-11.

Sources: Hart's Source Book, 6-8, 9-11. American History Leaflets, No. 13. Old South Leaflets, I., Nos. 17, 20; II., Nos. 34, 35, 36, 37. Hart's Contemporaries, I., 158 (Letter to Queen Elizabeth).

Fiction: Novels, Munroe's Flamingo Feather; Kingsley's Westward Ho! Henty's Under Drake's Flag. Poems, Longfellow's Sir Humphrey Gilbert and Hiawatha.

(27-38.) 1. Prove that Raleigh's work was not without results. 2. State the purposes of the Company, the king, and the settlers in planting Jamestown. What conclusions can you draw? 3. What contradiction in the charter? 4. Make a list of reasons why the first settlers did not work well. 5. Name ways in which John Smith worked for the colony. 6. Compare the work of Smith and Dale. 7. Why did not the first manufactures pay as well as the raising of tobacco? 8. Explain the effect of raising tobacco on (a) population, (b) occupations, (c) classes of laborers. 9. Prove that good came out of Argall's tyranny, and state who deserves the credit for it. 10. Why was calling a "representative assembly" no experiment? II. Visit the gallery of the church at Jamestown, July 30, 1619, and "picture" the scene. 12. What laws were passed by that Virginia Assembly which could not now be passed? 13. Prove the founding of the House of Burgesses a great event. 14. What changes in the colony

made the settlers wish to make Virginia their home? 15. How did the Company encourage this wish, and what were the effects? 16. Make a list of important events in 1619. 17. Why did the planters buy the negroes? 18. What was the difference between an "indented" servant and a negro servant? 19. Make a list of the effects of slavery on the colony. 20. Write in your notebook reasons for admiring the London Company.

(39-45.) 7. On what point did Virginia and England agree? What did the turning of Harvey out of office mean? 2. On what point did Virginians and Puritans not agree? Were the laws against Puritans wise? Prove your answer. 3. Why did Virginia welcome the Cavaliers? How did their coming help the colony? 4. On what conditions did Virginia "surrender"? What does this treaty prove? 5. Make a list showing the differences between Virginia under Charles I. and under Cromwell. 6. Why did Virginians show joy over Charles II.? 7. Explain how the Navigation Law gave English merchants a double advantage over Americans. 8. Why did Culpeper and Arlington not get possession of Virginia? Was this the first time the colonists opposed their king? Explain. 9. Why were most of Bacon's men from the poorer classes? Why did the rich planters not rebel? 10. Make a list of reasons for a new election of burgesses. 11. Why were there so few schools in Virginia in 1693? 12. Of what use was a college in the colony?

Histories: Fiske's Old Virginia and Her Neighbors, I., 64-65, 71-76 (London Company); 80-91 (John Smith); 185-188 (First Representative Assembly in America); 218-220 (End of London Company); 253254 (Virginia in 1642); II., 12-14 (Cavaliers); 55-56 (Berkeley); 64-65 (Bacon); 77-80 (Bacon's Rebellion). Thwaites' Colonies, 66-75, 75-79 (During the Commonwealth and Berkeley's Second Rule). Fisher's Colonial Era, 30-48 (Early Virginia); 49-56 (Navigation Laws and Bacon's Rebellion). Cooke's Virginia, 113-118 (The First Assembly); 119-124 (Maids and Slaves); 195-207 (Commonwealth); 230-232, 258-264 (Bacon's Rebellion). Coffin's Old Times in the Colonies, 90-92, 107-110, 259-264 (Berkeley and Bacon). Cooke's Stories of the Old Dominion, 29-55 (John Smith and Pocahontas); 56-64 (The Old Dominion); 65-81 (The Great Rebellion).

Sources: Hart's Source Book, 11-14. American History Leaflets, No. 27; No. 19 (Navigation Acts). Hart's American History Told by Contemporaries, I., 218-225; 229-233 (Condition of Virginia in 1623); 237-241 (Condition of Virginia in 1671). Mace's Working Manual of American History, 126-128.

Fiction: Mary Johnston's To Have and to Hold and Audrey.

(46-58.) 1. Name the persecuted classes who have previously come to America. 2. Point out differences between

the government in Maryland and that in Virginia. 3. How did the first settlers of Maryland and Virginia differ? 4. Name three causes of trouble between Maryland and Virginia. 5: Prove that Cromwell dealt wisely with both Maryland and Virginia. 6. Prove that the changes in government when Charles II. became king were less in Maryland than in Virginia. 7. Map the first Carolina settlements. 8. Give reasons why the settlers opposed the Grand Model. 9. Keep a table of quarrels between the people of the colonies and their governors, showing what each dispute was about, when and in what colony it occurred. 10. Keep a list of the classes of settlers, showing their name, country, and the colony in which they settled. II. Make a list of differences between North and South Carolina. 12. In what ways did the settlement of Georgia differ from that of the other southern colonies? 13. Diagram or summarize the history of each southern colony, using the paragraph headings as main topics.

Histories: Fiske's Old Virginia and Her Neighbors, I., 255-256 (George Calvert); 263-274 (Lord Baltimore and the Maryland Charter); II., 276-279 (First Colonies in Carolina); 294-297 (The Quakers); 308316, 322-324 (Comparison of the Carolinas); 333-336 (Georgia). Thwaites' Colonies, 81-87 (Maryland); 87-95 (Carolina and Georgia). Fisher's Colonial Era, 62-75 (Maryland); 76-81 (The Carolinas). Cooke's Virginia, 176-179 (Baltimore and Claiborne). Coffin's Old Times in the Colonies, 337-349 (Carolinas); 350-356 (Georgia).

Sources: Source Book, 48-51, 71-73, 108-109 Hart's Contemporaries, I., 252-257, 267-271 (Maryland); 110-114 (Oglethorpe's Own Plan). Hart's Source Readers, I., 23-48.

Fiction: Simms' The Yemassee.

(59-64.) 1. Make a list of colonies outside of New England which contained some Puritans. Tell how Puritans and Episcopalians differed. 2. How did Separatists and other Puritans agree and how did they differ? 3. Why did the king persecute the Separatists more than the other Puritans? 4. Which was the more advanced in its treatment of religious questions, England or Holland? Prove your answer. 5. Name the feeling which caused the Pilgrims to leave Holland. 6. What did they say in the compact, and what does it mean? 7. What does it prove that the Pilgrims did not return to England in the spring? 8. Make a list of good examples which the Pilgrims set for the world.

(65-76.) 1. Give the cause and the immediate purpose of the great Puritan migration. 2. Describe the government set up by the charter of 1629. 3. Why did the Bay Colony succeed better at the beginning than either Plymouth or Jamestown? 4. Why did the Puritans always settle in towns?

5. Make a list of the advantages of this plan of settlement as compared with the Virginia or southern plan. 6. What was the feeling of the Bay Colony Puritans toward other sects? On this point did this colony resemble or differ from Plymouth? From Virginia? 7. What does it mean that only church members were permitted to vote? 8. Who voted in Virginia after Berkeley became governor the second time? 9. Why did Watertown refuse to pay the tax? What declaration did the Virginia House of Burgesses make about taxation? 10. Which was the conservative and which the democratic part of the General Court? Prove. 11. Who was the conservative leader and what did he say to justify his party? Do you agree with him? 12. What is the meaning of Hooker's answer? Do you agree with him? Why did he leave Boston? 13. With which ideas of Roger Williams do you agree? What did nations then think of such teachings? 14. What does it mean that the majority against Williams was small? 15. What good results came out of the banishment of Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson? Who deserves the credit? 16. What was The Body of Liberties? 17. Who wanted a written body of laws and why? Make a list of the other points on which these two parties differed. 18. What class favored education? Why?

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(77-84.) 1. Explain the connection between the banishment of Roger Williams and the danger to the charter. Name three reasons why Massachusetts was commanded to give up her charter. 3. How did she make answer, and what does it prove? 4. Name the causes which drew the four colonies together. 5. Infer a reason why Rhode Island was not taken into the union. 6. Describe the plan of government, and state the uses of such a union. 7. What were the peculiar ideas and teaching of the Quakers? 8. How can you explain the cruel punishment of Quakers by England and Massachusetts? 9. Who won the victory, Puritan or Quaker? What does it prove? 10. What new reasons could Charles II. find for taking away this charter? II. What similar reasons did James I. have for taking away the charter of Virginia? 12. What change did James II. and Andros make in the government of Massachusetts ? 13. Picture the overthrow of Andros. 14. Compare the overthrow of Andros with that of Berkeley. 15. What changes did the charter given by William and Mary make?

Histories: Fiske's Beginnings of New England, 65-87, 95-104 (Salem Founded, Charter Granted, the Cambridge Meeting, and the Transfer of the Charter to America); 105-108 (No Taxation Without

Representation; Separation of General Court into Two Houses"); 114-119 (Roger Williams and Mrs. Hutchinson); 261-274 (Struggle Over the Charter; Andros). Thwaites' Colonies, 116-124, 124-127 (First Settlements in Massachusetts); 127-136 (Political and Religious Disputes); 130 (Harvard); 154-159 (Confederation); 165-166 (Quakers). Fisher's Colonial Era, 85-99, 100-122, 146-148 (Quakers); 149-164 (Andros). Drake's Making of New England, 67-87 (The Pilgrims); 149-155 (Salem Colony); 155-160 (The Great Migration); 108-172 (Boston); 172-184 (Customs and Government); 214-218 (Harvard College and the First Printing Press). Coffin's Old Times in the Colonies, 111-140 (The Pilgrims and Plymouth); 152-170 (Puritan Beginnings); 216-223 (The Quakers); 241-250 (King Philip's Wars); 265-270 (Andros and the Charters). Hawthorne's Grandfather's Chair, 10-26 (Pilgrims and Puri. tans); 28-42 (Roger Williams and Mrs. Hutchinson); 55-58 (The Quakers); 108-114 (The Old-Fashioned School).

Sources: American History Leaflets, Nos. 29 and 25 (Body of Liberties). Hart's Source Book, 37-41, 80-82. Preston's Documents, 29-31 ("Mayflower "Compact). Hart's History Told by Contemporaries, I., 356-359, 382-387 (Mrs. Hutchinson's Trial). Mace's Working Manual, 129-131 (Body of Liberties); (A Quaker Letter, 1661). Old South Leaflets, Nos. 7, 48-55, 66, 67, 88. Hart's Source Reader, Nos. 1, 10, 11, 20, 21, 41-43, 45, 46.

Fiction and Poetry: Stowe's Mayflower. Austin's Standish of Standish. Mrs. Heman's The Pilgrim Fathers. Longfellow's Courtship of Miles Standish.

(85-96.) 7. How did the people of New Hampshire differ from those of Massachusetts? 2. Give reasons for the emigration of Hooker and others to the Connecticut Valley. 3. What caused the Connecticut towns to unite? 4. Prove that Hooker's sermon agreed with what he said to Winthrop (870). 5. With which man do you agree? Why? 6. When, where, and by whom was New Haven founded? 7. How did the New Haven union differ from the Connecticut union? 8. When, why, and by whom were Connecticut and New Haven united? 9. Picture the charter's defense. 10. Why was Roger Williams ordered back to England, and why did he go to Rhode Island instead? 11. For whom did he found Rhode Island? Prove. 12. Why and by whom were Portsmouth and Newport founded? 13. What towns composed the "Colony of Rhode Island"? 14. Prove that the Plymouth, Connecticut, and Rhode Island colonies were more democratic than Massachusetts and New Haven. 15. What colonies united to form Massachusetts? Connecticut? Rhode Island?

Histories: Fiske's Beginnings of New England, 122-128 (Connecticut); 134-137 (New Haven). Thwaites' Colonies, 140-144 (Connecticut); 144-146 (New Haven); 146-150 (Rhode Island); 150-152 (Maine); 152-153 (New Hampshire). Fisher's Colonial Era, 123-132. Drake's Making of New England, 119-127 (Pioneers of Maine); 130-137 (Pioneers of New Hampshire); 187-194 (Pioneers of Connecticut); 194-203 (Early

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