Period 2 Questions

(A) Why did the Spanish implement the encomienda system? Were the native populations the only source of Spanish labor?

(B) How did the French and Dutch establish diplomatic and economic relationships? What did they want? Why?

(C) Why did English migrants seek social mobility, economic prosperity, religious freedom, and improved living conditions? How did English colonizers establish their first settlement? What were the effects?

(A) What was triangular trade? Goods? Routes? Participants?

(B) How did continuing exchange between Europeans and American Indians lead to cultural, economic, and demographic changes?

(C) Why did Europeans and Indian interactions lead to both cooperation and conflict, even allying with Europeans to fight other American Indian groups?

(D) How did the growing mistrust between European leaders and colonists lead to issues regarding territorial disputes, frontier defense, self-rule, and trade?

(E) What were the causes of Metacom’s War (King Philip’s War)? (land, resources, and political boundaries)

(F) What were the effects of the Pueblo Revolt?

(A) To what degree did British colonial regions participate in the slave trade?

(B) Why were slave codes enforced in the southern colonies where chattel slavery was the dominant system of labor?

(C) How did Africans use overt and covert means of resisting the dehumanizing aspects of slavery and maintain their family and gender systems, culture, and religion?