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HIS 315K UNIT 1 STUDY GUIDE Colonial Times HOW TO USE THE STUDY GUIDE This study guide is designed to help guide your learning for this unit. Use this structure to generate and organize terms, ideas, ... questions, and your own key insights from each lesson. As you read, discover, and learn from your course materials, you should continue to add information and evidence from each lesson, and to record your responses to each unit question. By the end of the unit, the work you do in this guide will become a thorough review sheet that you can use to develop strong and well-supported exam essays. PART 1: ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS Before you start your reading for this unit, take a look at the following questions. These questions are important, because they are the broad questions that summarize each day’s lesson. As you read, try to identify information and evidence that can help you answer each question. When you find key passages, note the page numbers and sources, so that you can access this information easily later for studying and assessments. Questions Citation Directions: Preview these questions before reading. Directions: Note page numbers and sources from your readings or the Crash Course videos. Which are the most dominant colonies—and why? How do the colonies compare to one another? How was slavery in colonial America connected to culture, economy, and social class/race? By 1650, slavery would be passed down from parent to child. held enslaved people as workers /need for labor, especially for the labor-intensive plantation economies How did the creation of representative democracy in colonial America contribute to the institutionalization of slavery? Every English colony practiced slavery, building an empire-wide system of white racial dominance and African oppression. Slavery was more than a labor system; it also influenced every aspect of colonial thought and culture. The uneven relationship it engendered gave white colonists an exaggerated sense of their own status. English liberty gained greater meaning and coherence for white people when they contrasted their status to that of the unfree class of enslaved black people in British America. African slavery provided white colonists with a shared racial bond and identity. Religion played a central role in the settlers of New England, specifically the Puritans. How did the belief in covenant help the Puritans to face the adversity of establishing a colony? The Puritans generally were very strict in their religious observance. When the Puritans established their colonies, there was very little separation between the Puritan church and the local government. There were beliefs in some of the colonies that the leaders got their power directly from God. Exploring the past requires investigations into multiple perspectives and connecting causes to effects. Why were twenty people executed in Salem during this time period HIS 315K Page 2 of 12 EXPERIENCE COLLEGE BEFORE COLLEGE S [Show More]

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