Prior to reading the contents of the chapter assigned; please review the following questions. While reading, compile ideas from the chapter to answer the questions posed.

This is not a 'turn-in' assignment. This is for your benefit - so that you can obtain the information needed for the successful completion of this class. If you approach this while the content of the textbook, you will better understand what information in the textbook/power points is essential for success.

Questions:

Compare and contrast life in the Spanish, French, Dutch, and English colonies, differentiating between the Chesapeake Bay and New England colonies. Who were the colonizers? What were their purposes in being there? How did they interact with their environments and the native inhabitants of the lands on which they settled?
Describe the attempts of the various European colonists to convert native peoples to their belief systems. How did these attempts compare to one another? What were the results of each effort?
How did chattel slavery differ from indentured servitude? How did the former system come to replace the latter? What were the results of this shift?
What impact did Europeans have on their New World environments—native peoples and their communities as well as land, plants, and animals? Conversely, what impact did the New World’s native inhabitants, land, plants, and animals have on Europeans? How did the interaction of European and Indian societies, together, shape a world that was truly “new”?