Please write the answers to eight of the following 16 questions, however, all must answer question #1.
Due: Friday, 9/9
- In what way(s) is the Virginia (Va.) colony different than Georgia, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania?
- What ideas did the Puritans struggle with in forming a government?
- What reasons does Boorstin cite in why the Puritans did not pursue a utopian society?
- What is meant, in Puritan society, as the “Half-way Covenant, and what was it’s purpose?
- Why did Lechford believe that the Puritan church was “too democratic?
- What are "headrights?"
- How was Va. society similar to English society? How was it different?
- Define "freeholder."
- How did an aristocracy develop in Va.?
- What's problem did planters in Va. have with soil when planting tobacco?
- What was synonymous with "sour land," and how did it get that way?
- Why was/is that Va. did not develop a center of commerce (like a Philadelphia or a Boston)?
- Explain the voting procedure in Va.?
- What role did the Va. gov't play in aiding people such as George Washington in acquiring new land?
- How was the "church of Va." different than the Church of England?
- What role did the church of Va. play in society and politics?
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