Chapter Two Reading Questions

For Wednesday's class, please read Chapter Two and consider the following questions:

• In the colonial period (1607-1787), how many came to America and how many of those were free?
• What does the first census of 1790 tell us about colonial immigrants?
• Who went to Virginia and why? How did they do there?
• What role did indentured service play? What are two reasons it was replaced by African slavery?
• Who established the Maryland colony?
• How and why was the immigration and settlement pattern of New England so different from that of Virginia and Maryland?
• Who were Miles Standish and John Winthrop?
• What was the role of Puritans in the "Great Migration" of the 1630s?
• What documents and arrangements were required to immigrate to America from England, and what was the cost and duration of the journey?
• How did English colonial migration set the character of what would become the United States?

Chapter One Reading Questions

For Friday's class please read Chapter One and consider the following questions:

• What is the distinction between the terms "migration" and "immigration"?
• How did Europeans' attitudes towards others change in the Age of Discovery?
• Why did several hundred thousand Europeans come to the New World in the 16th and 17th centuries?
• How many Native Americans lived in what is now the U.S.A. and Canada in 1492?
• What explains the different policies of Spanish, French, and English colonists regarding native peoples?
• What are the laws or tendencies of migration? Define "push," "pull," and "means."
• What are the three major immigration myths that most Americans believe?
• What main factor reduces a groups rate of return or remigration to the home country?
• In general, what is the demographic make up of Europeans who migrated to America? If you don't know what "demographic" means, please look it up.

Be prepared to answer these questions in class on Friday. There might be a quiz!