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?
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