Humanities Homework Help

This week students will read Chapter 3: Creating New Social Orders, 1500-1700, and Chapter 4: Rule Britannia! The British Empire 1660-1763. Chapter 3 continues following European ambitions as they sought to reinforce their claim to territory within North and South America.

Answer the below questions in three different word docs and respond to two post of your class mates

Question1.

What was the Reformation, and how did it encourage further interest in the Americas? Briefly discuss the religious situation of England in the early seventeenth century. What was the goal of the early settlers of New England? In what ways did the religious problems of England inspire their actions? How did their religion affect the kind of society they built?

Question 2.

What was a Plantation economy? In which colonies did these economies appear? Why? What type of society grew up around this economy? What was Bacon’s rebellion? What were the main issues which caused it? How did it and other events between 1660 and 1680 change the makeup of plantation economies in North America?

Question 3.

What was the Enlightenment, and in what ways did it affect Americans? What was the “Great Awakening” and how did it make Americans feel “unique”? How were these two movements similar? Where there any other factors in the first half of the eighteenth century contributing to the development of an “American consciousness” different from that of the British Empire?