Week Two Study Guide

 

Terms and People:

Anne Hutchinson

Chattel slavery

Headright

Indenture/indentured servant

John Calvin and Calvinism

John Rolfe

John Smith

John Winthrop

Joint-stock company

Mercantile/mercantilism

Patroonship

Plantation

Proprietary colony

Protestant

Puritan

Restoration colony

Roger Williams

Sir Walter Raleigh

Tobacco

Yeoman

 

Map

Jamestown

Virginia

Massachusetts Bay

Plymouth

New Amsterdam (New York City)

Boston

Charles Town (Charleston, SC)

 

Primary Source Readings:

1. The Mayflower Compact
1. What does this agreement state?  What kind of society does this group of people envision creating in the new world?
2. List of passengers on the Mayflower
   Lists of Settlers by Occupation taken from John Smith’s writings
1. For each of these 2 documents, take note of what kinds of people are listed.  What were their occupations?  What else stands out about them? What kinds of people were in the majority? What kinds of people are conspicuously absent from Smith’s inventory?
2. For the list of settlers at Jamestown, what does all this tell you about the ways that prior expectations clashed with the realities of life in Virginia?
3. How do the Jamestown colonists compare with their counterparts in New England?