HIS 108: History of the United States through 1865

Reading Assignments and Focus Questions

Goldfield, Chapter 1: Worlds Apart (pp. 1-29)

Review Questions:

Why did European princes support voyages of exploration?

What were the biological consequences of contact between Europeans and Native Americans?

Why did early French and English efforts at colonization falter?

Goldfield, Chapter 2: Transplantation, 1600-1685 (pp. 30-57)

How did tobacco cultivation shape the development of Virginia society?

Why were the English colonies in New England so different from those in the Chesapeake?

Why did colonists in the Carolinas adopt harsh slave codes?