Monday, January 22, 2018

Chapter Five Reading Questions

Reminder: Your Document Analysis Paper is Due on Friday, 1/26

For Wednesday's class, please read chapter 5, and prepare written answers to the following questions:
  • How do colonizing people come to see themselves?
  • Describe the dominance of English culture and institutions.
  • How did Christian missionaries deal with Indians?
  • Define Anglo-conformity.
  • Where was Indian slavery practiced?
  • In what northern city was slavery well established, and what happened there in 1741?
  • What colonial laws regulated black behavior?
  • What produced an extreme cultural arrogance among English-descended colonists?
  • Where and why do we find "the first major ethnic crisis in American history"?
  • Why were the Quakers and Scotch-Irish in conflict?
  • The Constitution shows that the founding fathers expect what of immigrants?
  • What is the residence requirement for immigrants who want to naturalize? (Define "naturalize.") Why has it varied?
  • What was the spirit of early American nationalism?

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