1. What are some of the main points in the section titled, "Origins in Mexico"?
2. What are some of the main points in the sections titled, "Farmers of the Southwest" and "Mississippian Society"?
3. What are some of the main points in the sections titled, "The South" and "The Northeast"?
4. Based on your book, what factors allowed Portuguese voyages to reach distant lands? See "The Portuguese Voyages."
5. How does the image below of the smallpox victim help you understand one of the factors that allowed Hernan Cortes to overthrow the Aztec empire? Read "The Virgin Soil Epidemic."
6. What are some of the main points in "The Protestant Reformation and the First French Colonies?"
7. What are some of the main points in the section titled "Jamestown and the Powhatan Confederacy"?
8. What are some of the impacts tobacco cultivation had on the Chesapeake colonies (Virginia and Maryland). See "Tobacco, Expansion, and Warfare."
9. What does the Salem Witch Trials reveal about the position of women in New England during the colonial period? Read section titled "The Salem Witch Trials." Today witches are portrayed as women who are older, childless, and/or single in films, cartoons, books, TV, and stories. What does this say about our society?
10. What are some of the characteristics of the Massachusetts Bay colony and Plymouth colony? Read "The Massachusetts Bay Colony' and "Plymouth Colony."