1. Investigate and discuss three British attempts to settle in North America in the 16th and early 17th centuries. What challenges did these early settlements encounter?
2. What was the political legacy of the Jamestown settlement and the Mayflower Pilgrims? What ideas did these groups have about politics and government?
3. Explain how British governments encouraged or supported exploration and colonial settlement in North America.
4. Compare and contrast the three colonial regions: New England, the Middle Colonies and the Southern Colonies. How were their societies and economies similar and different?
5. Explain the role of religion in the development of colonial society between the early 1600s and the American Revolution.
6. Colonial American society is sometimes wrongly presented as a mirror of British society. Discuss how life in colonial America was different to life in Britain.
7. Examine the nature of class and power in colonial American society. Which people or groups wielded power and how?
8. Describe everyday life in colonial America. Provide some comparisons between life in large cities, rural settlements and frontier regions.
9. How and why was slavery integrated into colonial American society and economics by the mid-1700s?
10. How were Native American tribes and peoples affected by the settlement of British America between the early 1600s and the mid-1700s?
