Please pick one question to answer!! (800-1000 words)

Question 1: For seventeenth-century Virginia settlers, the overriding concern was material profit; for seventeenth-century Massachusetts settlers, it was spiritual purity. In what ways do you find this contention persuasive? In what ways not? Illustrate your analysis with examples from the readings.

Question 2: Compare the conditions of slaves in the Rice Kingdom, the Tobacco Kingdom, and the northern colonies. As you do so, identify which features were distinctive to a particular region, and which were shared in common by slaves of all regions.

Question 3: During the first half of the eighteenth century, new ideas of English liberty had little effect on power relations in colonial America; throughout this period, the upper classes retained their dominance of colonial affairs. In what ways do you find this contention persuasive? In what ways not? Illustrate your analysis with examples from the readings.

Question 4: How did the consumer revolution of the eighteenth century alter the lives of colonial settlers and Indians in British North America?

Question 5: In the mid-1760s, few Americans could have conceived that the emerging current of protest over British colonial policy would culminate, a mere decade later, in a war for independence. Choose three episodes between 1765 and 1776 that you consider to be vital turning points along the road from resistance to revolution, and explain the reasoning behind your selections.

Question 6: Thomas Paines legendary publication Common Sense is credited with bringing the colonies to the verge of declaring their independence in 1776. What explains the electrifying impact of this pamphlet?

Question 7: When the American patriots went to war for independence, they were going up against the worlds foremost military power. What accounts for their eventual victory? Choose three factors that strike you as having been particularly essential to the final outcome, and explain the reasoning behind your selections.