In paragraphs of approximately 5-7 sentences, define four of the following terms. Your answers should use the Ware and Taylor readings to define what each term is and how it relates to early American history.

(NB: For some of these answers, you might find that there is more information in the reading than you can put into a 5-7 sentence paragraph. In those cases, you can make some editorial choices. That is, what do YOU believe are the most important things to know about the term you are defining, and shape your answer according to your choices.)

Women’s roles in Native American cultures

Slave women in the Chesapeake colonies

Women and the “consumer revolution”

Powhatan

Bacon’s Rebellion

The Puritans

Settler/Indian relations in New England

Example of a full credit answer (taken from Alan Taylor, Colonial America, chapter 4, “Chesapeake Colonies.”)

West Country Menwere a group of influential and prominent Englishmen who, with the backing of Queen Elizabeth I, began the English empire. The West Country men envisioned an empire that could absorb the growing numbers of poor people in England and turn them into profitable workers who would grow Englands wealth and power. Additionally, they wanted an empire that could challenge the power of the Spanish empire and curb its attempts to spread Catholicism in the Americas. (England was a Protestant country). They exaggerated the cruelty with which Spanish explorers had treated indigenous people in America and insisted that those peoples would welcome the English as a preferred alternative. The West Country men twice failed to establish a colony on Roanoke, but eventually were successful at creating a permanent colony in what is now Virginia called Jamestown.