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"Dreams
of Liberation", ch.
1 (pp. 6-24) of American Slavery...American Freedom
(1975) Edmund S. Morgan Study Guide |
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Identifications:
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Reading
Comprehension Questions
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Sir
Walter Raleigh
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1.
What was Sir Walter Raleigh's dream
for the Roanoke Colony? 2. Why could the English so readily identify with the victims of Spanish colonialism in the New World?
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the
Cimarrons John Oxenham |
3. What motivated adventurers like John Hawkins
and Sir
Francis Drake to come to the New World? 4.
Who were the
Cimarrons, and how did they figure into Sir Francis Drake's
strategy to wrest control of the New World from the Spanish? What
might have happened to America's subsequent history if he had
succeeded, according to Morgan? (thesis!) 5. How did John Oxenham
nearly succeed in taking control of the Spanish silver trade out of
Peru? |
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Richard
Hakluyt |
6.
Explain the purpose of Richard
Hakluyt's The
Principal Navigations of the English Nation. 7. What were the specifics of Hakluyt's first colonization plan? Who did he believe should live in these colonies? How would the natives and the Cimmarons who would provide the labor in the colony be treated? |
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Peter
Martyr |
8.
From reading Peter
Martyr's accounts, what expectations did the English have of
their first encounters with the Natives of North America? |
Martin Frobisher |
9. What was the result of Martin Frobisher's ill-fated Newfoundland expedition? |
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Sir Humphrey Gilbert |
10. Why was Sir Humphrey Gilbert chosen to lead the first Virginia expedition? (What made this choice an ominous one for Raleigh's dream?) 11. How did Gilbert plan to solve the problem of labor in the new colony? 12. What basic miscalculations did Gilbert make in his assumptions about both the Indians and the Englishmen who would populate his colony? |
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Sir
Thomas More utopia |
11.
Describe Sir Thomas More's vision of utopia.
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12.
How would the
English model, if it had been successfully implemented, have
changed American history? Where did this Utopian model go wrong? |