History Paper

Please choose one of the following prompts and provide a ten page reply

1. While the fundamental differences in worldview influenced the early contacts between British North American colonists and Native American tribes these differences did not make conflict inevitable. With a focus on the Powhatan and the Wampanoag analyze how economic, social and geographic variables shaped their interactions.

2. The Portuguese, Spanish, British, French and the Dutch would utilize different labor systems and economic engines to finance their colonies in the Western Hemisphere. Choose two and analyze the systems used, what changed over time and the effects on the indigenous populations.

3. The Reformation of 1517 would reverberate through time impacting the British North
American colonies. Analyze how issues of religion and governance in pre 1700 Maryland and Massachusetts impacted life in both colonies.

4. Describe and analyze virtual versus direct elected representation and how the interpretation by the British Empire and America Colonists impacted the American Revolution.

5. The transition from the use of Indigenous laborers and indentured servants in the British North American colonies to chattel slavery for manual skilled and unskilled labor was a process that evolved over 60 years. Consider this image of a Virginia Tobacco farm and analyze how it evolved.