Chapter+4+Reading+Objectives

Students who master Chapter 4 in __American Pageant__ will understand the following objectives and terms:

1. Describe the basic economic, demographic, and social structure of life of the seventeenth-century colonies. 2. Compare and contrast the different forms of society and ways of life of the southern colonies and New England. 3. Explain why colonists made the shift from indentured servitude to African slavery. (i.e. Why did using indentured servants no longer "work"? What made African slavery a more viable option at this point in time?) 4. Describe how African slavery developed and how, this in turn, created a new culture - the African American culture. (Note: This required the interaction of numerous African ethnic groups.) 5. Summarize what made life in New England unique in terms of how it centered around family, town, and church. Describe the problems that challenged this social order in the late seventeenth century. 6. Describe the roles of women in both the southern and New England colonies and how these changes over the course of the seventeenth century.
 * __Reading Objectives__**


 * __Other Key Concepts and Terms__**
 * Why was the Chesapeake region considered "unhealthy"?
 * Describe Bacon's Rebellion, Leisler's Rebellion, and the Stono Rebellion
 * Why did the Salem Witch Trials take place and what does that tell us about New England societies?