Documents – Colonial America



AP U.S. History

Documents – Colonial America

Molloy/Maoriello

Richard Hakluyt – A Discourse on Western Planting

1. What advantages of New World colonization does Hakluyt discuss here?

John Smith – Generall Historie of Virginia

1. Speculate on Smith’s motives for including this account.

2. Is the account accurate? Why? or Why not?

3. How does Smith describe the conditions at Jamestown?

Letter from a Jamestown colonist – Sebastian Brandt 1622

John Winthrop – Reasons for Puritan Migration, 1629 and A Modell of Christian Charity

1. What do these documents reveal to us about the nature of the Puritan faith and their motives for establishing a colony in the New World?

The Mayflower Compact

1. What democratic principles are present here?

William Penn – Selected Works (Penn’s Letters to the Indians and the people of Pennsylvania)

1. What evidence from Penn’s writing might help explain the success of the Pennsylvania Colony?

John Peter Zenger – New York Weekly Journal 1733

1. What are the dangers of an abusive political authority?

2. How should we guard against these dangers?

Jonathan Edwards – Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God (Start at the section that is titled “Application”)

1. How does Edwards use imagery and emotion to deliver his message?

2. Is it effective? – provide examples –

Benjamin Franklin – Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind

1. What does Franklin foresee in America’s future?

2. What comments does Franklin make on race and ethnicity?

3. Consider Franklin’s predictions in the context of modern society -

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