"England on the Eve of Empire": Reading 1.1

Tonight marks, for you A dayers, the start of nightly readings. (B dayers, feel free to get started.) Every night, you will come to the blog to check for reading questions, guides, and overviews. Ideally, you will read through once, annotate, and then come back to the questions. So, without further ado, here are your first set of questions, from 26-31, and 38:

1. What do you think is the connection between population growth in England and settling the New World (America) in the late 16th and early 17th centuries?
2. What is primogenture?
3. What is a joint-stock company?
4. Why is the Virginia Company charter such a significant document?
5. What is the real story of John Smith and Pocahontas?
6. Describe early Virginians' relationship with local Indian tribes.
7. What were the most significant consequences of European arrival in America for Native Americans?
8. Name three distinctive features of the Plantation Colonies.
9. PLEASE BRING COMPUTER TO FIRST DAY OF CLASS IF YOU HAVE ONE