Posted: December 8th, 2014

Compare and contrast the British and Spanish imperial enterprises in the Americas up to the early 1700s. Please consider these nations’ goals, practices, and achievements in the New World. Useful readings would include the textbook, Gray’s documents, and the article by Hackel titled “Spaniards” on the course website.

Essay

1.  Compare and contrast the British and Spanish imperial enterprises in the Americas up to the early 1700s.  Please consider these nations’ goals, practices, and achievements in the New World.  Useful readings would include the textbook, Gray’s documents, and the article by Hackel titled “Spaniards” on the course website.

2.  According to the testimonies of Ann Putnam (both mother and daughter), apparitions of Rebecca Nurse and Martha Corey apparently tortured their victims “a great many times this day with such tortures as no tongue can express.”  Both Nurse and Corey hung from the gallows for their presumed crimes.  What do you make of the Salem witchcraft accusations and trials?  To what extent was this episode an isolated phenomenon and to what extent does it speak to broader themes (for instance: gender, violence, fear, or religion, etc.) in English colonial America?

3.  The United States—a so-called “nation of immigrants”—emerged in part from trans-Atlantic migration flows.  What type of immigrants were they?  Using information from Murrin’s textbook, Gray’s documents, and lectures, please describe the historical context (aspirations, reasons, and conditions) for the following three characters that might have arrived in the 1640s.  Also comment on what the future might hold for them.

-a 16 year-old female enslaved African brought to Virginia
-a 24 year-old English man of wealth who purchased property in Maryland
-a 20 year-old Puritan bride in the Massachusetts Bay Colony

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