Reasons for Colonialism: Discussion 

Reasons for Colonialism: Discussion 

Requirements: Explain and analyze the division between the southern colonies and the rest of Britain’s North American colonies.

  • Address the origins of the southern colonies “peculiar” racial and social systems and assess whether or not they really were all that different than those of the northern colonies
  • Explain the origins, motivations, and backgrounds for the development. Why did colonists thought or act the way they did.
  • Incorporate elements from the primary source documents in your argument.

Cited format: The Chicago Manual of Style

Sources: The Unfinished Nation Volume 1; Bacon\’s Rebellion: The Declaration (1676); Virtual Jamestown First Hand Accounts

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