History Expert

1. Why did each colonizing European nation have a somewhat different relationship with Native Americans?

2. How did this phenomenon cause the empires of Spain, France, Holland, and England to develop in different ways?

3. What did it mean for the English in North America that they came late to the business of establishing an overseas empire?

4. What were the key European objectives in exploring North America in this period? Was England, France or The Netherlands most successful in achieving its objective?

5. What do we know about the pre-contact history of the Five Nations of Iroquois? How did this history affect the world of colonial America? How did the European colonial ventures affect the Iroquois?

6. What was the “middle ground,” and how was it created?

7. What were the ramifications of the northern Europeans failing to find cities equivalent to Tenochtitlan anywhere in North America?

8. Did the English, French, and Dutch have profoundly different attitudes toward the Indians at the

Onset?

9. Early on, did the Dutch face the need to democratize their colony?

10. Did other colonies of the era face a similar need? Why or why not?