Q Please answer only one question (250 words minimum) and respond to two other posts (50 words minimum for participation point-- 100 to 150 for content points)! Discussion Questions: 1. Both religious and economic factors made it easier for the French than the English to coexist with Indian cultures. Discuss those factors and explain why you agree or disagree. 2. Why did Puritanism appeal to many people in early modern England? 3. While seventeenth century New Englanders enjoyed relative political stability, inhabitants of the Middle Colonies endured chronic political discord and factionalism. What aspects of the two regions’ social development and institutional structures fostered consensus or conflict? 4. Why didn’t New England develop a slave based plantation economy similar to those in the colonial South? 5. Assess the relations between white settlers and Indians in the northern colonies. How do they compare with relations between those two groups in the colonial South? 6. Why did Quaker beliefs and customs challenge traditional English society in so many ways? Why did New England’s Puritans (who were, after all, devout reformers themselves) persecute Quakers? 7. How did the Iroquois nation gain strength from its contacts with white colonies? 8. Explain why the question of unity was a challenge both for English colonials and for the Iroquois Indians in 1753. 9. Was the eighteenth century American frontier a “safety valve” or a “Pandora’s Box?” Assess the political and social consequences of the expansion of population into the backcountry. 10. Comment on the following statement: “That America evolved in ways distinct from that of England was a direct result of British colonial policy.” 11. In what ways were major American seaports of the eighteenth century similar to cities today? In what ways were they different? How has urban life changed in the last 300 years? 12. “To any person in bondage, the condition of slavery must be fundamentally unacceptable, no matter how benevolent a slave’s master. Yet the realities of power forced enslaved people every day to confront these inequalities.” Write an essay, discussing the ways in which enslaved African-Americans dealt, in different ways, with their situation. 13. Why was the Great Awakening disruptive socially as well as religiously? Explain the causes of disruption in both cases.