Sec.Sec. 57-59.—­a.  Why did the Dutch East India Company wish a northern route to India?

b.  Describe Hudson’s and Champlain’s expeditions, and compare their treatment of the Iroquois.

c.  What attracted the Dutch to the region discovered by Hudson?

Sec.Sec. 60-62.—­a.  What was the object of the Dutch West India Company?  What privileges did the patroons have?

b.  Describe the career of Kieft.  What were the results of his treatment of the Indians?

c.  What kind of a governor was Stuyvesant?  Why was he unpopular?

Sec. 63.—­a.  In what European war were the Swedes and the Dutch engaged?

b.  On what land did the Swedes settle?

c.  Describe how New Sweden was joined to New Netherland.

GENERAL QUESTIONS

a.  Mark on a map in colors the lands settled by the different European nations.

b.  Note the position of the Dutch with reference to the English, and explain the importance of such position.

c.  Give one fact about each of the colonies, and state why you think it important.

d.  Give one fact which especially interests you in connection with each colony, and explain your interest.

e.  In which colony would you have liked to live, and why?

TOPICS FOR SPECIAL WORK

a.  Champlain’s place in American history (Parkman’s Pioneers).

b.  The First American Legislature and its work (Hart’s Contemporaries, I., No. 65).

c.  Why did the Pilgrims come to America? (Bradford’s Plymouth).

d.  Arrange a table of the several settlements similar to that described on page 18.

e.  Write a composition on life in early colonial days (Eggleston’s United States, 91-113).

SUGGESTIONS TO THE TEACHER

In treating this chapter aim to make clear the reasons for and conditions of the settlement of each colony.  Vividness can best be obtained by a study of the writings of the time, especially of Bradford’s History of Plymouth.  Use pictures in every possible way and molding board as well.

Emphasize the lack of true liberty of thought, and lead the children to understand that persecution was a characteristic of the time and not a failing of any particular colony or set of colonists.

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A CENTURY OF COLONIAL
HISTORY, 1660-1760

Books for Study and Reading

References.—­Fiske’s United States for Schools 133-180; McMaster’s School History, 93-108 (life in 1763); Source-Book, ch. vii; Fisher’s Colonial Era; Earle’s Child Life.