1. An Emerging Nation 1.What was life like in the Americas prior to the arrival of the Europeans? 2.How do the William Wood and William Bradford quotations illustrate the clash of cultures that occurred when Europeans and Native Americans first meet? 3.Were Wood and Bradford fair in their assessment of the landscape and population of North America?

2. Cultural Influences Why did many Puritans leave England and come to America?(pg. 24) How does Winthrop’s notion of “City upon a hill” reflect the Puritan notion of the “elect”?(pg. 25)

3. Ideas of the Age What is the author’s definition of “a government by the people”? How did the Enlightenment concepts that had their roots in Europe affect the American colonists’ relationship with Britian? In what way did the Enlightenment and the Great Awakening produce similar results?

4. Native American Experience How did the arrival of the Europeans afftect the preservation of the Native American litrerature?