putting it all together 51Putting it All togEthEr
Revisiting the Main Point
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How did imperial competitions and exchanges of goods across the
Atlantic Ocean influence the development of the British North American
colonies?•
Compare and contrast the goals of the New England and Virginia colonists.
How were their relations with native peoples both similar and different?•
How did the British system of slavery in North America grow from eco-
nomic, social, and geographic factors?•
How did conflict with native peoples shape European conceptions of them?•
In what ways did regional identities begin to emerge in British North Amer-
ica during this period? How did these regional identities shape regional poli-
cies regarding race and power?Comparison When assembling Multiple
Body ParagraphsWhen historians practice comparison, they also incorporate ideas of continuity
and change over time, which you learned about in Chapter 1. For example, below
is a response that compares different British colonies within an economic context.
It incorporates the chronological reasoning skills of causation and patterns of
continuity and change over time.Since the early seventeenth century, the needs of Great Britain shaped
colonial economies [long-term cause], which fostered an ongoing
colonial dependence on England [continuity]. However, the colonies
also developed relatively diverse economies [change] under this single
economic system. For example, the agricultural colonies of Virginia,
the Carolinas, and Barbados (Docs. 2.2 and 2.12) were land rich and in
need of laborers. They produced a radically different social system than
the religious utopias of New England (Docs. 2.3 and 2.4), which had an
inhospitable climate and theological governments and never codified
slavery to the extent that Southern colonies did [comparison].Practice blending comparison with patterns of continuity and change and of
historical causation by prewriting a response to this prompt:BuIlDIng AP®
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