Students may choose to review the roles and contributions of such groups as the farmer, shopkeeper, cabinet maker, and others.
Have students identify the contributions of other social groups in the making of Colonial America.
... Compare the customs and mores of blacks in Virginia from 1763 through 1783 and 1953 through 1973.
... Construct a bulletin board listing the colonies vertically and significant events under specific years horizontally.
Footnotes
[ 1 ] An excellent summary of the ways in which the Virginia burgesses and their counterparts in North and South Carolina and Georgia quietly gained the upper hand by mid-century, see Jack P. Greene, Quest for Power (University of North Carolina Press, 1963).
[ 2 ] For differing views of the debt situation see Lawrence H. Gipson, The Coming of the Revolution (Harper and Row: New York, 1954), 40-54, and Emory G. Evans, Planter Indebtedness and the Coming of the Revolution in Virginia," William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd. series, XIX (1962), 511-33. Evans holds an anti-debt position.