Essay questions: 1.) Explain with evidence to support your claims, how the Chesapeake and New England colonies differed in demographics, philosophy, and environment. What were their religious belief? what sort of problems did they have to confront (indians and settlers)? which region was more successful, why or why not?

2.) Analyze the effect of the French and Indian war and its aftermath on the relationship between Great Britain and the British colonies. Moreover, to what extent had the colonists developed a sense of their identity and unity as Americans by the eve of the Revolution? Confine your response to the period from 1754 to 1776