=References=

A.M.  Earle, Home Life in Colonial Days.

A.L.  Cross, The Anglican Episcopate and the American Colonies (Harvard
Studies).

E.G.  Dexter, History of Education in the United States.

C.A.  Duniway, Freedom of the Press in Massachusetts.

Benjamin Franklin, Autobiography.

E.B.  Greene, The Provincial Governor (Harvard Studies).

A.E.  McKinley, The Suffrage Franchise in the Thirteen English Colonies
(Pennsylvania University Studies).

M.C.  Tyler, History of American Literature during the Colonial Times (2 vols.).

=Questions=

1.  Why is leisure necessary for the production of art and literature?  How may leisure be secured?

2.  Explain the position of the church in colonial life.

3.  Contrast the political roles of Puritanism and the Established Church.

4.  How did diversity of opinion work for toleration?

5.  Show the connection between religion and learning in colonial times.

6.  Why is a “free press” such an important thing to American democracy?

7.  Relate some of the troubles of early American publishers.

8.  Give the undemocratic features of provincial government.

9.  How did the colonial assemblies help to create an independent American spirit, in spite of a restricted suffrage?

10.  Explain the nature of the contests between the governors and the legislatures.

=Research Topics=

=Religious and Intellectual Life.=—­Lodge, Short History of the English Colonies:  (1) in New England, pp. 418-438, 465-475; (2) in Virginia, pp. 54-61, 87-89; (3) in Pennsylvania, pp. 232-237, 253-257; (4) in New York, pp. 316-321.  Interesting source materials in Hart, American History Told by Contemporaries, Vol.  II, pp. 255-275, 276-290.

=The Government of a Royal Province, Virginia.=—­Lodge, pp. 43-50.  Special Reference:  E.B.  Greene, The Provincial Governor (Harvard Studies).

=The Government of a Proprietary Colony, Pennsylvania.=—­Lodge, pp. 230-232.

=Government in New England.=—­Lodge, pp. 412-417.

=The Colonial Press.=—­Special Reference:  G.H.  Payne, History of Journalism in the United States (1920).

=Colonial Life in General.=—­John Fiske, Old Virginia and Her Neighbors, Vol.  II, pp. 174-269; Elson, History of the United States, pp. 197-210.

=Colonial Government in General.=—­Elson, pp. 210-216.

CHAPTER IV

THE DEVELOPMENT OF COLONIAL NATIONALISM