1. Explain the differences between the English colonies and the Spanish colonies. How did these differences affect the differing development of the respective colonial systems?What were the biggest differences between the English and Spanish colonies, and what were the similarities? 2. How consistent were the English in enforcing their regulations in the colonies? How did Americans seek to evade these regulations? In your opinion, did the colonists spend more time "on their own," or under close supervision of the mother country? What skills did the colonists acquire that would aid them as an
independent country?

3. At the end of the French and Indians Wars in 1763, the Americans thought of themselves as Englishmen and were proud of their association with the English empire. Yet, in only about a dozen years the Americans were fighting a revolu-
tion for independence. What caused this radical change of opinion among Americans?

4. Give your own definitions of a social revolution and a political revolution your opinion was the American Revolution predominately political or social, and why?