1) After John Cabot’s trip to North America in the early 1500s, it was nearly a full century before England began any real attempt at colonizing America. Conforming to the above guidelines, write a minimum 500-word essay in which you discuss the important changes that took place in England that opened the way for the development of their colonial activity.

2) From the late 1760s to the mid 1770s, an ideology of revolution began to evolve in the colonies. Conforming to the above guidelines, write a minimum 500-word essay in which you explain the foundations and justifications formulating the colonial “philosophy of revolution.”

3) Between the years of the Revolutionary War and 1812, there were a series of events and attitudes that once again brought war between the United States and Great Britain. Conforming to the above guidelines, write a minimum 500-word essay in which you discuss the underlying causes of the War of 1812.