McElhaney 2015-16 APUSH

American History: Connecting with the Past by Alan Brinkley

Brinkley Chapter 2, Transplantations and Borderlands

Pg. 34-64

Essay Prompts

1.  Though there where many differences in the development of the New England, Middle, and Southern colonies, they had much in common. What conditions and experiences were common to American colonists regardless of their colony or region?

2.  Explain how English colonies in the New World were different from one another in terms of government, population, and origin.

Key Terms to Memorize:

The Chesapeake
Jamestown
Powhatan
Capt. John Smith
Starving Time
Joint Stock Company
Tobacco
John Rolfe
Headright System
Proprietary Colony
Royal Colony
Maryland and Lord Calvert
Act Concerning Religion- Toleration Act
Indentured servants
Berkley / Bacon and Bacon’s Rebellion
Puritans, Separatists, Pilgrims Plymouth
Massachusetts Bay
Connecticut
Rhode Island
Mayflower Compact
William Bradford-Plymouth
John Winthrop-Mass Bay
“Great Migration”
“City Upon a Hill”
John Cotton- Mass Bay
Thomas Hooker- Connecticut
Roger Williams, Rhode Island / Anne Hutchinson- Heresy Antinomianism
Pequot War
King Phillips War/ Metacom
Restoration Colonies
New Netherlands, New Amsterdam and Stuyvesant
Pennsylvania
William Penn
Society of Friends= Quakers
“City of Brotherly Love”
Georgia and Oglethorpe
Navigation Acts
Dominion of New England


Specifics of Chapter:

  1. Look at the picture on page 34. “The Fort at Jamestown” read the caption.
  2. Summarize the main aspects of founding of Jamestown-(can you reflect SPRITE of Jamestown?) (be sure to address: the London Company, The Chesapeake, The Starving Time, Captain John Smith, Tobacco, John Rolfe, Headright System, Powhattan, Relations with Indians, Slavery, House of Burgesses)
  3. Look at the chart on page 39, What do you learn?
  4. How is the founding of Maryland different than Virginia? (Be sure to address: Calvert, Proprietary Colony, Religious issues)
  5. How is Bacon’s Rebellion a conflict between East and West Virginia? (Address: Indentured Servants)
  6. “Growth of New England” Outline the issues and events related to the Puritan Separatists. (Address: Religion, William Bradford, Plymouth Company, Mayflower, Mayflower Compact, Relations with the Indians)
  7. Outline key aspects of Massachusetts Bay colony (Address: John Winthrop, Politics of Mass Bay)
  8. Draw the Map on Page 46 specifically (the big one) Mass Bay and Plymouth area
  9. What do you learn from the population chart on page 47?
  10. Read and outline main aspects of “Expansion of New England” (Address: Religious Dissent, Roger Williams, Anne Hutchinson)
  11. Outline the Pequot War and King Philips War
  12. (Page 51) How do the English end up in control of New Netherlands?
  13. Outline main aspects of Quaker Colonies (Address: The Society of Friends, William Penn, Founding of Pennsylvania, Proprietary Colony)
  14. Skip to page 57 and address the reasons for the founding of Georgia. (Ogelthorpe)
  15. Read “The Drive for Reorganization” address Mercantilism and the Navigation Acts.

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