AP Unit 1 Review Questions
1. Why was John Rolfe important to the eventual success of the Jamestown settlement?
2. What was the major difference between Separatist and non-Separatist Puritans?
3. What were some of the problems in English society in the fifteenth and sixteenth century?
4. What is was the slave trade like in the 15th Century?
5. What was the “Columbian exchange?”
6. What was the first permanent European settlement on future United States soil?
7. Where did the French attempt to make their first settlement in North America?
8. What was the main problem that crippled the Roanoke colony and hurt Jamestown in its early years?
9. What was the purpose of the settlement at Plymouth Plantation?
10. What was the Mayflower Compact?
11. Where was the first English settlement in the New World?
12. Who did Virginia rely on for most of its labor in its initial years as a colony?
13. How did Governor Francis Wyatt wage the Second Anglo-Powhatan War?
14. What was the “little commonwealth” to Puritans?
15. Which European country had the greatest number of people emigrate in the seventeenth century?
16. What were the beliefs of the Quakers?
17. Why was Roger Williams exiled by the Puritans?
18. How did colonial New England farmers alter their ecosystem?
19. Why did Charles I restore the Virginia assembly in 1639?
20. Who dissented from the Puritans and followed Roger Williams to Rhode Island?
21. What was a proprietor?
22. What was the greatest killer in Virginia during the 1600’s?
23. What epitomized the democratic nature of New England government?
24. What happened to tobacco prices around 1660?
25. What was the Great Migration of the 17th century?
26. Who were the Antinomians?
27. What reduced the Native American population in New England?
28. How did the Puritans attempt to convert Native Americans?
29. At her 1637 trial, what charges did Anne Hutchinson try to defend herself against?
30. What happened to those accused during the Salem Witch Trials
31. How did Ashley Cooper accelerate settlement in Carolina?
32. Why did the year 1663 mark a turning point for New France?
33. Which crop changed the British West Indies from a society of independent small landowners utilizing white servant labor to a society of large plantation owners using black slave labor?
34. Besides England, France and Spain, what other countries established colonies in North America in the 1600’s?
35. What was the role of religion in the Chesapeake region in the 17th century?
36. Why was the Act for Religious Toleration of 1649 significant?
37. How did Bacon’s rebellion transform labor systems in Virginia?
38. What qualified a man to vote for a governor and members of the General Court in 17th century Massachusetts?
39. What was the main purpose of France’s North American empire?
40. Why was France able to hold onto its vast North American domain against Spanish and English expansion?
41. Who founded the first colony in Georgia?
42. What were the results of King George’s War?
43. What did the treatment of the Tuscarora and Yamasee Indians in North Carolina during the early 18th century demonstrate?
44. What happened as a result of the Stono Rebellion?
45. What was the environmental impact of the rapid expansion of English settlement east of the Appalachians?
46. Who limited towns to a single annual meeting each year, enforced the Navigation Acts, and suppressed the colonial legislature in Massachusetts?
47. Why is George Whitefield significant?
48. Who bore the bloodiest fighting in the course of King William’s War?
49. How was 18th century colonial settlement affected by the Native American populations?
50. What was the main reason the population of the British North American colonies increased in the 18th Century?
51. On average, how many children did colonial women have?
52. During the 18th century, where did European immigrants settle in the British North American colonies?
53. Why did Great Britain become more powerful in North America than either France of Spain during the first half of the 18th Century?
54. What did the Navigation acts do?
55. How did planters in the French West Indies defy their government’s mercantilist policies?
56. Describe the living conditions in an 18th century American city?
57. What are the differences in treatment between an indentured servant and a slave?
58. What was the typical qualification for holding office in the 18th century English colonies, outside of New England?
59. Which branch of government would most likely defend the interest of the colonies?
60. Identify Benjamin Franklin’s accomplishments by the end of the Seven Years War.
61. What did most 18th century intellectuals think about science?
62. What are some of the beliefs of Deists?
63. What was the Great Awakening?
64. What percent of African slaves went to British North America?
65. Who wrote Essay Concerning Human Understanding?
66. How did William Pitt plan to encourage Americans to assume the military burden of the Seven Years’ War in America?
67. What were the results of the Treaty of Paris in 1763?
68. Why did Pontiac’s War occur?
69. What were the provisions of the Sugar Act?
70. Who led the British forces that ultimately defeated the French on the Plains of Abraham near Quebec in 1760?
71. Why did Virginia send George Washington to the Ohio Valley in 1753 and 1754?