PART 1: TEXTBOOK

Chapter 1: New World Beginnings

*Identify and state the historical significance of the following:

Christopher Columbus
Renaissance
Mestizo
Treaty of Tordesillas
Conquistador / Giovanni da Verrrazano
Iroquois Confederacy
St. Augustine, Florida
Ecosystem
encomienda

*Answer the following questions to the best of your ability citing specific references from your reading assignment (Each question should be about one page in length)

1. In what ways are the early (pre-1600) histories of Mexican and the present-day American Southwest understood differently now that the US is being so substantially affected by Mexican and Latin American immigration and culture? To what extent should this now be regarded as part of our American history?

2. Why was the Old World able to dominate the New World? What were the strengths and weaknesses of the Old World? What were the strengths and weaknesses of the New World?

Chapter 2: The Planting of English America

*Identify and state the historical significance of the following:

Pocahontas
Powhatan
John Rolfe
Lord Baltimore
Walter Raleigh
James Ogelthorpe
Humpfrey Gilbert
Oliver Cromwell
John Smith
John Wesley
Francis Drake
William Penn
Henry VIII
Elizabeth I
George II
Nation-state
Joint-stock Company
slavery / Enclosure
House of Burgesses
Royal charter
Slave codes
Yeoman
Proprietor
Longhouse
Law of primogeniture
Indentured servant
Starving time
Surplus population
Maryland Act of Toleration
Virginia Company
Iroquois Confederacy
Jamestown
Protestant Reformation
Powhatan’s Confederacy
Chesapeake

*Answer the following questions to the best of your ability citing specific references from your reading assignment (Each question should be about one page in length)

1. Where the English colonizers crueler or more tolerant than the Spanish Conquistadores? Why did the Spanish tend to settle and intermarry with the Indian population, whereas the English killed the Indians, drove them out, or confined them to separate territories? How did this pattern of interaction affect both white and Indian societies?

2. Was the development of African slavery in the North American colonies inevitable? How would the North American colonies have been different without slavery? What role did the Spanish encomienda system and British sugar colonies play in introducing slavery to the southern colonies?

Chapter 3: Settling the Northern Colonies

*Identify and state the historical significance of the following:

Anne Hutchinson
Roger Williams
William Bradford
Thomas Hooker
William Penn
John Winthrop
King Philip (Metacom)
John Cotton
Sir Edmund Andros
William & Mary
Myles Standish
Martin Luther
Squanto
The “elect”
Predestination
Freemen
“visible saints”
conversion / Antinomianism
Salutary neglect
“city upon a hill”
Pilgrims
New England Confederation
Calvinism
Massachusetts Bay Colony
Dominion of New England
Navigation Laws
Great Migration
Glorious Revolution
Puritans
Separatists
Quakers
Mayflower Compact
Fundamental Orders
Church of England
PlymouthBay
Penn’s Woodland

*Answer the following questions to the best of your ability citing specific references from your reading assignment (Each question should be about one page in length)

1. Did the Puritans really come to America seeking religious freedom? How did they reconcile their own religious dissent from the Church of England with their persecution of dissenters like Hutchinson and Williams? Does their outlook make them Hypocrites?

2. How does the founding of the New Englandcolonies compare with the origin of the middle colonies?

Chapter 4: American Life in the Seventeenth Century

*Identify and state the historical significance of the following:

William Berkeley
Nathaniel Bacon
William Bradford
Indentured servitude
Head right system
Jeremiads
Middle passage / “witch hunting”
Yankee ingenuity
Family stability
Bacons rebellion
Leisler’s Rebellion
Half-Way Covenant
New England Primer

*Answer the following questions to the best of your ability citing specific references from your reading assignment (Each question should be about one page in length)

1. Why was family life in New England so different from family life in the South?

2. Were the Salem Witch trials a peculiar, aberrant moment in an age of superstition, or did they reflect common human psychological and social anxieties that could appear in any age?

3. Why did slavery grow to be such an important institution in colonial America? What were the effects of slavery on the Africans who were brought to the New World? What were the effects of the Africans on the New World?

Chapter 5: Colonial Society on the Eve of Revolution

*Identify and state the historical significance of the following:

Jonathan Edwards
Benjamin Franklin
George Whitefield
John Peter Zenger
John Trumbell
Charles Wilson Peale
Benjamin West
Paxton Boys
Great Awakening / Anglicans
Regulator Movement
Triangular trade
Molasses Act
Congregational Church
Heresies
Old Lights
New Lights

*Answer the following questions to the best of your ability citing specific references from your reading assignment (Each question should be about one page in length)

1. How were the various occupations and activates of colonial America related to the nature of the economy? Why were occupations like lawyer, printer, and artisan taking on greater importance?

2. What were the causes and effects of the Great Awakening? How did such an intense religious revival affect those who experienced “conversion” as well as those who did not? How did the Awakening help to create a sense of shared American identity?

3 What characteristics did the Scots-Irish develop from their history BEFORE arriving in America? How did their American experience relate to that earlier history?

Chapter 6: The Duel for North America

*Identify and state the historical significance of the following:

William Pitt
James Wolfe
Edward Braddock
Antoine Cadillac
Pontiac
Benjamin Franklin
George Washington / Huguenots
Seven Years War (French & Indian)
Albany Congress
Iroquois
Proclamation of 1763
Salutary Neglect
FortNecessity

*Answer the following questions to the best of your ability citing specific references from your reading assignment (Each question should be about one page in length)

1. How did the treatment of Americans by British officers and military during the war contribute to simmering resentment against the “mother country”?

2. Should the French & Indian War be considered one of the major causes of the American Revolution? Why or why not?

PART II: GEOGRAPHY

Directions: (Map on next page)

  1. Label the following features. Draw-in where necessary
  2. Use color coding
  3. Include a map key

Political Features

Colonies / Cities
Massachusetts
New Hampshire
Rhode Island
Connecticut
New York
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Delaware
Maryland
Virginia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia / Plymouth
Boston
Portsmouth
Newport
Hartford
New York
Trenton
Philadelphia
Annapolis
Jamestown
Williamsburg
Newbern
Charleston
Savannah

Natural Features

Rivers (Draw-in) / Mountains
St. Lawrence
Hudson
Delaware
Potomac
James
Ohio
Mississippi / Appalachian

Socio-Economic &

Political Features

Regions
New England
Middle
Southern

Answer the following questions:

  1. What natural barrier forms the western border of the Southern colonies?
  2. What state now exists in the area claimed by New York & New Hampshire?
  3. What river forms the natural border between Maryland and Virginia?
  4. Why was access to waterways an important factor in the development of colonial cities and towns? Give examples of cities located near waterways.

PART III: FRQ

Write out the following essay. Be sure that you include an analytical thesis statement and that you support your thesis with appropriate facts and details.

Throughout the Colonial period, economic concerns had more to do with the settling of British North America than did religious concerns.

Assess the validity of this statement with specific reference to economic and religious concerns.