US History
Topic 1 & 2 Study Guide – Worlds Collide: From Pre-Columbian Civilization through the Colonial Period
Notes: Pre-Columbian Indian Civilization; World’s Collide; The Columbian Exchange;Founded Upon Smoke; The “Wordy” Shipmates; Colonial Economy: Built on Slavery; The Devil in New England; Decision Points: Colonial Wars
Readings: Primary/Secondary Sources Packet; Columbian Exchange Webquest; ATA, pp. 8-15 & 16-33; DKM pp. 14-23; The Middle Passage Document Analysis;Brinkley, pp. 91-97; The Founding of New Societies
People to Know
Montezuma
Hernando Cortez
King Atahualpa
Francisco Pizarro
Virginia Dare
St. Brendan
Barolome de las Casas
Sir Walter Raleigh
Martin Luther
Erik the Red
Lief Erikson
John Calvin
King Ferdinand & Queen Isabella of Spain
Amerigo Vespucci
Henry VIII
Pythagorus
Christopher Columbus
Elizabeth I
Chief Powhatan
John Smith
John Rolfe
William Bradford
Squanto
Anne Hutchinson
Roger Williams
William Penn
Reverend Samuel Parris
Tituba
George Whitefield
Jonathan Edwards
King Philip (Metacom)
George Washington
William Pitt
OlaudahEquiano
Vocabulary
Primary Source
Secondary Source
Nomadic
Predestination
Hispaniola
Cartographer
Protestantism
Indulgences
Wampum
Gentry
Great Migration
Headright
Theocracy
Oath of Allegiance
House of Burgesses
Salutary Neglect
Indentured Servitude
Propaganda
Charter Colony
Proprietary Colony
Crown Colony
New England Confederation
Dominion of New England
Albany Plan of Union
Concepts (possible short answer/multiple choice topics)
Native disadvantages to European invasion
Native adaptations to European invasion
European age of discovery
Renaissance geography
Motives for European exploration
Columbus’ views of the natives
Treaty of Tordesillas (1494)
Columbian Exchange
Protestant Reformation
Raleigh’s “Lost Colony”
Magna Carta
Parliament
Common Law
problems facing Jamestown settlement
Powhatan Confederacy
Jamestown’s “starving time”
importance of tobacco
Separatist Puritans
Great Migration
Mayflower Compact
“holy commonwealths”
House of Burgesses
Mercantilism
“Society of Friends”
the middle passage
rationalizations for slavery
reasons for the Salem witch trials
Great Awakening
King Philip’s War (1675)
Iroquois League
Ohio River Valley
French & Indian War
Albany Congress and the Plan of Union
results of the Peace of Paris (1763)
Differences between the colonies
Detailed Short Answer Concepts (be able to write a short paragraph with supporting evidence/examples)
Impact of European arrival in the New World and the Columbian Exchange
Effects of English political and cultural history on the development of New World Colonies
Factors that led to colonial separation from England (political, cultural, economic)
Impact of warfare upon the colonies and greater desires for independence
Map Exam (Matching) – Be able to locate Native American Empires and capitals on a map
Mayan Empire
Aztec Empire
Inca Empire
Mississippian Culture
Algonquin Culture & Iroquois Confederacy
Anasazi Culture
Cuzco
Tenochtitlan