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Unit One Study Guide: Colonial America
1. How did Puritans wish to reform the Church of England
2. What was the “little commonwealth”
3. Characteristics of English society in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries
4. English, Spanish, French attempts at exploration
5. Slave trade from the fifteenth century onward
6. Characteristics of Spanish conquests in the Western Hemisphere
7. First permanent European settlements on North America
8. England’s objectives in the Western Hemisphere in the 1570s
9. What crippled the Roanoke colony
10. Why was John Smith important
11. Financing of English efforts at settlement
12. What characteristics did the French, Dutch and Swedish settlements share?
13. What does the Mayflower Compact tell you about the settlers and what was its purpose
14. Why did the Pilgrims migrate to N. E.
15. Quaker beliefs included . . .
16. Economic conditions in England in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries
17. “a city upon a hill”
18. a religious dissention in Massachusetts
19. Separated church and state and religious tolerance in British America was practiced
20. Puritan society was organized around . . .
21. Characteristics of New England wives
22. In New England children were viewed as . .
23. The demise of Puritanism in New England was indicated by
24. The Half-Way Covenant
25. The Native American population in New England was reduced by . . .
26. Factors in the Salem Witch Trials
27. The year 1663 in New France
28. The basic unit of local government south of New England
29. Indentured servants and their chance for upward mobility
30. The Act for Religious Toleration of 1649…
31. life in the Chesapeake region in the early seventeenth century
32. The economy in the Chesapeake in the second half of the seventeenth century…
33. Bacon’s Rebellion stemmed from . . .
- Class tension in the Chesapeake after 1690
35. The Restoration
36. The Stono Rebellion
37. The environmental impact of the rapid expansion of English
38. The Dominion of New England
39. The Glorious Revolution
40. King William’s and Queen Anne’s wars – impact and results
41. population growth in the British North American in the eighteenth century
42. Impact of the British navigation system after 1700 on North American colonies
43. indentured servants compared to slaves
44. Plantations, cash crops, and one crop economies after 1750
45. Sufferage in the English colonies
46. Benjamin Franklin’s accomplishments
47. eighteenth-century American intellectual’s attitudes toward science
48. The Great Awakening
49. New Lights verses Old Lights
50. Long-term effects of the Great Awakening
51. Deists beliefs included . . .
52. Office holders outside of New England were
53. The Dutch settled New Netherland primarily to . . .
54. Characteristics of Puritans who emigrated to seventeenth-century New England included . . .