AP US Unit 1 Review Sheet:Colonies to French & Indian War

Southern Colonies

  • Founding of Virginia
  • Charter to VA Company
  • Jamestown (where was it settled, why)
  • Problems with Jamestown
  • Captain John Smith
  • Pocahontas
  • Starving Time
  • Powhatan Confederacy (conflicts)
  • John Rolfe & Tobacco
  • Indentured Servitude
  • Headright System
  • House of Burgesses
  • VA becomes a Royal Colony
  • Bacon’s Rebellion (causes & effects)
  • Slavery in the Southern Colonies
  • Middle Passage
  • Reasons slavery develops over indentured servitude
  • Slave Codes
  • Stono Rebellion
  • Maryland
  • Proprietary Colony
  • George Calvert/Lord Baltimore
  • Tobacco (main crop)
  • Haven for Catholics
  • Toleration Act of 1649
  • The Carolinas
  • “Restoration Colonies”
  • Slavery
  • Georgia
  • Last of the British Colonies (1733)
  • James Oglethorpe
  • Haven for debtors from England
  • Buffer state against N.A. and Spanish in South

New England Colonies

  • Puritans & Pilgrims (know the difference)
  • Calvinism
  • Purify vs. Separate
  • Plymouth Colony: establishment, reasons for leaving England/Holland
  • Mayflower Compact
  • Thanksgiving, Massasoit
  • William Bradford
  • Massachusetts Bay Colony (1629)
  • reasons for leaving: religious persecution
  • “Great Migration” -- 1630s
  • John Winthrop; “City on a hill”
  • Puritan life in New England
  • work ethic
  • Congregational church
  • Townhall meetings, self-government
  • Voting granted to church members, 1631 (No separation of church and state)
  • Religion in Mass.Bay Colony
  • Half-Way Covenant
  • Education
  • purpose (be able to read the Bible)
  • Harvard founded, 1636
  • MassachusettsSchool of Law
  • Dissenters:
  • Anne Hutchinson, antinomianism
  • Roger Williams – Rhode Island
  • Salem Witch Trials, Cotton Mather
  • Impact of Geography on New England (commerce and industry)
  • Other New England Colonies
  • Connecticut Colony (1636) -- Thomas Hooker
  • Fundamental Orders of Connecticut (1639)
  • Rhode Island, Roger Williams, freedom of religion (1644)
  • New England Confederation
  • 1st example of unity for defensive purposes
  • Pequot War (1636-37)
  • King Philip’s War (1675), Metacom

Middle Colonies

  • characteristics: crops, geography, immigrants
  • New York
  • New Amsterdam (1626)
  • Peter Stuyvesant
  • patroon system
  • English takeover (1664): Duke of York
  • Pennsylvania, 1681, William Penn
  • “Holy Experiment”
  • Quakers
  • relations with Indians

Religion in the Colonies

  • Great Awakening (1730’s)
  • Jonathan Edwards
  • Sinners in the Hands of An Angry God
  • George Whitefield
  • Old Lights vs. New Lights
  • New educational institutions: Princeton, Brown, Rutgers, Dartmouth
  • Baptist, Episcopal, Presbyterian Churches begin popping up

The Colonial Economy

Regional differences: New England, MiddleColonies, Southern Colonies

*** Be familiar with the map on pg. 162 in your textbook***

(Colonial industries by region)

mercantilism

Colonial Society

  • royal, charter, proprietary colonies
  • colonial political structure:
  • Assemblies in each colony - most important
  • Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard’s Almanack
  • Age of Enlightenment
  • Important Thinkers
  • John Locke: natural rights, right to rebel
  • Baron de Montesquieu: 3 branches of gov’t
  • Adam Smith: Wealth of Nations
  • Deism
  • John Peter Zenger Case (1734)

Rebellions

  • Pontiac’s Rebellion (1763)
  • Paxton Boys (1764)
  • Leisler’s Rebellion (NY, 1689-1691)

Great Britain vs. France (French & Indian War/Seven Years War)

  • Albany Plan of Union (snake document)
  • Dispute over the Ohio RiverValley
  • General Braddock
  • Washington’s Ohio Mission, Ft.Duquesne
  • William Pitt
  • Battle of Quebec (1759): French lose Quebec to the British
  • Treaty of Paris1763 (aka “Peace of Paris”): significance?
  • End of the Era of “Salutary Neglect”
  • Proclamation Line of 1763