Review Questions for Unit 2 1607-1754

Review Questions for Unit 2 1607-1754

Questions need to be answered on a separate piece of paper!

1. Complete the following chart:

1. What were the similarities and differences between England, French, and Spanish colonization of the New World? What competition occurred between these colonies? What were the causes of this competition?
2. What changes in England (social, political, religious and economic) caused a drive for colonization? What push factors caused people to leave England for its colonies in the 17th century? What pull factors drew them to particular colonies or regions?
3. How did the long era of imperial warfare beginning in 1689 affect the colonies, Native Americans, and relations between them? (pages 88-90)
4. What strategies did Charles II and James II employ to try and gain more centralized control over England’s American colonies? What did James hope to accomplish by creating the Dominion of New England?
5. What was Bacon’s Rebellion and what major impact did it have on the colonies?
6. How did the institution of slavery develop and why did it develop differently in the Chesapeake, the Carolina low country (coast), and the West Indies?
7. How did African American slaves build community within the bonds of slavery? How did they rebel?
8. What was the South Atlantic System, and how did it shape colonial society?
9. What were the benefits of mercantilism for the colonists? What were the problems of mercantilism for the colonists? What was salutary neglect and what would it mean for the relationship between England and the colonies?
10. What was the Great Awakening? Why did it happen? What effect did it have on America? How was it different from the Enlightenment?
11. How did the print and transportation revolutions transform colonial culture and the economy in the 18th century?
12. Who were the Paxton Boys? The Regulator Movement? What were their goals and methods? What drove them to take action that way? (p 142-143)