U.S. History
Unit II Guide
The English Colonies
Chapter 3.1/3.2/3.3/3.4/3.5
The Southern Colonies
Chapter 3 Section 1(page 72-77)
Essential Question: What problems did the colonists face and how did they overcome these problems?
Complete Key Terms and People:
*Jamestown*John Smith *Pocahontas *indentured servants *Bacon’s Rebellion *Toleration Act of 1649 *cash crops *Olaudah Equiano
*slave codes
Complete Read and Response Questions:
- (CG#1) What is the significance of Jamestown?
- (CG#2) Why was John Smith important to Jamestown?
- (CG#3) How were the Powhatanimportant to the colonists?
- (CG#4) What was the difference between the headright system and
indentured servants.
- (CG#5) Why did the Southern colonies need slaves?
- (CG#6) Why did most southern colonies pass slave codes?
- (CG#7) What were the Southern colonies?
The New England Colonies
Chapter 3 Section 2(page 78-84)
Essential Question: What factors led the Pilgrims and the Puritans to leave England and settle in America?
Complete Key Terms and People:
*Puritans *Pilgrims *immigrants *Mayflower Compact *Squanto *John Winthrop *Anne Hutchinson
Complete Read and Response Questions:
- (CG#8) What is the significance of The Mayflower Compact?
- (CG#9) What did the Pilgrims learn from the Patuxet Indian,
Squanto.
- (CG#10) Why was John Winthrop important?
- (CG#11) Why did the beliefs ofAnne Hutchinson make her stand out?
- (CG#12) What was the point of view of a New England colonist on
education?
- (CG#13) What were the New England colonies?
The Middle Colonies
Chapter 3 Section 3(page 85-87)
Essential Question: What led to diverse populations in the middle colonies and what were the economies in these colonies based on?
Complete Key Terms and People:
*Peter Stuyvesant *Quakers *William Penn *staple crops
Complete Read and Response Questions:
- (CG#14) Why did New York have a Dutch influence?
- (CG#15) How did William Penn attempt to create a colonial government that
would be fair to all?
- (CG#16) What kind of work did slaves do in the middle colonies?
- (CG#17) What were the economies of the middle colonies based on?
- (CG#18) What was the role of women in the middle colonies?
- (CG#19) What were the Middle colonies?
Life in the English Colonies
Chapter 3 Section 4(page 90-97)
Essential Question: How did the Great Awakening and the Enlightenment influence colonial society?
Complete Key Terms and People:
*colonial assemblies *town meeting *English Bill of Rights *colonial courts *triangular trade*Middle Passage *Great Awakening *Jonathan Edwards *Enlightenment *Pontiac *Proclamation of 1763
Complete Read and Response Questions:
- (CG#20) How did the political change in England affect colonial
governments?
- (CG#21) Why were the thirteen colonies founded?
- (CG#22)How did the Navigation Acts limit colonial trade?
- (CG#23) How did the colonists view the trade laws that England set?
- (CG#24) How was the Enlightenment similar to the Great Awakening?
Explain.
- (CG#25) Why did some Native Americans trust the French more than the
English?
- (CG#26) What was the result of the French and Indian War?
- (CG#27) What was the impact of Pontiac’s Rebellion?
Conflict in the Colonies
Chapter 3 Section 5(page 98-103)
Essential Question: Why did Great Britain raise taxes in the colonies and what was the reaction of the colonists?
Complete Key Terms and People:
*Samuel Adams *Committees of Correspondence *boycott *Stamp Act of 1765 *Boston Massacre *Tea Act *Boston Tea Party *Intolerable Acts
Complete Read and Response Questions:
(CG#28) Why did Great Britain raise taxes in the colonies?
(CG#29) What was the Sugar Act?
(CG#30) What was the purpose of the Committees of Correspondence
and who helped to create this committee?
(CG#31) What was the role of the Sons of Liberty?
(CG#32) How did the Stamp act and the Townsend Acts differ?
(CG#33) What was the cause and importance of the Boston Massacre?
(CG#34) What message did the Boston Tea Party send to the British
Government and what was the government’s reaction?