Pages 11-20 and handout from A People's History of the United States

What does the The Author of A People's History use as the explanation for the discrepency of the two reading?. Is your text silent in its description of the destruction? Explain.

Pages 33-38
How did the evolution of the Virginia colony  between 1607 and 1625 reveal the impact of the New World conditions on English aims and expectations? What sort of society emerged as a result of this adaptation?

Pages 45-47
What was the basis for the  expulsions of Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson? Was this based on religion, a threat to authority or something more?

Pages52-54
What beliefs and practices characterized the Quakers, and how did their influence make Pennsylvania a unique colony?

Pages 49-60
How did the Restoration kings and the ideas of Catholicism affect the English colonies already established?

Pages 61, 80-83
How did Britain's mercantile policy both help and hurt the colonies?

Pages 77-83
What was the triangular trade and what does it reveal about colonial economics?

Pages 66-77, 83-87
Describe the diverse populations that settled the British colonies in the 16th and 17th centuries, and assess its growth during this period.

Pages 89-96
What was the Great Awakening and what groups supported or opposed it?

Chapters 1-2
Compare and contrast the economy of the Chesapeake region and how it differs from that of South Carolina and Georgia

Chapters 1-2-3
Compare and contrast Virginia, Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay colonies - their origins, goals,  and early social, political and economic development.
 
 

DIRECTIONS:  Complete the chart of American discovery and exploration by identifying the country each person sailed, the date and the discovery.

Study Guide Chapter 2-4

FACTS, figures, people, and places.   Be prepared to identify, define, describe, and explain the significance of the people, places, and events listed below.

1. Iroquois Confederacy
2. Algonquin
3. nationalism
4. Prince Henry, the Navigator
5. Bartholomeu Dias
6. Vasco da Gama
7. Pedro Cabral
8. Christopher Columbus
9. Vasco de Balboa
10. Ferdinand Magellan
11. conquistadores
12. Hernando Cortés
13. Francisco Pizzaro
14. Hernando de Soto
15. Francisco Coronado
16. encomiendas
17. Don Juan de Oñate
18. biological exchange
19. cultural exchange
20. mestizos
21. John Cabot
22. Northwest Passage
23. enclosure movement
24. chartered company
25. mercantilism
26. Richard Hakluyt
27. Protestant Reformation
28. Calvinism
29. Anglican Church
30. Puritans
31. Separatists
32. Sir Humphrey Gilbert
33. Sit Walter Raleigh
34. trans"plantations"
35. coureurs de bois
36. Hurons
37. Henry Hudson
38. Lost Colony of Roanoke
39. London Company (Virginia Co.)
40. Plymouth Company
41. Powhatan
42. John Smith
43. John Rolfe
44. headright
45. House of Burgesses
46. Pocahontas
47. Calvert, Lords Baltimore
48. Proprietor
49. Toleration Act
50. Sir William Berkeley
51. tidewater 
52. piedmont 
53. Nathaniel Bacon 
54. Caribbean sugar colonies 
55. plantation system 
 

56. William Bradford 
57. Mayflower Compact 
58. Squanto 
59. Miles Standish 
60. John Winthrop 
61. "city upon a hill" 
62. theocracy 
63. Thomas Hooker 
64. Roger Williams 
65. Anne Hutchinson 
66. antinomianism 
67. Pequot War 
68. King Philip's (Metacomet) War 
69. Restoration Colonies 
70. proprietary colony 
71. Anthony Ashley Cooper 
72. John Locke 
73. Peter Stuyvesant 
74. the Society of Friends
75. William Penn 
76. James Oglethorpe 
77. Queen Anne's War 
78. Navigation Acts (1660, 1663, 1673)
79. Dominion of New England 
80. Sir Edmund Andros 
81. the Glorious Revolution 
82. Jacob Leisler 
83. indentured servitude 
84. impressment 
85. natural increase 
86. seasoning 
87. mortality rate 
88. middle passage 
89. slave codes 
90. Huguenots 
91. subsistence farming 
92. commercial farming 
93. boom & bust pattern 
94. specie 
95. coastal trade 
96. triangular trade 
97. Plantation social pattern 
98. Stono Rebellion 
99. town social pattern 
100. covenant 
101. primogeniture 
102. The Enlightenment 
103. denominationalism 
104. Halfway Covenant 
105. The Great Awakening 
106. John & Charles Wesley 
107. George Whitefield 
108. Theodore Frelinghuysen 
109. Johathan Edwards 

1. Were the Americas "discovered" or were they conquered? 

2. Many of the early settlers felt that God had "paved the way" for their being here.  What evidence did they find here that supported that feeling? 

3. Know the differences in the approaches to exploration or colonization among   those who showed interest in the Americas (Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, English).  Why were some of these successful and why were some failures over time? 

4. What were the prevailing attitudes and behaviors exhibited by the European settlers toward the Native American population? 

5. What type of relationship developed between the colonies and their "managers" in England that led to the colonist feeling "free" to develop as they saw fit? 

6. Discuss the different social structures that characterized New England and the Chesapeake colonies during the first 100 years of their development. 

7. What accounts for the dramatic increase in population in the colonies before 1750? 

8. What circumstances led to the introduction of slavery into the colonies? 

9. What was the economic relationship of the colonies to Europe during this period?   How was it beneficial to the colonies?  How was it detrimental to the colonies? 

10. What was the role of religion in the early colonies?  To what extent is it accurate to say that religion was the reason for there being colonies in the first place as has been so often maintained?