Unit 2 Review Guide
INSTRUCTIONS: Define the following terms and answer the questions to review for the Unit 2
Test this week.
1. Describe these characteristics of the Southern colonies:
a. Economy
b. Population
c. Government
2. Bacon’s Rebellion –
3. What effect did Bacon’s Rebellion have on labor in the southern colonies?
4. Describe these characteristics of the New England colonies:
a. Economy
b. Population
c. Government
5. Name the New England colony famous for trading in slaves?
6. French and Indian War –
7. How did it get its name?
Unit 2 Review Guide
8. Albany Plan of Union –
9. What three policies did William Pitt enforce to help win the French and Indian War?
a. .
b. .
c. .
10. Who won the French and Indian war?
11. Proclamation of 1763 –
12. What effect did the Proclamation of 1763 have on westward expansion?
13. What effect did the Proclamation of 1763 have on the relationship between England and the
American colonists?
14. Sugar Act of 1764 –
15. Stamp Act of 1765 –
16. Quartering Act of 1765 –
17. Townshend Acts of 1767 –
18. Tea Act of 1773 –
19. Boston Tea Party –
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20. Who led the patriots in the Boston Tea Party?
21. Intolerable Acts or Coercive Acts –
22. What were the specific effects of the Intolerable Acts on the American colonies?
a. .
b. .
23. What Enlightenment thought was the Baron de Montesquieu most associated with?
24. social contract –
25. What important American documents borrow ideas from the Enlightenment?
a. .
b. .
26. Thomas Paine –
27. Common Sense
28. The Great Awakening –
29. Jonathan Edwards –
30. The Boston Massacre –
Unit 2 Review Guide
31. What two things did the First Continental Congress do when they met the first time in 1774?
a. .
b. .
32. Why were British soldiers marching to Lexington and Concord?
33. Minutemen –
34. What is the “Shot Heard Round the World”? Why is it significant?
Make sure that you can label each
colony and each colonial region on
a map.