First Encounters
Discovery and Exploration
(Chapter 1 Questions)
1. What were the motivating factors or causes that inspired European exploration
during the 1400 and 1500’s?
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2. What developments or inventions helped to allow for nautical exploration?
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3. Why were Far Eastern luxury goods prohibitively expensive?
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4. What was the impact on the Indians, the Europeans, and the Africans when each
of their previously separated worlds “collided” with each other? Include details
involving the “Columbian Exchange.”
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5. What is the Spanish legacy in the New World? Can it be interpreted as positive,
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First Encounters
Discovery and Exploration
(Chapter 1 Vocabulary)
1. Cahokia:
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2. Bering Strait land bridge:
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3. Christopher Columbus:
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4. Ponce de Leon:
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5. St. Augustine:
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6. Ferdinand Magellan:
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7. Treaty of Tordesillas:
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8. Conquistadors:
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9. Hernando de Soto:
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10. Francisco Coronado:
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11. Encomienda:
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12. Hernan Cortes:
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13. Mestizos:
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14. “Black Legend”
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English Colonization
Planting of English America
(Chapter 2 Questions)
1. What social, political, and economic changes were occurring during the period of
Elizabethan England that launched the British Empire and led to the exploration of the
New World?
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2. Describe the process of colonizing Jamestown: (who, what, when, where, why)
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3. Describe the significance of tobacco in the economic stability and future of
Jamestown?
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5. Describe the negative effects (soil butchery) that “King Tobacco” had on Jamestown:
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6. How and why did Maryland become a “Catholic Haven”?
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7. How and why were the Carolinas founded? What was their purpose?
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8. Who founded Georgia; when, and what were the primary reasons?
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English Colonization
Planting of English America
(Chapter 2 Vocabulary)
1. Protestant Reformation:
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2. Elizabeth I:
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4. Roanoke Colony:
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6. Joint-Stock Company:
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7. Virginia Company:
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8. Jamestown:
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9. Charter of the Virginia Company:
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10. Capt. John Smith:
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11. Powhatan’s Confederacy:
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12. John Rolfe:
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13. Lord Baltimore:
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14. House of Burgesses:
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15. Maryland’s Act of Toleration:
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Settling the Northern Colonies
Puritan New England
(Chapter 3 Questions)
1. Describe the Puritans and their Calvinist beliefs; and why they left England for
the New World:
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2. Explain the basic governmental and religious practices of the Massachusetts Bay
Colony:
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3. Explain how conflict with religious dissenters, among other forces, led to the
expansion of New England into smaller colonies:
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4. Describe the changing relationship between the colonists and Indians:
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5. Explain why New York, Pennsylvania, and the other Middle Colonies became
so ethnically, religiously, and economically diverse:
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6. Compare and contrast the Middle Colonies and New England:
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Settling the Northern Colonies
Puritan New England
(Chapter 3 Vocabulary)
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6. Plymouth:
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7. William Bradford:
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8. Massachusetts Bay Colony:
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9. John Winthrop:
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13. Rev. Thomas Hooker:
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17. Dominion of New England:
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21. Peter Stuyvesant:
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17th Century American Life
Chesapeake, South, and New England
(Chapter 4 Questions)
1. To what extent did the colonies of Virginia and Maryland deserve their
reputation as the “Unhealthy Chesapeake”? Why? What affect did the conditions
have upon society and families?
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2. Describe the consequences that tobacco had upon the Chesapeake region in
terms of economics, and society: (what did it constantly demand / what type of
labor was required / how did the type of labor change over time, etc.)
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3. Describe the cause and effect of Bacon’s Rebellion. How did it encourage the
increase of slavery?
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4. Compare and Contrast the regions of the Deep South vs. the Chesapeake; and
the affect of both upon African slaves:
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5. Compare and Contrast the South vs. New England in social, political, and
economic terms. How did the climate of the regions affect society and families?
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17th Century American Life
Chesapeake, South, and New England
(Chapter 4 Vocabulary)
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Colonial Society on Eve of Revolution
Social, Political, and Economic Realities
(Chapter 5 Questions)
1. Describe the ethnic diversity that existed in the colonies - (What types of groups were in
which areas, etc.)
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2. Describe the various social classes that emerged in the colonies at the eve of the Revolution:
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4. Discuss the significance of the “Great Awakening”. Assess and explain why it had such an
impact on society. How did it differ from “outdated” strict Puritanism? Why do you think it was
so popular? What social changes to society did it bring?
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5. In the section “Pioneer Presses”, why was it important that there should be a free press on the
eve of the revolution? How would the press be used during the revolution?
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6. Why was the Zenger case significant for the future of the revolution and the country?
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7. In the section, “The Great Game of Politics”, explain the relationship between colonial
governments and the royal authority. Were the colonies truly democratic? To what extent were
the colonies democratic?
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Social, Political, and Economic Realities
(Chapter 5 Vocabulary)
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The Duel for North America
The French and Indian War
(Chapter 6 Questions)
1. Why did the British and their American colonies win the contest against the French for control
of North America?
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2. How did French relations with the Indians compare with those of Britain and Spain?
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3. Describe and compare France’s North American empire and compare it with the British:
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4. Why did the Indians join with the French against the British?
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5. How did this series of wars affect the Britain’s American subjects (colonists) and help to pave
the way for the later rebellion (Am. Revolution) against Britain?
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6. What factors explain France’s weak impact on the New World as compared with that of
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7. How did the different territories and regions change possession after the war? How did the real
estate of North America specifically shift; to who and why?
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8. In the section “Restless Colonials”, compare and contrast the crude militia of the colonials and
the trained British regulars. How did attitudes and opinions change about each other, and how
did this foreshadow the coming Revolution?
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9. Concerning the Proclamation Line of 1763; why did the British enact it, what did it actually
declare, and what reaction did the American colonists have to it?
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The Duel for North America
The French and Indian War
(Chapter 6 Vocabulary)
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18. Seven Years’ War:
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19. “Join or Die”:
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