RBC HIS 201 MIDTERM STUDY GUIDE
Lecture
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1-- Be able to identify or explain the following terms, events, ideas or concepts
how the first migrants from Asia arrived in North America
the reason for the decline of the Mayan people
the importance of Tenochtitlan
I reasons for the fall of the Mississippian Society
the concept of primogeniture
initially positive impacts of European traders on West African Society
the dual goals behind Ferdinand & Isabella’s sponsoring of Columbus’s mission
why Cortez was able to overthrow the Aztecs
 Martin Luther & his beliefs
 John Calvin & his beliefs
 the concept of mercantilism
 how the “price revolution” hurt the English nobility
 the effect of the enclosure acts on migration to the Americas
 three consequences of the Spanish conquest for Native Peoples
Lecture 2-- Be able to identify or explain the following terms, events, ideas or concepts
 the importance of St. Augustine
 the importance Quebec
 the motivations of the Dutch in colonization
 the problems the face settlers at Jamestown faced
 the model for royal British colonies
 the nature of those initially arriving in servitude in VA & MD (slaves or indentured servants?)
 the Trade and Navigation (1651)
 the aims, action and results of Bacon’s Rebellion
 the Mayflower Compact
 Roger Williams
 Anne Hutchinson
 the locations (place(s)) of the prosecutions of Witchcraft
 division of land in Puritan society
 how the fur trade altered the natural environment
Lecture 3-- Be able to identify or explain the following terms, events, ideas or concepts
 The Fundamental Constitution of the Carolinas
 Penn’s Frame of Government
 Sir Edmond Andros
 the main ideas of Locke’s Two Treatises on Government
 the results of the Treaty of Utrecht (1713)
 the changes in marriage in West African society as a result of the slave trade
 prerequisites for the emergence of an African-American community
 the Stono Rebellion
 the professions of those people who made up the top rank & lowest rank of those in Northern
seaport society
 the concept of salutary neglect
 the reason Walpole arranged for Parliament establish the colony of Georgia
 the Currency Act of 1751
 the relationship between the Southern Gentry and poorer whites (yeoman farmers & tenant
farmers) Be sure to include the extent of those who owned slaves.
Lecture 4-- Be able to identify or explain the following terms, events, ideas or concepts
 the employment prospects and role of New England women
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Factors that attracted migrants to the Mid-Atlantic
 the percentage of white men who owned land by the 1760’s
 the four fundamental principles of Enlightenment thinkers
 deism
 the effect of spreading Christianity to the slave population
 the turning point in the French and Indian War
 results of the Treaty of Paris of 1763
 Pontiac
 the Proclamation Line of 1763
 regulators
Lecture 5--Be able to identify or explain the following terms, events, ideas or concepts
Stamp Act
Declaratory Act of 1766
George Grenville
Quartering Act
Ben Franklin and the idea of colonial representation in parliament
Sons of Liberty
Lecture 6---Be able to identify or explain the following terms, events, ideas or concepts
Thomas Paine’s Common Sense
Lord Dunmore of Virginia
Treaty of Paris-1783
General Howe’s scheme to end the war quickly
Patriot Committees of Safety
Britain’s strategy for waging war in the South
Jefferson’s Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom
Lecture 7---Be able to identify or explain the following terms, events, ideas or concepts
Virginia Plan, New Jersey Plan and the Great Compromise
John Adams’s Thoughts on Government 1776
Reasons for Shay’s Rebellion 1786-1787
Articles of Confederation
Federalists and Anti-Federalists
Hamilton’s Report on the Public Credit
First President and Vice-President
Jefferson’s agrarian vision of the U.S
Election of 1800
Lecture 8-- Be able to identify or explain the following terms, events, ideas or concepts
Embargo Act of 1807
Results of the War of 1812
Hartford Convention
Division of the Jeffersonian-Republicans into two factions
Marbury v. Madison 1803
Louisiana Purchase