Review Questions – Unit 1
HIST 1301
Please consider the following in preparing for your Unit 1 test. I recommend thoroughly
outlining an answer to each question, inserting details and terms where appropriate.
1. What are the significant differences in how Spain, France, and England viewed, settled,
and managed their colonies.
2. Describe the worsening religious, economic, and political conditions in England that
convinced Englishmen to begin settlement in the forbidding New World.
3. Describe the differences between Puritans and Separatists and their settlements in the
colonies.
4. List at least 6 ways that the early Massachusetts Bay colonists and their settlements
differed from their “English cousins” in the Chesapeake.
5. What were the primary social, political, and economic characteristics of the four main
colonial regions in America? (New England, Middle, Chesapeake, Lower South)
6. How and why was Pennsylvania different from the other mid-Atlantic colonies?
7. What was life like on the “frontier” in the colonies?
8. How did British economic policies toward the colonies change from settlement to the
years leading up to the Revolution?
9. How did the Enlightenment and Great Awakening affect the colonies?
10. What pushed the colonists to rebel? Track the development to war from the
Proclamation of 1763 to the Declaration of Independence.