Historical Period 2: 1607-1754
“In a Nutshell”
Pageant: Chapters 2-3
AMSCO: Chapters 2-3
Assessment Weight = 45%
Period 2: 1607-1754 Europeans and American Indians maneuvered and fought for
dominance, control, and security in North America, and distinctive colonial and
native societies emerged.
Essential Questions:
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What factors led to the creation and development of distinct Spanish, French, and
Dutch colonial regions in North America?
How did relations between Spanish, French, and Dutch colonists and Native
Americans evolve over time?
What factors led to the creation and development of distinct colonial regions in
British North America?
How and why did slavery develop in British colonies?
What factors shaped the development of Native American society after contact with
the Europeans in North America?
How were changing religious ideals, Enlightenment beliefs, and republican
perspectives influenced by Atlantic World exchanges? How did these ideas and
beliefs shape colonial identity, politics, culture, and society?
How did European beliefs in mercantilism and empire help shape the North
American colonies?
To what extent did political turmoil in England result in de facto independence of
the North American colonies?
How did slavery in the British colonies differ from slavery in the Spanish and Dutch
colonies?
Ch. 2
Required IDs for Period 2
Ch. 3
2-1. Jamestown
3-1. Indentured servant
2-2. Bacon’s Rebellion
3-2. “seasoning” (of slaves)
2-3. Headright system
3-3. The Middle Passage
2-4. Transplantations
3-4. Scotch-Irish
2-5. Indentured servants
3-5. Saugus Ironworks
2-6. tobacco
3-6. Extractive Industries
2-7. Virginia House of Burgesses
3-7. Triangular Trade
2-8. Separatist Puritans
3-8. Gullah
2-9. Mayflower Compact
3-9. Stono Rebellion
2-10.
Non Separatist Puritans
3-10. “visible saints
2-11.
Great Puritan Migration
3-11. Town Meetings
2-12.
John Winthrop
3-12. Salem Witch Trials
2-13.
City Upon a Hill
3-13. Halfway covenant
2-14.
Anne Hutchinson
3-14. Primogeniture
2-15.
Antinomianism
3-15. Jeremiads
2-16.
Pequot War
3-16. The Great Awakening
2-17.
King Philip’s War
3-17. Jonathan Edward
2-18.
Quakers
3-18. George Whitefield
2-19.
William Penn/Holy Experiment
3-19. Poor Richard’s Almanac
2-20.
Navigation Acts
3-20. Cotton Mather
2-21.
New England Confederation
3-21. John Peter Zenger
2-22.
Dominion of New England
2-23.
Glorious Revolution
2-24.
Coode’s Rebellion (Protestant Revolution)
2-25.
Leisler’s Rebellion
2-26.
triangular trade
2-27.
Royal colony
2-28.
Proprietary colony
2-29. Joint-stock/charter colony
For additional terms you should know, refer to the following pages:
AMSCO
Ch. 2: p. 65; Ch. 3: p. 99
Just remember that the more terms you make yourself familiar with, the more evidence you can provide
for any type of question College Board wants to throw at you.
Possible Essay Questions for Historical Period 2: 1607-1754
1. Explain how and why people moved within the Americas (before contact) and to and within the
Americas (after contact and colonization) (Hastings)
2. Explain the development of labor systems such as slavery, indentured servitude, and free labor from
the colonial period through the end of the 18th century. (Hastings)
3. To what extent and in what ways did the goals and interests of European leaders diverge from those of
colonial citizens? Support your answer with specific and relevant historical information from the
period 1607-1754. (SG)
4. To what extend and in what ways did European powers develop different patterns of colonization in
North America? Support your answer with specific and relevant historical information from the period
1607-1754. (SG)
5. Analyze the similarities and differences in the challenges in the Spanish, French, and English colonizers
faced in their relationships with the American Indians of North America between 1600 and 1754 (DBQSG)
Old Format
6.
“Geography was the primary factor in shaping the
development of the British colonies in North America.”
Assess the validity of this statement for the 1600s.
(2005 #2 FRQB )
7. Compare the ways in which TWO of the following
reflected tensions in colonial society: Bacon’s
Rebellion (1676), Pueblo Revolt (1680), Salem
Witchcraft Trials (1692), Stono Rebellion (1739)
(2003 #2 FRQB)
8. Compare the ways in which religion shaped the
development of colonial society (to 1740) in TWO of
the following regions: New England, Chesapeake,
Middle Atlantic (2002 #2 FRQ)
9. Analyze the impact of the Atlantic trade routes
established in the mid-1600s on economic
development in the British North American colonies.
Consider the period 1650-1750. (2002 #2 FRQB)
10. Analyze the cultural and economic responses of TWO
of the following groups to the Indians of North
America before 1750: British, French, Spanish (2000
#2 FRQ)
New Format (John Irish)
Evaluate the Extent to which geography was the
primary factor in shaping the development of the
British colonies in North America during the 1600s.
Compare and contrast the ways that social and
political tensions in colonial society between
colonizers and other groups reflected conflict in the
period from 1607-1754.
Evaluate the impact of religious development in the
New England, Chesapeake, and Mid-Atlantic colonies.
Explain how economic development in the British
North American colonies was impacted by the Atlantic
trade routes between 1650 and 1750.
a.
Evaluate the impact that European colonist
had on the cultural and economic
experiences of the native population prior to
1750
b.
11. Analyze the difference between the Spanish
settlements in the Southwest and the English colonies
in New England in the seventeenth century in terms of
TWO of the following: Politics, Religion and Economic
Development (2006 #2 FRQ)
12. In what ways did ideas and values held by Puritans
influence the political, economic, and social
development of the New England colonies from 1630
through the 1660s? (2010 DBQ)
13. Choose TWO of the following and analyze their impact
on colonial North American development between
1620 and 1776: Puritanism; The Enlightenment; the
First Great Awakening (2014 #2 FRQ)
Evaluate the extent to which European
colonists contributed to maintain continuity
as well as fostered change within native
population from first contact to 1750.
Compare and contrast the differences between the
southwest Spanish settlements and the English
colonies in New England in the 17th century.
a.
Explain how the ideas and values of various
groups influenced the political, economic,
and social development of the British North
American colonies from 1607 to 1700.
b. Explain how religious ideas and values held
by the British American colonists influenced
the political, economic and social
development from 1607 to 1700.
Explain how intellectual and religious movements
impacted the development of colonial North American
from 1607-1776.