8th Chapter 2 Study Guide
1. Explain what reasons caused the Jamestown population to plummet between 160-1610?
2. How did the Powhatan Confederacy help the Jamestown colony?
3. What ended the Powhatan Confederacy relationship with the Jamestown colonists?
4. What was the purpose of the London Company’s “headright system?”
5. Why did English Catholics come to America?
6. What was the Toleration Act of 1649?
7. Why did the Virginia colonists decide to use slave labor?
8. Which colonies had the strictest slave codes?
9. Why did the Pilgrims migrate to America?
10. What was the Mayflower Compact?
11. What effect did the Mayflower Compact have on the development of constitutional democracy in
America?
12. What label was given to Minister Thomas Hooker?
13. Why did Anne Hutchinson’s belief anger the Puritan Church?
14. What was New England colonists view on education?
15. What disadvantages did New England farmers face?
16. What type of people participated in New England’s economy?
17. How did shipbuilding benefit from the forests in the New England area?
18. How did slaves contribute to the economy of the Middle colonies?
19. What were the staple crops of the Middle colonies?
20. Why was trade important to the Middle colonies?
8th Chapter 2 Study Guide
21. What was the English Bill of Rights?
22. What event shaped the English Bill of Rights?
23. What was the significance of the English Bill of Rights?
24. What is mercantilism?
25. Why were the Navigation Acts significant?
26. How did the colonists undermine the British restrictions on trade?
27. What was the Great Awakening?
28. What effect did the ideas of the Great Awakening have on politics?
29. What was the social impact of the Great Awakening?
30. Who fought the British over settlements in the Ohio River Valley?
31. What land did North America receive after the French and Indian War?
32. Why did Parliament pass the Sugar Act?
33. What was said in regards to Parliament’s effort to tax the colonies?
34. Why were colonists upset with the Stamp Act?
35. What sparked the Boston Massacre?
36. Why was the Boston Tea Party significant?
37. Why were most of the Townshend Acts repealed by Parliament?
38. What was Britain’s Lord North’s reaction to the Boston Tea Party?
39. What was the actual name of the Intolerable Acts?
40. How was Massachusetts punished for the Boston Tea Party?