8SS U1 Study Guide - Saint Pius X Catholic School

Study Guide for Unit 1 Assessment “Colonization and Pre-Revolutionary
America”
Terms:
Be able to explain each term.
Terms:
Be able to explain each term.
1. migrate
2. natural resources
3. culture
4. cultural region
5. adaptation
6. artifact
7. New World
8. Columbian Exchange
9. slavery (slave trade)
10. conquistador
11. colony
12. missionaries
13. trappers
14. indentured servant
Study Guide for Unit 1 Assessment “Colonization and Pre-Revolutionary America”
15. cash crops
16. assembly
17. democratic
18. Puritans
19. economy
20. rights
21. Magna Carta
22. Parliament
23. petition
24. class
25. First Great Awakening
26. primary source
27. secondary source
Essential Questions:
Use your textbook and/or notes to answer these questions (R.A.I.S.E.).
1. What connections can you make between the early European
Explorers and the Americas today?
2. Was religion in the colonies important? Support with evidence.
3. What effect did English government have on colonial
government? (Provide specific facts).
4. How was social structure in the colonies different from social
structure in England? (Provide specific facts).
5. What role did slavery play in Colonial America? (Provide
specific facts).
6. What were the similarities and differences among the New
England, Middle and Southern colonies? (Provide specific facts).
7. What events in the colonial period foreshadow the way that the
U.S.A. is “designed?”
1. migrate
2. natural resources
3. culture
4. cultural region
5. adaptation
6. artifact
7. New World
8. Columbian Exchange
9. slavery (slave trade)
10. conquistador
11. colony
12. missionaries
13. trappers
14. indentured servant
15. cash crops
16. assembly
17. democratic
18. Puritans
19. economy
20. rights
21. Magna Carta
22. Parliament
23. petition
24. class
25. First Great Awakening
26. primary source
27. secondary source
Essential Questions:
Use your textbook and/or notes to answer these questions (R.A.I.S.E.).
1. What connections can you make between the early European
Explorers and the Americas today?
2. Was religion in the colonies important? Support with evidence.
3. What effect did English government have on colonial government?
(Provide specific facts).
4. How was social structure in the colonies different from social
structure in England? (Provide specific facts).
5. What role did slavery play in Colonial America? (Provide specific
facts).
6. What were the similarities and differences among the New
England, Middle and Southern colonies? (Provide specific facts).
7. What events in the colonial period foreshadow the way that the
U.S.A. is “designed?”