FINALS Study Guide H170 – MW CLASS – F11
Your exam is scheduled for Wednesday, 12/14, at 9:45 a.m.
BRING A BIG BLUE BOOK TO THE EXAM.
The final exam will include five key terms (6 points each), two long essays (20 points each), and fifteen
True/False questions (30 points).
Part I. Key Terms
You will get five terms in your exam. Each term is worth six points. As thoroughly as possible, locate
each term in time and place, and explain its significance for understanding violence in North America.
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Features of Empire
Consequences of Bacon’s Rebellion
Consequences of King Philip’s War
Differences between English, Spanish and French conquests
In-between figures in early America (Manteo, Pocahontas, praying town Indians, free blacks)
Place of Rangers in early American warfare
North Carolina regulator rebellion
Why no slave rebellions in New England
moral economy (method, targets, process, leaders)
Great Awakening: impact on Natives, Blacks, and settler-settler rebellions
Americanization through Anglicization
Barbados – slave majority, slave codes, and slave rebellions
Films: L’Otra Conquista, Black Robe, Last Supper, War in the South, Troublesome Property
South Carolina’s beginnings and slave codes
Pontiac’s Rebellion
slaves in the American Revolution
slave runaway ads
jeremiad
scientific racism
four Benjamin Franklin’s portraits and George Washington’s Rules
Part II. Long essays
You will get two of the following questions. Each question is worth 20 points. Remember to address all
three components of the question. Make sure your answers provide sufficient context (dates and
regions).
1. How does Genovese explain the causes for slave rebellions in the mainland and the Caribbean
colonies? How does his explanation help us to contextualize the Stono Rebellion? What were
the immediate and long-term consequences of Stono? Consider the Negro Act of 1740 as you
address this question.
2. What is the role of religion in rebellions of the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth
centuries? Discuss Mary Rowlandson (King Philip’s War), Neolin (Pontiac’s Rebellion), and Nat
Turner (Nat Turner’s Rebellion). Make sure you address the effects of the Great Awakening.
3. How does Gilje explain the change in rioting from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries?
Identify three characteristics for each time period.
4. What is the utility of the “middle ground” in understanding the world of the Natives during the
seventeenth and the eighteenth centuries? How did the natives negotiate amongst empires?
How does the American Revolution erode this middle ground?
5. What were Thomas Jefferson’s views on slavery and racism? How did he view the role of
Natives and African-American in the United States? How did his views compare to anti-slavery
solutions proposed after the revolution?
6. How does Nat Turner explain his motives to rebel? What is the significance of the antislavery
and proslavery responses to this rebellion? What do we learn about rebellions and heroes from
Nat Turner’s many re-inventions?
Part III. You will answer 15 True/False questions.
Write 1-15 on the left hand column of the last page of your blue book and write “True” or “False.” Do
not leave any questions blank and do not use “T” or “F.”