Unit 1: Contact & Colonies--Review Guide
TERMS TO KNOW
Exploration
Columbus
Balboa
Ponce De Leon
Cortes
Pizzarro
Coronado
Richard Hakluyt
“Separatists”
Sir Humphrey Gilbert
Mercantilism
Dutch West Indies
Sir Francis Drake
“Sea Dogs”
Roanoke
Sir Walter Raleigh
North American Indians
Joint Stock Companies
London Company
“Starving Time”
Colonization
Lord Baltimore
Headright System
Plymouth Plantation
“Freemen”
Pequot War
Tobacco
Catholic Haven
Separatists
Boston
“Theocracy”
“City upon a hill”
King Phillips War
Quakers
Frame of Government
John Rolfe
Indentured Servants
Pocahontas
Toleration Acts
William Bradford
Mayflower Compact
“The Elect”
Hudson River
New Amsterdam
“Inner Light”
Glorious Revolution
Leisler’s Rebellion
Slave Codes
Salem Witch Trials
Congregationalism
Halfway Covenant
Harvard
Tobacco Plantations
Rice
Indigo
Town Meetings
Scotch-Irish
Germans
Dutch
Salutary neglect
Albany Plan
French and Indian War
Iroquois Confederacy
Ohio Valley
King George’s War
Fort Necessity
General Braddock’s defeat
William Pitt
Pontiacs Rebellion
Peace of Paris, 1763
Focus Questions:
1. How did the settlement of the English colonies give rise to unique economic, political, and social
conditions that defined an emerging American identity?
2. How did the need for labor in the colonies give rise to chattel African slavery?
3. How was religion both a unifying and a dividing force in the English colonies?
4. How did the interaction between European and Native American peoples transform both groups
and cultures?
5. How did the colonies develop “democratic” principles such as representative government, written
charters, and lists of basic rights between 1607 and 1763?
6. Compare and contrast England’s early efforts at colonization to Spain’s. Be sure to take into
account the incentives and sequence of the events.
7. “Although New England and the Chesapeake region were both settled largely by people of English
origin, by 1700 the regions had evolved into two distinct societies.” Why did this difference in
development occur?
8. Discuss the interaction between culture and environment in developing the American culture.
9. In the seventeenth century, New England Puritans tried to create a model society. What were their
aspirations and to what extent were those aspirations fulfilled during the seventeenth century?
10. “Throughout the Colonial period, economic concerns had more to do with the settling of British
North America than did religious concerns.” Assess the validity of this statement with specific
reference to economic and religious concerns.
Unit 1: Contact & Colonies--Review Guide