U.S. HISTORY
Mrs. Dickinson
The American Colonies Emerge, 1492—1690
Name:
Date/Period:
Chapter 2 Objective: To understand the reasons for the European colonization of the Americas, as well as how the original 13 English colonies took hold in what is now the United States.
You should know the definitions of the following terms, and the answers to the objectives.
This information can be found in the textbook, in class activities, and in homework and in class assignments.
This study guide must be in your folder and in class every day.
Students can expect daily quizzes on the sections covered in class and on the next day’s sections: check the posted reading due dates.
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conquistadores
Hernándo Cortés missions
New Mexico
Aztecs
Juan Ponce de León
Mestizo
New Spain
Incas - Francisco Pizarro (Not in textbook!) encomienda
Popé
Francisco de Coronado
Objectives:
1. Describe the pattern of conquest that the Spanish used to subdue Native American peoples.
2. Summarize the goals of the Spanish explorers and settlers who pushed into what is now the United States.
Who was allowed to live in the Spanish colonies, and how did they make a living?
3. What role did the Catholic church play in Spanish America?
4. Describe the ways in which Spanish settlement in North America affected the Native Americans.
5. Summarize reasons the Native Americans resisted the Spanish.
Jamestown Captain John Smith
John Rolfe joint-stock company
The Virginia Company tobacco slaves
Powhatan headright system indentured servants
Royal colony
Nathaniel Bacon - Bacon’s Rebellion

U.S. HISTORY
Mrs. Dickinson
The American Colonies Emerge, 1492—1690
Name:
Date/Period:
Objectives:
1. Identify the obstacles facing the first English settlers in North America.
2. Explain how the poor of England could afford to come to the colonies.
3. Describe the factors that helped Jamestown flourish
4. Compare and contrast the English and Spanish patterns of conquest and their relationships with the
Native Americans.
5. Describe the economic and social inequities that triggered Bacon’s Rebellion.
John Winthrop
Separatists
Massachusetts Bay Colony
Mayflower Compact
General Court of Massachusetts
Anne Hutchinson
King Philip’s War
Puritans
Pilgrims
Plymouth Colony
Pequot War
Roger Williams
Metacom/King Philip
Objectives:
1. Identify the motives that led Puritans to New England.
2. What economic problems contributed to the number of immigrants to the English colonies?
3. What religious problems contributed to the number of immigrants to the English colonies?
4. Summarize the principles of government established by the dissenters who fled to Rhode Island.
5. Explain the reasons there was conflict between the Native Americans (the Pequot and the Wampanoag) and the colonists.
William Penn Quakers
New Netherland
“Holy Experiment” proprietor
Pennsylvania
Objectives:
1. Describe the pattern of life in New Netherland.
2. Explain the reasons for the social and religious diversity of Pennsylvania.
3. How did the beliefs of the Quakers help Pennsylvania become a successful colony?