units 1 and 2
exam preparation assignment
Directions: This assignment is offered as a way to prepare for Friday’s unit exam.
Please complete each of the following steps.
Reviewing the Terms: Highlight the following based on innovation, power, and
conflict and change.
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Christopher Columbus
Columbian Exchange
Conquistadores
Encomienda system
“black legend”
Herńan Cortés
Treaty of Tordesillas
Robert de la Salle
Vasco da Gama
“Mission Indians”
Mestizos
Marco Polo
Francisco Pizarro
John Rolfe
Walter Raleigh
James Oglethorpe
John Smith
primogeniture
Virginia Company
Jamestown [what
struggles did it face?]
Pocahontas
Maryland Act of Toleration
joint-stock company
slavery
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House of Burgesses
Lord Baltimore
Humphrey Gilbert
Oliver Cromwell
royal charter
slave codes
proprietary colony
Sir Francis Drake
Spanish Armada
Restoration Period
Iroquois Confederacy
squatter
yeoman
Pilgrims
Separatists
Protestant Reformation
Mayflower Compact
Mayflower
Puritans
enclosure
John Calvin
Anne Hutchinson
Roger Williams
Henry Hudson
William Bradford
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patroonship
Bible Commonwealth
Quakers
Calvinism
Peter Stuyvesant
Thomas Hooker
William Penn
Separatists
doctrine of a calling
“visible saints”
conversion
Great Puritan Migration
Institutes of the Christian
Religion
John Winthrop
“city upon a hill”
King Philip
John Cotton
Sir Edmund Andros
the “elect”
Fundamental Orders of
Conn.
covenant
antinomianism
Navigation Laws
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New England
Confederation
Protestant ethic
Massachusetts Bay
Company
William Laud
headright system
jeremiads
town hall meetings
middle passage
indentured servitude
Half-Way Covenant
Nathaniel Bacon
Bacon’s Rebellion
William Berkeley
Stono Rebellion
The Great Awakening
Jonathan Edwards
Benjamin Franklin
Paxton Boys
George Whitefield
Regulator movement
Phyllis Wheatley
“old” and “new” lights
Molasses Act
Big Ideas
1. Provide evidence in support of each of the following themes.
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The “collision of worlds” and the effects on societies on both sides of the Atlantic
Encounters with Indians and African slaves established the patterns of race relations that would shape the
North American experience
Principles of American government developed in New England with the beginnings of written constitutions
(Mayflower Compact and the Massachusetts royal charter)
Self-rule seen in town hall meetings, the New England Confederation, and colonial opposition to the
Dominion of New England
Colonial culture, while still limited, took on distinct American qualities in such areas as evangelical
religion, education, press freedom, and self-government
Regional differences throughout the colonies, from the emergence of the industrial north and the growth of
the plantation economies and slave societies of the south
The rise of colonial culture and the development of a distinct American identity
For each of the following lists, be sure to provide specific historical evidence to support your
selections.
2. What events, actions or policies in England’s American colonies helped to foster religious or
political equality? What events, actions or policies in England’s American colonies resulted
in limited political or religious equality?
3. Rank the 5 most significant religious, economic or political conflicts in the English colonies
in America.