America’s History
Chapter 2 Guided Reading
Name ___________________________
Directions: Please read the assigned text and answer each question in a complete sentence (or two). All
responses must be handwritten.
1. What was the 1st permanent European settlement in the future U.S.? What year?
2. What was the purpose of the Comprehensive Orders for New Discoveries (1573)? What effects
did it have on native peoples?
3. What were the causes and effects of Pope’s Rebellion in 1680?
4. What and when were the origins of New France? Why did few people emigrate?
5. What led to the rise of the five nations of the Iroquois during the 1600s?
6. How were the Jesuits different from the other Catholic missionaries? What were the limits of
their abilities?
7. What and when were the origins of the New Netherland colony?
8. What lands encompassed the Virginia Company’s charter?
9. When was Jamestown founded? What were the hardships faced by settlers?
10. Who were the Powhatans? What positive and negative interactions did they experience with the
English settlers?
11. What were two ways in which the Virginia Company tried to foster emigration?
12. Why did King James I revoke the Virginia Co.’s charter in 1624? What were the effects of this
decision?
13. How did Lord Baltimore become proprietor of the Maryland colony? How was his colony
different than Virginia?
14. What was the Toleration Act of 1649?
15. Why was tobacco important to the success of the Chesapeake region?
16. Describe life in the Chesapeake. (What made it challenging?)
17. What was indentured servitude? Describe their lives once they arrived in America.
18. When did the 1st African slaves arrive in British North America? How did they find their way
there?
19. What was chattle slavery?
20. By 1670, what things were forbidden to African-Americans?
21. What were the provisions of the Navigation Acts?
22. What were the effects of the falling price of tobacco after 1670?
23. Who was William Berkeley?
24. What action did the House of Burgesses make that upset many colonists?
25. Why did poor free-holders want native expelled from the frontier?
26. Who was Nathaniel Bacon? How did his conflict with Governor Berkeley change the government
of Virginia?
27. What were three effects of Bacon’s Rebellion? That emerged during the 1670’s in colonial
Virginia?
28. When did the House of Burgesses legalize chattle slavery? How did Bacon’s rebellion influence
this decision?
29. How were the goals of Chesapeake settlers different from those in New England?
30. Why did the Pilgrims decide to come to North America in 1620?
31. Why did they write the Mayflower compact?
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What three things helped the pilgrims thrive after the first winter?
Who was John Winthrop? How did he and his associates run the Massachusetts Bay Colony?
How was the name ‘Congregationist’ for their churches derived?
Who was Roger Williams? How did the Providence, Rhode Island colony different from
Massachusetts Bay?
Who was Anne Hutchinson? What were three of her beliefs?
Why was Anne seen as a threat to the patriarchal society of Massachusetts Bay?
How was Connecticut founded? How was it different from Massachusetts Bay?
What were the causes and effects of the English Civil War?
What made New England colonists believe that the physical world was full of supernatural
forces?
What were the causes and effects of the Salem Witch Trials?
How did the Salem Witch Trials demonstrate class conflict and gender issues in Massachusetts
Bay?
How were the Salem Witch trials a major turning point in society?
How was land apportioned in colonial New England?
How did ordinary farmers have more political power than their contemporaries in the
Chesapeake?
How did the Puritans justify the acquisition of land from the natives?
What was King Metacom’s (Phillip’s) War? How was it similar to Pope’s Rebellion (1680) and
Opechankanough’s uprising (1622)?
How did the defeat of Metacom and his allies ensure the survival of the Puritans in New
England?