HISTORY 1301: EXAM ONE
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Describe the following persons:
Amerigo Vespucci
Sir Edmund Andros
William Pitt
John Winthrop
Benjamin Franklin
John Hancock
John Rolfe
Jonathan Edwards
Samuel Adams
Gen. Braddock
Sir William Howe
Lord Baltimore
John Locke
James Wolfe
John Adams
Martin Luther
Gen. Nathaniel Greene
Anne Hutchinson
Define the following terms:
Sea Dogs
Proclamation of 1763
Headrights
Stamp Act Congress
Glorious Revolution
Stono Uprising
First Continental Congress
Sons of Liberty
“Common Sense”
Declaratory Act
Saratoga
Mercantilism
Yorktown
Navigation Acts
Valley Forge
Bacon’s Rebellion
Boston “Massacre”
Albany Plan
Gaspee
Virtual representation
Boston Tea Party
Stamp Act
Tea Act
Patriots
Committees of Correspondence
The Great Awakening
Townshend Revenue Acts
Joint-stock Company
Loyalists
House of Burgesses
Mayflower Compact
Intolerable Acts
“ No taxation without representation”
Answer the following questions in complete sentences:
1. What was the impact of European contact with Native Americans?
2. What were the motives for English colonization of America?
3. Explain the events and individuals, which had significant roles in the beginnings of the
Reformation?
4. Give several reasons why individuals came to settle in the colonies. Do those same
reasons apply to persons immigrating to America today? Explain.
5. Why was indentured servitude first used?
6. Explain why colonial masters began using African slaves instead of indentured servants?
7. Discuss the Jamestown colony.
8. Compare and contrast the colonies of the New England and Virginia in terms the groups
that settled each, and how the settlers adapted and prevailed in their new environments.
9. Explain what happened to Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson?
10. What was Rhode Island primarily known for?
11. Why was the colony of Maryland founded?
12. What were the two primary reasons that Georgia was founded?
13. How did the results of the French and Indian War lead to the American Revolution?
14. What did the Americans gain from the alliance with France?
15. What was the fate of Loyalists after the American Revolution?