HISTORY 1301: EXAM ONE
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Describe the following persons:
Amerigo Vespucci
John Winthrop
John Calvin
Martin Luther John Smith
Anne Hutchison Roger Williams Lord Baltimore
William Penn Sir Edmund Andros
John Locke
Sieur de la Salle
Benjamin Franklin
Jonathan Edwards
William Pitt
George Whitfield
James Oglethorpe
Samuel Adams
Gen. Braddock
General William Howe
Isaac Newton
John Adams
Nathanael Greene
Define the following terms:
Treaty of Tordesailles
Mercantilism
Columbian Exchange
Predestination Sea Dogs
Sovereignty
Roanoke
Primogeniture Joint-Stock Company Jamestown
Headrights
Calvinism/Puritanism
Mayflower Compact Navigation Acts
Glorious Revolution
Half-Way Covenant
King Philip’s War
Bacon’s Rebellion
Treaty of Utrecht
Abolitionists
Stono Uprising
Albany Plan
Proclamation of 1763
Virtual Representation
Sons of Liberty
Loyalists
Sugar Act
Salem Witch Trials
Middle Passage
The Great Awakening
Seven Year’s War
Quakers
Black Codes
King George’s War
Treaty of Paris
Patriots
Stamp Act
Declaratory Act Townshend Revenue Acts
Boston Massacre
Gaspee
Boston Tea Party
Coercive Acts
First Continental Congress
Second Continental Congress
Declaration of Independence
Tea Act
Committees of Correspondence
Lexington & Concord
“Common Sense”
Articles of Confederation
Saratoga Valley Forge Yorktown
Treaty of Paris of 1783
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What was the impact of European contact with Native Americans?
What were the motives for English colonization of America?
Which settlement later became known as the lost colony?
What events marked the beginnings of the Reformation?
How was capital for the first permanent English settlements in America raised?
Why did colonial masters first adopt the institution of servitude rather than Indian or
black slavery to meet their demands for labor? Why, then, did black slavery replace
indentured servitude?
Be able to describe the early years at Jamestown.
What development assured Virginia’s ultimate success?
Compare and contrast the societies of the New England colonies and Virginia in terms of
who settled each and why, the makeup of the two groups, and how the settlers in each
place fared initially upon their arrival.
Explain why Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson found themselves at odds with
leaders in the Massachusetts colony, and describe what happened to the two dissenters.
What was Rhode Island primarily known for?
Why was the colony of Maryland founded?
Why did reliance on slave labor rapidly increase after 1680?
What were the two primary reasons that Georgia was founded?
What were the causes of the American Revolutionary War?
What did the Americans gain from the alliance with France?
How did the results of the French and Indian War lead to the American Revolution?
What kind of person would likely be a Patriot? A Loyalist?
What happened to the Loyalists after the American Revolution?
Contrast the English and American view of the Proclamation of 1763.