UNIT I: PREVIEW SHEET
APUSH – STEIKER
UNIT I – THE SETTLEMENT AND MAKING OF AMERICAN SOCIETY
Textbook Reading: American History – A Survey, Chapters 1, 2, & 3
Key Questions
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How has geography influenced the settlement of the United States?
What were the events in Europe that helped shape the character of American colonization?
Why did English settlers come to America?
How was the European interaction with the native populations defined?
What role did economics play in the establishment of colonies?
What role did religion play in the establishment of colonies?
Compare and contrast the roles of economic and religious motives in the beginnings of English settlement in the
New World.
What factors contributed to the successful colonialization of English America?
What were the motives for founding of the restoration colonies in English America and explain how they benefited
from earlier colonizing experiences.
Compare and contrast the demographic characteristics, political institutions and economic pursuits of the New
England, middle, and southern colonies.
Explain why slavery came to be the dominant labor system in England’s southern North American colonies.
Explain how Europeans who settled in England’s North American colonies were “Americanized” by that
experience.
Assess the impact of the Great Awakening and Enlightenment on the intellectual and spiritual life of the colonies.
Define the basic assumptions of the British colonial system and describe its operation.
KEY TERMS:
Act of Toleration
Anglican Church
Antinomianism
Bacon’s Rebellion
Charter of Liberties
(1701)
Chesapeake (colony)
City on a Hill
Colonial family
(nuclear)
Congregationalism
Conquistador
Corporate colonies
covenant
Crusades
Deism
Development of
education universities
Dominion of New England
English cultural domination
Enlightenment
Favorable balance of trade
Frame of Government
(1682-83)
Fundamental Orders of
Connecticut (1639)
Georgian style
Glorious Revolution
Great Awakening
Great Migration
Halfway Covenant
headright system
hereditary aristocracy
holy experiment
House of Burgess
immigrants
indentured servant
Jamestown
Important People/Groups
Sir Edmund Andros
Christopher Columbus
John Bartram
John Copley
Sir William Berkeley
John Davenport
William Bradford
Jonathan Edwards
Cecil Calvert, Lord
Benjamin Franklin
Baltimore
Thomas Hooker
George Calvert,
Huguenots
Lord Baltimore
Ann Hutchinson
John Calvin
Henry Hudson
John Locke
Joint-stock Company
King Philip’s War
limited democracy
Maryland Act of
Toleration
Massachusetts Bay
Mayflower Compact
mercantilism
Middle Colonies
Middle Passage
Navigation Acts
N.E. Confederation
Old & New Lights
patriarchy
peculiar institution
plantation
Poor Richard’s Almanac
predestination
professions: religion,
law, and medicine
Proprietary Colony
Protestant Reformation
Restoration colonies
rice plantations
Royal Colony
Salem Witch Trials
salutary neglect
sectarian; nonsectarian
slavery
social mobility
Spanish Armada
subsistence farming
Tobacco farms
town meeting
Treaty of Tordesillas
Triangular Trade
Utopia
John Peter Zenger: libel
court case
Martin Luther
Cotton Mather
Metacom
James Ogelthrope
William Penn
Pilgrims
Puritans
Quakers
Sir Walter Raleigh
Separatists
Scotch-Irish
John Smith
Wampanoags
Benjamin West
Phillis Wheatly
George Whitefield
John Winthrop
Roger Williams
Know list of 13 colonies: cite who and when established and type of colony