Unit 1 & 2 Study Guide: 1491-1753
Each study guide is designed to help you think about details within a broader context. As you work, take note
of the importance of each item as well as its potential connections to other items, as well as causes and effects.
Each due date will include vocabulary identifications and questions to consider. Please answer each with as
much detail as possible—it will only serve to help you now and as a study aid before the AP examination.
Vocabulary IDs should include: the term, date(s), definition, and significance of the term.
Questions should be answered completely in sentences with details. Answer all parts of the question.
DUE DATE 1: September 9/10
Chapter 1, pages 5-14, 14-23, 23-34 (AP concepts 1.1, 1.2)
QUESTIONS TO CONSIDER
1. What role did maize (corn) have in the development of native
societies and the world?
2. Describe the similarities and differences between native populations
in the East, Southwest, and Great Plains. A t-chart or Venn Diagram could
be helpful here.
3. In what ways did poverty lead to exploration and settlement of
Europeans in the New World?
Vocabulary Identifications, Chapter 1
Matrilineal
Mestizo
Reconquista
Encomienda system
Columbian Exchange
Protestant Reformation
Mercantilism
Yeoman and gentry
Primogeniture
Enclosure Acts
Price Revolution
Indenture system
4. How did Portuguese and other early slave traders use African labor? What were original trade items
between Portugal and West Africa, and why did this change?
5. In what ways did religion lead to exploration and settlement in the New World? You may want to divide this
up by nations competing in exploration.
6. Explain the economic, social, and political impact of the Columbian Exchange on the Americas and Europe.
DUE DATE 2: September 17/18
Chapter 2, pages 38-50, 50-66 (AP concepts 1.3, 2.1)
QUESTIONS TO CONSIDER
1. Compare the social, political, and economic reasons for French and
English models of colonization. A chart may be helpful here.
2. How did the Dutch participate in the colonial rivalries of Europe?
How were their colonies different?
3. Why did indentured servitude, rather than chattel slavery, exist in
the early English colonies?
4. Compare the native uprising in Virginia in 1622 to Bacon’s Rebellion
in 1675. What were the consequences of each for Virginia’s economic
and social development?
Vocabulary Identifications, Chpt. 2
Iroquois Confederacy (Five Nations)
Popé/Pueblo Revolt of 1680
West India Company
Jesuits “Black Robes”
Samuel de Champlain
Jamestown
Indian Revolt of 1622 (Virginia)
Toleration Act of 1649
Chattel slavery
Acts of Trade and Navigation
Bacon’s Rebellion
Mayflower Compact/Pilgrims
John Winthrop
Joint-stock company (corporation)
Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson
Cotton Mather
Metacom’s (“King Philip’s”) Rebellion
5. Describe the political and religious relationship/structure that developed in the New England colonies.
How did this contribute to bonding and dissent among colonists there?
6. Describe the religious, social, and economic factors that led to the Salem Witchcraft Trials of 1692.
DUE DATE 3: September 25/26
Chapter 3, pages 69-77, 77-93, 95-100 (AP concepts 2.1-2.3)
QUESTIONS TO CONSIDER
1. Describe the reasons why the English colonies experienced upheaval
before and during the Glorious Revolution.
2. In what ways did Leisler’s Rebellion signal the start of a new political
era in the American colonies?
3. Explain how economic competition among European nations led to
conflict with and within native groups?
Vocabulary Identifications, Chapter 3
William Penn/Quakers/Frame of
Government
Dominion of New England
Glorious Revolution
Robert Walpole
South Atlantic System/Middle Passage
Stono Rebellion of 1739
Headright agreement
Bills of exchange
Salutary neglect
4. How and why did slavery differ in the Mid-Atlantic colonies from Chesapeake and Southern colonies?
5. In what ways did Africans develop their own culture and resist slavery in North America?
6. Explain the relationship between cash crops (sugar and tobacco), the growth of slavery, and the rise of
American port cities.
7. Why was smuggling of goods common in English North America? How did the British try to end these
practices?
8. Why did the British follow the policy of salutary neglect? What consequences did it have for the British
colonies in North America?
DUE DATE 4: October 3/6 (test day)
Chapter 4, pages 103-115, 116-122 (AP concepts 2.1-2.3)
QUESTIONS TO CONSIDER
1. How did a dwindling supply of free land in the New England
colonies lead to a change in society?
2. What were some of the reasons for an influx of new immigrants to
the American colonies? How did the Quakers maintain their political
power in Pennsylvania?
Vocabulary Identifications, Chapter 4
(pt. 1)
Tenancy
Enlightenment
John Locke
Benjamin Franklin
Deism/diest
Pietism
First Great Awakening
Jonathan Edwards/”Sinners in the
Hands of an Angry God”
George Whitefield/”New Lights”
3. What issues divided the various ethnic and religious groups of the middle colonies? A chart may be helpful
here.
4. In what ways did the Enlightenment prompt American colonists to challenge traditional sources of
authority, like a king?
5. What led to the rise of religious revivals, especially in New England? How was this movement different in
the South?