Study Guide: The Colonies
People to Identify
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John Smith
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John Rolfe
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Pocahontas
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John Winthrop
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William Penn
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Roger Williams
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Thomas Hooker
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Anne Hutchinson
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Jonathan Edwards
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Charles Chauncey
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George Whitfield
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Be able to answer
1. What was the Middle Passage?
2. What are slave codes?
3. What is the difference between an indentured servant and a
slave?
4. What is the difference between the 1649 Act of Toleration and
Roger Williams understanding of religious freedom?
5. What is important about the Mystic Massacre?
6. What is the impact of the 1st Great Awakening? Who are the key
leaders? Opponents?
7. What is the distinction between Old Lights and New lights?
8. What is the distinction between Pilgrims and Puritans?
9. What is the motivation for the Great Migration?
10. What is Mercantilism?
11. What is Salutary Neglect and why is it important?
12. What is the basis of the economy of New England? Middle
Colonies, Southern Colonies?
13. What is the role of education in New England? Middle Colonies?
Southern Colonies?
14. Who are the Quakers and What do they believe?
15. What is the purpose of the 1649 Act of Toleration?
16. What role does John Rolfe play in the success of the Jamestown
and the Virginia Colony?
17. What is a cash crop?
18 What are the causes and Impact of the Pequot Wars? King
Philip’s War?
19. What was Starvin’ Time?
20. What was the purpose of the Navigation Acts?
21. Why is Peter Zenger important?
22. What is the significance of the Mayflower Compact, Virginia
House of Burgess? Fundamental Orders of Connecticut?
23. What was William Penn’s Holy Experiment?
24. What is the significance of Bacon’s rebellion in Virginia?
25. What key developments originate in the Virginia Colony?
26. What is the headright system and what was it’s purpose?
Vocabulary
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Tolerance
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Apprentice
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Separatists.
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Horn Book
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Triangular Trade Routes
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Pacifist
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Dame School
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Great Migration
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Huguenots
Test Date November 10 Tuesday