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Directions : Please read the first five chapters of The American Pageant, 13 th
Edition [ISBN: 0-618-47940-6] .
As you read, keep in mind the terms and the essential questions listed below.
▪ For each Term : Write a brief, one or two sentence description of the term that explains the historical significance of
each term as it relates to the study of U.S. history.
▪ For the EQs : Answer each question and provide evidence to support your conclusions. Limit your responses to one
well-developed paragraph for each question. There will be countless opportunities for writing
throughout the year!
▪ Chapter
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Reading : The American Pageant, 13 th Edition [pgs. 2 – 105]
Chapter 1 : New World Beginnings, 33,000 B.C. – A.D. 1769
Chapter 2 : The Planting of English America, 1500 – 1733
Chapter 3 : Settling the Northern Colonies, 1619 – 1700
Chapter 4 : American Life in the Seventeenth Century, 1607 – 1692
Themes :
Chapter 5 : Colonial Society on the Eve of Revolution, 1700 – 1775
▪ The “collision of worlds” and the effects on societies on both sides of the Atlantic
▪ Encounters with Indians and African slaves established the patterns of race relations that would shape
the North American experience
▪ Principles of American government developed in New England with the beginnings of written
constitutions (Mayflower Compact and the Massachusetts royal charter)
▪ Self-rule seen in town hall meetings, the New England Confederation, and colonial opposition to the
Terms :
Dominion of New England
▪ Colonial culture, while still limited, took on distinct American qualities in such areas as evangelical
religion, education, press freedom, and self-government
▪ Regional differences throughout the colonies, from the emergence of the industrial north and the
growth of the plantation economies and slave societies of the south
▪ The rise of colonial culture and the development of a distinct American identity
* PLEASE NOTE: You may need to look beyond the American Pageant for some of these terms.
Christopher Columbus
Columbian Exchange
Conquistadores
Encomienda system
“black legend”
Herńan Cortés
Treaty of Tordesillas
Robert de la Salle
Vasco da Gama
“Mission Indians”
Restoration Period
Iroquois Confederacy squatter yeoman
Pilgrims
Separatists
Protestant Reformation
Mayflower Compact
Mayflower
Puritans
King Philip
John Cotton
Sir Edmund Andros the “elect”
Fundamental Orders of Conn. covenant antinomianism
Navigation Laws
Dutch West India Company
Glorious Revolution

Mestizos
Marco Polo
Francisco Pizarro
John Rolfe
Walter Raleigh
James Oglethorpe
John Smith primogeniture
Virginia Company
Jamestown
Pocahontas
Maryland Act of Toleration joint-stock company slavery
House of Burgesses
Lord Baltimore
Humphrey Gilbert
Oliver Cromwell royal charter slave codes proprietary colony
Sir Francis Drake
Spanish Armada enclosure
John Calvin
Anne Hutchinson
Roger Williams
Henry Hudson
William Bradford patroonship predestination
Bible Commonwealth
Quakers
Calvinism
Peter Stuyvesant
Thomas Hooker
William Penn
Separatists doctrine of a calling
“visible saints” conversion
Great Puritan Migration
Dominion of New England
Institutes of the Christian Religion
John Winthrop
“city upon a hill”
New England Confederation
Protestant ethic
Massachusetts Bay Company
William Laud headright system jeremiads town hall meetings middle passage indentured servitude
Half-Way Covenant
Nathaniel Bacon
Bacon’s Rebellion
William Berkeley
Stono Rebellion
The Great Awakening
Jonathan Edwards
Benjamin Franklin
Paxton Boys
George Whitefield
Regulator movement
Phyllis Wheatley
“old” and “new” lights
Molasses Act
Essential Questions (EQs) :
1. Were the Americas “discovered” or were they conquered?
2. Are the differences between Latin America and North America due primarily to the differences between the respective
Indian societies that existed in the two places, or to the disparity between Spanish and English culture? What would
have happened if the English had conquered densely settled Mexico and Peru, and the Spanish had settled more thinly
populated North America?
3. Did the Puritans really come to America seeking religious freedom? How did they reconcile their own religious
dissent from the Church of England with their persecution of dissenters like Hutchinson and Williams? Does their
outlook make them hypocrites?
4. There were differences in the approaches to exploration or colonization among those who showed interest in the
Americas (Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, and English). Why were some of these successful, and why were
some failures over time?
5. What were the prevailing attitudes and behaviors exhibited by the European settlers toward the Native Americans?
6. What type of relationship developed between the colonies and their “managers” in England that led to the colonists
feeling “free” to develop as they saw fit?
7. Discuss the different social structures that characterized the New England and the Chesapeake colonies during the
first one-hundred years of their development.
8. What were the push and pull factors for immigrants coming to each region of the English colonies (New England,
the middle colonies, and the southern colonies)?
9. Why did slavery grow to be such an important institution in colonial America? What were the effects of slavery on the
Africans who were brought to the New World? What were the effects of the Africans on the New World?
10. What were the economic relationships between the colonies and European nations during this period? How was it
beneficial to the colonies? How was it detrimental to the colonies?
11. What shaped how ordinary colonists thought? What were important sources of influence on an ordinary colonist? Did
England control these sources or did the colonists? What implications did this have for the future for England and the
colonies?