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Exam: October 1/2
Format: Multiple Choice and Short Essay
THE BIG QUESTIONS
1. Is America a land of opportunity?
2. Did geography greatly affect the development of colonial America?
3. Does a close relationship between church and state lead to a more moral society?
4. Has Puritanism shaped American values?
5. Was colonial America a democratic society?
6. Was slavery the basis of freedom in colonial America?
CALENDAR
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DUE 9.04 or 9.05: Summer assignment; assessment
DUE 9.06 or 9.07: “America, Lost & Found” (National Geographic handout)
DUE 9.19 or 9.20: Chapter 4
DUE 9.21
: “Puritans and Sex” (mark up for discussion)
DUE 9.24 or 9.25: Chapter 5
DUE 9.27 or 9.28: Howard Zinn, “Drawing the Color Line” (link)
TEST10.01 or 10.02:Multiple Choice Test; unit 1 short essay
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READINGS
 American Pageant- Chapters 1-5
 Secondary Sources
o “American, Lost and Found” (National Geographic, article link, photo gallery link,
interactive exploration of Jamestown/Weremococo link)
o “ Puritans and Sex” (Edmund S. Morgan, digital handout)
o “Drawing the Color Line”, Howard Zinn (link)
 Primary Sources
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Christopher Columbus, Letter to Luis de Sant’ Angel (1493)
Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, "Indians of the Rio Grande" (1528-1536)
Bartolomé de Las Casas, "Of the Island of Hispaniola" (1542)
The Laws of Virginia (1610-1611)
Richard Frethorne, Letter to His Parents (1623)
John Smith, "The Starving Time" (1624)
Gottlieb Mittelberger, The Passage of Indentured Servants (1750)
Roger Williams on Freedom of Conscience (1644)
Cotton Mather , The Wonders of the Invisible World (1693)
John Winthrop, "A Model of Christian Charity" (1630)
Thomas Mun, from England’s Treasure by Foreign Trade (1664)
William Penn, Plans for the Province of Pennsylvania (1681)
Selections from the New England Primer (1683)
Early Slave Documents
 John Woolman, Early Abolitionist Speaks Out Against Slavery (1757)
 Maryland Addresses the Status of Slaves (1664)
 Alexander Falconbridge, The African Slave Trade (1788)
 Olaudah Equiano, The Middle Passage (1788)
o Early American Culture Documents
 Canassateego and Thomas, An Iroquois Chief Argues for his Tribe’s
Property Rights (1742)
 Sarah Kemble Knight, A Boston Woman Writes about her Trip to New York
(1704)
 Peter Kalm, A Swedish Visitor Tells about Philadelphia (1748)
o Bacon's Rebellion: The Declaration (1676)
o Jonathan Edwards, “Sinners I the Hands of an Angry God” (1741)
o Jonathan Edwards, from "Some Thoughts Concerning the Present Revival of Religion in New
England" (1742)
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LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Ch 1/2
1. Describe the origin and development of the major Indian cultures of the Americas.
2. Explain the developments in Europe and Africa that led up to Columbus’ voyages.
3. Explain the changing social conditions, political developments, and new scientific discoveries that resulted
in European voyages of discovery.
4. State the factors that caused the English to start late on colonization.
5. Describe the development of the Jamestown colony from disastrous beginnings to its later prosperity.
6. Describe the roles of Indians and African slaves in the early history of England’s southern colonies.
7. Describe the changes in the economy and labor system in Virginia and the other southern colonies.
8. Describe the different motivations for immigration from Europe to the New World in the sixteenth century.
Ch 3
1. Describe the Puritans and their beliefs and explain why they left England for the New World.
2. Explain the basic governmental and religious practices of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and how these
practices shaped life in New England (consider dissent, expansion, political development).
3. Describe and evaluate the changing relations between the English colonists and the Indians.
4. Describe the central features of the New England and middle colonies, and compare and contrast how
they differed from New England.
Ch 4
1. Describe and evaluate the basic population structure and social life of the 17th century colonies, and be
able to compare and contrast the different populations and ways of life between among the three regions
(New England, middle, and southern).
2. Explain how the problems of indentured servitude led to political trouble and growth of slavery.
3. Describe and explain the slave trade and the character of early African-American slavery.
4. Describe and evaluate the roles, obligations, and rights of colonial women and family life in both New
England and the Chesapeake in the 17th century colonies.
Ch 5
1. Describe the basic population and social structure of the 18th century colonies and indicate how they had
changed since the 17th century.
2. Explain how the economic development of the colonies altered the patterns of social prestige and wealth.
3. Explain the causes and effects of the Great Awakening.
4. Describe the origins and development of education, culture, and the learned professions in the colonies.
5. Describe the basic features of colonial politics, including the role of various official and informal political
institutions.
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VOCABULARY
Vocabulary: Be able to define and ANALYZE
Chapters 2 & 3 (from
summer assignment)
1. FRANCISCO
PIZZARO
2. Hernando de Soto
3. Hernando Cortes
4. Francisco Coronado
5. Mestizos
6. Treaty of
Tordesillas
7. Three sisters
farming
8. Mound Builders
9. Black legend
10. Pope’s Rebellion
11. Christopher
Columbus
12. Lord de la Warr
13. Handsome Lake
14. Walter Raleigh
15. James Oglethorpe
16. Oliver Cromwell
17. John Smith
18. Joint-stock company
19. Enclosure
20. House of Burgesses
21. Slave codes
22. Yeoman
23. Proprietor
24. Longhouse
25. Squatter
26. Primogeniture
27. 1st Anglo-Powhatan
War
28. 2ndAnglo-Powhatan
War
29. Act of Toleration
30. Barbados Slave
Code
31. Virginia Company
32. Restoration
33. Iroquois
Confederacy
34. Anne Hutchinson
35. Roger Williams
36. Henry Hudson
37. William Bradford
38. Peter Stuyvesant
39. William Laud
40. Thomas Hooker
41. William Penn
42. John Winthrop
43. King Philip
44. Sir Edmund Andros
45. The “elect”
46. Franchise
47. Patroonship
48. Calvinism
49. Freemen
50. “visible saints”
51. doctrine of a calling
52. covenant
53. antinomianism
54. New England
Confederation
55. Massachusetts Bay
Colony
56. Dominion of New
England
57. Navigation Laws
58. Great Puritan
Migration
59. General Court
60. Bible
Commonwealth
61. Quakers
62. Protestant ethic
63. Mayflower
Compact
64. Fundamental
Orders
Chapter 4
1. William Berkeley
2. Nathanial Bacon
3. indentured
servitude
4. headright system
5. Jeremiads
6. Middle Passage
7. Bacon’s Rebellion
8. Leisler’s Rebellion
9. Half-Way
Covenant
Chapter 5
1. Jonathan Edwards
2. Michel-Guillaume
de Crevecoeur
3. George Whitefield
4. John Peter Zenger
5. Phyllis Wheatley
6. Paxton Boys
7. Great Awakening
8. Rack-renting
9. Regulator
Movement
10. Old and new lights
11. Triangular Trade
12. Molasses Act
13. Naval stores
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SOME ESSAY QUESTIONS
1. "Throughout the Colonial period, economic concerns had more to do with the settling of
British North America than did religious concerns."
Assess the validity of this statement with specific reference to economic and religious
concerns.
2. "For the period before 1750, analyze the ways in which Britain's policy of salutary
neglect influenced the development of American society as illustrated in the following.
Legislative assemblies
Commerce
Religion"
3. "Although New England and the Chesapeake region were both settled largely by
people of English origin, by 1700 the regions had evolved into two distinct societies.
Why did this difference in development occur?"
4. Analyze the impact of the Atlantic trade routes established in the mid-1600s on
economic development in the British North American colonies. Consider the period
1650-1750.
5. Compare the ways in which religion shaped developments of colonial society (to
1740) in TWO of the following regions
a. New England
b. Chesapeake
c. Middle Atlantic
6. Compare the ways in which TWO of the following reflected tensions in colonial society.
a. Bacon’s Rebellion (1676)
b. Pueblo Revolt (1680)
c. Salem witchcraft trials (1692)
d. Stono Rebellion (1739)
7. Compare and contrast the ways in which economic development affected politics in
Massachusetts and Virginia in the period from 1607 to 1750.
8. Geography was the primary factor in shaping the development of the British colonies
in North America. Assess the validity of this statement for the 1600s.
9. Analyze the differences between the Spanish settlements in the Southwest and the
English colonies in New England in the 17th century in terms of TWO of the following:
a. Politics
b. Religion
c. Economic development
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VISUALS
Map Identification
1. European Colonies
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2. Atlantic Trade
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3. The Thirteen Colonies
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4. Ethnic Division
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5. Colonial Trade Route