Chapter 1
Colonization
Identify the main facts concerning the following people:
1. John Winthrop
2. James Oglethorpe
3. Anne Hutchinson
4. Roger Williams
5. Sir Edmund Andros
6. Thomas Hooker
7. William Penn
8. John Rolfe
9. Lord De La Ware
10. Pocahontas
11. John Smith
12. Lord Baltimore
13. William Berkeley
14. John Peter Zenger
15. Benjamin Franklin
16. Samuel de Champlain
17. Robert de la Salle
18. Metacom
19. Henry Hudson
20. Peter Stuyvesant
Identify the original colonies, who founded them and why:
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Identify the significance of the following terms and phrases:
1. Navigation Laws
2. Quakers
3. Predestination
4. Separatists
5. General Court
6. Great Migration
7. Pilgrims/Puritans
8. Holy Experiment
9. Half-way covenant
10. Salem witch trials
11. Great Awakening
12. Paxton Boys
13. Zenger Trial
14. Old lights vs. new lights
15. War of Jenkin’s Ear
16. Mason-Dixon line
17. Great League of Peace
18. Beaver wars
19. Staples Act
20. Admiralty Courts
Identify the following political structures or organizations:
1. Mayflower Compact
2. New England Confederation
3. Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
4. Dominion of New England
5. Act of Toleration
6. Iroquois League
7. Virginia House of Burgesses
8. Crown Colony
9. Proclamation of 1763
10. Albany Congress
Identify the following conflicts or rebellions:
1. Seven Years’ War
2. Yamasee War
3. King Philip’s War
4. Pequot War
5. First Powhatan War
6. Second Powhatan War
7. Bacon’s Rebellion
8. Leisler’s Rebellion
9. Stono Revolt
10. Pontiac Rebellion
Match the following event with the correct date:
1. Harvard College
2. Bacon’s Rebellion
3. Pilgrims arrive at Plymouth
4. Pequot War
5. Act of Toleration passed
6. Zenger Trial
7. Dominion of New England created
8. Start of Great Awakening
9. Raleigh founds Roanoke
10. Albany Congress
Essays:
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1. Compare and contrast the northern and southern colonies.
2. Describe attempts by the French to colonize North America and why weren’t
the French as successful as the British?
3. What were the problems facing the first settlers to Jamestown?
4. Compare and contrast the relationship how the Virginia colonists and the
New England colonists interacted with the Indians.
5. Compare and contrast Bacon’s Rebellion with Leisler’s Rebellion.
6. Why could one make the claim that Benjamin Franklin was the most
influential American of the eighteenth century?
7. What were the causes of Bacon’s Rebellion and what happened as a result of
the rebellion?
8. What was the Half-way Covenant and why was it needed? What were the
effects of the Half-way Covenant?
9. What was the British policy of mercantilism and what was the impact of
mercantilism on the colonies?
10. Describe the impact of European settlement on the Indian population of
North America