Unit 2: 1607-1754
Colonization and the
Struggle for Continental Superiority
A.P. U.S. History
Enduring Visions Chapters 2 & 3
Main Idea: Europeans and American Indians
maneuvered and fought for dominance, control,
and security in North American, and distinctive
colonial and native societies emerged.
Key Concept 2.1: Differences in imperial goals, cultures, and the North American environments
that different empires confronted led Europeans to develop diverse patterns of colonization.
Key Concept 2.2: European colonization efforts in North America stimulated intercultural
contact and intensified conflict between the various groups of colonizers and native peoples.
Key Concept 2.3: The increasing political, economic, and cultural exchanges within the
“Atlantic World” had a profound impact on the development of colonial societies in North
America.
Essential Questions/ Skills:
What kind of demographic and social changes occurred in North America as a result of contact
between Eastern and Western hemispheres?
How did conflict between European colonial nations lead to political instability for Europeans
and Native American groups?
What changes in labor, trade, and territorial settlements resulted from competition between
colonizers in North America?
In what ways did Europeans accommodate Native American culture, especially after conflict and
revolts?
What factors promoted the Anglicization of the British colonies in this period? What impact did
the European Enlightenment, in particular, have on the Americas?
How did attitudes about race develop in the American colonies? How did these attitudes contrast
and compare with Spanish and Portuguese attitudes at the same time?
In what ways did American attitudes towards British imperial control develop in this period?
What were the results?
What caused initial colonial resistance to the British empire?
How did salutary neglect affect British-American relations in this period?
Explain why regional distinctiveness appeared in the American colonies.
A.P. U.S. History
Unit 2: 1607-1754
Colonization…
Terms, People, and Concepts:
Actual Representation
Deism
Admiralty courts
Dominion of New England
Albany Plan of Union
Elizabeth I
Anglicanism
English Reformation
Anne Hutchinson
Enlightenment
Antinomianism
Glorious Revolution
Bacon’s Rebellion
Henry VIII
Boston Bread Riot of 1710
House of Burgesses
Calvinism
Indentured Servant
First Great Awakening
James I
Freedom Dues
Jamestown
Fundamental Orders of
Jesuits
Connecticut
John Peter Zenger
George Whitefield
John Rolfe
Halfway Covenant
John Winthrop
John Locke
Joint-Stock Company
Jonathan Edwards
Lost colony of Roanoke
King Philip’s War
Molasses Act
Leisler’s Rebellion
Powhatan Confederacy
Maryland Toleration Act
Proprietary Colony
Mayflower Compact
Puritans
Mercantilism
Roanoke
Navigation Acts (1660s)
Royal Colony
Primogeniture
Separatists
Pueblo Revolt
Sir Walter Raleigh
Republicanism
Smuggling
Roger Williams
Stono Rebellion
Salutary Neglect
The Starving Time
Virtual Representation
Virginia Company
William Penn
A.P. U.S. History
Unit 2: 1607-1754
Colonization…
The following questions have been asked as AP Free Response (FRQ) and Document Based Questions (DBQ) on this unit.
1. Compare the ways in which religion shaped the development of colonial society (to 1740) in TWO of the following regions:
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New England
Chesapeake
Middle Atlantic
2. Analyze the origins development of slavery in Britain’s North American colonies in the period 1607 to 1776?
3. Analyze the cultural and economic responses of TWO of the following groups to the Indians of North America before 1750
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British
French
Spanish
4. To what extent had the colonists developed a sense of their identity and unity as Americans by the eve of the Revolution (1750
to 1776)?
5. Analyze the extent to which religious freedom existed in the British North American colonies prior to 1700.
6. For the period before 1750, analyze the ways in which Britain’s policy of salutary neglect influenced the development of
American colonies as illustrated in the following:
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Legislative assemblies
Commerce
Religion
7. Analyze the ways in which TWO of the following influenced the development of American society:
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Puritanism during the seventeenth century
The Great Awakening during the eighteenth century
The Second Great Awakening during the nineteenth century
8.
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?
9.
Analyze the differences between the Spanish settlements in the Southwest and the English colonies in New England in the
seventeenth century in terms of TWO of the following:
a. Politics
b. Religion
c. Economic Development
10. Early encounters between American Indians and European colonists led to a variety of relationships among the different
cultures. Analyze how the actions taken by BOTH American Indians and European colonists shaped those relationships in
TWO of the following regions. Confine your answer to the 1600s.
a. New England
b. Chesapeake
c. Spanish Southwest
d. New York and New France