Study Guide – Unit One: Worlds Collide and English Settlement of

North America 1450-1763

Due Date	Assignment
Thurs., Aug. 16	Summer Assignment is Due
Fri., Aug. 17	1. Read pp. 25-34 and p. 37 – 47 (top of page) (Use my reading questions as a hint of what is most important for you to know.) 2. Answer questions 2- 4 (This should be typed. I’ve done the first question for you as a model, but be sure you know that material also.) 3. Finish filling in the chart on the Colonizing Experience in N. America. Study the answers I did for you already. Make sure that you have a good understanding of the similarities and differences among the four European nations’ patterns of settlement in North America. (If you want to type your chart or reading questions, you can find them on the Lesson Units page of my Website. Always.)
Mon., Aug. 20	1. Read p. 47- 53 2. Answer questions 5 - 7 3. Read the Maryland Toleration Act and think about this question: to what extent does this represent religious freedom? What evidence is there in the Act for your conclusion? 5. Start filling in the Chart on the 13 Original Colonies for Jamestown and Maryland. Write detailed entries. You will be expected to know the differences among the colonies. (You can use the copy on my site if you prefer to type your entries.)
Tues., Aug. 21	1. Read p. 53 - 65 2. Answer questions 8 - 11 3. Read the Mayflower Compact and try to determine why this document is considered so significant. <What does it show about values and commitments of Pilgrims? What are their governing principles?> 4. Read the sermon by John Winthrop and be prepared to discuss the following questions: What reasons does Winthrop give for the journey? How do his religious views shape his vision of the proper social order for the new colony? What is the covenant he describes?
Weds., Aug. 22	1. Read p. 68 - 83 2. Answer questions 12 – 16 3. You should have finished the New England section of the 13 English Colonies chart by today and started filling in about the founding of PA, NY, NJ, and the Carolinas
Thurs., Aug. 23	1. Read p. 84 - 91 2. Answer questions 17 – 18 3. Read the Defense of Slavery in VA and the VA Laws for Blacks and take margin notes. <What can you tell about slavery from these docs?> 4. There will be a short quiz on the material we covered through Wednesday: European Settlement, the Chesapeake and Puritan colonies. Use the interactive quizzes on my website to help you study. (Hint. Hint)
Fri., Aug. 24	1. Read p. 91 - 96 2. Answer questions 20 - 21 3. Read the excerpt from the Navigation Act and be prepared to discuss the Review Questions at the end. 4. Finish the chart on the 13 Colonies.
Mon., Aug. 27	1. Read p. 99 - 110 2. Answer questions 22- 24 3. Read documents on Eliza Lucas and write down in the margins what you can learn about women in South Carolina in this period from reading her letters
Tues., Aug. 28	1. Read the packet on how to write a DBQ 2. Brainstorm, using your notes, homework, and book everything you can that you could consider to answer this question: “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?” When you’re done writing down what you can think of from the top of your head, look through your notes, handouts, and the book for more relevant points you could make. Group your brainstorming into three different subject areas or main points.
Weds., Aug. 29	1. Read p. 111 - 118 2. Answer questions 25 – 27 3. Read “The Great Awakening Comes to Weathersfield, Connecticut” 4. Read “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” and be prepared to discuss.
Thurs., Aug. 30	1. Read p. 119 - 129 2. Answer questions. 28 - 30 3. Fill out as much of the chart on the war as you can from the reading
Fri., Aug. 31	1. Finish the War Chart 2. Prepare a detailed outline for your assigned essay question. Include a thesis statement.
Tues., Sept. 4	Test

Reading Questions

Answer the following. Keep the following in mind as you answer these questions and all future study questions for me.

Ø You don’t need complete sentences if it is easier to make lists or use phrases. Bullet points are a useful tool.

Ø Include enough information so that you demonstrate that you understand the major points, but don’t go overboard making your life an utter misery.

Ø Think of this as a guided outline of the reading with my questions helping you focus on what is important.

Ø Keep an eye on the Identification items. As one of them is mentioned in the book, make sure you learn it.

Ø If a question has two parts, answer both parts. (Duh!)

Ø Just because I don’t have a comprehension question on a topic in the book does NOT mean that that topic is unimportant. Instead, I’m expecting you to make margin notes in your book as you read. I find that making summarizing comments in the margin is a much more effective note-taking technique than simply highlighting.

Ø This must be typed. (I strongly recommend that you save the file on your computer. It will be much easier to study for the AP exam months from now if you can clearly read what you have written.)

Ø I have posted this Study Guide on my website. Feel free to copy the questions into a Word document and use that to answer the questions.

Ø I will periodically be either checking off in class or collecting your answers for a Homework grade.

1.	What impact did the Spanish invasion have on the native populations of the New World? Make sure you know what encomiendas were and what the Columbian Exchange refers to.
2.	List the reasons for English colonization of the New World.
3.	Summarize the information on the tensions between the Spanish and natives. Include Popé’s Revolt and the conclusions about Spain’s goals in North America.
4.	Summarize the history of Jamestown: settlement, relations with Indians, economy, and problems.
5.	What were the similarities and differences between the two main Chesapeake colonies: Jamestown and Maryland?
6.	What was indentured servitude? Why was it established and what were the problems with it?
7.	Give the reasons for Bacon’s Rebellion and its significance.
8.	Summarize the history of the Pilgrims and Plymouth colony and the Puritans and Massachusetts Bay Colony.
9.	Who were Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson? What do their stories tell you about the Massachusetts Bay colony?
10.	Describe the government and economy of the New England communities.
11.	What were the effects of European immigration to North America on the native tribes and what was the effect of Metacom’s (or King Philip’s) War?
12.	What was mercantilism? What laws did England pass to implement mercantilism in the American colonies?
13.	What was the reaction in the colonies to these laws and what responses did the English government make?
14.	Identify the following: Dominion of New England, Sir Edmund Andros, Leisler’s Rebellion, the Glorious Revolution.
15.	What was the role of sugar in the demand for slaves? Describe the South Atlantic system (also called the triangular trade).
16.	How did slavery in the Chesapeake change in the 17^th century? What were the differences in conditions under slavery in the West Indies, Chesapeake, and South Carolina?
17.	Characterize the African-American culture that developed under slavery. Identify the Stono rebellion.
18.	How did the South Atlantic system tie the entire economy of British colonies together?
19.	Summarize the political developments in the colonies from the Glorious Revolution to 1750s.
20.	Define Salutary Neglect and its effect on American colonies.
21.	How did the American colonies compete with British economic power and what was the British reaction? Give examples.
22.	What was the role of women in New England?
23.	Summarize the information on land ownership and inheritance in New England.
24.	Characterize society in the Mid-Atlantic colonies. What was the influence of the Quakers?
25.	What was the Enlightenment and what was its impact in America?
26.	What was the Great Awakening?
27.	What were the social, political, and religious effects of the Great Awakening?
28.	What was Pontiac’s Rebellion and what did the British do in response?
29.	Summarize the economic situation in the colonies in the 1750’s and 1760’s.
30.	Summarize the information on conflicts after the war including the land disputes, the Paxton Boys, the S.C. Regulators, and the N.C. Regulators. What did all these conflicts have in common?

Sample Answer for Reading Questions

1. What impact did the Spanish invasion have on the native populations of the New World?

• Spread of diseases such as smallpox, flu, and measles wiping out huge numbers of the native populations from about 40 million to 3 million
• Cortès conquered the Aztecs and Pizarro conquered the Incans
• Cortès able to exploit divisions among Aztecs to form military alliances to crush Aztec empire
• The establishment of a Spanish bureaucratic empire, establish encomiendas – royal grants that gave them authority over natives.
• Spanish enslaving the natives
• Columbian Exchange with Western Hemisphere crops such as maize (corn), tomatoes, and potatoes being introduced to Europe; Introduction of new grains and animals such as horses, pigs, plus devastating diseases to Americas.
• Huge amounts of gold and silver flowing into Spain
• Spain becoming the most powerful nation in Europe
• Spanish priests converting natives to Catholicism
• A mixed-race (mestizo) population as Spanish men take Indian women as wives or mistresses

Identifications

These are people, places and things you will need to know by the end of the unit.

1.	Ferdinand and Isabella	23.	Charles I	45.		Ben Franklin
2.	Martin Luther	24.	John Winthrop	46.		Jonathan Edwards
3.	John Calvin	25.	Roger Williams	47.		George Whitefield
4.	Henry VIII	26.	Anne Hutchinson	48.		Old and New Lights
5.	Queen Elizabeth I	27.	Thomas Hooker	49.		Fort Duquesne/Pitt
6.	Philip II	28.	Fundamental Orders of Connecticut	50.		William Pitt
7.	Spanish Armada	29.	English Civil War and Oliver Cromwell	51.		Gen. Edward Braddock
8.	Popé and the Pueblo Revolt	30.	Charles II and Restoration	52.		Gen. James Wolfe
9.	Sir Walter Raleigh	31.	Halfway Covenant	53.		Albany Plan of Union
10.	King James I	32.	Metacom’s (or King Philip’s) War	54.		Pontiac’s Rebellion
11.	Virginia Company	33.	Duke of York/ James II	55.		Proclamation of 1763
12.	Peter Stuyvesant and New Netherland	34.	Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina	56.		Treaty of Paris (1763)
13.	John Rolfe	35.	Sir Edmund Andros		57.	Paxton Boys
14.	House of Burgesses	36.	Glorious Revolution		58.	Regulator Movements
15.	Headright System	37.	William and Mary
16.	Lord Baltimore	38.	Declaration of Rights
17.	Toleration Act (1649)	39.	Leisler’s Rebellion
18.	Navigation Acts (1651, 1660, and 1663)	40.	Stono Rebellion
19.	Gov. William Berkeley	41.	Sir Robert Walpole
20.	Nathaniel Bacon	42.	James Oglethorpe
21.	William Bradford	43.	Molasses Act of 1733
22.	Mayflower Compact	44.	Currency Act of 1751

Questions and Themes for Unit One

By the end of this unit, through reading, homework, and class discussion we will have covered these questions and topics. Keep this list at the back of your mind as you study and read throughout the unit. Be prepared to discuss these questions in class. This list will also be a good review sheet when you study for the AP exam.

o What were the ramifications of the Protestant Reformation for the exploration and settlement of the New World?

o What were the goals of the Jamestown settlers and were they successful? What is the connection between their goals and how their colony developed?

o Compare and contrast the political, religious, and economic goals and accomplishments of the Spanish, French, Dutch, and English colonies.

o What were the motivations for the settlement of each of the Thirteen Colonies? How did the original motivation affect the development of that colony?

o What were the similarities and differences in the development of England’s New England, Middle, and Southern colonies? What factors determined how each region developed and why are these differences important in American history?

o What was the importance of geography in the development of each region?

o To what extent was there religious freedom in each of the Thirteen Colonies? What was the relationship between religious toleration and political rights? What led to the Salem witch trials?

o In the economic history of each region, what was the role of indentured servants? How did that change? What was the relationship between the use of indentured servants and the growth of slavery?

o How did the slave trade develop? How did the colonies interact through the triangular trade? What impact did that trade have American history? Why did slavery come to be concentrated in the South?

o To what extent did democracy develop in the English colonies?

o What were women’s roles in the New World? How did these roles change?

o What tensions were there between the eastern and western settlements in the colonies? What impact will these differences have on American history?

o Define and analyze England’s policies of mercantilism and salutary neglect. What were the advantages and disadvantages to both England and the colonies of mercantilism? How did these policies affect the development of the colonies economically, politically, and culturally?

o Which played a greater role in the development of the colonies: economics or religion?

o What was the Great Awakening? How did it change American society?

o What was the impact of the Enlightenment on the colonies? How were the Great Awakening and the Enlightenment different?

o To what extent were the Thirteen Colonies connected economically, politically, and culturally in this period?

o What caused the conflicts between France and Great Britain in this period? Why and how did the British win the French and Indian War? What was the role of the colonists in the war? How did the interaction of the American colonists and British soldiers in the war change their views of each other? What were the consequences of the war?