Mrs. Ruland's Advanced Placement United States History Class

Unit 2 Study Guide

Colonial Beginnings, 1492-1770

Facts to Know

Chapter 1 - New World Beginnings, 33,000 BC- AD 1769

1. What was Native American society like before European contact? What similarities and differences existed?
2. What factors led to Europe's increased exploration and to the discovery of the New World?
3. What is the Columbian Exchange? What are some of the results of the Columbian Exchange?
4. What was the role of conquistadores and encomienda in establishing a Spanish Empire in the New World?
5. What was the geographic extent of the Spanish Empire in the New World? What nations were challenging Spain's dominance in the New World and where?

Chapter 2 - The Planting of English America, 1500-1733

1. What international events and domestic changes prompted England to begin colonization?
2. What was it like for the early settlers of Jamestown?
3. Why were Native Americans unable to repel the English colonization of North America?
4. What crops were important to the English colonies in the south of North America? How did the cultivation of those crops shape those colonies?
5. How did the English sugar plantations of the Caribbean differ from the English colonies in the south of North America?
6. How did slavery develop in North America during colonization?
7. What features were shared by Virginia, Maryland, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia?

Chapter 3 - Settling the Northern Colonies, 1619-1700

1. What religious turmoil in the Old World resulted in the little colony of Plymouth in the New World?
2. Why was the initial and subsequent colonization of the Massachusetts Bay Colony more successful than Plymouth?
3. How did the colony of Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay Colony contribute to the origins of American independence and government? What were the contributions to American independence and government from the New England Confederation, the Dominion of New England, and the Glorious Revolution?
4. What role did religious tolerance play in the founding of New England colonies other than Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay and in the founding of some middle colonies?
5. Besides England, what other nations influenced the colonization of the Atlantic coast of North America?
6. How did the colonization of Pennsylvania differ from the New England colonies and other middle colonies?

Chapter 4 - American Life in the Seventeenth Century, 1607-1692

1. How did the climate in the southern colonies influence life expectancy, family life, immigration, and economic development?
2. What role did Bacon's Rebellion play in the adoption and expansion of slavery in the southern colonies?
3. What contributions did enslaved Africans provide the colonies?
4. How was life expectancy, family life, immigration, and economic development different in New England as compared with the southern colonies?
5. What are the differences in the legal standing of women in southern colonies and New England colonies?

Chapter 5 - Colonieal Society on the Eve of Revolution, 1700-1775

1. How did the population grow in the eventually rebellious colonies compare with England's?
2. What ethnicities contributed to the nosaic of the thirteen colonies?
3. How did eighteenth-century America's social heirarchy compare with seventeenth-century America's social hierarchy?How did both compare with the Old World's?
4. What was the leading industry in eighteenth-century America? What other industries were important?
5. How did the Great Awakening influence religion in America?
6. Who are some of America's noteworthy artists and writers from the eighteenth century?
7. How were the colonieal governments similar and different, and how influential was England in colonial governance?

Quizzes:

• Textbook Quiz - chapter 1       chapter 2       chapter 3       chapter 4       chapter 5
• Mrs. Pojer's Quizzes
  • Early Discovery & Settlement A   B   C   D
  • America & the British Empire A    B
  • Late 17c and 18c American Society A

Documents

• English Trade with Indians (1634)
• Indentured Servant in the Chesapeake (1640)
• The Mayflower Compact (1620)
• "Our Plantation Is Very Weak" - The Experiences of an Indentured Servant in Virginia (1623)
• A Model of Christian Charity - John Winthrop (1630)
• Maryland Toleration Act (1649).
• The Wonders of the Invisible World - Cotton Mather (1693)
• Land Division in New Orleans (c. 1720)
• Virginai Gentleman Weighs "a Frail Woman's" Class (c. 1730)

Study Aids

• From Revolution to Reconstruction - An Outline of American History
  • Chapter One: Early America
  • Chapter Two: The Colonial Period
• Digital History
  • European Discovery of the New World
  • Great Debates: What is the Legacy of 1492
  • Guided Reading: The First Americans
  • Guided Reading: Exploration and Discovery
  • Motivations for English Colonization
  • The Peopling of America
  • Guided Reading: Colonization
  • The Puritan Mind
  • Witchcraft in Salem
  • Guided Readings: The Origins and Nature of New World Slavery
  • Great Debates: What Are the Origins of American Slavery
  • The History of Private Life
    • Courtship in Early America
    • Childbirth in Early America
• George Burson, Aspen CO
  • The Meeting of Three Cultures
  • British North America and the American Revolution
• Academic American History, Henry J. Sage, Northern Virginia Community College
  • Colonial America, 1607-1763
• Timeline- 1000 to 1650 (Mr. Wood, Murray HS, Murray UT)
• Timeline- 1651 to 1700 (Mr. Wood, Murray HS, Murray UT)
• Timeline- 1701 to 1750 (Mr. Wood, Murray HS, Murray UT)
• Indian Wars - chart (Mrs. Roberts)
• Mr. Feldmeth - Polytechnic School, Pasadena CA
  • Colonial Beginnings - outline
  • American Colonies - chart
  • American Puritanism - outline
  • Slavery in the American Colonies - outline
  • Early American Colonial Life: Politics & Economics - outline
  • The Great Awakening - outline
• A World of Their Own- The Americas to 1500 - essay (Crossroads)
• Contact- Europe and America Meet, 1492-1620 - essay (Crossroads)
• The Founding of New Societies, 1607-1763 - essay (Crossroads)
• Divining America: Religion and the National Culture
  • Native American Religion in Early America
  • Puritanism and Predestination
  • Witchcraft in Salem Village: Intersections of Religion and Society
  • The First Great Awakening
  • Church and State in British North America
  • The Middle Colonies as the Birthplace of American Religious Pluralism
  • The Church of England in Early America
  • Religion, Women, and the Family in Early America

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