Test Topics: Chapters 1-5

Test Topics: Chapters 1-5

You should be able to define and explain the significance of the following topics:

Pre-Columbian

Societal development: North America vs Central and South America

Roles of women

Technological developments

Columbus arrival in America

When did the Spanish control colonies in the Americas?

How did they go about subjugating indigenous peoples?

Mercantilism: what is it? What are its goals? Why didnt it work so well in the American colonies?

English Reformation, Henry the VIII, Martin Luther- how are they connected?

What is the Puritan connection?

Roanoke: Where? What? Who? Significance?

Jamestown: who founded it? Who went? Why is the colony significant? How did it

progress?

Indentured servitude, how did it work? Long-term impactBacons rebellion

Maryland: Economic./political system, who immigrated there? Purpose of its establishment?

Plymouth Colony: who, why when? What are the goals of the Puritans, who are they?

Who are the Separatists, what are their goals?

Massachusetts Bay Colony: who, why , economic base?

Ann Hutchinson, Roger Williams, Rhode Island

King Phillips War

Restoration Colonies

Quakers, who, where, why? What was unusual about them?

Georgia: Purpose, economic base, who went there?

Differences in demographics between the south and New England: Gender breakdown,

family structures, life expectancy

Slavery, triangular trade, middle passage

Differences in economic development of the South, Middle Colonies and New England

Plantations, self-contained

Forms of slave resistance

Colonial cities

Decline of religious piety in New England and the response

Great Awakening

Anglo-American relations, 1750s and how it changed after 1763, why?

Royal colonies, their governance and corruptionGrenville and his policies, laws passed in the colonies: Sugar Act, Stamp Act, Currency

Act, Townshend Duties, Tea Act, Coercive Acts

Boston Massacre

Forms of colonial resistance to British lawsBoston Tea PartyRevolution begins, where were the first shots fired?

Declaration of Independence

Center of American authority during the war

How did America finance the war?

Common Sense what was it, what was its impact?

American advantages over the Brits during the war

Historical disagreement of her motivations in going to war

Wars effect on American women, economy

William Pitt and his tactics in administering the war

New State governments, role/ powers

New National government, role, powers or lack thereof, purpose of its design

Shays rebellion