Chapter 2
--What new technologies enabled Europeans to travel to the
New World?
-- What foods were brought from the New World to Europe and
what affect did they have on Europeans?
--What affects did the Spanish colonization of the New World
have on Spain?
Vasco de Gama
Ferdinand and Isabella
Tainos
John Cabot
Amerigo Vespucci
Columbian Exchange
Bartolome de
las Casas
Chapter 3
--Why does that Pocahontas myth persist?
--How does English colonization compare/contrast with that of the Spanish and French?
--How did tobacco change the Virginia colony both economically and socially?
--Who could participate in government in Virginia? Who could vote?
--How was land distribution different in the Chesapeake than in England, and who did that affect social organization?
--In what ways did colonists in the Chesapeake find slave labor more advantageous than indentured servants?
--How did the introduction of African slaves into the Chesapeake affect relationships among the European population?
John Rolfe
Headright
Bacon's
Rebellion
Chapter 4
--What was Anne Hutchinson’s crime (crimes)?
--What was the
difference between the Puritans in Plymouth
and those in Boston?
--What were
relations like between the settlers in Plymouth and the Native
Americans? Those in Boston?
--What accounts for the rapidly growing population in North America during the 18th century?
--Why were the southern colonies richer, in general, than New England colonies?
--Why were there so few slave rebellions in North America?
--How would you characterize the relationship between the England and its colonies in North America during the 18th century: socially, economically, and politically?
--What were the causes of the Great Awakening? What were its effects?
--What role did Native Americans play in the European governments’ struggle for control of North America?
Middle
Passage
Deism
--What was Thomas Hutchinson’s background and why did he remain loyal to Great Britain?
--What effect did the Frnech and Indian War (or the Seven Year’s War) have on the relationship between the colonists and Great Britain?
--How did the French and Indian War change the map of North America?
--What were the reasons that the French and Indian War were fought?
--How and why did British relationships with the colonies change after 1760?
Were the British justified in changing their relationship?
Were colonial reactions to this change justified?
--How did the leaders of the Sons of Liberty react to the riot that led to the destruction of Thomas Hutchinson’s house?
--Why did Massachusetts take the lead in so many protests against Britain?
--How did Virginia’s royal governor, Lord Dunmore, react to the news that the English and New Englanders had engaged in fighting in Lexington and Concord?
--How did the beginning of the American Revolution effect Phyllis Wheatly?
--How did slaves react the onset of hostilities between the British and the colonists?
Albany CongressBenjamin
Franklin
Daughters of Liberty
Fort Necessity
William Pitt
Sons of Liberty
Boston Massacre
Gaspee
Maps Items
For Exam #1
These are the places you need to be able
to
identify on a map.
All
thirteen
original colonies
Salem,
Massachusetts
Boston
Jamestown, Virginia
Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania
New Orleans
Quebec
Charleston
Proclamation Line
of 1763
Allegheny Mountains
RIVERS and LAKES You need to be able to line these out or identify on a map:
Mississippi
River
St. Lawrence River
Hudson River
Ohio River
Lake Erie
Lake Ontario
Chapter 7
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What was the excperience of women and blacks during the
Revolutionary War?
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What were the advantages and disadvantages for the patriots
in rebelling against England.
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Who were the loyalists during the Revolutionary War and why
did they remain loyal while others did not?
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Discuss the country's financial predicament following the
American Revolution.
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What were the events that led to Shays's Rebellion? What
were the effects of that revolt.
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In your opinion, were the Alien and Sedition Acts
constitutional?
If you believe they were not, justify your answer using evidence from
the Bill of Rights.
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Chapter 9
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In what way can the Whiskey Rebellion be seen as more than
just a revolt by farmers who were unhappy about paying a tax?
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What was the Jay Treaty, and why were Americans generally
opposed to it?
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How was the news of the Haitian Revolution received by most
white Americans?
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Chapter 10
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Who were the War Hawks, and why were they interested in
engaging England in another war?
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What specific effects did the Embargo Act of 1807 have on
the U.S. economy?
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Although Gabriel's planned slave insurrection in Virginia in
1800
failed to materialize, knowledge of it caused white leaders to sit up
and take notice. What were the main ideas
that inspired Gabriel Prosser and his followers and what were the
sourcess of those ideas? How did Thomas Jefferson and James
Monroe made it clear that they understood how these ideas were
problematic in a slave society?
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What were the national political
implications of the Missouri Compromise of 1820. Why did American
leaders place so much importance on keeping the issue of slavery out of
national politics? Why had maintaining a sectional political balance
become so important? What does this settlement suggest to you about the
way American leaders were able to divorce the institution of slavery
from the people it enslaved?
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Why was the
Louisiana Purchase controversial?
Tecumsah
feme
covert
Map Quiz for Exam #2
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Describe the basic conditions of factory life for women and
girls who worked in manufacturing in the 1820s and 1830s.
*Why did immigrants come
to the United States between 1840 and 1860? Why were these groups
treated differently by "native" borm Americans? Chapter 13 *Why did Southerners move
westward in the first half of the nineteenth century? Map Items for Exam 3 Kansas Additions to Study Guide for
Final Chapter 12 *When Mexicans opened up Texas for
settlement in the 1820s and 1830s, who comprised the majority of the
people who settled there? Chapter 14 *Wilmot Proviso Chapter 15 *Fort Sumter
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