VAUS History Cumulative Review

What is animism?

it is the belief that places, objects, and creatures all possess a distinct spiritual essence

How did the environment impact Native American culture?

Why did Columbus Day become a national holiday?

What were the major reasons for Columbus's voyage?

Where did the Spanish settle in North America?

the Southwest

How did the Spanish treat the Native Americans they found?                                                                 

Where did the French settle in North America?

How did the French treat the Native Americans they found?

What is the Columbian Exchange? Why is it important?

Where did the English settle in North America?

How did the English treat the Native Americans they found?   

Identify the states in the Southern colonies – (be able to locate them on a map)

Who are nobles that receive land grants from the king to settle in the New World                                   ? 

Who are people that get their transportation paid for and work 5-7 years in the colonies before they are free? 

Who settled in the western part of VA? How did they support themselves?

What role did Joint Stock Companies play in the founding of the United States?  

What nation was the major force behind these organizations?

Why did the Virginia Company settle in the New World?                 

What was the first permanent English settlement in the New World, founded in 1607?

What was the religion of the Southern Colonies? Why?

What was the major purpose of the southern colonies?  What was their society based on? 

Why were the Southern colonies most tied to the homeland of Great Britain?

When were African Americans FIRST brought over?

How was slavery in the 1600s different than it would be in the 1800s? 

What is the Middle Passage?

Why did the Southern Colonies depend on slave labor?  How did the geography of the Southern United States encourage slavery when contrasted with New England?

What are cash crops that were grown in the South?  

What did John Rolfe bring to Jamestown?  What was its impact?    

What is the significance of Elizabeth Key as it relates to the institution of slavery in the colonies? 

What is the significance of Anthony Johnson as it relates to the institution of slavery in the colonies?

What is the significance of Nathanial Bacon as it relates to the institution of slavery in the colonies?

Identify the states in the New England colonies – (be able to locate them on map)

What was the economy in the New England colonies?  How did they make their money?

What religious group founded New England?

What is the difference between the Pilgrims and the Puritans?

What did the Mayflower Compact do?

Who founded Plymouth Colony?  Who founded Massachusetts Colony?

How does Winthrop’s “Model of Christian Charity” echo the idea of American exceptionalism? 

What was the New England society based on?

How was direct democracy practiced by the Puritans?

Were the Puritans tolerant of other religions?     

Who were the two dissenters we discussed in class?  What happened to each?

In what way did King Phillips war support the idea of early colonial unity?   

How did the Salem Witch Trials reflect the concept of groupthink?

Identify the states in the Middle Atlantic colonies (be able to locate them on a map)

What type of people settled the Middle Colonies?

What were the major ways people made money in the Middle Colonies?

Were the Middle colonies tolerant or intolerant of other religions? 

What man founded Pennsylvania? What religion was he? 

What is an example of representative government in the colonies?

What is an example of direct democracy in the colonies?

What caused the French & Indian War?

Who wins the French & Indian War?

How did the French and Indian War contribute to the American Revolution?

Why is the French and Indian War sometimes called the first World War?

What is the line drawn along the Appalachian mountains that colonists are not supposed to cross?

the Proclamation Line of 1763

What was the economic result of the French and Indian War?

What ended salutary neglect?

What was the purpose of the Stamp Tax?  How did the colonists react?

What was the result of the Boston Massacre?

Why was the First Continental Congress significant?

What was the ‘shot heard round the world,” the start of the American Revolution? 

the first shot fired at the Battles of Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775

Who was an Enlightenment philosopher that influenced American beliefs in self-government?

What is life, liberty, and property?

What is an agreement between the people and the government? 

If the government doesn’t do its job, what can the people do ? 

What is the idea that the government gets its power from the people? 

Who wrote Common Sense?  What arguments does it make?

What was the result of the book “Common Sense?”

Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?

Who fought for independence and provided the materials for war in the American Revolution? 

What group wanted Britain to continue ruling the colonies in the American Revolution?

Did the British have popular support for the American Revolution war?

What were the strengths and weaknesses of the two sides of the American Revolution?

What was the first battle of the American Revolution?

Why was the Battle of Saratoga so important? 

Who negotiated the Treaty of Alliance with France? 

What battle ended the American Revolution?

Who won the American Revolution? 

What country helped the victors of the American Revolution? 

What was Washington’s strategy as leader of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary war?

What were the major outcomes of the American Revolution?

What was the FIRST government America made for itself? Did they make it weak or strong?

Who had more power under the Articles of Confederation: the national government or the state government? 

Could Congress tax the states or regulate commerce & trade between the states under the Articles of Confederation?

How many votes did each state get under the Articles of Confederation?

Under the Articles of Confederation… Was there an executive branch? A judicial branch? A legislative branch?

What event proved the Articles of Confederation were too weak to deal with the problem?

How did the Enlightenment ideas influence the Declaration of Independence?

Who was president of the Constitutional Convention? 

Who wrote notes at the Constitutional Convention AND wrote the Constitution?

Which plan wanted each state to have votes based on population with the Articles of Confederation? What Compromise resolved this issue?

Which plan wanted each state to have equal votes with the Articles of Confederation? 

What compromise decided each slave would count as a part of a person? Who did this benefit more, the North or the South? 

What divides power vertically, between national, state, and local government? 

What divides power horizontally at each level into 3 branches, executive, legislative, & judicial? 

Which group wanted to ratify the Constitution without a Bill of Rights and fully supported a strong central government?

Which group thought we needed a Bill of Rights?

How did the Virginia Declaration of Rights and the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom influence the Bill of Rights?

Who wrote the Virginia Declaration of Rights and the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom?

What were the differences between the Articles of Confederation & the Constitution?