DCUSH Test #1

Key Terms Chapters 2-3

People

Christopher Columbus

Bartolome de Las Casas

John Smith

John Rolfe

John Winthrop

John Locke

Powhatan

Pocahontas

William Penn

Roger Williams

Anne Hutchinson

Places

Jamestown

Plymouth

Massachusetts Bay Colony

Know info on individual colonies 

especially: Virginia, Maryland, South Carolina, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Pennsylvania

Know the similarities and differences 

between the southern 

and New England colonies

Know the basic differences between the 

colonizing powers: Spain, France, England – their motivations, colonial experience, relations with Indians, etc.

Terms/Etc.

encomiendas

Columbian Exchange

Effects: e.g. disease, horses, mestizos

indentured servants

cash crops: tobacco, rice, sugar - where, and their details?

Act of Toleration (1649)

House of Burgesses

Colonial assemblies in general and 

the beginning of self-representation

Mayflower Compact

Pilgrims

Puritans

Quakers

Salem Witch Trials

Pope’s (Pueblo) Rebellion

Anglo-Powhatan Wars

Pequot War

Metacom’s (King Philip’s) War

Navigation Acts

Molasses Act and overall feelings 

between England and colonies

colonial reactions (e.g. smuggling)

salutary neglect

headright system

Bacon’s Rebellion

Atlantic slave trade

Triangular trade

middle passage

Stono Rebellion

The Enlightenment

Slavery

• Origins in colonies

• uses, value, expense

• challenges

• How slaves adapted, mixed, and 

resisted their new environments

Native Americans

• Origins; regions (e.g. arid SW)

• ways of life

• conflicts with

• outcomes

• Specific groups: Iroquois, Pueblo
  
  
  

It may be useful as you review these terms to also make note of the general time frames and regions where they relate to. You should have in your mind some generalizations and specifics about colonial regions (e.g. New England vs. Southern colonies) and large group dynamics/interactions (e.g. British vs. French attitude and treatment of natives).