apush period 1/2

1. How did new technology enable European explorers to dominate the New World? Provide examples of new technologies.

2. How did the search for new trade routes, the slave trade, and the development of nation states in Europe influence exploration?

3. What was the Columbian Exchange?​Evidence of Positive Effects  ​​​​​

Evidence of Negative Effects

3. How did Spain organize their society in the Americas?

4. In what ways did Spain justify their conquests? What role did religion play?

5. Briefly describe Spanish society and treatment of natives in the following places:

a. Spanish Florida

b. The Southwest

6. Explain the cause and result of the Pueblo Revolt

7.  Juan de Sepulveda advocated harsh treatment of natives and claimed slavery for natives was justified under Christianity. How was this view different than the views of Bartolome de Las Casas?

8. How did the French treat Native Americans? Explain.

9. How did the English treat Native Americans? Explain.

Ch2

1. describe the first settlers at Jamestown. Who were they? What was their background? What were their goals? Why were they unsuccessful?

2. What was the Starving Time and what ended it?

3. Why did the Virginia Company move to the headright system? How did it work?

4. What is the significance of the House of Burgesses?

5. Explain how the relationship between the English colonists and the Powhatan Natives changed over time. How did it start out? Major events that changed the balance of power, etc.

6. How did tobacco influence the economy and social structure of Virginia?

7. Explain the role and experience of women in the Virginia Colony. How was that different from English society?

New England

1. Summarize the views of the Puritans (aka Congregationalists)

2. What were the Puritans fleeing when they left England and what did they hope to accomplish?

3. What was the purpose of the Mayflower Compact?

4. What was the experience of the Plymouth colonists?

5. Describe the Puritan settlers who came to New England as part of the Great Migration. What effect did that have on the overall population of New England?

6. Describe the structure of the Puritan family.

7. Briefly explain the role of women in Puritan society

8. Why was education important to Puritans?

9. Explain the role of Puritan churches (meeting houses) in Puritans towns and villages.

10. How did one become a full, adult member of the Puritan church?

11. Explain why Roger Williams was banished from Massachusetts.

12. Why were Anne Hutchinson’s views considered controversial?  What happened at her trial and what was the result?

13. Why did New England colonies need to enact the Halfway Covenant?

Ch3

1. Define Mercantilism

2. How did England use the Navigation Act to achieve their mercantilist goals?

3. Why was gaining New Netherland (New York) important to England’s imperial goals?

4. How did British rule change longstanding Dutch treatment of women, Black people, religious groups, and Natives?

5. Briefly describe the government set up by the Fundamental Constitutions of Carolinas.  Why wasn’t it fully implemented?  What did the proprietors implement instead?

6. Identify the cash crop of the Carolinas.

7. What was William Penn’s vision for the Pennsylvania Colony?

8. Why did Chesapeake planters move to using enslaved labor rather than indentured servants?

9. The concept of “race” the way we think about it today did not exist in the early 17^th century, but the British did discriminate against people for a variety of reasons. Briefly explain their views.

10. By the 1660s, race-based slavery was well entrenched in the Chesapeake. Give an example of a law that defines a person based on their race.

11. Briefly explain the cause of Bacon’s Rebellion. Why was Nathaniel Bacon an unlikely leader of this rebellion?

12. What were the consequences of Bacon’s Rebellion?

13. What were the factors leading to slavery taking the place of indentured servitude between 1680 and 1700?

14. What was the significance of the House of Burgesses enacting the slave codes beginning in 1705?

15. How do we know that British America was more diverse (ethnically and especially religiously) than the population of Britain?

16. What sorts of people lived in the backcountry regions?

17. Describe the standard of living most colonists enjoyed by the 1700s

18. How do we know there was no real “American” identity before the Revolution?

19. What was life like for the elite (merchants, planters, etc)?

20. What was life like for the poor?

21. What group made up the majority of free Americans? How did they view access to landownership?

22. How did the role of women change in the 1700s?

Ch4 part 1

1. Describe the experience of enslaved person on the Middle Passage.

Slavery and Empire

Slave Cultures and Slave Resistance

Briefly describe how enslaved Africans created the beginnings of their own African American culture in the following ways:

Religion:

Language:

Briefly describe and explain the impacts of the Stono Rebellion

Republican Liberty

Define republicanism as used in the 17^th and 18^th centuries

Define liberalism as used in the 18^th century

Briefly explain John Locke’s views on government, the social contract, individual rights, and the right of rebellion.

How did the rights of women figure into Locke’s ideas? What about non-white men?

The Right to Vote

Why did the colonial governments and Britain require the ownership of property to vote?

How did the number of eligible voters in the colonies compare to Britain?

Political Cultures

Although many white men were eligible to vote in colonial society, fewer of them could hold public office. Explain why. What kind of people dominated public offices as a result?

Colonial Government

1. define salutary neglect

2. What was the impact of this policy on colonial governments?

Rise of Assemblies

What was the impact of the negotiations and conflicts between the colonial assemblies and royal governors?

The Colonial Press

Briefly explain the Zenger Trial and its consequences.

American Enlightenment

What were supporters of enlightenment thinking in America reacting to?

Define Deism

The Great Awakening