AP US History
Mr. DiDomenico
Chapter 2 Study Guide
Transplantations and Borderlands
1600s-1700s
Important terms, people, and ideas
Chesapeake
Jamestown
John Smith
De La Warr
Tobacco
Headright System
House of Burgesses
John Rolfe
Pocahontas
Calverts
Lord Baltimore
Proprietary Rule
Toleration Act
William Berkeley
Bacon’s Rebellion
Plymouth
Separatists v. Puritans
Mayflower Compact
William Bradford
Massachusetts Bay Company
John Winthrop
Theocracy
Thomas Hooker
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
Roger Williams
Anne Hutchinson
Pequot War
King Philips War
Restoration Colonies
New Netherland
Quakers
Society of Friends
William Penn
Holy Experiment
Sugar and Slavery
James Oglethorpe
Mercantilism
Navigation Acts
Dominion of New England
Edmund Andros
Glorious Revolution
Chesapeake
1. Identify the role the following people played in the development of Virginia.
John Smith:
John Rolfe:
Pocahontas:
Lord De La Warr:
Governor William Berkeley:
Nathanial Bacon:
2. Explain the following incentives used to recruit colonists to Virginia.
Headright system:
Diversifying the economy:
House of Burgesses:
3. Describe the relationship between the Natives and the Settlers of Virginia
4. Describe the reasons why the Act of Toleration was passed and the impact it had.
5. Describe the significance of Bacon’s Rebellion.
New England
6. Identify the role the following people played in the development of New England.
William Bradford:
John Winthrop:
Thomas Hooker:
Roger Williams:
Anne Hutchinson:
7. Describe the significance of the Mayflower Compact.
8. Describe the differences between the Plymouth Colony and the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
9. Describe the level of religious freedom that was practiced in the New England area.
10. Describe the impact of the breakdown in relations between the Natives and settlers in the following Wars.
The Pequot War:
King Philip’s War:
Restoration Colonies
11. What are the Carolinas, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania known as Restoration Colonies?
12. What is a proprietary colony?
13. Describe the conflict faced by James, the Duke of York, when he was given all of the territory between the Connecticut and Delaware Rivers.
14. Describe the beliefs of the Quakers.
15. Describe the two different reasons William Penn created Pennsylvania.
------16. Describe the economy of the Caribbean Islands and why they became dependant on slavery.
17. Describe the connection between the Caribbean settlements and the North American colonies.
18. List the principal Spanish colonies North of Mexico.
19. Describe the reasons why the founding of Georgia was crucial to the stability of the British colonies.
20. Explain the strict rules set up by Oglethorpe in Georgia. What was their impact?
21. Describe the mutually beneficial relation developed between the French and the Natives.
22. Describe the impact mercantilism had on trade with the colonies.
23. Describe the Navigation Acts and why they were passed.
24. Explain the benefits the colonists received due to the passage of the Navigation Acts.
25. Dominion of New England
When:
Who created it?
Why?
How did it end?
26. Describe the impact the Glorious Revolution had on the colonies.
Original 13 Colonies