Unit 2 Study Guide
SSUSH1 The student will describe European settlement in North America during the 17th century.
a. Explain Virginia’s development; include the Virginia Company, tobacco cultivation, relationships with Native Americans such as Powhatan, development of the House of Burgesses, Bacon’s Rebellion, and the development of slavery.
b. Describe the settlement of New England; include religious reasons, relations with Native Americans (e.g., King Phillip’s War), the establishment of town meetings and development of a legislature, religious tensions that led to the founding of Rhode Island, the half-way covenant, Salem Witch Trials, and the loss of the Massachusetts charter and the transition to a royal colony.
c. Explain the development of the mid-Atlantic colonies; include the Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam and subsequent English takeover, and the settlement of Pennsylvania.
d. Explain the reasons for French settlement of Quebec.
e. Analyze the impact of location and place on colonial settlement, transportation, and economic
development; include the southern, middle, and New England colonies.
SSUSH2 The student will trace the ways that the economy and society of British North America developed.
a. Explain the development of mercantilism and the trans-Atlantic trade.
b. Describe the Middle Passage, growth of the African population, and African-American culture. c. Identify Benjamin Franklin as a symbol of social mobility and individualism.
d. Explain the significance of the Great Awakening.
1. In what century was the Jamestown colony founded?
2. What was the first example of colonial European self-government in northeastern North America?
3. What was the first representative assembly in the English colonies in 1619?
4. What product was instrumental in bringing about economic stability in the early years of the Virginia colony?
5. Which colonies are considered middle or mid-Atlantic colonies?
6. Why was the colony of Rhode Island founded?
7. Why was the Half-Way Covenant created in the mid-1700’s?
8. Why colony was founded by the Dutch in the early 1600’s? What did the colony become known was when the English overtook it?
9. How would you describe the relationship between the Powhatan Indians and the British settlers?
10. Describe the Salem Witch Trials of the late 1600’s.
11. Why did differences occur in the economic development of the mid-Atlantic, New England, and Southern colonies?
12. What was France’s main interest in colonizing North America?
13. Why was Pennsylvania founded? Who was it founded by?
14. The Massachusetts Bay Colony was different from the Plymouth Colony because in Massachusetts there was a more prosperous economy. Trade in and out of the colony made it much more economically profitable than the Plymouth colony.
15. Why was Roger Williams expelled from the Massachusetts Bay Colony? What was the outcome?
16. Which colony was home to the largest number of Quakers?
17. Which area of North America did the British colonize up to the year 1700?
18. Which area of North America did the Spanish colonize up to the year 1700?
19. This Native American helped the Pilgrims after the first winter in the New World by teaching the Pilgrims to catch fish and to grow corn. This Native American also served as an interpreter for the Pilgrims.
20. How did Anne Hutchinson's thoughts and feelings on religion relate to the idea of separation of Church and State?
21. What were the key factors of Bacon’s Rebellion?
22. Who founded the colony of Maryland?
23. "It is the object of that system to enrich a great nation rather by trade and manufacturing than by the improvement and cultivation of land, by the industry of the towns rather than by that of the country."
What system does the passage describe?
24. What is the definition of mercantilism?
25. What 3 continents were involved in the triangular trade?
26. What is the middle passage?
27. Benjamin Franklin was born in 1706, the tenth child of a father who was a soap maker. Franklin would later go on to be one of the most revered people in American history. What does this passage illustrate?
28. What kind of sermon’s would a Great Awakening preacher focus on?
29. Which colony were the first Africans brought to in British North America?
30. Why were most of the Africans brought to the Southern colonies?
31. Where did slaves travel from and to on the triangular trade route?
32. What role did Africa play in the slave trade of the late 18th century?
33. Which early religious movement played a key role in developing democratic thought and individual freedom-- ideas which helped usher in the American Revolution?
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