1. Sources of Americans’ Ideas on Forming a New Government
English Law
English Bill of Rights:
Magna Carta:
Beliefs of the Enlightenment
Colonial Political Traditions
New England Town Meetings:
The Great Awakening: inspired
Colonial Assemblies:)

2. What was the cause of the French and Indian War
Who won the French and Indian War? __________________________________________________________________________________________________
What was the result of the French and Indian War for Britain? _______________________________________________________________________________________________
11. How did the Parliament of England solve their money problems after the French and Indian War? _________________________________________________________________________________________________
What was the Proclamation Act of 1763 law about? _________________________________________________________________________________________________
What two groups of people did the Proclamation Act of 1763 separate? __________________________________________________________________________________________________
10. How did the Proclamation Line cause problems between the colonists and England? __________________________________________________________________________________________________

3. How did Spain strengthen its colonies in the Americas?
Spain strengthened its colonies by using missionaries to promote Spanish religion and culture, presidios to enforce it authority and encomienda to gain wealth.
How did France’s American colonies differ from Spain’s American Colonies?
Unlike the Spanish colonies the settlements of New France reflected the beneficial relationship that developed between Native Americans and the French, who required the Indians’ cooperation to carry on the fur trade.
3. What were the characteristics of the government and the economy in Southern Colonies
The economy of the Southern Colonies was dependent on cash crops such as tobacco, the government was characterized by the representative assemblies that several colonies adopted
4. What were the goals of the Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay Colonies?
To establish communities based on Puritan beliefs that would be both morally and economically successful and thereby inspire the adoption of Puritan reforms in England
5. What were the characteristics of the Middle Colonies?

4. How did the spread of civilization begin in the Americas?
How did Europeans begin to explore more of the world?
What was life like in West Arica before the age of European exploration?
4. To what extent did European colonization impact the native peoples of the North American continent?

5. How and why did slave conditions vary in the three different colonial regions? Be specific.
How did English ideas about government and the economy influence life in the 13 colonies?
How did life differ in each of the three main regions of the British colonies?
How did Great Britain’s wars the French and Indian War and Pontiac’s Rebellion with affect the American Colonies?

6. What were the native people of the Americas known as?
DIRECTIONS: Complete the following review sheet to help prepare for the unit test.
What were the native people of the Americas known as?
Which civilization built a complex system of roads and bridges to link their empire?
Which civilization developed a system of numbers including the concept of zero?
Where was the Maya civilization located?
Where was the Inca Civilization located?
Where was the Aztec Civilization located?
What type of religion did the early American civilizations have?
From what continent did the First Americans come from?
When and how did they begin arriving here in the America’s?
Why did early humans leave their homeland and migrate into the America’s?
How did early humans find the food that they needed to survive?
What foods do humans grow by farming?
What influenced the development of the cultures that existed in the America’s?