1. Give one characteristic of each for the Spanish colonies in America: (#1) Government, (#2) Economy, (#3) Interactions with Indians
Give one characteristic of each for the French colonies in America: (#4) Government, (#5) Economy, (#6) Interactions with Indians

2. #1 Government—strictly controlled by the king, ruled by a royal governor (viceroy), The Spanish were not allowed to create their own self-gov’t.
#2 Economy—Gold and silver, created encomiendas (cash-crop plantations), desired wealth
#3 Interactions with Indians—Converted Indians to Catholicism, inter-married Indian women, conquered Indians, forced Indians to work as slaves on haciendas
#4 Government—strictly controlled by the king, ruled by a royal governor, French colonists were not allowed to create their own self-government.
#5 Economy—Fur trade and small-scale farming
#6 Interactions with Indians—Converted Indians to Catholicism, traded fur (the French had the best relationship with Indians of any European country)

3. Why was Jamestown, Virginia founded?
Jamestown was settled by the Virginia Company which was a collection of investors looking to make a profit in America. What kind of company was this?
Jamestown struggled to survive in its early years. What “saved” Jamestown by allowing the colonists to make huge sums of money?
Who is credited with introducing this to Jamestown?
Who were the Powhatans?

4. To make money for investors; So people could make money in America
Joint-stock company
Tobacco
John Rolfe
The Indian tribe that attacked Jamestown because the colony was expanding quickly into their territory

5. The Virginia colony relied heavily on plantation agriculture
The Virginia colony relied heavily on plantation agriculture. Name the 2 groups that were most commonly used to work these plantations?
What was the name of the Virginia law that gave 50 acres of land to anyone who could travel to Virginia? (This law allowed wealthy landowners to gain land for each person brought to the colony).
The Virginia colony created the first colonial assembly in American history. What was it?
What caused Bacon’s Rebellion in Virginia?

6. White indentured servants from England and African slaves
The Headright System
The House of Burgesses.
Poor western Virginia farmers (former indentured servants) were angry that the governor would not protect them from Indian attacks; They were frustrate with the Virginia government

7. Name three colonies in New England.
What is one thing Pilgrims and Puritans have in common?
What is the difference between a Puritan and a Pilgrim (Separatists)?
Pilgrims created the first example of self-government in American history. What was the name of this agreement?
What New England colony gave America the first example of a written constitution?
What colony did John Winthrop call a “city on a hill”?

8. Plymouth, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Hampshire, New Haven
Both settled in New England, both came for religious freedom, believed in predestination
Pilgrims are “radical” Puritans who were not willing to try to fix the Anglican Church of Catholic rituals. Both went to New England, but Pilgrims were in Plymouth & Puritans were in Massachusetts
Mayflower Compact
Connecticut (“Fundamental Orders of CT”)
Massachusetts

9. Name 2 differences between the Massachusetts and Virginia colonies
What type of gov’ts existed in New England?
What colony did Roger Williams create after he was banished from Massachusetts?
What was the name of the Indian attack, led by Metacomet, on New England that led to the deaths of over 1,000 people?
By the 1660s, church membership declined in New England towns. As a result, people were offered the ability to vote and church membership even if they did not have a “conversion experience.” What was this law?
Where did the witchcraft hysteria occur?

10. MA = religious; VA = make money MA = families; VA = men MA = small farms & trade; VA = plantations MA = few slaves; VA = lots of slaves MA = schools; VA = no schools
New England used town meetings
Rhode Island
King Philip’s War
Half-Way Covenant
Salem

11. Name two “middle colonies” in the British colonies in North America
Which European nation controlled “New York” before it was taken by the British?
Which British colony was known for the “holy experiment”?
Who founded this religiously tolerant middle colony?
Why was the Georgia colony founded?
What was the name of the massive slave rebellion in South Carolina during the colonial era?

12. New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey
Netherlands (also known as the Dutch)
Pennsylvania
William Penn
To serve as a buffer colony between the rich plantations in Carolina/Virginia and the Spanish colony in Florida; Also, as a place to send debtors and people released from jail
The Stono Rebellion

13. What is Salutary Neglect?
What was the Middle Passage?
What is mercantilism?
What impact did the Navigations Acts have on the British colonists?
Which region of colonial America did German and Irish immigrants as well as freed indentured servants typically move to?

14. The king and Parliament did not strictly control the governments of their colonies who created colonial assemblies
The part of the trans-Atlantic trade that brought African slaves to America
The idea that the mother country should profit off colonies by providing cheap raw materials and buying manufactured goods;
Laws that restricted colonial trade by requiring all trade to go through Britain
The “Backcountry”

15. Name two differences between the “Southern” and “Northern” colonies?
Who represented individualism and social mobility in the American colonies?
What was the name of the religious revival in America in the 1730s that challenged people to re-examine their eternal destiny?
Name one effect of this religious movement

16. Southern colonies had more plantations, cash-crops, slavery, and indentured servants than the Northern colonies Northern colonies had a more diversified economy of small-scale farms, industry, and trade; Northern colonies had more cities
Benjamin Franklin
Great Awakening
The first “national” event; growth of faiths (Methodists & Baptists)

17. New Spain:
Conquistadors
Gold, Glory, God
Encomiendas
Catholic
Royal Governors
Indian Marriages
New France:
Quebec
Friendly with Indians
Fur Trade
Catholic
Royal Governors

18. William Penn’s “Holy Experiment”
New England:
Puritans & Pilgrims
“City on a Hill”
Mayflower Compact
Fund Orders of CT
Town Meetings
Rhode Island
King Philip’s War
Half-Way Covenant
Salem Witches
Southern Colonies:
Jamestown
Virginia Company
Tobacco
Smith & Rolfe
Powhatans Indians
Indentured Servants
Headright System
Slavery
House of Burgesses
Bacon’s Rebellion
Georgia as a buffer
Middle Colonies:
New Amsterdam
Peter Stuyvesant
New York
William Penn’s “Holy Experiment”
Quakers
Diversity
explain Virginia's development including the Virginia Company, tobacco cultivation, relationships with Native Americans such as Powhatan, development of the House of Burgesses, Bacon's Rebellion, and the origins of American slavery
describe the settlement of New England, including religion; relations with Native Americans including King Phillip's War; political development, including town meetings; Mayflower Compact, and the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut; religious tensions that led to colonies such as Rhode Island, the half-way covenant, Salem Witch Trials, and the loss of Massachusetts' Charter
30d - explain the development of the mid-Atlantic colonies including the Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam and its subsequent English takeover, the role of Peter Stuyvesant, and the settlement of Pennsylvania

19. Salutary Neglect & Colonial Assemblies

20. Mercantilism, Trans-Atlantic Trade, & The Navigation Acts of 1660
32d - explain the roles of limited government in colonial government and the impact of the British policy of salutary neglect

21. “Northern” Colonies
“Southern” Colonies

22. The Great Awakening