APUSH Founding the Colonies

APUSH – Founding the Colonies

1. What were the goals and motivations behind English colonization of the Chesapeake? 2. Why was the survival rate so low for the English settlers of early Virginia? 3. What was the headright system? How did this policy promote British migration to the New World? 4. What was the nature of the early relationship between the Virginia colonists and the local native Indian tribes? What happened in 1622 that changed that relationship? 5. How did the introduction of tobacco to the Chesapeake region affect the colony of Virginia? 6. Explain the system of indentureship. What was life like for indentured servants? 7. Why did indentured servants become important to the early Virginia economy and society? 8. How did the evolution of the Virginia colony between 1607 and 1625 reveal the impact of New World conditions on aims and expectations? 9. Why was Maryland founded? How did it differ from the Virginia colony? 10. What problems plagued the Maryland colony? 11. What powers did a proprietor have? 12. What was the role of the "back-country" settlements in the early colonial Chesapeake region? 13. Why were the back-country settlers such an annoyance to the colonial government? 14. Why did Bacon's Rebellion occur in 1675-1676? 15. What impact did this Rebellion have on African slavery? 16. What were the goals of the Separatists who settled in Plymouth in 1620? 17. How was the early "Plymouth Plantation" governed? 18. What was the Pilgrims' relationship with Native Americans? How did their experiences differ from those of the Virginia settlers? 19. What were some of the religious beliefs of the early Puritans who settled in New England? Why were they called Puritans? 20. What were the differences between Puritans and Pilgrims? 21. According to their leader, John Winthrop, what did the Puritans believe to be their purpose in coming to America? 22. List some of the reasons for dissent in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Trace the evolution of increased political participation of the colony's male members. 23. What threats did Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson pose to the Massachusetts Bay leadership? 24. What did the challenges to Puritan authority reveal about Puritan religious and social beliefs? 25. What was the basis of economic wealth in the New England colonies? 26. How was agriculture and the economy in New England different from that in the South? 27. What factors caused relations between the Native Americans and the colonists in New England to result in the Pequot War? 28. What were the causes of King Philip's War? What were the long-term affects of this war on Native Americans? on the New England colonists? 29. How was New England society different from that created in the Chesapeake colonies? 30. How did the Stuart Restoration affect those English colonies already established in America? How did it affect attitudes about founding more settlements? 31. What sort of social order took root in the Carolinas? Why was it different from that proposed under Carolina's Fundamental Constitution? 32. How did southern Carolina's close ties with the British island of Barbados influence the development of the colony's society? 33. Why were the Carolinas one of the most unstable of all the English colonies in America? 34. Why did the English resent the Dutch presence in America? 35. Why did power in New York remain widely dispersed? Who shared this power? 36. Why were the Dutch unable to maintain a colony in New York? How were the British able to acquire it? 37. List some of the major social and economic characteristics of the royal colony of New York. 38. Identify the key beliefs and practices of the Quakers. Why can it be said that they were the most anarchistic and democratic of all the Protestant sects? 39. What plans did William Penn have for the establishment of a new colony from the land granted him by King Charles II? 40. How did the influence of the Quakers make Pennsylvania an unique colony? Why was it called a "holy experiment?" 41. Why did social and political tensions eventually occur in the Pennsylvania colony? 42. Why did British colonists in the Caribbean turn to African slavery as a source of labor? 43. Why was it difficult to establish a stable society and culture in the Caribbean colonies? 44. Why was Georgia founded? How was it different from the other British colonies? 45. What were the colonization policies of James Oglethorpe and his fellow trustees in Georgia? Why did the strict rules governing life in the colony ensure the failure of Oglethorpe's vision? 46. Explain the relationship between Europeans and Native Americans in the "middle grounds."