Essay Quiz Study Guide 1 Unit 1: Colonial America (Periods 2 & 3)

Note: Some of the content carries over from chapter to chapter and you will need to use prior knowledge to fully answer some of the essay questions.

Quiz 1.2 (Chapter 2 & 3) 1. Choose TWO of the following and analyze their impact on colonial North American development between 1620 and 1700. Puritanism The Enlightenment Plantation Agriculture 2. Analyze the role of trans-Atlantic trade and Great Britain’s mercantilist policies in the economic development of the British North American colonies in the period from 1650 to 1750. 3. Discuss the origins and development of slavery in Britain’s North American colonies. 4. Analyze how the actions taken by BOTH American Indians and European colonists shaped those relationships in THREE of the following regions during the period prior to 1700. New England Chesapeake New York New France 5. Evaluate the reasons British American colonists developed representative governments during the period of salutary neglect.

Quiz 1.3 (Chapter 4) 1. Compare and contrast the British, French, and Spanish imperial goals in North America between 1580 and 1763. 2. Compare the ways in which the following reflected tensions in colonial society. Pueblo Revolt Bacon’s Rebellion Stono Rebellion 3. Compare and contrast the ways in which economic development affected politics in Massachusetts and Virginia in the period from 1607 to 1750. 4. Compare the ways in which religion shaped the development of colonial society (to 1740) in TWO of the following regions: New England Chesapeake Middle Atlantic 5. Evaluate the extent to which commercial exchange systems such as mercantilism and triangular trade fostered change in the British economy in the period from 1660 to 1763.

Quiz 1.4 (Chapter 5 & 6 part 1) 1. Analyze the political, diplomatic, and military reasons for the United States victory in the Revolutionary War. Confine your answer to the period 1775–1783. 2. Analyze the ways in which British imperial policies between 1763 and 1776 intensified colonials’ resistance to British rule and their commitment to republican values. 3. To what extent did economic issues, as opposed to other issues, provoke the American Revolution? 4. Analyze the effect of the French and Indian War and its aftermath on the relationship between Great Britain and the British colonies with regard to TWO of the following: Land acquisition Politics Economics Identity 5. Settlers in the eighteenth-century American backcountry sometimes resorted to violent protest to express their grievances. Analyze the causes and significance of the following: Bacon’s Rebellion March of the Paxton Boys Regulator movement

NOW WE WILL TAKE A TEST ON CH. 1-5 & 6 part 1

Quiz 1.5 (Chapter 6 part 2) 1. Analyze how the ideas and experiences of the revolutionary era influenced the principles embodied in the Articles of Confederation. Evaluate the extent to which the Articles of Confederation were effective in solving the problems that confronted the new nation. 2. Analyze the reasons for the Anti-Federalists’ opposition to ratifying the Constitution. 3. Americans in the eighteenth-century American backcountry sometimes resorted to violent protest to express their grievances. Analyze the causes and significance of the following: Shays’ Rebellion Whiskey Rebellion 4. “The United States Constitution of 1787 represented an economic and ideological victory for the traditional American political elite.” Assess the validity of that statement for the period 1781 to 1789. To what extent did the United States change over time? 5. Analyze the impact of the American Revolution on both slavery and the status of women in the period from 1775-1800.