Thursday, October 21, 2010

Chapter 4 Study Guide

Identify the importance of each of the following

The English Colonial System
Privy Council
Parliament (House of Lords and Commons)
Lords of Trade
county courts
governor
town meetings
Colonial Legislatures
justice of the peace

French and English Colonies (differences)

Robert Dinwiddie
favorable balance of trade
Enumerated Goods
Navigation Acts
Declaratory Act
duties
indirect taxes
Glorious Revolution
Proclamation of 1763
Pontiac's Rebellion
Stamp Act
Townshend Acts

Sugar Act
Boston Massacre

Samuel Adams John Adams
James Wolfe

Sons of Liberty
George Washington
No taxation without Representation

Be prepared to answer these questions as an essay

Why was it important for England to regulate the economy of the colonies?

How did England's attempts to tax the colonies set the stage for independence? Give at least three examples.

Friday, October 1, 2010

Chapter 3 Study Guide

Chapter 3 Study Guide Terms and People
1.) Cash crops
2.) Frontier
3.) Squatters
4.) Town Common
5.) Naval Stores
6.) Triangular Trade
7.) Middle Passage
8.) Peculiar Institution
9.) Political Equality
10.) One Man, One vote
11.) Great Awakening
12.) Enlightenment
13.) Benjamin Franklin
14.) George Whitefield
15.) Jonathan Edwards
16.) Charles Mason

Things to Know:
1.) Cash crops of the North and South
2.) Schooling systems of the colonies
3.) Benefits of a one person. one vote rule
4 .) Bacons Rebellion
5.) Patterns of Slavery
6.) Conditions of women in colonial America
7.) Triangular Trade
a. North American Colonies
b. West Indies
c. Africa
d. Trade involved with Europe
8.) Great Awakening
9.) Enlightenment
10.) Albany Plan of Union

Essay

1. Why can it be said that the colonists turned first to indentured servants, then to Africans to solve their shortage of labor problem?
2. Compare and contrast the Great Awakening with the Enlightenment. Compare them in terms of who, where, when and why each was important.