Things to Know

Things to Know
Questions for Study
Here are questions you should consider for the first quiz next week.

1) What was Columbus looking for?
2) Why was a passage to India important for European countries to find?
3) How did the crusades change European and how did it lead to the exploration of the "New World"?
4) How did tobacco change the course of America (particularly the Virginia colony)?
5) Discuss the rise of self-government in America (make sure you note the House of Burgesses, the Mayflower Compact and the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut).
6) How did religion play an essential role in the shaping of the early colonies?
7) Discuss why early colonists came to America (the various reasons - begin to relate these to the American Dream and the American Character).
8) What was the Great Migration?
9) What was the renaissance and how does it fit with the exploration of the Americas?
10) Where the 1st Europeans to the Americas "Explorers" or "Invaders"? Please justify your answer.
11) How did the English distance the relationship between indentured whites and black slaves? Why did they fear a relationship between the two?
12) Please to list at least six colonies and why they were formed (and by what settlers).
13) Know the following people: John Rolfe, John Smith, John Winthrop, Anne Hutchinson, Roger Williams, William Bradford, John Wheelright, Jacques Marquette, Samuel de Champlain, Squanto, Samoset.
14) What is the difference between the Separatists and Puritians?
15) Why were women brought to Virginia in 1619?
16) When did the 1st Africans come to the English colonies? Where? What was the purpose of importing them (be specific)?
17) According to Zinn why were Africans easier to force into labor than Native Americans or poor white immigrants?
18) What were the first 13 colonies?
19) What was important about the Spanish Armada?
20) List the first three colonies in North America, the current United States (note: two are Spanish).
21) When was Quebec founded?