VA Settlement Review

Directions: Under each complete the phrase, answer the question, fill in the blank, or define the definition.

Describe the first attempts at settling in what is the modern day US?he failed twice

Why did the colonist settle in Jamestown? the farm land was better.

What Indians did the colonist deal with in Jamestown? Led by the Powhatan

What hardships did the people of Jamestown face? Diseases and insects

What crop becomes the one that allows Jamestown to turn a profit? Tobacco

What are the effects of the Jamestown colonies expansion? They had get off their land because the new settlers took it

Describe Bacon’s Rebellion: new settlers come to the Americas and they take the land from the Indians. They fight for the land but Indians keep dying because they aren’t use to the germs that the news settlers had.

New England Settlement Review

Directions: Under each complete the phrase, answer the question, fill in the blank, or define the definition.

Describe the Puritans and why they came to the New World: to get away from the king that over ruled their religion. So they came to purify their religion and independents.

Describe Puritan Society: they were very strict. They felt everybody was supposed to view live the same way. If it wasn’t their way it was wrong.

Describe Puritan interaction with the Indians: they felt that the Indians weren’t doing enough with the land so they took the land for farms. They went to war over fur trade.

Describe King Phillip’s War: massive Indians rebellion
Indians won first with traded for weapons, but soon ran out of ammo.

Other Settlements Review

Directions: Under each complete the phrase, answer the question, fill in the blank, or define the definition.

Describe initial Spanish exploration of the New World: In search for gold

Describe Spanish exploration of what would become US including their treatment of Indian: Immigrated across the Atlantic to the American empire. The male colonists generally took Indian wives. Children of mixed Spanish and Indian ancestry became known as mestizos.Native American population declined from diseases, the mestizos becomes the largest segment of Spanish colonial.

Describe French Exploration of the New World: didn’t come conflict with Indians because needed them to gain furs. Only exception when Chaplain helped Indians allies defeat Iroquois .After defeat caused problems with raids on French territory.

Describe French founding of New Orleans: Robert de la sale was hoping to find Northwest Passage instead made way south on Miss River. When got to Gulf of Mexico claimed land around Miss River Basin for France and established port city of New Orleans.

Describe Dutch Exploration in North America: English rivals to the Dutch forced Dutch to give up colony which was renamed New York and city New Amsterdam renamed New York City.

Describe the discovery of Pennsylvania: it was a way king Charles paid away his debt by giving Pennsylvania which has fertile soil, navigable rivers, and a temperate climate.


Colonial Life Review

Directions: Under each complete the phrase, answer the question, fill in the blank, or define the definition.

How were colonial govs set up and how did the Glorious Rev in England affect them? Most of the people in the colonies asserted and assign the same rights as the Englishmen.

Describe the slave trade and how it affected the colonies: It was called the triangle trade, goods from England was imported to Africa and switch to slaves that was shipped to the colonies and from there, they sent their goods to England

Describe colonial trade and taxes: The English made the colonies buy English goods which also allowed English to collect taxes and on goods going to the colonies.

Describe the commercial rev in the colonies: At first colonies wanted luxury items like tea and sugar

Describe how the enlightenment affected the colonies:

Describe the Great awakening in the colonies:

Wars of Empire Review

Directions: Under each complete the phrase, answer the question, fill in the blank, or define the definition.

Why did the British and French fight over the colonies? Over land

When go to war over the colonies, what group do the French and the British try to get on their side and Why? Indians and because it would benefit them defeat their rivals

Describe the events in the Ohio River Valley that led to the outbreak of war? Defeated small French force but had to surrender when French counter attacked

How do British turn the tide of war? Captured Montréal and forced the French’s governor to surrender the rest of Canada.

Describe Pontiacs Rebellion: Indian group rebelled and ended up capturing several British forts.

Describe the aftermath of the French Indian War: the British realized that after the war it caused them a lot of money so they taxed the colonies in order to pay back the debt.

The Causes of Am Rev Part 1 Review

Directions: Under each complete the phrase, answer the question, fill in the blank, or define the definition.

Describe the similarities and differences between the British and colonial govs: British govs not a formal document but series of law and tradition while colonies had formal document
Most colonies owned enough property to quality to vote while most British did not

Describe why the British gov imposes new taxes on the colonies: 1764 colonial merchants avoided taxes by smuggling and bring official

Describe some of the new taxes imposed by the British gov in the 1760’s:1764 new prime minister set up formal system in sugar act meant colonist could not get around tax

Describe the Stamp Act and the colonist response to it: Parliament also passes stamp act which requires colonist to pay tax on printed material.
Colonist angrily protested cause didn’t think Parliament could tax colonies directly without rep in Parliament

The Causes of Am Rev Part 2 Review

Directions: Under each complete the phrase, answer the question, fill in the blank, or define the definition.

Describe where the protest over new taxes got many of their ideas: As protest grew against Stamp Act people began to take up enlightenment ideas like John Locke that encouraged individual rights; start to unity with emerging Patriot leaders and violence against people or things supporting British tax policy grew.

Describe what action the Stamp Act Congress, and the British response to it: To control and coordinate protest , colonies send reps to the Stamp Act congress were they agree on a boycott of British goods.

Describe the Boston Massacre and its causes: in Boston massacre colonist hurl snowballs and rock at British troops guarding customs house in Boston guards fired into crowd killing 5

Describe British response to the Boston Massacre: they stop taxing everything except tea.

Describe the Boston Tea Party and the British response to it: the colonist dressed up as Indians and dumped all the tea in the Boston harbor. So the king closed the harbor until it was paid completely

Describe the First Continental Congress and what policies came out of it: Other colonies agreed with Mass. And sent reps to Philly in fall of 1774 for continental congress; at convention passed boycott of all British goods and created a system to enforce them.

Am Rev Part 1 Review

Directions: Under each complete the phrase, answer the question, fill in the blank, or define the definition.

Describe the beginning of the Am Rev: Governor of mass sent troops to arrest John Hancock and Sam Adams and to seize their stockpiled weapons. Also the colonist responded with militia to drive the British back to Boston

Describe the battle of Lexington: Governor of mass sent troops to arrest John Hancock and Sam Adams and to seize their stockpiled weapons. Also the colonist responded with militia to drive the British back to Boston

Describe the actions of the Second Continental Congress:

Describe the book Common Sense and the affect it had on the colonies:

Describe the signing of the Dec of Independence: Mostly written by Thomas Jefferson. And also what he wrote was some ideas he took form John Locke. It talked on how a country should be and its government.


The Patroit Essay Question


1. Missionary- A person sent to a foreign country in order to convert others to their religion.

2. Viceroy- In colonial Spanish America, king-appointed official who governs a province, colony, or country.

3. Northwest Passage- an unknown passage in Canada

4. Samuel De Champlain- French navigator, sent to North America to explore and colonize territories.

5. Charter- A legal document giving certain rights to a person or company.

6. Joint stock company- A company run by a group of investors who share the company’s profits and losses

7. Powhatan- Leader of the Indian tribe

8. House of Burgess- Representative assembly of colonial Virginia formed in 1619

9. Royal Colony- English colony that was under direct control of the crown.

10. Proprietary Colony- English colony granted to an individual or group by the crown

11. Puritan- English Protestants who believed in strict religious discipline and the simplification of worship; settlers of the Massachusetts Bay colony.

12. Separatist- Groups who wished to separate from the Anglican Church to begin their own churches.

13. Pilgrim- English puritans who sought religious freedom and founded Plymouth Colony in 1620

14. Mayflower Compact- Framework for self-government of the Plymouth Colony signed on the ship the mayflower in 1620.

15. John Winthrop- He obtained a royal charter, along with other wealthy Puritans, from King Charles for the Massachusetts Bay company and led a group of English Puritans to the New World in 1630.He was elected the governor of the Massachusetts Bay colony the year before. Between 1639 and 1648, he was voted out of being governor and then re-elected about 12 times.

16. Pequot War -

17. King Phillip’s War

18. Bacon’s Rebellion

19. Pocahontas

20. Walter Raleigh

21. Indentured servant

22. Triangular trade

23. Magna Carta

24. English Bill of Rights

25. Habeas corpus

26. Salutary neglect

27. Mercantilism

28. Navigation Act

29. Enlightenment

30. Benjamin Franklin

31. George Washington

32. French Indian War

33. Pontiac’s Rebellion

34. Proclamation of 1763

35. Albany Plan of Union

36. Stamp Act

37. John Adams

38. Patrick Henry

39. Sons of Liberty

40. non-importation agreement

41. Boston Massacre

42. committee of correspondence

43. Boston Tea Party

44. Intolerable Acts

45. First Continental Congress

46. militia

47. Loyalist

48. Second Continental Congress

49. George Washington

50. Thomas Paine

51. Declaration of Independence

52. Thomas Jefferson

53. Natural Rights

54. Cornwallis

55. Yorktown