Unit 1 Review

Foundation of the North American Colonies

Beginnings til 1760

Ch. 1-5

Themes:

• The difference between the Southern, Northern, and Middle colonies
• Characteristics of the Puritan experience - "City on a Hill"
• Origins of slavery
• Indentured servitude and its role in the colonial economy
• The slow evolution from separate colonies to unify by 1763
• Economic and political relations between Great Britain and the colonies to 1763
• Impact of the colonial wars on the colonies and on their relationship with Britain
• Mercantilism and the colonies

Terms:

Essay Questions:

1. In describing the voyage of Columbus and his men, the accounts Zinn writes about are unique. Was Columbus responsible for the behavior of his men? Identify what the soldiers' behaviors were and identify what Columbus could or could not have done to alter their behavior.
2. How did the Virginia ruling class begin to drive a wedge between the white indentured servants and enslaved blacks? Use any detail you can recall to support your thesis.
3. Compare and contrast the ways in which economic development affected politics in Massachusetts and Virginia in the period from 1607-1750.
4. Why was religion closely associated with government in colonial America? Did the Toleration Act of 1649 establish freedom of religion? Why didn't America just become another England?