Major Themes and Concepts Chapters 1-5

 

 

·        Motivations for settling the New World (French, Spanish, & English)

·        Factors leading to exploration of the Americas.

·        Religious freedom in the Colonies.  (Massachusetts Bay Colony, Rhode Island, Religious Act of Toleration etc.)

·        Compare and contrast the New England, Plantation and Middle colonies. (Indian relations, economy, geography, etc)

·        Relations with the Native Americans (English, French and Spanish…how did they differ?)  Including major Indian Wars.

 

 


 

New England:               


 

1.  Mayflower Compact

2.  William Bradford

3.  Contrast Pilgrims and Puritans

4.  Massachusetts Bay Colony

5.  Puritan migration

6.  Church of England

7.  John Winthrop, his beliefs

8.  Separatists, Non-Separatists

9.  Calvinism

10.Congressional church, Cambridge Platform

11.Contrast Puritan colonies with others

12.Anne Hutchinson, antinomianism

13.Roger Williams, Rhode Island

14.Covenant theology

15.Half-Way Covenant

16.Thomas Hooker

17.Saybrook Platform

18.Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

19.Massachusetts school law

20.Harvard founded

21.New England Confederation, 1643

22.King Philip’s War

23.Dominion of New England

24.Sir Edmund Andros


 
 

 

Southern Colonies:

  1. joint stock companies
  2. Virginia: purpose, problems, failures, successes, headright system
  3. John Smith
  4. John Rolfe, tobacco
  5. Reasons for the origins of slavery.
  6. House of Burgesses
  7. Cavaliers
  8. Bacon’s Rebellion
  9. Culpeper’s Rebellion
  10. Georgia: reasons, successes
  11. James Oglethorpe
  12. Carolinas
  13. staple crops in the South

 

Middle Colonies:

 

  1. Pennsylvania, William Penn
  2. liberal land laws in Pa
  3. Holy Experiment
  4. New York: Dutch, 1664 English
  5. patroon system
  6. Peter Stuyvesant
  7. Five Nations
  8. crops in the middle colonies
  9. New York City and Philadelphia as urban centers
  10. Leisler’s Rebellion
  11. Benjamin Franklin

Religion in the Colonies:

  1. Pennsylvania, Maryland, Rhode Island—founders/doctrine/opposition
  2. Established churches
  3. 1st Great Awakening
  4. Jonathan Edwards, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, A Careful and Strict Enquiry into…That Freedom of Will
  5. George Whitefield
  6. Old Lights, New Lights
  7. Lord Baltimore
  8. Maryland Act of Toleration
  9. deism
  10. Huguenots

 

The Colonial Economy:

  1. mercantilism: features, rationale, impact on Great Britain, impact on the different colonies
  2. North—South economic differences
  3. Navigation Acts
  4. Admiralty Courts
  5. triangular trade
  6. merchants/markets
  7. Molasses Act of 1733
  8. Woolens Act, 1699; Hat Act, 1732; Iron Act, 1750
  9. Currency Act, 1751 (applied to Massachusetts)
  10. Currency Act, 1764  (extended to all colonies)

 

Colonial Society:

  1. Salem witch trials
  2. primogeniture, entail
  3. quitrents
  4. indentured servants
  5. Poor Richard’s Almanac
  6. Phillis Wheatly
  7. Anne Bradstreet

 

Colonial Politics:

  1. Magna Carta, 1215
  2. Petition of Right, 1628
  3. Habeas Corpus Act, 1679
  4. Bill of Rights, 1689
  5. Board of Trade (of the Privy Council)
  6. Robert Walpole
  7. “salutary neglect”
  8. the Enlightenment
  9. theories of representative government in legislatures: virtual representation, actual representation
  10. rise of the lower house
  11. proprietary, charter, and the royal colonies
  12. colonial agents
  13. town meetings
  14. John Peter Zenger trial
  15. Glorious Revolution, 1688
  16. John Locke, his theories

 

 

Unit Two: 1754 to 1783

Great Britain versus France---French and Indian War:

  1. land claims, squabbles in N. America: where, why, over what
  2. changes in land claims of 1689, 1713, 1763 differences between French and British colonization
  3. why Great Britain eventually won
  4. Queen Anne’s War (War of Spanish Succession)
  5. Treaty of Utrecht, 1713
  6. War of Jenkin’s Ear
  7. King George’s War (War of Austrian Succession)
  8. French and Indian War, Seven Years War, Great War for Empire
  9. Albany Plan of Union, Benjamin Franklin
  10. General Braddock
  11. William Pitt
  12. Fort Pitt, Fort Duquesne
  13. Wolfe, Montcalm, Quebec—the Plains of Abraham Treaty of Paris, 1763
  14. Pontiac’s Rebellion
  15. Proclamation of 1763

 

 

Major Terms and Concepts

 

  1. Writs of assistance
  2. James Otis
  3. Pontiac’s Rebellion
  4. Proclamation of 1763
  5. Paxton Boys
  6. Grenville’s program
  7. Sugar Act, 1764
  8. Currency Act, 1764
  9. Vice-admiralty courts
  10. Non-importation
  11. Virtual, actual representation
  12. Stamp Act
  13. Virginia Resolves
  14. Stamp Act Congress, 1765
  15. Patrick Henry
  16. Sons of Liberty
  17. Declaratory Act, 1776
  18. Quartering Act
  19. Reaction to Townshend Acts
  20. John Dickinson
  21. Sam Adams
  22. The Association
  23. Repeal of the Townshend Acts
  24. Boston Massacre, 1770
  25. Crispus Attucks
  26. John Adams
  27. Carolina Regulators
  28. Battle of the Alamance
  29. Gaspee incident
  30. Governor Thomas Hutchinson
  31. Committees of Correspondence
  32. Lord North
  33. Tea Act, East India Company
  34. Boston Tea Party, 1773
  35. Coercive Acts
  36. Quebec Act
  37. First Continental Congress, 1774
  38. Continental Association
  39. Lexington and Concord, 1774
  40. Paul Revere
  41. Second Continental Congress
  42. George Washington
  43. Battle or Bunker Hill
  44. Olive Branch Petition
  45. Thomas Paine, Common Sense
  46. Natural Rights Philosophy
  47. John Locke, Second Treatise of Government
  48. George III
  49. Richard Henry Lee’s Resolution of June 7, 1776
  50. John Adams
  51. Abigail Adams
  52. Edmund Burke
  53. Lafayette
  54. George Rogers Clark
  55. Benedict Arnold
  56. John Paul Jones
  57. “Bonhomme Richard” and the “Serapis”
  58. Conway cabal
  59. French Alliance of 1778
  60. Yorktown, Lord Cornwallis
  61. League of Armed Neutrality
  62. Treaty of Paris, 1783
  63. Social impact of the war
  64. VirginiaStatute of Religious Freedom
  65. New State Constitutions.. significance
  66. Newburgh Conspiracy