1. Describe three ways that indigenous American communities and cultures were affected by European contact.

2. List three ways that New England colonization and settlement differed from that of the Chesapeake.

3. List two ways that New England colonization and settlement was similar to that of the Chesapeake.

4. Why is the Caribbean important in understanding British America?

5. How would you characterize European women's labor and status in the British colonies?

6. When did slavery become the primary labor force in the Chesapeake? How do you account for its expansion at that time?

7. What were two reasons that slavery was established so quickly in Carolina?

8. The Iroquois and Creek Confederacies became quite powerful in the eighteenth century. How did they establish their power? What destroyed their power?

9. What was the Great Awakening? List two changes in the colonies that resulted from this movement.

10. Describe three groups of people who lived in early American cities.

11. What were three ways that England tried to establish control over the colonies between 1763 and 1776?

12. Describe three colonial responses to Parliamentary attempts to establish that control over the colonies.

13. The Constitution can be read as a philosophical discourse on the structure of government. Describe two political principles of government and the way that they are inscribed within the Constitution.

14. What was the 3/5 compromise? What did it do?

15. What were three differences between the Federalists and the Democratic-Republicans? Which party had the greatest impact on national politics?

16. Why did the Cherokees and Creeks leave their territory for Oklahoma?