Study Guide
Exam 1
Colonial and Revolutionary America
Key Terms
John Rolfe
Pocahontas
William Wood
Thomas Morton
John Winthrop
Roger Williams
white pine
commodification
sovereign ownership vs. individual ownership
sachem
Miantonomo
wampum
fur trade
smallpox
pastoralism
William Byrd II of Westover
Robert "King" Carter
Nomini Hall
Anthony Johnson
Martha Ballard
household production
William Corbit
George Washington's "Rules of Civility"
courtesy books
Lord Chesterfield
Edmund Burke's Enquiry
Georgian 4x4
urban grandeur
Iroquois/Five Nations/Six Nations
Second Anglo-Dutch War
mourning wars
Beaver Wars
Grand Settlement of 1701
Covenant Chain
Walking Purchase
James Logan
Half-King/Tanaghrisson
Fort Duquesne
Fort Necessity
Braddock's Defeat
New Lights and Old Lights
George Whitefield
gang labor and task labor
Albany Congress
William Pitt
General James Wolfe
General John Forbes
Pierre de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil
Louis-Joseph, Marquis de Montcalm
Louisbourg
Battle of Quebec/Plains of Abraham
Study Questions
In what ways did Indian and English agricultural practices differ? How did these differences affect the lands where the English settled?
In what ways did the extent and purposes of hunting wild animals differ in Indian and English societies?
How were Indian societies organized?
In what ways were the economies of the Britain's American colonies shaped by their relationship with the mother country?
What factors caused a shift from labor by indentured servants to enslaved Africans in Chesapeake agriculture?
What was the status of women under English law? In what ways was the status of women under the law in the American colonies different from England?
In what ways did women's role in the economy and society change between 1630 and 1790? How did this affect their legal and political rights?
What was the Great Awakening? How did it affect churches and the relationship between ministers and the faithful?
Why did different slave labor systems develop in the Chesapeake and Lower South colonies and what did their differences mean for the lives of slaves?
In what ways did slavery in the cities differ from rural slavery? In what ways were the institutions similar?
What sort of relationship did the Iroquois League have with other Indian groups, European settlers, and Imperial authorities? How did the Iroquois manage to become and remain the dominant Indian group in eastern North America?
How did the French and Indian War affect relations between Britain and its American colonies? Between Indians and European Americans?