Assignment 1:
1. THE AGE OF DISCOVERY
Mesoamerica the Bering Strait Clovis blades
mammoth mastodon The Ice Age
Archaic Period Poverty Point the Anasazi
Cahokia Mississippian Culture Tenochtitlan
Leif Eriksson Prince Henry the Navigator Martin Luther
Christopher Columbus San Salvador conquistadores Ferdinand MagellanJohn Cabot encomienda
Henry VIII Giovanni da Verrazano the Incas
John Calvin Hernan Cortes the Aztecs
Francisco Pizarro Sir Francis Drake La Salle
Vasco Nunez de Balboa Henry Hudson Adena Culture
Juan Ponce de Leon Francisco de Coronado Hernando de Soto the Spice Trade Paleolithic revolution Jacques Cartier Columbian Exchange Treaty of Tordesillas maize
Neolithic revolution The Hohokam Brazil
Hopewell Culture Requerimiento Aztalan
How and when did the first humans arrive in the Americas? How did they survive in a very hostile environment?
What role did the cultivation of corn play in the cultural development of the original Americans?
What impact did the arrival of Europeans have on the Native Americans in the New World?
Where there differences in the attitudes and policies of the Spanish, French, and English towards the Native Americans?
What were the factors that contributed to the discovery and exploration of America?
Which European has the strongest claim for reaching America prior to Christopher Columbus? Why didn’t this earlier explorer’s discovery lead to a permanent European presence in America while Columbus’s discovery did?
What was the purpose of Christopher Columbus’ voyage, and what miscalculations did he make in his theory for traveling to the Far East?
How did America get its name?
1. COLONIZATION
Sir Walter Raleigh Sir Humphrey Gilbert John Smith
Jamestown London Company Separatists Mayflower Compact George Calvert Harvard
William Penn St. Augustine Puritans
Roger Williams Anne Hutchinson Pocahontas William Bradford Opechancanough Squanto
Plymouth Company James Oglethorpe Quakers
Proprietary Colony New Amsterdam Pilgrims
Act of Toleration headright tobacco
John Winthrop Salem Witch Trials rice
Indenture System House of Burgesses indigo
Elizabeth I Sir Francis Drake The Armada
Martin Frobisher Richard Hakluyt Philip II
Royal Colonies New Sweden John Rolfe
James I The Protestant Reformation Powhatan
Peter Minuit The Anglican Church Charles I Joint Stock Companies predestination Roanoke The Triangular Trade
How did the Protestant Reformation influence the English effort to
establish colonies in America?
How did the English colonial system differ from those of France and Spain?
What were the differences in the founding, development, and characteristics of the Southern, New England, and Middle Colonies that constitute ...
Assignment 11. THE AGE OF DISCOVERY Mesoamerica the Beri.docx
1. Assignment 1:
1. THE AGE OF DISCOVERY
Mesoamerica the Bering Strait Clovis blades
mammoth mastodon The Ice Age
Archaic Period Poverty Point the Anasazi
Cahokia Mississippian Culture Tenochtitlan
Leif Eriksson Prince Henry the Navigator Martin Luther
Christopher Columbus San Salvador conquistadores
Ferdinand MagellanJohn Cabot encomienda
Henry VIII Giovanni da Verrazano the Incas
John Calvin Hernan Cortes the Aztecs
Francisco Pizarro Sir Francis Drake La Salle
Vasco Nunez de Balboa Henry Hudson Adena Culture
Juan Ponce de Leon Francisco de Coronado Hernando de Soto
the Spice Trade Paleolithic revolution Jacques
Cartier Columbian Exchange Treaty of Tordesillas
maize
Neolithic revolution The Hohokam Brazil
Hopewell Culture Requerimiento Aztalan
How and when did the first humans arrive in the Americas?
How did they survive in a very hostile environment?
What role did the cultivation of corn play in the cultural
development of the original Americans?
What impact did the arrival of Europeans have on the Native
Americans in the New World?
Where there differences in the attitudes and policies of the
Spanish, French, and English towards the Native Americans?
What were the factors that contributed to the discovery and
2. exploration of America?
Which European has the strongest claim for reaching America
prior to Christopher Columbus? Why didn’t this earlier
explorer’s discovery lead to a permanent European presence in
America while Columbus’s discovery did?
What was the purpose of Christopher Columbus’ voyage, and
what miscalculations did he make in his theory for traveling to
the Far East?
How did America get its name?
1. COLONIZATION
Sir Walter Raleigh Sir Humphrey Gilbert John
Smith
Jamestown London Company
Separatists Mayflower Compact George Calvert
Harvard
William Penn St. Augustine Puritans
Roger Williams Anne Hutchinson
Pocahontas William Bradford Opechancanough
Squanto
Plymouth Company James Oglethorpe
Quakers
Proprietary Colony New Amsterdam
Pilgrims
Act of Toleration headright tobacco
John Winthrop Salem Witch Trials rice
Indenture System House of Burgesses indigo
Elizabeth I Sir Francis Drake
The Armada
Martin Frobisher Richard Hakluyt
Philip II
3. Royal Colonies New Sweden John Rolfe
James I The Protestant Reformation
Powhatan
Peter Minuit The Anglican Church
Charles I Joint Stock Companies predestination
Roanoke The Triangular Trade
How did the Protestant Reformation influence the English
effort to
establish colonies in America?
How did the English colonial system differ from those of France
and Spain?
What were the differences in the founding, development, and
characteristics of the Southern, New England, and Middle
Colonies that constituted the thirteen English colonies along the
Atlantic seaboard?
Why was Jamestown the first successful English colony in
North America?
How did Massachusetts serve as the mother colony for the other
New England colonies?
What were the methods employed by the colonists to obtain
laborers to work in America?
How and why was slavery introduced in England’s North
American colonies?
Why did the Salem Witch Trials occur, and what were their
results?
What were the unique factors that led to the founding of
Georgia, the last of the English colonies to be established?
4. How did the English colonies deal with the issue of religious
freedom?
What were the functions of the colonial assemblies during the
colonial era?
Assignment 2:
1. COMPETITION FOR EMPIRE
King Philip’s War Dominion of New England Port
Royal
George Washington Nathaniel Bacon William &
Mary
Sir William Berkeley The Glorious Revolution
mercantilism
Iroquois Confederation Queen Anne’s War James
Wolfe
King William’s War William Pitt (the Elder) Louisbourg
King George’s War Edward Braddock Fort
Necessity
Lord Jeffrey Amherst Albany Plan Fort
Duquesne
Edmund Andros Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle
Pequot War
Peace of Paris (1763) Louis Joseph de Montcalm
James II
Charles II Great War for the Empire Oliver
Cromwell
The Great Awakening Leisler’s Rebellion Seven
Years’ War
5. Quebec Montreal
What were the causes and results of the Pequot War, King
Philip’s War, and Bacon’s Rebellion?
What impact did the Glorious Revolution in England have on
the English colonies in America?
What role did colonies play in the mercantilist economic
system?
What were the causes and results of the four colonial wars in
North America between Great Britain and France?
Why is the term French and Indian War a misnomer for the last
of those conflicts?
Although the English colonists vastly outnumbered their French
opponents, the former was still hard-pressed to defeat the latter.
Why?
How did the origin of the last war differ from its three
predecessors?
What role did the British Army play in defeating the French in
North America? How effective and reliable was the colonial
militia in that effort?
What was William Pitt’s successful strategy for defeating the
French during the Great War for the Empire (AKA-The French
& Indian War)?
What did Great Britain gain from the Great War for the Empire?
1. THE ROAD TO REBELLION
6. “virtual” representation Patrick Henry James
Otis
Proclamation of 1763 Thomas Hutchinson Lord
North
The Navigation ActsThe Declaratory Act John
Adams
The Sugar Act Thomas Gage George III
Townshend Duties The Stamp Act Benjamin
Franklin
Samuel Adams The Sons of Liberty The Boston
Massacre
The Boston Tea Party The Coercive Acts The
Quartering Act
Intolerable Acts Paul Revere 1st Continental
Congress
Stamp Act Congress The Sons of Liberty John
Hancock
Pontiac’s Rebellion Lexington & Concord The
Enlightenment
“Taxation without representation is tyranny!”
How did British colonial policy change after the Great War for
the Empire?
What new policies did the British government introduce
immediately after the Great War for the Empire that disturbed
many of their American colonists?
What grievances did the American colonists have against the
British government, and were their complaints valid?
What were the causes and consequences of Pontiac’s Rebellion?
What were the causes and results of the Boston Massacre and
the Boston Tea Party?
7. What was the 1st Continental Congress convened, and what
were its results?
Describe the events which led to the outbreak of fighting
between the British and Americans in April of 1775.
Assignment 3:
1. FORGING A NEW NATION
Common Sense Thomas Paine Bunker Hill
Thomas Jefferson Valley Forge
Saratoga
Trenton & PrincetonBenedict Arnold William
Howe
Nathaniel Greene King’s Mountain
Cowpens
Horatio Gates Lexington & Concord Henry
Clinton
Lord Charles Cornwallis George Rogers Clark
Yorktown
John Burgoyne Declaration of Independence Daniel
Morgan
Treaty of Paris (1783) 2nd Continental Congress
Loyalists/Tories
Marquis de Lafayette Francois de Grasse Comte de
Vergennes
Guilford CourthouseComte de Rochambeau Long
Island
The Continental Army The Hessians
Why was George Washington chosen as the commander-in-chief
of the Continental Army, what military strategy did he employ
to fight the Revolutionary War, and how much credit does he
deserve for winning that conflict?
8. How did Washington recover from his disastrous defeats in New
York during the summer and fall of 1776?
What role did Benedict Arnold play in winning the revolution,
and why did he defect to the British?
How and why did British strategy change after 1778?
Why did the French form an alliance with the American rebels,
and how significant was French aid in winning the struggle?
Nathaniel Greene never won a battle, yet he is considered a
brilliant general. Why?
Why did the British finally give up and go home?
1. THE STRUGGLE FOR POLITICAL STABILITY
Articles of Confederation Northwest Ordnance James
Madison
Land Ordnance of 1785 The Constitution The Bill of
Rights
Shay’s Rebellion Virginia Plan Fallen
Timbers
Philadelphia Convention Alexander Hamilton The
XYZ Affair
The Great Compromise The 3/5ths Compromise Jay’s
Treaty
The Tariff Whiskey Rebellion Anti-
federalists
The Federalist Papers Quasi-War with France New
Jersey Plan
Alien & Sedition Acts The 1st Bank of the U.S.
Federalist Party
Jeffersonian Republicans Kentucky & Virginia Resolutions
9. The French Revolution Pinckney’s Treaty “checks &
balances” “separation of powers” The Farewell Address
Why were the Articles of Confederation fatally flawed as our
nation’s first constitution, and why did the efforts to amend
them fail?
Describe the events that led to the convening of the
Constitutional Convention in 1787. How did the delegates to it
exceed their authority?
What were the key issues at the Constitutional Convention, and
how were they settled?
Describe the process by which the Constitution was ratified.
How was the process weighted in favor of ratification?
What were the political principles embodied in the Constitution,
and how did it strengthen the powers of the national
government?
What were the provisions of Alexander Hamilton’s financial
program for the national government, what opposition did it
encounter, and how was it adopted?
What political tradition did Washington establish by not
running for a third term as President?
What advice did George Washington give to the nation in his
Farewell Address?
What was the first truly contested Presidential election in our
history, and what were its results?
What were the general differences in political philosophy
between Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson?
10. How did the United States respond to the outbreak of the
Napoleonic Wars in Europe between Britain and France, and
what impact did their conflict have on our nation?
What were the causes and results of our undeclared war with
France at the end of the 18th century?
What was the cause of the Whiskey Rebellion? How did the
government’s handling of it differ from its earlier response to
Shay’s Rebellion?