The document outlines several historical questions regarding native American societies, the Columbian Exchange, and key events between native Americans and English colonists in Virginia. It also addresses the significance of the Mayflower Compact, cash crops in the Chesapeake Bay, the Great Awakenings, the American Revolution, Enlightenment influences on the Constitution, and the Louisiana Purchase. Lastly, it examines the dynamics between American Indians and settlers, regional differences in the U.S., Southern secession, and the impacts of the Civil War and Reconstruction.

1. Answer the following questions to the best of your ability:
1) Describe Native America societies prior to European
contact. What are some examples of how their civilizations
varied by region across North and South America?
2) What was the Columbian Exchange? Give at least 5
examples,
(be specific with details)
. What are some effects this had on both the Old and New
Worlds?
3) Briefly describe the relationship between Powhatan and the
English colonists of Virginia Colony in the 17thcentury. How
did they help one another? How did they oppose one another?
4) Refer to the website below on the
Mayflower Compact, 1620
. What do the writers claim their purpose was in founding a
colony (Plymouth)? What do the writers claim is their purpose
in establishing this charter?
*copy/paste into your browser to answer the questions above:
https://avalon.law.yale.edu/17th_century/mayflower.asp
5) What was the major cash crop of the English colonies around
the Chesapeake Bay (e.g., Virginia and Maryland)? What
unfree laborers primarily worked that crop for wealthier
landowners in the 17th century? What unfree laborers were the
predominant labor force on plantations as the 18th century wore
on?
6) Describe the First and Second Great Awakenings. What were
some similarities between those movements? What were some
differences?

2. 7) What are at least 4 factors that led to the American
Revolution? Briefly describe each one.
8) Describe the influence of Enlightenment ideals on the
Constitution? What were three (3) major compromises that
were necessary to gain enough support to ratify the Constitution
(describe them)
?
9) What was the “Revolution of 1800” and why is it important,
even today?
10) What was the Louisiana Purchase? Give three examples of
long-term consequences of the US acquiring that territory?
11) Throughout the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, what are
some of the ways in which American Indian peoples interacted
with European (and later, American) settlers? What were some
of the strategies which American Indian tribes used to navigate
European and US expansion?
12) Describe the difference between northern and southern
states in the US between 1800 and 1850. What were some of
their defining characteristics?
13) What factors prompted the South to secede from the United
States in 1860/1861? What was Pres. Lincoln’s response? What
were 3 consequences of the Civil War?
14) Describe Reconstruction. Did it work (how and/or how
not)?