Unit 1 Review Outline: To be placed in Daily Question Notebooks

Title: Unit 1 Review Outline

Instructions: copy outline directly into Daily Question Notebooks (A Day this is #7)

Unit 1: European Exploration and Colonization (1500s - 1763)

I. Impact of the Columbian Exchange

• Europe to Americas: Smallpox, Horses, Sugar, Coffee
• Americas to Europe:
• Unequal exchange that favors the Europeans.  Even while Native American populations were decimated by Old World diseases (Small pox), European populations swelled as American crops helped to overcome Old World famine.

II. What motivated Europeans to colonize and migrate to the Americas?

3 Gs - God, Gold, and Glory

Major Concepts (motivation for settlement):

• New England (Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire)

• Middle Colonies (New York, Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania)

• Southern Colonies (Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia)

III. To what extent did the extent to which the British mercantilist policies had an impact on the relationship between the colonies and Britain

How the Protestant Reformation impacted European exploration and settlement of North America

What motivated Europeans to colonize and migrate to the Americas?

3 Gs - God, Gold, and Glory

Major Concepts (motivation for settlement):

• New England (Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire)

• Middle Colonies (New York, Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania)

• Southern Colonies (Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia)

To what extent did the extent to which the British mercantilist policies had an impact on the relationship between the colonies and Britain

How the Protestant Reformation impacted European exploration and settlement of North America

IV. Important Events and Documents

Bacon’s Rebellion -

Mayflower Compact (1620) -

Dominion of New England

Glorious Revolution - 1688 -

Enlightenment

1st Great Awakening

Stono Rebellion

To what extent did the ideas of the Great Awakening and The Enlightenment contributed to the development of an American character?

Enlightenment Thinkers:

• Thomas Hobbes
• John Locke
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• Baron De Montesquieu

Great Awakening:

Why the British North American colonies developed into three distinct regions and their characteristics?

Colonial America:

Three distinct regions and characteristics:

• New England
• Geography:
• Economy:
• Government:
• Religion:
• Way of life:
• Important people:
• Middle Colonies
• Geography:
• Economy:
• Government:
• Religion:
• Way of life:
• Important people:

• Southern Colonies
• Geography:
• Economy:
• Government:
• Religion:
• Way of life:
• Important people:

Jamestown :

Plymouth/Massachusetts Bay

Dissent in the Puritan Community:

• Roger Williams -

Anne Hutchinson -