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Study Guide for HIST& 136: United States History to 1877

EXAM I

Each exam will consist of 20 multiple choice questions (100 points) and 2 essays (200 points total).

Below each theme is a list of key terms and concepts that I will use to write the multiple choice questions. Additionally, questions may be drawn up from the potential long essay questions.

I will select two of the questions listed below for the essay portion of the exam. Remember to be as thorough as possible in answering the essay questions. The strongest answers are at least3-5 paragraphs in length.

Theme: Conquest of Paradise
Chapter 1

Taino and Carib, Reconquista, Bartolome de las Casas and the Black Legend, encomienda, The Columbian Exchange, Francisco Vasquez de Coronado, Ancient and Complex Societies of West Africa, France in Canada, Protestant Reformation, socioeconomic causes of English expansion

Theme: Colonial America
Chapter 2

Virginia Company as a joint stock company, Jamestown, Powhatan, Pocahontas, John Smith, Indian-English relations in Virginia, “The Anglo-Algonquian Gender Frontier” by Kathleen Brown, tobacco, indentured servants, Maryland as a Catholic refuge, Puritanism, Puritan beliefs, Puritan society, John Winthrop, Great Migration, Roger Williams, Anne Hutchinson, Middle Colonies, the Dutch in New Netherlands (New York), Quaker beliefs, Quaker society, William Penn, South Carolina, Georgia, James Oglethorpe

Theme: Colonial America
Chapter 3

Puritan women in New England, Families at Risk in the Chesapeake, The Structure of Planter Society, Roots of Slavery, mercantilism, Navigation Acts, Bacon’s Rebellion, King Philip’s War, Salem Witchcraft Trials, “The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: The Economic Basis of Witchcraft” by Carol Karlsen, “New Worlds for All” by Colin Calloway, “Our Indians: European Empires and the History of the Native American South” by Claudio Saunt,

Theme: Colonial America
Chapter 4

Indians and the middle ground, the Spanish borderlands, the Enlightenment, consumer revolution, The Great Awakening, George Whitefield, “New Lights,” Albany Plan, Seven Years’ War, Peace of Paris of 1763

Theme: The American Revolution
Chapter: 5

Stamp Act, Declaratory Act, Townshend Act, Boston Massacre, committee of correspondence, Boston Tea Party, Coercive Acts, First Continental Congress, Lexington and Concord, Prohibitory Act, Second Continental Congress, Thomas Paine’s Common Sense, Declaration of Independence, Battle at Trenton, Battle at Saratoga, French alliance, siege at Yorktown,

Theme: Revolutionary America
Chapters: 6 and 7

Republicanism, Social and Political Reform, Equality, African Americans in the New Republic, impact of the revolution on women, impact of the revolution on Indian relations, Articles of Confederation, Western Lands, Northwest Ordinance, James Madison, Shay’s Rebellion, Philadelphia Convention, Virginia Plan, 3/5 rule, Federalists, Antifederalists, Bill of Rights

Potential Essay Questions. Two of these will appear on your exam. The best answers are 3-5 paragraphs in length.

1 Compare the Spanish colonization experience in North America with two of the following three nations: England, France, and the Netherlands. Be specific.

2 What distinguished colonial Massachusetts from colonial Virginia? Provide at least 3 detailed examples.

3 What were the causes of Bacon’s Rebellion, what occurred during the revolt, and what was its historical significance.

4 Assess the impact of the American Revolution on free and enslaved African Americans after independence was achieved.

5 Assess the impact of the American Revolution on Indians after independence was achieved.