American History

"Discovering America and the Colonial Period"

Study  Guide

FIND THE BASIC FACTS ABOUT THE FOLLOWING:

1. Spain’s Empire in the "New World"
2. English Colonies--The Northern Colonies, The Southern and Middle Colonies, The Frontier 
3. Influential Colonial leaders and groups
4. Slavery and the Middle Passage
5. Colonial Life
6. The French and Indian War
7. Terms and Names:  conquistadors, Juan Ponce De Leon, Hernan Cortes, Hernando de Soto, Francisco Vasquez de Coronado, Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo, viceroyalties, encomienda system, missionaries, Fray Junipero Serra, Elizabeth I, privateers, Sir Francis Drake, Spanish Armada, joint-stock companies. Roanoke, Jamestown, House of Burgesses, indentured servants, separatists, puritans, pilgrims, Mayflower Compact, Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts Bay Colony, religious tolerance, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, New York, New Jersey, Carolina, Georgia, Quakers, Pennsylvania, George Calvert, Maryland, mercantilism, Navigation Acts, salutary neglect, plantation system, enlightenment, John Locke, the Great Awakening, Jonathan Edwards, French and Indian War, Proclamation of 1763