AMH 2010

Miami-Dade College
Dr. Shaheen

Examination #1 review guide

There are between thirty and forty multiple-choice questions on your first exam covering
the people, issues, and ideas listed below. The exam date will be announced in class.

What were the reasons for European exploration of the New World?
What were the reasons that drove the founding of colonies in America?
What was the significance of the Jamestown colony and how did it survive?
What were the main characteristics of Northern, Southern, and Middle Atlantic colonies?
How and why did slavery develop in the Virginia and Southern Carolina colonies?
What kind of people settled in the Massachusetts Bay Colony?
Who was Roger Williams and why did he help create the Rhode Island colony?
What were the purposes of the settlement of Maryland?
What was Bacons Rebellion? What was its outcome?
What happened to the Roanoke Colony?
What were the different kinds of Agriculture that flourished in the American South?
Who were the Quakers? What made them so controversial?
How did France succeed in creating the Quebec settlement?
Know of Britains imperial policies in regard to managing their overseas empire, 1650-1733.
What were the Navigation Acts, and what were the policies of mercantilism designed to do?
Why did slavery flourish as a labor system in the new world?
What were the main provisions of the Treaty of 1763 (The Treaty of Paris)?
What were the Stamp and Townshend Acts? Why did many colonial resist these laws?
What were the main conflicts and differences between loyalists and patriots?
Who were the Sons of Liberty? What actions did they take?
What were the Sugar Act and the Townshend Act?
What were the main American justifications for independence from England?
What were colonial non-importation agreements and boycotts designed to do?
What was meant by the Rights of Englishmen?
Who was Thomas Paine? What were his main arguments in Common Sense?
What was the Proclamation of 1763? What did it intend to do?
Who was John Locke? What influence did he have on the Declaration of Independence?
What happened at Valley Forge during the American Revolution?
What was the significance of the Battle of Saratoga?
What were the main British and American military strategies in the Revolutionary War?
What were the main provisions of the Treaty of 1783 that brought American independence?
What changes occurred in American society after (and as a result of) the Revolution?