Author: Marc Sprintz

American History I 
Unit 1 Study Guide:
Exploration & First Contact, Euro Colonial Settlement, and Colonial Society
Ch. 1, 2, 3

To earn up to 5 points extra credit on test, define all of the key people and key terms. 
•	You need to write out the definitions (they may not be typed). 
•	To earn credit, you need to include what the event was/who the person was, details about the event/person, and relevance to historical era. 
•	An example of a proper definition is at the bottom of this page. 
•	I will give partial credit if you define some, but not all of the people and terms. 

Key People (22):
Anne Hutchinson			Iroquois				Pontiac
Ben Franklin				Jacques Cartier				Popé's Rebellion/New Mexico
Christopher Columbus			James Oglethorpe			Puritans
Ferdinand Magellan			John Winthrop				Quakers
Francisco Pizarro/Incan Empire		Juan Ponce de Leon/Florida		Vasco da Gama
Henry Hudson				Nathaniel Bacon			William Penn
Hernando Cortes/Aztecs		Pilgrims/Separatists			William Pitt
Edmund Andros/Dominion of New England

Key Terms (19):
Beringia				King Philip’s War			proprietor
Cash crops				Mayflower Compact			Stono Rebellion
Columbian Exchange			mercantilism				Salutary Neglect
Enlightenment (Age of Reason)		Middle Passage				Treaty of Tordesillas(Spain/Portugal)
Navigation Acts	(1660)			Northwest Passage			triangular trade
Indentured servants			Pequot War				Virginia House of Burgesses
Jamestown					

Key Ideas to know for unit test (you don’t need to answer these for the vocab extra credit):
1.	Explain how humans spread across the world.
2.	Discuss the motives for exploration.
3.	Name the key explorers.  For what countries did they explore?  What did each one accomplish?
4.	Discuss the results of exploration
5.	Describe key differences among settlers and natives.
6.	Describe the first English settlements in North America.
7.	Describe how each colony was settled.
8.	What kind of economy developed in the Southern colonies?   In the Northern colonies?  How did the economy affect social issues in the colonies?
9.	Describe how labor changed in the colonies over time.
10.	What is the triangular trade?  How did it impact the North American colonies?
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Example of a Complete Definition
Beringia:
•	Land bridge that connected Alaska and Siberia until about 15,000BC
•	allowed for 1^st human habitation in Americas as small numbers of humans (their descendants would be the 1^st “native Americans”) migrated across Beringia into North America b/t 12,000 & 15,000 yrs ago

Example of an Incomplete Note Card:
Beringia: Land bridge connecting Alaska and Siberia