Test Review

Test Review

US I Unit 1 Test

Found the Colonies, Ch 2 (and the last few pages of chapter 1)

Key questions

• What were the religious, political, and economic motivations that sent Europeans off to the Americas?

• Why did so many risk the dangers of indentured servitude?

• Interactions with Native Americans—what comparisons can be made between them in New England, the mid-Atlantic, the Chesapeake, and the Southern colonies?

• How were early colonies established and governed?

• How did gender, property ownership, religion, and legal status affect political rights in the colonies?

• What political, social, economic tensions were there, and how did they lead to violent conflict between the colonists and their governments?

• What were the religious groups in colonial America, and what role did those religions play in the communities?

• How and why did family life differ in the northern and southern colonies?

Major topics

• English motivations for New World colonies—north, south, middle?

• Successes and failures of each colony

• Dissent in the colonies; establishment of new colonies

Format

• Short answers. May consist of lists, analysis, identifications

• You **may** see a Multiple Choice question or two

• Test will take approximately 40 minutes

• Tests will be taken in pen