Colonization Test

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US I Unit 1 Test

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

Key questions

• · What are the similarities and differences among Africans, Europeans, and Native Americans in political organizations, social organizations, economic systems, and values (religion, gender roles, nature)?

• · 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