Study Guide: Chapters 2-3

Answer the following questions to review for the test on chapters 2 and 3. Draw
from your class notes, reading notes, and colony charts.

1. What is Zinn's thesis for his book? Which groups of people does Zinn write about?

2. Complete chart below. Be sure to describe the significance of each item and any
differences that existed within the colonial group.

New England Middle Colonies Southern Colonies

Conditions of
founding

Significant
People

Religion

Type of
government

Social structure

Economy/Labor
force

Geography/Climat
e
3. What is a joint-stock company and what effects did they have on the founding of the
colonies?

4. What do Puritans believe?

5. How do Puritan beliefs influence their family structure?

6. What was the Mayflower Compact? Why is it important in the development of

American government?

7. Who was John Winthrop? What did he mean when he said that Massachusetts Bay
was intended to be “a city upon a hill?”

8. Who was Anne Hutchinson? What did she believe and how did that go against
Puritan beliefs?

9. How was Rhode Island different than the rest of the New England Colonies?

10.Define the “godly family.” How did this affect the rights of women?

11.Why did Puritan lawmakers want to prevent women from having property rights?

12.What was King Philip’s War? Why was this war significant?

13.How did Jamestown survive the first harsh years? Who was responsible for the
improvements that made Jamestown more profitable?

14.In what ways were Virginia and Maryland similar? In what ways were they different?

15.What was the headright system?

16.What did North Carolina and Georgia have in common?

17.What made South Carolina stand out among the southern colonies?

18.What was the purpose of founding Georgia?

19.What was the social structure like in Virginia? How did this differ from that of
Pennsylvania?

20.Define Bacon’s Rebellion. Why was this event significant?

21.What did the Quakers believe? How did these beliefs affect the development of
Pennsylvania and New Jersey?

22.What did the middle colonies have in common?

23.How did slavery change in the southern colonies by the end of the 1600s? Why did
these changes occur?
24.What was the middle passage? Describe conditions.

25.Under what conditions was slave culture more likely to develop? Give specific
examples of slave culture in the colonies.

26.What is the difference between slave resistance and rebellion?

27.What was the Stono Rebellion? How did it affect the southern colonies?

28.What were the Barbados Slave Codes? What restrictions on slaves did they require?

29.How did the colonies change after 1700? Identify political, social, and economic
changes.

30.What was the triangle trade?

31.Define mercantilism and its rules? What is the purpose of mercantilism? Give
examples of ways that the colonies followed the rules of mercantilism and ways that
they ignored the rules.

32.What was the purpose the Navigation Acts? How did colonies react to these acts?