Question

1. Explain the events of Bacon’s Rebellion and why it was important?

2. What was the Mayflower Compact?

3. What were the effects of growing tobacco on the Jamestown colony?

4. What was “starving time”?

5. Define indentured servant.

6. Define royal charter.

7. Why was the Jamestown colony started?

8. What events in England occurred making the Puritans form a colony??

9. Where was the Plymouth located??

10. List some of the issues the settlers of Jamestown and Plymouth face??

11. How did Indians react to the colonists?

12. What were the Salem Witch trials??

13. What is a charter?

14. Explain the differences between the views of the colonist and the Indians.

15. Explain the French and Indian War.

16. Discuss the characteristics of the 3 regions of colonies. The New England, Middle & Southern Colonies

17. What is the Stamp Act?

18. What is the Sugar Act?

19. What is the Intolerable Act?

20. What is the Quartering Act?

21. What is the Currency Act?

22. What are the Sons Of Liberty?

23. What is the Boston Massacre?

24. What is the Tea Act?

25. What is the Boston Tea Party??

26. What is the Coercive Act??

27. What is the Townshed Act??

28. What is the 1st Continental Congress??

29. Why did the King Of England begin taxing the colonist?

30. What was the reaction by the colonist to many of acts imposed on them?

31. What does “taxation without representation” mean?

32. Who was Thomas Paine??

33. Describe the Battle of Lexington and Concord??

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Answer 1

2. the mayflower compact was the first governing document of Plymouth colony
4. the starving time was a period of starvation during the winter of 1609-1610
5. indentured servant is a person who signs and is bound by indentures to work for another for a specified time
6. royal charter was a formal document issued by a monarch as letters patent granting a right or power to an individual or a body corporate
17. the stamp act was an act of the parliament of great Britain which imposed a direct tax on the British colonies in America
18. a revenue-raising act passed by the parliament of great britain on april 5 1764
19. the intolerable act was punitive laws passed by the british parliament in 1774 after the boston tea party
20. the quartering act was an amendment to the mutiny act and required annual renewal by parliament

Answer 2

How did Indians react to the colonists?

12. What were the Salem Witch trials??

13. What is a charter?