11th Grade Final Exam Study Guide
Chapter 1: Three Worlds Meet
People
Leif Erikson
Queen Isabella/King Ferdinand
Prince Henry “The Navigator”
Columbus
Taino
Aztecs
Cortes
Amerigo Vespucci
Balboa
Coronado
Ponce de Leon
De Soto
Cartier
Cabot
Hudson
Bering
Ribault
Map
Iberian Peninsula
Bering Straight
Bahamas (Cuba, Dominican
Republic, Haiti)
Dates
1492 (3 events in Spain)
22,000 years ago (in the
Americas)
10,000-5,000 years ago (in the
Americas)
3,000 years ago (in the
Americas)
Concepts
Triangular trade route
Columbian Exchange
Cosmogony
Treaty of Tordesillas
Castas
Mestizo
Motives/Roots of Exploration
Renaissance
Crusades
Protestant Reformation
Technological advances
Rise of the merchant class/urban life
Chapter 2: The American Colonies Emerge
People
Anglicans
Puritan separatists
Quakers
Anne Hutchinson
John Smith
John Winthrop
Pocahontas
Powhatan
Roger Williams
William Penn
William Bradford
Map
Chesapeake Bay
Jamestown
Massachusetts Bay Colony
New Netherland
Plymouth
13 Colonies (Names and locations)
3 colonial regions (Which
colonies are in each?)
Dates
Jamestown settled 1607
Plymouth Plantation 1620
Events
Bacon’s Rebellion
Pequot War
King Philip’s War (Metacom)
Concepts
“Model of Christian Charity”
(Explain the “City Upon a Hill” concept.)
“Starving Time” at Jamestown
First African laborers
Indentured servants
Headright System
Virginia Company
Chapter 3:The Colonies Come of Age
People
King Charles II
King James II
Sir Edmund Andros
William and Mary
Jonathan Edwards
Benjamin Franklin
George Washington
Map
New France
Ohio Valley
Appalachian Mountains
Ohio River
Mississippi River
Date
French and Indian War (1756-1763)
Events
Glorious Revolution
The Great Awakening
Enlightenment
French and Indian War
George Washington at Fort
Necessity, Fort Duquesne
Concepts
Mercantilism (How does it define
wealth? How should a government promote a nation’s wealth? What role do
colonies play in accumulating wealth?)
Navigation Acts
Dominion of New England
Salutary neglect
Cash crop
Triangular Trade
Middle Passage
Slave resistance and coping
strategies
Compare and contrast Southern
and Northern colonial culture
Proclamation of 1763
Sugar Act
Chapters 4: The War for Independence
People
George Washington
John Adams
Abigail Adams
Samuel Adams
John Hancock
King George III
Paul Revere, William Dawes,
Samuel Prescott
Minutemen
Thomas Paine
Friedrich von Steuben
Marquis de Lafayette
Charles Cornwallis
John Locke
Dates
American Revolution (1775-1781)
Declaration of Independence (1776)
Events
Boston “Massacre”
Boston Tea Party
Concord & Lexington
Battle of Bunker Hill
Trenton
Saratoga
Loyalists/patriots (motivations
for selecting sides)
Valley Forge
Yorktown
Concepts
Stamp Act
Declaratory Act
Townshend Acts
Committees of Correspondence
Intolerable Acts
Second Continental Congress
(accomplishments)
Common Sense
Olive Branch Petition
Declaration of Independence
Social contract
Treaty of Paris
Chapter 5: Shaping a New Nation
People
George Washington
James Madison
Thomas Jefferson
Alexander Hamilton
Benjamin Franklin
Roger Sherman
Federalists
Antifederalists
Concepts
Separation of powers (3 branches
and bicameral congress)
Checks and balances
Liberty (freedom + security)
Human predicament cycle
Articles of Confederation (Why
were they insufficient?)
Sovereignty
Slave Trade Compromise
Great Compromise
Three-Fifths Compromise
Federalism
Ratification
Bill of Rights
Essay Questions
- In what ways was mercantilism responsible for the American Revolution?
- What were the unique accomplishments and failures of the American Revolution and Founding? Consider ways in which the American Revolution was evolutionary. Compare and contrast with the Egyptian Revolution of 2011.
- How is “The Declaration of Independence” a liberal document and “The Constitution” a conservative document? How does their partnership establish liberty?
