U.S. formative--Fall 1999

Review Exam #1

Identifications ( 5 points each)

Each student will answer eight identifications from a list of sixteen. The sixteen will be chosen from the list below by the instructor. Be sure to keep in mind the questions who, what, when, why, where and the significance.

Mary Dyer Samuel Adams Thomas Paine

Spectral Evidence Joint stock company Navigation Acts

City on a Hill Triangular Trade Cotton Mather

Mary Rowlandson Old Lights Jonathan Edwards

James Oglethorpe Quakers Indentured Servant

Nathaniel Bacon Roger Williams Salutary Neglect

Deist Mercantilism House of Burgesses

Essays (30 points each0

Each student will answer two essays from a list of four. The four essays will be chosen from the list below by the instructor. Be sure to answer the questions completely and in detail. Give examples and illustrations. Define terms as needed.

1. Explain the main features the southern colonies shared and how these differed from the northern colonies.
2. Who was Anne Hutchinson and what happened to her? Why was this event significant?
3. Explain the main goals of the Great Awakening. How did they carry them out? Why was it so significant?
4. What role did Thomas Paine's Common Sense play on the road to revolution? Why did it have a different effect than so many of the other events leading to war?
5. Explain what happened at Salem and why? Why Salem? Why 1692?
6. Why did the relationship between England and the colonies change? Give specific reasons and evidence as support.