TERMS

On the test you will find a selection of the following terms and be asked to chose a certain number to write on. I will not test you on material not presented in this study guide.

Joint-stock companies
The Virginia Company of London
Jamestown
Tobacco
Headright system
House of Burgesses
Indentured servants
The Royal Colony of Virginia
mercantilism
The Navigation Acts
Puritans
The Puritan Migration
Pilgrims
The Plymouth Colony
Massachusetts Bay Colony
“Model of Christian Charity”
Congregationalism
Proprietary Colonies
Royal Colonies
Dutch West India Company
New Amsterdam
Quakers
“Inner Light”
Pietism
Evangelicalism
Itinerant ministers
Jonathan Edwards
George Whitefield
“Old Lights” & “New Lights”
“Salutary Neglect”
Sugar Act (1764)
Stamp Act (1765)
Sons of Liberty
The Declaratory Act
Townshend Revenue Acts
Boston Massacre
Boston Tea Party
Coercive Acts
Lexington and Concord
Loyalism
Attrition warfare
Saratoga
Guilford Court House
Siege of Yorktown
The Articles of Confederation
Shays Rebellion

TOPICS FOR ESSAYS

• Comparing and contrasting colonial settlement: New England, Pennsylvania, and the Chesapeake
• The Origins, Beliefs, and Legacy of the Great Awakening
• The Causes of the Revolution