Historical Terms - Bailey, Kennedy, Cohen, The American Pageant
These are the key terms for each chapter's reading.
Use them to make your reading and note taking more efficient.
Be sure to take notes on the main concepts for each unit (from your reading and in class) and to reflect on the essential questions for each unit (see below)
This list of terms, the chapter's main concepts, and the essential questions will also serve as a review list for the unit test.
Need advice on how to do the reading and take notes? See these reading hints.

Chapter One: New World Beginnings, 33,000 B.C. - A.D. 1769
Note: This whole chapter is optional reading; but if you do decide to read it, the following terms are ones to remember and help organize your notes.

land bridge, 72 million native population at time of European contact
Aztec, Inca, Pueblo, Mississippian cultures, Iroquois confederacy
nomadic tribes, matrilinear cultures
preconditions for "discovery:" curiosity, religion, passage to Asia, slavery, ship technology
Columbus
the biological exchange between continents
Treaty of Tordesillas
conquistadores, mestizos, and significance to later developments
Hernan Cortes, Malinche, Montezuma, Aztecs

Essential questions (feel free to add more of your own!)
Should we see the virtual extermination of Native Americans as the "victory" of a superior culture?
Whose perspectives on American history should be considered?

Chapter Two: The Planting of English America, 1500-1733 ( the Middle and Southern Colonies, the West Indies)
Spanish Armada/ sea dogs
England in 1590s
passage to India
England - enclosures, surplus population
joint-stock company, Virginia Company of London
Jamestown, "starving time"
Captain John Smith, tobacco, slavery
Chesapeake, Powhatan Confederacy, Lord de la Warr
Virginia's attempt at self government
Maryland, proprietorship colony, religious toleration (and limits of it)
headright system, indentured servants
West Indies, sugar, slaves, slave codes (and their significance to the mainland)
Carolinas, Restoration colonies
Georgia, why it was different

Essential questions (feel free to add more of your own!)
Given that there were numerous motives for colonizing the Americas, which do you admire the most?
Is climate destiny?
Which sociopolitical setup in the colonies was the most influential on American history?

Chapter Three: Settling the Northern Colonies, 1619-1700
Calivinism, Puritans, The Great English Migration
Separatists, Plymouth, Mayflower Compact, William Bradford
NonSeparatists, Massachussetts Bay Colony
City upon a hill, John Winthrop
town meetings, limited suffrage, predestination, "visible saints"
"Protestant Ethic," blue laws
Dissenters: Anne Hutchinson, Roger Williams, Rhode Island
Indians, Pequot War, King Philip's War
New England Confederation
Charles II and Dominion of New England
Navigation Laws and Governor Edmund Andros
salutary neglect, 1691-1763
New Netherland
William Penn, Holy Experiment

Essential questions (feel free to add more of your own!)
Did the English colonies succeed in dominating other European nations' efforts because the English were superior?
Do we really have a separation of church and state in this country?

Chapter 4: American Life in the Seventeenth Century, 1607-1692
indentured servants
"headright" system, "white slaves," and "freedom dues"
Bacon's Rebellion
Governor William Berkeley
10 million Africans enslaved -- 400,000 came to North America
Royal African Company
"middle passage"
"Slave codes"
rice, indigo, and tobacco culture and slavery
slave culture, Gullah, ringshout, African-American relgion
Southern hierarchy of wealth and status
first families of Virginia, merchant planters, small farmers
New England Life: family, towns, life expectancy
Puritan social control
proprietors
education North and South
Half Way Covenant, jeremiad, Salem witch trials

Essential questions (feel free to add more of your own!)
Did the English colonies really give people "practice" in the ways of democracy?
Was slavery the result of white racism or did slavery help cause white racism?
Are there any modern examples of "witch trials?"

Chapter 5: Colonial Society on the Eve of Revolution, 1700-1775
Ethnic groupings: English, Scottish, German, Dutch Irish, French Huguenots, African
Scots Irish, Paxton Boys, Regulator Movement, Andrew Jackson
Michel-Guillaume de Crevecoeur
The colonial social pyramid, 1775
Clerics, Physician, Jurists
Colonial commerce: triangular trade, manufacturing, lumbering, naval stores
Denominations: Anglican, Congregationalist, Presbyterian, Quakers, Baptist, Roman Catholic, Methodist, Jewish
Great Awakening: Arminians, Jonathan Edwards, George Whitfield, "old lights," "new lights," impact on education
Colonial arts and letters: John Trumbull, Charles Willson Peale, Phillis Wheatley, Benjamin Franklin
Colonial news: pamphlets, leaflets, journals
Peter Zenger
Colonial governments: royal governors, proprietor-governors, elected governors
Country government versus town-meeting government
AP students: be sure to read Varying Viewpoints on pp 102-103 "Colonial America: Communities of Conflict or Consensus?"

Essential questions (feel free to add more of your own!)
What impact did events in England have on the development of colonies in British America?
Can you think of any other examples (historical or not) of salutary neglect?