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Give Me Liberty

Exam One Study Guide

Concepts borrowed from anthropology (listed under the Course Information button in Bb and presented in the first week of class)

Exploration and Discovery

• ideological shifts and technological innovations making exploration feasible and motivations for exploration and discovery (p. 16-20, class notes)

• Indian and European worldviews (11-16)

• Las Casas (27-28)

• Spain’s Black Legend (27)

• Spanish Colonization (23-35, 500 Nations documentary, class notes maps)

• French Colonization (35-38, class notes, maps)

• Dutch Colonization ((38-41)

Indians

• Pueblo Revolt of 1680 (31-35, class notes)

• Powhatan (57)

• Opechancanough (58)

• Squanto (65)

• Pequot War (73-74)

• Metacom/”King Phillip”; King Phillips War (86)

• Five (Iroquois) Nations (89)

• Pontiac (163)

• Pontiac’s Rebellion (160-64)

• Neolin and his vision and its impact (164)

English Colonization

• Richard Hakluyt and his impact (48-50)

• Jamestown (54-57)

• Plymouth Colony (64)

• Mass. Bay Colony (65-69)

• Great Migration of 1630s (importance of) (65)

• Rhode Island, Roger Williams (70)

• Anne Hutchinson (71-72)

• The Holy Experiment: Pennsylvania, Delaware and Quakers; William Penn (92-94)

Definition and Importance of:

• Mercantilist system (86-87)

• Headright system (91)

• Triangular Trade (127-29)

• Enlightenment (150-51)

• Great Awakening (152-54)

Servitude and Slavery

• Indentured Servants (51-52)

• Bacon’s Rebellion (impact of) (99)

• Equiano (126)

• Middle Passage (131)

• Three Types of Colonial Slavery (131-36)

• Barbados (90)

• Stono Rebellion (139)

• New York City Panic of 1741 (139)

Liberty/Freedom

• English Civil War and impact on colonies (78-79, 82-84)

• The Glorious Revolution and impact on colonies (102-104)

• “Freeborn Englishmen” (127)

• British beliefs about power and liberty, rights (141-150) (important!)

• British Opposition thinkers concept of relationship between power and liberty (168)

• Local colonial politics and informed citizenry (148)

• Albany Plan (165)

Revolution

• Proclamation Line of 1763 (164)

• Taxation (171-73)

• Stamp Act (171)

• The Regulators (175)

• Townshend Crisis (176-77)

• Homespun Virtue (177)

• Boston Massacre (177-79)

• Boston Tea Party (180)

• Intolerable Acts (181)

• First Continental Congress (181)

• Second Continental Congress (183-184)

• Patrick Henry (181)

• Thomas Payne , Common Sense (185-6, 188)

• Declaration of Independence (189-90)

Short answer questions:

1. List the five mechanisms of change and provide an example of each that you believe had the most impact . State why you selected each example.

2. List the four colonial regions and identify the major economic engine for each region.

3. What is legitimacy and why is it important?

4. Identify the use of soft power that you believe had the most impact. Describe those impacts.

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