Unit 1: Tradition of Liberty Test Review

Know the answers to the following questions.

Study all of your spiral materials and have your spiral neat and complete!

1. What is capitalism?
2. How did capitalism encourage colonization and exploration?
3. Why were the English colonies founded? What were people “looking” for?
4. How did the Jamestown colony shape our country today?
5. What was the Mayflower Compact?
6. What debate did Anne Hutchinson ignite?
7. Know the names of the individual English colonies.
8. What was involved in the New England colonies’ economy? 
9. What is subsistence farming?
10. What was the Middle colonies’ way of life?
11. What is a cash crop?
12. What was significant about the Southern colonies’ economy?
13. What geological feature stopped the colonies from expanding west?
14. What came from Europe to Africa in the Triangular Trade?  From Africa to the Americas?  From the Americas to Europe?
15. Why was it called the “Middle Passage”?
16. Know all of the causes that allowed the slaves to take control of the Amistad.
17. How was naming a slave ship “Liberty” a cruel trick?
18. The Great Awakening showed people they could do what two things for themselves?
19. What was the most important influence of the Enlightenment?
20. Who was John Locke?  How did he contribute to the Enlightenment?
21. Who was Sir Isaac Newton?  How did he contribute to the Enlightenment>
22.   Who were on the two sides of the French and Indian War—a conflict that ultimately contributed to key causes of the Revolution?  (Hint:  It wasn’t a war of just France against the Indians.)
23. Name the major future leader of the Revolution who gained military leadership experience during the French and Indian War.
24. What was the outcome of the French and Indian War?