AP US History Chapter 2 Transplantations and Borderlands (I)

Reading: Have read from American History: A Survey, English Transplantations (pp 36-47) for
September 14. This is the day your Vocabulary Journal is due at the beginning of class.
Make sure to read the captions for every visual (maps, paintings, etc.)
Chapter Work Explain (when necessary) these in your Vocab Journal in your own words. Explain
means more than a single sentence. For the Short Answer the emphasis is on Answer not Short. Always
use many sentences. Please label your questions.
Plagiarism: Submitting the words, ideas, images, or data of another persons as ones own in any
academic writing or other project. Do not plagiarize. If someone asks you to see your journal, just say,
No, that would be cheating.
1. Complete the following: Things were so bad in Jamestown that:
2. Why did the headright encourage settlement?
3. The House of Burgesses was an example of (English royal power/colonial power).
4. Marylands Act of Toleration Concerning Religion is best described as an attempt to protect the
religious rights of (all faiths/Christians).
5. Bacon or Berkeley Identify each of the following as idea supported most strongly by one of these men.
Write the name of the man that best fits the description:
8A. Desired increased settlement in the west
8B. Supported most by planter class
8C. Wanted more protection from Indians
8D. Attacked the colonial government
8E. Supporters tended to be landless and poor
6. How was an indentured servant different from a slave?
7. What does the following quote tell us about slavery? Many white-slave owners concluded that it was
cheaper to buy new slaves than to protect the well-being of those they already owned.
8. Thought Crusher People say this nation was founded on the idea of religious freedom.
A. Ho is this statement correct?
B. How is this statement incorrect?
9.

How did the motives of the Virginia colonists differ from those of the separatists who settled in
Plymouth?
Questions 10-11 refer to the excerpt below.
"Be it therefore ordered and enacted. . . . That whatsoever person or persons within this Province... shall
henceforth blaspheme God, that is, curse Him or shall deny our Savior Jesus Christ to be the Son of God, or
shall deny the Holy Trinity ... or the Godhead of any of the said Three persons of the Trinity or the Unity of
the Godhead . . . shall be punished with death and confiscation or forfeiture of all his or her lands. . . . And
whereas .. . that no person or persons whatsoever within this province, or the islands, ports, harbors,
creeks, or havens thereunto belonging professing to believe in Jesus Christ, shall from henceforth be any
way troubled, molested or discountenanced for or in respect of his or her religion nor in free exercise

thereof within this province or the islands thereunto belonging nor any way compelled to the belief or
exercise of any other Religion against his or her consent."
The Maryland Act of Toleration, 1649
10. Which of the following religious groups were the authors of the Maryland Act of Toleration trying to
protect?
(A) Jews
(C) Quakers
(B) Puritans
(D) Roman Catholics
11. Which of the following best summarizes the attitude toward religious beliefs expressed in this
document?
(A) All individuals should be free to believe or not believe in God as the wished
(B) Religion was a personal matter that the government should not try to influence
(C) Christians should be able to practice their faith without fear of persecution
(D) The colony should be reserved for the one specific type of Christianity approved by the local
government officials
Questions 12-14 refer to the excerpt below.
"These at the heads of James and York rivers . . . grew impatient at the many slaughters of their neighbors
and rose for own defense, who choosing Mr. Bacon for their leader, sent oftentimes to the Governor,...
beseeching a commission to go against the Indians at their own charge; which His Honor as often
promised, but did not send.. . .
"During these protractions and people often slain, most or all the officers, civil and military, . . . met and
concerted together, the danger of going without a commission on the one part and the continual murders
of their neighbors on the other part. . . . This day lapsing and no commission come, they marched into the
wilderness in quest of these Indians, after whom the Governor sent his proclamation, denouncing all rebels
who should not return within a limited day; whereupon those of estates obeyed. But Mr. Bacon, with fiftyseven men, proceeded.... They fired and . . . slew 150 Indians."
Samuel Kercheval, Virginia author and lawyer, "On Bacon's Rebellion in Virginia," 1833
12. Based on the information in this excerpt, what is Samuel Kercheval's point of view toward Bacon and
his followers?
(A) They were dangerous men who threatened colonial stability and prosperity
(B) They were frustrated men who were taking action because the government did not
(C) They were allies of the governor who carried out actions that he supported
(D) They were a primarily political movement that wanted Bacon to become governor
13. Bacon's Rebellion was initiated by a group of farmers who felt most directly threatened by
(A) an increase in royal taxes
(C) conflicts with American Indians
(B) the power of large planters
(D) the growth of the slave trade
14. Which of the following led the opposition to Bacon's Rebellion?
(A) leaders of the Church of England
(C) soldiers from the British army
(B) members of the Virginia House of Burgesses
(D) the colonial governor
Questions 15-17 refer to the excerpt below.
"As touching the quality of this country, three thinges there bee, which in fewe yeares may bring this
Colony to perfection; the English plough, Vineyards, & Cattle....

"All our riches for the present doe consiste in Tobacco, wherein one man by his owne laboour hath in one
yeare, raised to himself to the value of 200 sterling; and another by the means of sixe servants hath cleared
at one crop a thousand pound english. These be true, yet indeed rare examples, yet possible to be done by
others. Our principall wealth (I should haue said) consisteth in servants: but they are chargeable to be
furnished with armes, apparel, & bedding, and for their transportation, and casuall both at sea, & for their
first yeare commonly at lande also: but if they escape, they proove very hardy, and sound able men"
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John Pory, Secretary of Virginia, Letter to Sir Dudley Cariton, 1619
15. What did Pory predict for the future of Virginia?
(A) it would approach "perfection" because of agricultural products
(B) it would prosper by selling "armes, apparel, & bedding"
(C) it would decline if its "riches" continued to "consiste in Tobacco"
(D) it would collapse unless it found laborers who were "very hardy"
16. Which of the following groups made up most of the servants referred to in the passage?
|(A) American Indians
(C) Enslaved Africans
(B) Indentured servants from Europe
(D) Women whose husbands had escaped
17. The primary market for the Virginia tobacco crop during this period was
(A) Virginia
(C) New England
(B) England
(D) Africa
Missing Seminar If you miss seminar you may still receive participation points by writing two pages
(front/back = 2) on the following prompt in your Vocab Journal and turning it in the next time you are in
class.
Prompt - Although New England and the Chesapeake region were both settled largely by people of
English origin, by 1700 the regions had evolved into two distinct societies. Why did this difference in
development occur?
AP US History Chapter 2 Transplantations and Borderlands (II)
Reading: Have read from American History: A Survey, English Transplantations (pp 47-66) for
September 16. This is the day your Analyze This Journal is due at the beginning of class.
Make sure to read the captions for every visual (maps, paintings, etc.)
Chapter Work Explain (when necessary) these in your Analyze This Journal in your own words.
Explain means more than a single sentence. For the Short Answer the emphasis is on Answer not
Short. Always use many sentences. Please label your questions.
Plagiarism: Submitting the words, ideas, images, or data of another persons as ones own in any
academic writing or other project. Do not plagiarize. If someone asks you to see your journal, just say,
No, that would be cheating.
1. Anne Hutchinson Malo (Bad)
A. Why did Anne Hutchinson upset the clergy?
B. Why did Anne Hutchinson upset colonial men?
C. Opinion In your opinion, Anne Hutchinson has become (less/more) popular with time. Why.
Questions 12- is based on the following excerpts.

A. "As to the natives of this country, I find them entirely savage and wild, strangers to all decency, yea,
uncivil and stupid as garden stakes, proficient in all wickedness and ungodliness, devilish men who serve
nobody but the devil.... They have so much witchcraft, divination, sorcery, and wicked arts that they can
hardly be held in by any bands or locks. They are as thievish and treacherous as they are tall, and in cruelty
they are altogether inhuman."
Jonas Michaelius, pastor, Dutch Reformed Church, Letter to Reverend Andrianus Smoutius, 1628
B. "I confess I think no great good will be done till they [Indians] be more civilized. But why may not God
begin with some few to awaken others by degrees? Nor do I expect any great good will be wrought by the
English ... because God is wont ordinarily to convert nations and peoples by some of their own countrymen
who are nearest to them and can best speak, and, most of all, pity their brethren and countrymen."
John Eliot, Puritan "The Day-Breaking of the Gospel with the Indians," 1646
2. Briefly explain the main point in passage A. (above)
3. Briefly explain the main point in passage B. (above)
4. Provide ONE piece of evidence from the colonial period that is not included in the passages and explain
how it supports the interpretations in either passage.
5. Explain how ONE of the following supports this statement: "Puritan intolerance of dissent led to the
founding of a number of new colonies." (Show cause and effect)
Hartford
Portsmouth
Providence
6. Identify an individual who founded one of the above new colonies and briefly describe his or her basic
idea that challenged Puritan principles.
Question 7-10 Penns Woods
7. Briefly explain which of William Penn's three purposes for his "Holy Experiment" in Pennsylvania
religious toleration, government based on liberal ideas, and personal profit were not found in any of the
other original English colonies.
8. Briefly explain which of Penn's three purposes would prove to be the most difficult for him to fulfill.
9. Briefly explain how one of the other 13 original colonies came close to Penn's purpose of religious
toleration.
10. Describe the causes and outcome of King Philips War. (make sure explains theo ther directly)
Using the graph, answer 11-12

11. Briefly explain the role slavery played in the population growth of this period.
12. Briefly describe the sources of immigrants other than from Africa during this period.
13. Briefly explain why Africans increasingly replaced indentured servants anD Indians as farm laborers.
14. By the mid-18th century the economy of the 13 colonies was growing within strong limitations. Briefly
explain the role of TWO of the following in the colonial economy: (How did they limit growth?)
agriculture
monetary system
transportation
15. Briefly explain the impact of British mercantilism on the colonial economy.
16. The most frequent cause of fighting between colonists and Indians was (religious
conversion/mercantilism/control of land/disease).
18. The Dominion of New England was an attempt by England to (diminish/increase) control of the
region.
19. Describe two examples of African culture/linguistic adaptions in the Western Hemisphere.
A.

B.

20. Compare and contrast two European countries models of colonization in North America.

Why were the Caribbean colonies the "most important destinations" for English immigrants
throughout the first half of the seventeenth century?
21.

22. What impact did the Glorious Revolution have on England's North American colonies?
23. How did the Navigation Acts reinforce mercantilism?
Missing Seminar If you miss seminar you may still receive participation points by writing two pages
on the following prompt in your Vocab Journal and turning it in the next time you are in class.

Prompt - Throughout the Colonial period, economic concerns had more to do with settling of British
North America than did religious concerns." Assess the validity of this statement with specific reference to
economic and religious concerns.
Total Recall Review
1. House of Burgesses
2. Maryland Act Concerning Religion
3. Bacon's Rebellion Two causes
4. indentured servants
5. headright system
6. John Winthrop
7. mercantilism
8. Navigation Act
9. Puritan Separatists (Pilgrims)
10. Puritans
11. theocracy
12. Quakers
13. Anne Hutchinson
14. Roger Williams
15. proprietary colony