Part 1: Chapter 2: The Planting of English America

Remember: Answer these in your own words.  Copying verbatim from the text will not prepare you to take the AP exam.  

Looking Back at Chapter 1:

1. What impact did the cultivation of corn have on Native American tribes in Mexico and South America?
2. The text states; “No dense concentrations of population or complex nation-states comparable to the Aztec Empire existed in North America at the time of the European’s arrival.”  Why is this significant?
3. How did the Portuguese initiate the plantation system eventually found in the American South?
4. Explain the encomienda system.
5. Who were the conquistadores? 
1. What were their goals and aspirations? 
2. What was their impact?
3. How did they initiate a “new race” of mestizos
4. Draft a 1-2 paragraph summary explaining Cortez’ conquest of the Aztecs.  Be sure to include:
1. Malinche (Doña Marina)
2. Mocteczuma (Montezuma)
3. Quetzalcoatl
6. According to the authors, what is the “Black Legend?”  Do they give the impression that English colonists treated the Native Americans better or worse than the Spanish?  Explain your reasoning.

Chapter 2: The Planting of English America

Key Terms & People:  Explain the Historical Significance (Who, What, When, Where, Why)

• Mayflower Compact
• Massachusetts Bay Company
• Quakers
• Puritans
• Martin Luther
• John Calvin
• Anne Hutchinson
• Massasoit
• Duke of York
• William Penn

Questions:

1. How did the ascension of Elizabeth to the throne of England spawn English exploration and colonization of the Americas?
2. Why did the initial attempts of the English to colonize the Americas fail?
3. What were the difficulties faced by the colonists at Jamestown?
4. What was Powhatan’s Confederacy?  How did the Virginia Company deal with it?
5. How did European – Native American trade transform as the European population increased?
6. How did John Rolfe (Pocahontas’ husband) expand the tobacco trade?  How did this initiate slavery in the colonies?
7. Lord Baltimore founded the Maryland colony.
8. Who was he?  What were his motivations?  What were the implications of these motivations?
9. Why was North Carolina dubbed “a vale of humility between two mountains of conceit?”
10. How did the economic transformation of the English West Indies (Caribbean) into a predominantly sugar producing economy affect the southern American colonies?
11. What was the primary crop of the Carolina's.  What impact did this have on the Carolina colonies?
12. List several ways in which Georgia was different than the other 12 original colonies.
13. What was the significance of the Iroquois Confederacy?  

HOMEWORK: Read Chapter 3 for tomorrows assignment.