Know, broadly about the following topics:
The goals of Columbus’s exploration
Early Spanish Colonization Efforts
The Columbian Exchange
The Order of English Colonization
Cash Crops, especially tobacco and rice
Goals of English colonization
Puritan Settlement Patterns
Economies of Northern, Middle, and Southern Colonies
The Salem Witch Trials
Indentured Servants (what they were, how long was their term of indenture)
Bacon’s Rebellion
Salutary Neglect
The Navigation Acts
The French and Indian War (reasons for)
The Proclamation of 1763
The Tea Act
The Boston Massacre
Taxation without Representation
Who had voice in the early republic
The success and failures of the Articles of Confederation
The Northwest Ordinance of 1787
Shays Rebellion
The 3/5ths clause
Supporters of the Antifederalists
Jefferson and the Democratic Republicans
The 1796 Election
The Alien and Sedition Act
The Kentucky and Virginia Resolution
The Erie Canal
The Market Revolution
The Cotton Gin
The Missouri Compromise
The Fugitive Slave Act
Popular Sovereignty
Why Lincoln won the 1860 election
The motivations behind southern secession
The Boston Tea Party
How did colonists identify before the revolution (as American or English? Why?)
Numbers of Southerners who owned slaves
Northern abolition and spread of
The Declaration of Independence
Irish immigration and nativism
John Adams’s political views
The Louisiana Purchase