Part I (60% of your final grade.)

Choose one of the following questions to answer:

1.      In a minimum of a five hundred-word typed essay, write an answer to the following question.  Be sure to answer all parts of the question in sufficient detail drawing on both the discussions and lectures in class and the textbook. Construct proper paragraphs with complete and cohesive thoughts.  Be specific with names, dates, and locations as the well the results of events.  Your essay should meet all other requirements found in the syllabus regarding the submission of an assignment and the essay should be placed in the drop box for exam 1.

Compare and contrast the colonies of Virginia and Massachusetts Bay from their origins in the early 17th century up unto the beginning of the French-Indian War in 1754. An adequate essay will include discussion of each colony’s motivations for establishment, its economics, its labor sources and the role of slavery, religion and the role of dissent in the colony.



2.      In a minimum of a five hundred-word typed essay, write an answer to the following question.  Be sure to answer all parts of the question in sufficient detail drawing on both the discussions and lectures in class and the textbook. Construct proper paragraphs with complete and cohesive thoughts.  Be specific with names, dates, and locations where these events took place as the well the results, effects, leaders, makeup of the forces and the logistics. Your essay should meet all other requirements found in the syllabus regarding the submission of an assignment and the essay should be placed in the drop box for exam 1.



How did the five events listed below allow the Continental Army to defeat the British Army in the American Revolution?



1.  Lexington, Concord, Bunker and Breed’s Hill, Dorchester Heights

2. The Battle of Trenton

3. The Battle of Saratoga

4. The Southern Campaign- North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia

5. Yorktown, Virginia



Part II (40% of the final grade): Forty Multiple Choice

·         Paleo-Indians

·         Columbian Exchange

·         Beginnings of Slavery

·         Indentured Servants

·         Anglican

·         Puritans

·         Separatists, Non-Separatists

·         Pilgrims

·         Slave Codes

·         Encomienda

·         Bacon’s Rebellion

·         Middle Passage

·         Stono Rebellion

·         French and Indian War

·         Proclamation Line of 1763

·         Coercive Acts

·         First Continental Congress

·         Whigs

·         Tories

·         Boston Massacre

·         Mercantilism

·         Age of Enlightenment

    * Continental Congress
    * Revolutionary War
    * John Adams
    * George Washington
    * Thomas Paine
    * Roger Williams
    * Peace of Paris 1783
    * Thomas Jefferson
    * The Navigation Acts
    * The Great Awakening
    * John Locke
    * The Conciliatory Proposition
    * Fort Ticonderoga