Chapter 2 Test Review

Know the following terms and information for your Test.

Boston Tea Party

What made the colony of Pennsylvania different

Samuel de Champlain

Battle of Saratoga

The Stamp Act

Indentured Servants

Mayflower Compact

Lexington

Thomas Paine

Benjamin Franklin

Why did the Spanish settle in North America?

What were the Virginia colonists looking for?

What ended the American Revolution?

What does the Preamble to the Declaration of Independence do?

Why was the Proclamation of 1763 made?

How did the Middle Colonies differ from the New England colonies?

What is a royal colony?

What traditions influenced Thomas Jefferson in the writing of the Declaration of Independence?

What was the last colony to be established in America?

What did colonial committees of correspondence do?

What was the Great Awakening and what were its most important effects?

John Winthrop

Treaty of Paris

Militia

Boston Massacre

Proprietary colony

Slave codes

Roanoke

Declaration of Independence

Subsistence farmers

Olive Branch Petition

What effect did Thomas Paine’s Common Sense have on the colonists?

What was the House of Burgesses?

What led to a loss of some democratic freedoms in the colony of Virginia?

What is the triangular trade?

What did the 1st Continental Congress call for in September 1774?

How is Rhode Island different from Massachusetts?

What was an unintended consequence of the ideals of the American Revolution?

What battle was a turning point in the American Revolution?

Why did some European countries decide to help the patriots after Saratoga?

What was Benjamin Franklin’s greatest contribution to American society?