Review Sheet for First Exam
HIS163 -- Dr. Bruce

Remember to bring a scantron (form #882-ES or #882-S) and a #2 pencil to the exam

This exam will have fifty (50) multiple choice, chronology, and mapping questions worth two (2) points each. When studying for this test, it may help if you try to chart out the people and events in chronological order, explaining to yourself why one event led to the next and to the next.  Also, try to answer the six key questions of any event (Who, What, Where, When, Why, and How) to help learn its significance in history.  Some terms or names may not be familiar to you because we did not discuss them in lecture, but they are located in your textbook. You are responsible for the material in The American Saga, chapters 1-4.  If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me via email at sbruce@shsu.edu or in my office at #936.294.3659, and you're always welcome to stop by during office hours or by appointment in AB4 Room 455.

Remember: The lectures and textbook assignments are designed to compliment each other. Sometimes we cover the same material. Sometimes I discuss issues in lecture that are not in the book. Sometimes the book addresses concepts that I don't discuss in lecture. You need to know it all, especially terms listed below.

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AGE OF DISCOVERY AND EXPLORATION
Navajo settlement (from American Saga)
Environment and Native American Ethnicity (from American Saga)
Why did European exploration begin?
Who was involved?
Prince Henry the Navigator
Bartolomew Dias
Vasco da Gama
King Ferdinand
Queen Isabella
Christopher Columbus
Hernán Cortés
Conquistadors
Aztecs
Quetzacoatl
Tenochtitlan
Mayas
Incas
Francisco Pizarro
Don Luis (see American Saga)

PIRATES AND EARLY AMERICA
Privateers vs. Pirates
England's relationship with Pirates/Privateers
Sir Francis Drake
Queen Elizabeth I
Buccaneers
Pirate weapons, ships
Caribbean
Port Royal, Jamaica
Henry Morgan
Panama
Golden Age of Piracy
William Kidd
Anne Bonny
Mary Read
Edward Teach a.k.a. Blackbeard
Bartholomew Roberts and "Roberts's Rules"
Pirate Rules and Punishment
Life in the British Navy
Naval Punishment and Discipline

SALEM WITCHCRAFT TRIALS AND LIFE IN THE AMERICAN COLONIES
"Lost Colony of Roanoke"
Jamestown
Plymouth
John Smith
Pocahontas
Puritans
Pilgrims
Mayflower Compact
Roger Williams
Anne Hutchinson
Quakers
13 Original Colonies
New England Colonies (characteristics and names)
Middle Colonies (characteristics and names)
Southern Colonies (characteristics and names)
New France
New Spain
Great Britain
King Philip's War
Bacon's Rebellion
Slave Trade & Slavery in the Colonies
Great Awakening
"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"
Salem Witchcraft Trials
Jonathan Edwards
Memorable Providences, Relating to Witchcraft & Possessions
Cotton Mather
Samuel Parris
Tituba
Sarah Good
Sarah Osborne
Giles Corey

ROAD TO REVOLUTION
Imperial competition in America
Great War for Empire (French & Indian War)
-- Who are the players?
-- For what are they fighting?
Albany Plan for Union
Lessons and Legacies of this war?

PRECONDITIONS FOR REVOLUTION
Political structure of colonies making them open to accepting Enlightenment
Intellectual Framework of the Enlightenment
--Rationalism
--Republicanism
-- Constitutionalism
Social Contract
Hobbes
Locke
Rousseau

POLICING & PAYING FOR EMPIRE
Mercantilism
Pontiac's Rebellion
Proclamation of 1763
Quartering Act
Sugar Act
Stamp Act
Stamp Act Congress
Declaratory Act
Sons of Liberty
Townsend Duties
Boston Massacre

Mapping

Study these maps in your textbooks to make sure you know the following locations:

• Exploration Map 1 -- the trade routes to Asia prior to the explorations of Prince Henry the Navigator, and the location of China, India, and the Spice Islands (also referred to as the East Indies); also note the routes taken by Prince Henry and other European explorers.
• Map 2, May 3 -- the Spanish explorations to the Americas and be able to locate where Cortés found the Aztecs in Mexico and the Mayas on the Yucatan Peninsula (just south of the Aztec Empire), and the location of Pizarro's expeditions that conquered the Incas in modern day Columbia, Peru and Chile.
• Colonial America -- location, names, and characteristics of the New England, Middle and Southern colonies.
• Location, characteristics, and significance of Washington's defeat at Fort Dusquesne in 1754

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Last Update: September 2008