APUSH Questions Chapter 2 Directions: Please answer all of the following questions as you read the chapter.
These are some of what I feel are the highlights of the chapter and ideas that are most
important. Please write out all responses and place them in your three ring binder.
1. Humm and Wow pieces. Please write down at least one statement or piece of
learning from the text that made you go Hummm. (Something that made you think or
question) Please do the same for a Wow moment. (Something that made you say
WOW, that is new or I did not know that!) I had several hu and not as many
wow!
2. Explain the role of disease and trade in regards to the effects on Native Americans.
In addition, please explain how geographical location of native groups affected their
overall condition.
3. Explain the significance of the English defeat of the Spanish Armada. (At least two
ideas here.)
4. Please rank the importance of the following colonial powers in the Americas. Please
explain why you ranked each group as you did. The most importance gets a 1 and the
least gets a 4.
Spanish
French English Dutch
5. Explain the importance of religion in the settlement of the Americas to the 17th
Century
6. Describe the geographic area that each of the four colonial powers mentioned in
question 4 inhabited.
7. What is the importance of an English Charter and a joint stock company?
8. Read and answer the Contending voices question on page 31 of the text.
9. What was a patroonship? Is it important today?
10. How did the movements of Primogeniture and the Enclosement Movement serve as
push factors for English colonization of the New World?