Here are somethings that might help to review for the Period 2 Exam.

Videos:

AP US History Curriculum: Period 2 (1607 – 1754)

https://ap.gilderlehrman.org/period/2

PDF:

Colonial Era Review – Key

Short outline:

Period 2: 1607 – 1754 Colonial America

BEGINNING = Founding of Jamestown in Virginia, 1607.

What do I need to know?

1. Success and Failures of European colonization, (interaction between Natives and European colonists, Europeans and Africans, Work Systems, etc.)
   1. Examples: Pueblo Revolt, King Phillip’s War, Slave Trade, Middle Passage, Stono Rebellion, Bacon’s Rebellion
2. How did England become the dominant colonial power? What were the regional DIFFERENCES among English colonies!?
   1. Examples: New England Puritans, City Upon A Hill, , Middle Colonies Merchant class, Quakers, Chesapeake Tobacco, Southern Colonies, Cash Crops, slavery
3. Effects of major social movements Enlightenment and Great Awakening on colonial American identity
   1. Examples: John Locke “Natural Rights”, Benjamin Franklin, Jonathan Edwards “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”, George Whitefield, Reason

END = Prior to the Revolution