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| Which colony was the most populous? |
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| What was the male-female ratio in the Chesapeake? |
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| what was AHEM special about 1/3 of the brides in WHAT colony? |
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| In Maryland, 1/3 of all brides were pregnant before the wedding |
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| What three diseases were prevalent in the Chesapeake area? |
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| Typhoid, dysentery, and malaria |
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| In 1630, Chesapeake was exporting ___million lbs of tobacco/year, while by the 1700s, they were exporting ___million |
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| if an aristocrat funds an indentured servant's passage to America, he gains 50 acres of land at a cheap price, which resulted in massive land gains for the rich and the opposite for the poor |
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| describe the life of an indentured servant |
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-served for seven years -owners often extended serving period for small mistakes |
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NAME THAT MAN: Nathaniel Bacon |
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led a few thousand of these men in a rebellion against -William Berkeley, who was friendly towards the NAs, and refused to retaliate when the NAs attacked the frontier
-Bacon's men murdered a LOT of NAs -Bacon died in the middle of the rebellion, and Berkeley crushed it |
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until 1792, ONLY (REALLY? REALLY???) _____ out of ____ slaves were brought to America |
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| What happened in 1750 regarding slavery? |
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| they accounted for almost half of the VA population |
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| What part of Africa were most slaves from? |
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| West Africa, ie Senegal and Angola |
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| V/F: some of the earliest black slaves became landowners themselves |
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| Eventually, to clear up codes on slave ownership, slave codes made it so that_____ |
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children of slaves were made slaves for life (chattels) as well, unless voluntarily freed |
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| Some laws made ____a crime, and not even _______ might qualify a slave for freedom. |
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teaching slaves to read a crime ---- conversion to Christianity |
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| Why did slaves in the deep south have it harder? |
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| they were growing rice, which was much harder to grow than tobacco |
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| What is the slave revolt in NYC called? |
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| What major event regarding slavery happened in 1739? |
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| South Carolinian slaves along the Sono River tried to march to Spanish Florida, but failed |
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What were the aristocratic families of Virginia such as the Fitzhughs, the Lees, and the Washingtons called? Why? |
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| First Families of Virginia, had more land than House of Burgesses |
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| What was the largest social group of VA? |
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| V/F: The southern colonies had plenty of Baptist churches throughout them |
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| falsum. churches were slow to develop |
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| V/F: The South had cities bustling with many diverse cultures |
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| falsum. the south didn't have many cities |
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| V/F: there were AHEM alcohol problems in the south |
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| Why was disease not as rampant in NE? |
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| clean water and cool temperatures |
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| V/F: women in NE were baby-making factories |
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| why did women have more power in the south?? |
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| men died young, women could inherit land, also had smaller # of children to support |
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| who were most of the immigrants to Chesapeake? |
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| what were marriages like in Chesapeake? |
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| one partner usually passed away in abt 7 years |
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| when the price of tobacco was depressed, what did sellers do? |
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| why were indentured servants the go-to labor force originally? |
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-families too small -Indians died too quickly from colonists' diseases -Africans cost too much |
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| This system paid the passage of indentured servants for 50 acres of land |
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| who benefited from the headright system? |
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| mostly rich, they ate up land while servants didn't have much land anyway. Plus their masters got stingier |
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| what caused the supply of indentured servants from England to drop (nothing with populations or fires) |
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| In 1698, THIS company lost its charter...what were the effects of it? |
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-THIS company= Royal African Company -people rushed to cash in on the trade |
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| what was the death rate on the middle passage? |
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| V/F: slaves never had rights in America |
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| falsum. some early slaves gained freedom, but colonists freaked out over the racial threat |
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| What laws were made in the south regarding those who served on plantations? |
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| made distinctions between servants/slaves (became blacks and children) |
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| How did the population of slaves rise naturally? |
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| -plantations were closer, then female population began to rise |
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| Name some African languages that blended with English |
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| as slavery increased, so did what regarding socioeconmics in the south? |
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| gaps in southern social structure |
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| how did planters rule southern society? |
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| owned gangs of slaves and vast domains of land |
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| why were NEers healthier? |
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| clean water, cool temperatures slowed killer microbes |
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| by moving to the New World, NEers added about ___ yrs onto their life span |
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| Women in NE married in their early twenties, and from there on did this |
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| made babies every two years. |
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| what did the NE baby-making mentality cause? |
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| high female & infant mortality rates |
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| what did NE "invent" with regards to the family? |
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| What was the (infuriating) Puritan view of marriage? |
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| women with power undercut the unity between a husband and wife, and that she should be subservient. (it pains me to type this, just so you know Thomas Bailey) |
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| Even though women weren't the boss in NE marriages, what couldn't men do? |
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| What business was a female monopoly? |
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| Why did NErs live in closely-knit villages? |
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-geography -Indian/French/Dutch threat |
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| How did people in Chesapeake expand? |
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| How did people in Chesapeake expand? |
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| had to get grants of land from colonial legislature |
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| What did NE towns consist of? |
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-meetinghouse for town meetings and worship -houses village green for militia |
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| If a town had ___ families, they needed to provide education |
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| V/F: 1/4 of all adults could read and write |
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| technically verum, but 1/2 is even more verum |
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| When was Harvard founded? |
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| What caused NErs to creep away from religion? |
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| they were generations after, and greater populations forced them to move further from the Church |
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| THIS term was used to scare the colonists into coming back to their religion |
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| Define: Half-Way Covenant |
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-church adherents agree to baptism but not "full communion" -weakened distinction between elect/not -gave up religious purity for wider audience -this wider audience had a female majority |
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| Define: Salem Witch Trials |
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-adolescent girls "bewitched by 20 women who were lynched/pressed -governor put a stop to it when his wife was on the line -tried to make it up to victims' heirs 20 yrs later -trials like this occurred in Europe |
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| The rough soil of NE forced colonists to be... |
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| Yankees sold this plant to CT |
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| what was the expression telling of the stages of progression in NE? |
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| get on, get honor, get honest |
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Why were many Europeans turned off by NE? What did this cause? |
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-scary sermons, rough soil -not very ethnically diverse |
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| What was probably the only diverse thing about NE? |
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| Why didn't slavery take off in NE? |
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| too costly on small farms |
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| How did NErs change their habitat? |
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-made trails -cleared forests to sustain deer, livestock --> caused it to be more adaptable to extreme temperatures |
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| How did the English justify their exploitation of the land? |
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| What off of the cost of Newfoundland was a gold mine? |
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NAME THAT MAN: Scary witch-hunter |
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| How were NE harvest seasons and workdays ruled? |
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| what was the class structure like in the south? |
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| wasn't originally rigid until laws put poor in their place |
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| By 1775, how many colonies did Great Britain rule in North America? |
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| Which British colonies were wealthier than the original 13? |
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| by 1775, how many people were in the colonies? |
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| What was the average age in the colonies? |
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| How much of the population were cooped up in a specific group of mtns? (what were they?) |
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| About ___% of people lived in rural areas |
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| How many people were in the colonies in 1700? |
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| how many slaves were in the colonies as of 1775? |
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| Every TWENTY FIVE years, what happened to the colonial population |
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NAME THAT MAN: "you people breed like your own rattlesnakes!" |
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| For every ___ English subjects, there was an American colonist born |
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| Where did much of the population in the colonies go? |
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| What were the most populous colonies in 1775? |
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| Name four colonial cities |
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| NY, Philly, Boston, Charleston |
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| How many Germans were in the colonies in 1775? |
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| What religion were most Germans in the colonies? |
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| _____show the Germans' industry and prosperity in the colonies |
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| Tell me about the ethnicity of the Scots-Irish (2) |
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-they were Scottish low-landers -they weren't even Irish |
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| How many Scots-Irish were there in the 13 colonies? |
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| Tell me about the migration of the Scots-Irish |
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| they were pushed to Ireland, but the Irish Catholics there resented their Presbyterianism , so they came to PA, and were pushed to the frontiers to become squatters |
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| What were two things that the Scots-Irish made? (fine, not technically) |
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| This "road" was full of Scots-Irish |
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| The Scots Irish were good for THIS beverage |
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| Why didn't the Scots-Irish like the British? |
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| pushed them out of England |
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| THIS MARCH protested the Quaker oligarchy being nice to the NAs |
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| THIS MOVEMENT was in THIS colony and was a rebellion against Eastern involvement in the colonies |
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| Name a president of Scots-Irish descent |
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| 5% of colonists made up this population |
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| The largest non-English group in the colonies came to be the ____, at __% of the population |
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| The armed conflicts of the 1690s and early 1700s resulted in... |
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-richer merchant princes-->top 10% got 2/3 of the wealth -more orphans/widows-->almshouses |
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| How did the later generations of colonists get less wealthy from landownings? |
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-less to get -more subdivisions with inheritance |
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| people in THIS place had to wear a large "p" on their clothes to show that they were receiving public charity |
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| What is the term for English criminals shlepped to the colonies? |
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| Why did many colonists push to outlaw slavery? |
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| they represented potentially rebellious paupers |
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| THIS was the most honored profession in the colonies |
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| Name two professions in the colonies that weren't as respected |
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| When did the first med school open? |
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| Why didn't physicians like the smallpox inoculation introduced in 1721? |
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| didn't like messing with the will of God |
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| name a remedy for smallpox in the eighteenth century |
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| THIS disease was deadly, especially for young people |
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| Besides tobacco, what grew in the Chesapeake? |
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| What did NY export 80 thousand barrels a year of? |
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| THIS and THIS were a huge part of middle colony success |
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| commercial ventures, land speculation |
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| Explain the triangular trade system |
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NE-->AFRICA (rum) -->WI (slaves) -->COLONIES (molasses) |
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| THIS RUM was huge in RI and MA |
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| What was the most important manufacturing activity in the colonies? |
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| THIS fraction of British naval ships were American-made |
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| WHAT act didn't let colonists sell stuff to the French West Indies? |
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| populations, due to the crappy roads in the eighteenth century, tended to cluster along ____ |
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| the banks of navigable rivers |
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| taverns popped up along travel routes and encouraged.... |
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| mingling of classes,democracy, gossip |
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| V/F: A very efficient mail system was made in the eighteenth century in the colonies |
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| Why was The College of Will and Mary set up? |
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| to train the Anglican clergy |
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| V/F: Jeremiads existed in the Anglican Church, too |
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| no...it was less intensely scary there |
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| THIS colony wasn't big on congregationalists |
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| THESE two religions rebelled against the king |
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| Congregationalists, Presbyterians |
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| Anglicans wanted THIS in their colonies, but non-Anglicans said "nuh-uh" |
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| These 4 things contributed to the Great Awakening |
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-less religious fervor -lengthy theological doctrines -loosened membership requirements -heretics |
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NAME THAT MAN: "individual free will, not divine decree will determine your eternal fate" |
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NAME THAT MAN: Jonathan Edwards |
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-started Great Awakening in Northampton, MA -"You need God's grace!" -Had captivating sermons: -"Sinners in the hands of an angry God" |
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NAME THAT MAN: amazingness orator of Great Awakening, describe in 3 points |
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George Whitefield -English -preached human helplessness and divine omnipotence -reduced J Edwards to tears, Ben to collection hat |
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| American imitators of the emotionalism of George Whitefield were considered... |
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| V/F: Baptists liked the Great Awakening |
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| What were 4 effects of the Great Awakening? |
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-undermined older clergy -increased #, competitiveness of American churches -more missionary work for slaves, NAs -"new light" centers of higher learning (colleges) |
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| What is the significance (No effects!) of the Great Awakening? |
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| first spontaneous mass movement of the American people |
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| What was education like in each section of the colonies? |
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-NE: liked it for religion -middle colonies: decent elementary schools, some tax-supported -south: it was a struggle with their logistics -corporal punishment was not shied away from |
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| What is the religious significance of UPenn? |
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| NAME four artists of the colonies in the eighteenth century |
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| Trumbell, Peale, West, Copley (NOT copland!!!) |
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NAME THAT MAN: painted George Washington |
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| What was architecture like in the colonies? |
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| transported from Europe to meet colonial needs (ex: log cabin) |
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NAME THAT woMAN: Boss poet |
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NAME THAT MAN: "First civilized American"(also describe) |
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Ben Franklin: -Poor Richard's Almanac -Only first-rank scientist |
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| THIS family had a hugemongous library in the colonies |
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| Why were newspapers so amazing in comparison to books? (for the colonists) |
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| they didn't have time nor money to read books |
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| Why were newspapers important in the colonies? |
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-source of world happenings, no duh -Aired opposition to British control |
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NAME THAT MAN: free press case defendant (also describe) |
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Peter Zenger: -NYer -charged with seditious libel -won because the stuff was true, and the jurors went for it -Lawyer: Alexander Hamilton |
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| Describe the bodies of the colonial legislative system |
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2 houses: -upper house (council): appointed by crown, governor -lower house (popular branch): appointed by generally wealthy landowners |
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NAME THAT MAN: crappy NY+NJ governor in 1702, +describe |
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Lord Cornbury -drunkard -frivolous spender -grafter -embezzler -religious bigot |
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| how did governments sometimes keep their leaders in check? |
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| Describe the local government of each section of the colonies |
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south: county gov't NE: town meetings middle: modification of the two |
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| Who didn't like Christmas in the colonies(besides Ebenezer, though technically British)? |
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| V/F: all colonies were basically English, kind of religiously tolerant, had social mobility, and some self-government |
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