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Colonial Ways of Life
America: Seventh Edition
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History
12th Grade
12/16/2007

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"slash and burn" agriculture
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when Indians burned the woods for travel, animals, and food

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During this time what were living condition like. Included birth, death, marriage, health
Definition

More marriages younger, lowe death rate in the North, More kids

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Staple crops of the South in the 1600's 1700's
Definition
Tar, pitch, turpentine
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Indentured servants and Slaves
Definition

1619 first brought over but were treated as servants

 

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Townships
Definition

gathering into congregations to petition for a general court for a town, then spiliting up land for larger families

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Prohibitive duties (taxes) also known as:

What were they taxing and how did American get past them?

Definition

Invisible Charges 

1660 on fish, flour, wheat, and meat

Solved the problem by making their own ships, found other markets

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Triangular Trade
Definition
Slaves, Molasses or sugar, Tobacco
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Salem Witch Trails
Definition

Started in 1692 when Tibuta told 3 girls of the devils work in communities.

Led to many deaths, and prosecutions. Many victims were wives "out of their place".

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Anne Putnam
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one of the girls in the Salem witch trials. Her family landowner ship was declining which might have led to the trails
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Where and why did the immigrants come to American in the 1600's?
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German, Scottish, Irish, Dutch

Famines, Religious persecution

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Arrange the social order

Artisans

Merchants

Unskilled workers

Definition

Merchants

Artisans

Unskilled workers

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Urban Web: Communtication, and travel.
Definition
Stagecoaches-taverns-mail-newspapers
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John Peter Zenger
Definition
1735 brought to trial for critcizing the goverment, led to debates of freedom of speech
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Essay on Human Understanding
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John Locke Blank Slate theory 1690, can be avoided by improving reason
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Define:

Deism

Skepcticism

Definition

God as the clockmaker

Questioning beliefs

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George Whitfield
Definition

Individual salvation, in the Great Awakening

 

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John Edwards

Definition

"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" repentance, that you will burn if you don'

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