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| Self Sufficiency that had to be located close to waterways. No need for city warehouses or towns. |
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| Crops that have a constant market are called |
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| T or F Under mercantilism, the English colonies were designed to benefit the power and wealth of England. |
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| Profits from trading or other commercial activities |
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| The Five levels of New England Social Divisions |
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1. Merchants
2. Artisans
3. Laborers
4. Indentured Servants
5. Slaves |
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| Three problems urban communities faced |
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1 Lack of firewood
2 Crime
3 Poor sanitation |
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| In 1646 MA banned smoking within how many miles of any town? |
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| T or F, During colonial times most manufacturing took place in large factories. |
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| Protestant Scots were called what? |
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| Presbyterian- a religious group who lived in Philadelphia |
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| The early Dutch settlers lived in what two colonies? |
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| The highland scots and irish Catholics settled in which colony? |
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| List the three major German religious groups that came to the English colonies during colonial times |
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| Lutherans, Quakers, Mennonites |
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| Most of the German immigrants were attracted to what colony? |
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| Swedes and Finns during colonial times settled in |
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| Jews from Portugal settled in |
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| What fraction of workers during colonial times worked as indentured servants on plantations found in the south? |
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| List two southern colonies where tobacco was popular? |
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| The majority of rice came from which Southern colony? |
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| T or F, Most African slaves that settled in North America came from East Africa. |
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| Consisted of people who are related to one another by blood or marriage. |
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| T or F, Most African slaves that settled in North America came from different tribes and had their own language. |
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| T or F, Slavery did not exist in Africa prior to the arrival of Europeans |
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| Voyage the slaves took to get to the New World, men and women were placed into separate holds and many slaves died from disease. |
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| Who was the white foreman who directed the work done by the slaves? |
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| Who was the black slave who was assigned to supervise the work done by other slaves? |
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| Slaves were organized under what type of system |
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| T or F, Bacon's Rebellion was the first popular uprising in the American colonies |
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| What was the most important social unit for African slaves |
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| Which types of people became slaves? |
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| Kidnapping, prisoners of war, or poor people seeking a protective master. |
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| T or F, The slaves were branded and herded into the holds of the slave ships. |
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| Did slavery become a profitable business? |
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| Survivors of the Middle Passage |
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| Arrived in the colonies frightened and confused. |
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| When some slaves had special skills, what were they called? |
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| What were some examples of artisans? |
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| Did artisans have independence and mobility? |
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| Did household slaves have a higher level of status than field hands? |
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| How were the slaves in South Carolina? |
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| Most of them were unskilled. |
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| At times the slave population out-numbered the white population __ to __. |
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| Mixture of English and West African languages that most of the slaves spoke. |
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| Poor white farmers, lived in the plateau region of forest and rolling hills. |
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| Causes of Bacons rebellion |
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| No representation in the H of B, taxed at a higher rate than the Tidewater farmers, didn't have the right to vote, wanted the Virginia militia to remove the Indians from their land. |
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| Who was the leader of Bacon's rebellion and what did he represent? |
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| Nathaniel Bacon; Represented the Piedmont farmer position. |
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| T or F, The House of Burgesses refused to listen to his demands. |
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| Where was the revolt that Bacon led and how did it end? |
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| Bacon led an armed revolt against Jamestown and it failed. |
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| What did planters turn to after that? |
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| African slaves for cheap labor. |
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| What did England believe that a ruler should control? |
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| What do European nations really start to depend on in colonial times? |
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| New territories rich in natural resources |
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| What resulted from Triangle trade? |
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| Many New England merchants became wealthy such as John Hancock. |
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| What were some items manufactured by artisans |
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| Guns, tools, nails, glass bottles, kitchen utensils. |
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| What became one of New England's most important industries? |
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| What did merchants do for the long hours they worked in shipping |
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| Supervised their account books, wrote out insructions for ship captains, corresponded with their agents in other colonies, in the West Indes and London. |
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| German immigrants were against what? |
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| Militarism- warlike attitudes and policies |
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| T or F, Farming in New England was easy and short hours. |
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| False, Long hours and hard work |
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Cooked with iron pots over a fireplace
Spun cloth and sewed
used pear lash |
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Heavy outdoor work
Clear hte fields- horses, oxen and mules |
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| Who sent agents to Germany to recruit settlers. |
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productive,
made wheat, barley, rye, beef and ham. |
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Who did the Puritans form an alliance with against the Pequot tribe?
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| Who lost the war between the Pequot and The Puritans? |
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| The Pequot tribe lost the war at the Battle of the Pequot Fort located along the Mystic River in Connecticut. |
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| How many Pequots survived the English attack? |
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| What else was the King Philip's war called? |
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| Who led the Wampanoag Indians in a revolt against the Puritans in MA Bay? |
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| What type of tactics did the Wampanoag use? |
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| Guerilla Warfare- hit and run |
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| Puritan general who led a counter attack against Metacom and killed 3,000 Indians including Metacom |
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| What happened to James II in the Glorious Revolution? |
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| He had to advocate the throne. |
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| Installed as new Protestant monarchs in the Glorious Revolution |
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| What does Parliament do in the Glorious Revolution? |
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| Limits the power of the crown and grants religious freedom. |
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| What were the results of the Glorious Revolution in New England? |
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Edmund Andros is finished as governor
1691- new charter introduced
new governor appointed by the king
religious toleration was granted
puritan religious powers decline. |
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| What did Jacob Leisler do? |
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| Led a group of local militiamen in NYC and supported the middle class. |
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What did the Navigation acts do?
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| Custom officials were sent to each colony to enforce the law, These officers had the power to inspect vessels and search warehouses |
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| Where were people who accused of smuggling tried? |
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| Admiralty court- Judge were appointed by the crown and there were no juries |
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| What was the Board of Trade and Plantation |
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| Set up to enforce navigation acts and they could offer its advice on the rules of the colonies. |
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| Which two colonies could elect their own governors? |
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| Connecticut and Rhode Island |
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| What was salutary neglect? |
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| Colonies able to practice different forms of self government. |
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| Developed in the field of science, people looked beyond religious authority to explain how and why the universe worked. |
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| What did Nicolaus Copernicus discover? |
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| The world is governed by mathematic laws |
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| What did Galileo Galilei discover? |
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| The Earth revolves around the sun. |
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| What did Sir Isaac Newton do? |
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| He researched gravity as a part of physics. |
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| Believed God created natural laws of life, liberty, and property. Believed in social contracts. |
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| What was a social contract? |
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| People agreed to obey a government if it would protect their natural rights. |
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| Where was Ben Franklin born and what did he do there? |
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| Boston; served as a printers apprentice. |
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| Where did Ben Franklin move to and what did he do there? |
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| Moved to Philadelphia and set up his own print shop. |
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| What were the four things Ben Franklin had as an occupation? |
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1. Scientist
2. Inventor
3. Writer
4. Diplomat |
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| What did Ben Franklin invent or discover? |
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1. Bifocal eyeglasses
2. Metal stove
3. Lightning Rod
4. Lightning and electricity are the same thing
5. Founder of University of Penn |
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| Forbade colonists from settling west of the Appl. Mountains. |
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| Who was George Grenville? |
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| British colonial minister who set up the Proclamation act of 1763 |
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| Imposed a tax on foreign made molasses. |
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| Who was Jonathon Edwards? |
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| Congregational church minister that had emotional sermons where people had to feel their sinfulness. |
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| Who was George Whitefield? |
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| Responsible for the Great Awakening. |
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| Helped with the Quaker revival. |
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| Puritan minister who realized the wrongdoings of the witchcraft trials/executions and helped put a stop to them. |
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| What was impressive about new england schooling? |
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| The american public was more literate than any other in the world. |
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| What did Puritans insist on? |
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| That their members were able to read the Bible. |
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| In 1640 MA law required all towns of hos many or more families to support a school master? |
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| What type of schooling did the middle colonies have? |
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| Calvinist schools- reading and writing skills are practiced. |
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| Was the Southern colonies schooling good? |
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| The southern colonies had few towns and few schools. |
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| What was the literacy comparison of women compared to men? |
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| Far fewer women than men knew how to read and write and no women could attend college. |
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In Cambridge, MA.
Founded to train ministers, yet most graduated to become something else.
Needed to take latin, greek, math, science, and philosophy. |
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| Where was William and Mary college located? |
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| What was Poor Richard's Almanack and who wrote it? |
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| Record of important dates, stars, and weather;Ben Franklin |
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| What was newspaper circulation like? |
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| It was small, passed on from hand to hand and read at cross roads. |
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