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half of 17
th
century was notable for its
During the 17
th
century, indentured servitude solved the
labor problem in many English colonies for all of except
By 1700, most populous colony in English America was
_________ reaped greatest benefit from land policies of
headright system
English yeomen who agreed to exchange their labor
temporarily in return for payment of their passage to an
American colony were called
Immigrants to Chesapeake colonies in 17
th
century came as
By end of 17
th
century, indentured servants who gained
their freedom
The immediate reason for Bacons Rebellion was
The majority of African slaves coming to the New World
Many of the slaves who reached North America
The physical & social conditions of slavery were harshest in
While slavery began in America for economic reasons,
The slave culture that developed in America
Compared with indentured servants, African slaves were
Most inhabitants of the colonial American South were
It was typical of colonial New England adults to
The special characteristics of New Englands population led
to the observation that these colonists invented
Puritans refused to recognize a womans property rights bc
The expansion of New England society
The Puritan system of congregational church govt led to
The Salem witch craft trials were
All were consequences of the Half-Way Covenant except
The Salem witch hunt in 1692
The impact of New England on nation is best described as
Over course of 17
th
century, indentured servants
Scarcity of women
Spain had stopped sending slaves to its New World
colonies
Virginia
Merchant planters
Indentured servants
Indentured servants
Had little choice but to hire themselves out for low wages
to their former masters
Indian attacks on frontier settlements
Were delivered to South American and the West Indies
Were originally captured by African coastal tribes
South Carolina
Racial discrimination powerfully molded American slave system
Was a uniquely New World creation
A more manageable labor force
Landowning small farmers
Marry early and have several children
Grandparents
They worried such rights would undercut unity of married
persons
Proceeded in an orderly fashion
Democracy in political government
Result of unsettled social & religious conditions in rapidly
evolving Massachusetts
It maintained the original agreement of the covenant
Was opposed by the more responsible members of clergy
Extremely important
Faced increasingly harsh conditions
The English justified taking land from the native
inhabitants on the grounds that the Indians
The late 17
th
century rebellion in New York was headed by
________, whereas that in Maryland was led by _______.
All of the following are reasons the thirteen Atlantic
seaboard colonies sought independence except
As a result of the rapid population growth in colonial
America during the 18
th
century,
By 1775, the ________ were the largest non-English ethnic
group in colonial America
The most ethnically diverse region of Colonial America was
______, whereas ________ was the least ethnically diverse
By mid 1700s, number of poor people in American colonies
During colonial era, all of following peoples created new
societies out of diverse ethnic groups in America except
When it came to religion, the Scots-Irish
When several colonial legislatures attempted to restrict or
halt the importation of slaves, British authorities
The triangular trade of colonial American shipping industry
Although manufacturing in the colonies was of only
secondary importance, they produced which of following?
Which of following was not considered to be a naval store?
When the British Parliament passed the Molasses Act in
1733, it intended the act to
Transportation in colonial America was
English officials tried to establish the Church of England
in as many colonies as possible because
By the early 18
th
century, religion in colonial America was
The Great Awakening
Culture in colonial America
All of following are achievements of Ben Franklin except
One political principle colonial Americans cherished was
Colonial legislatures bend power of governors to their will bc
By mid 18
th
century, North American colonies shares all of the
following except
Wasted the earth
Jacob Leisler , Protestants
Distinctive ethnic or racial structures
A momentous shift occurred in the balance of power between
the colonies and the mother country
Africans
The middle colonies , New England
Remained tiny compared with the number in England
Asians
Found it to be a bond that held them together
Vetoed such efforts
Involved the trading of rum for African slaves
All of the Above
Glass
Inhibit colonial trade with the French West Indies
Slow by any of the means available
The church would act as a major prop for kingly authority
Less fervid than when the colonies were established
All of the Above
Involved heavy investment in art
Influential poetry
Self-taxation through representation
Colonial legislatures controlled taxes and expenditures that
paid the governors salaries
Complete democracy
In colonial elections,
By 1775, most governors of American colonies were
The person often called the first civilized American was
The new light preachers of the Great Awakening
Colonial taverns were all of the following except
American colonists sought trade with countries other than
Great Britain
Least important economic activity of colonial Americans
As the 17
th
century wore on, regional difference continued
to crystallize, most notably
In 17
th
century, due to a high death rate families were both
few and fragile in the
Conditions caused Scots to migrate Northern Ireland except
On the Eve of America Revolution, social and economic
mobility decreased, partly because
The population of the thirteen American colonies was
The headright system, made people wealthy consisted of
The Half-Way Covenant
Thomas Jefferson once observed that the best school of
political liberty the world ever saw was the
When new towns were established in New England, all of
the following were true except
When the Scots-Irish established a new community, one of
the first tasks they undertook was
One feature common to all of the eventually rebellious
colonies was their
The population growth of the American colonies by 1775 is
attributed mostly to
With regard to governmental authority, the Scots-Irish
Compared with 17
th
century Europeans, Americans lived in
Match each individual with his talent
A: Jonathan Edwards B: Ben Franklin C: Phillis
Wheatley 1: Poet 2: Scientist 3: Theologian
For their labors in the colonies, indentured servants
received all of the following except
The right to vote was reserved for property holders
Appointed by the king
Ben Franklin
Delivered intensely emotional sermons
Frequented mainly by the lower class
To make money to buy what they wanted in Great Britain
Manufacturing
The importance of slave labor in the south
Chesapeake colonies
Persecution of their Catholic religion
Some merchants made huge profits as military suppliers
Perhaps most diverse, although remained predominantly Anglo-Saxon
Giving the right to acquire 50 acres of land to the person
paying the passage of a laborer to America
Admitted to baptism but not full membership the
unconverted children of existing members
New England town meeting
Families did not automatically receive land
Erect a church
Rapidly growing populations
That natural fertility of all Americans
Cherished no love for the British or any other government
Affluent abundance
A-3 B-2 C-1
Three-quarters of the population
Match each denomination with its region it predominated
A: Congregationalist B: Anglican C: Presbyterian
1: The frontier 2: New England 3: The South
In 1775, the _______ churches were the only two
established (tax supported) churches in colonial America
For those Africans sold into slavery, Middle Passage was
The slave society that developed in North America was one
of the few slave societies in history to
Southern colonies generally allowed married women to
retain separate title to their property because
One feature of the American economy that strained the
relationship between the colonies and Britain was the
In contrast to the Chesapeake colonies, New England
The New England economy depended heavily on
The combination of Calvinism soil and climate in New
England resulted in people processing which qualities?
The major manufacturing enterprise in colonial America in
the 18
th
century was
As a result of the Bacons Rebellion,
Bacons Rebellion was supported mainly by
The riches created by the growing slave population in the
American South
For their labor in the colonies, indentured servants
received all of the following except
Throughout the greater part of 17
th
century, Chesapeake
colonies acquired most of the labor they needed from
By the end of 17
th
century, indentured servants who gained
their freedom
All of the following are reasons for increased slave labor,
after 1680, in colonial America except
As a result of poor soil, all of the following conditions
prevailed in New England except
All are conditions of Chesapeake compared to Deep South except
17
th
century colonial tobacco growers usually responded
to depressed prices for their crop by
By 18
th
century, various colonial regions had distinct
economic identities; northern colonies relied on ___, the
Chesapeake colonies relied on ___, and southern on_____
A-2 A-3 C-1
Congregational and Anglican
The gruesome ocean voyage to America
Perpetuate itself by its own natural reproduction
Southern men frequently died young
Growing desire of the Americans to trade with other
nations in addition to Britain
Had a more diversified economy
Fishing, shipbuilding, and commerce
Energy, stubbornness, self-reliance, resourcefulness
Lumbering
Planters began to look for less troublesome laborers
Young men frustrated by their inability to acquire land
Were not distributed evenly among whites
At times a small parcel of land
White servants
Had little choice but to hire themselves out for low wages
to their former masters
The numbers of indentured servants continued to increase
in the colonies
Reliance on a single, staple crop became a necessity
Even though the slave population began to rise, family life
was still impossible
Growing more tobacco to increase volume of production
Cattle and grain , tobacco , rice and indigo