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The population of Chesapeake colonies throughout first

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

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