American society in the making

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Question 1: Who principally shaped life in Spanish North America?

Question 2: What were the three main regions of the Chesapeake Colonies?

Question 3: List the Negative characteristics or features of the Chesapeake Colony, the “community in the wilderness.”

Question 4: What was the headright system? What was the major financial problem for most colonists (Indentured Servants)?

Question 5: Men outnumbered women ____ to one.

Question 6: What is a squatter? (Please, no bathroom jokes)

Question 7: In the year 1650 there were only _______ blacks in Virginia and as late as 1670 no more than _________.

Question 8: Why did the English change their views about tobacco? What economic advantages did tobacco have over wheat?

Question 9: Summarize the Bacon’s Rebellion?

Question 10: List the valuable products generated in the Carolinas.

Question 11: Why did South Carolina indigo not interfere with rice harvests?

Question 12: True/False Most of the runaway slaves became rebels.

Question 13: True/False At this time, whites pictured the black as a kind of malevolent ogre, powerful, bestial, and lascivious, a caldron of animal emotions that had to be restrained at any cost.

Question 14: True/False By modern standards, most affluent planters were uncomfortable.

Question 15: True/False White women (Indentured servants too) rarely worked in the fields.

Question 16: True/False Southern children were subjected to stricter discipline than children in New England.

Question 17: True/False Most southern children didn’t go to school and whatever they learned, they got from their parents or other relatives.

Question 18: Describe some illustrations of how the South lacked formal education?

Question 19: How many convicts were transported to the New World? Why was Georgia and the Back Country an ideal relocation?

Question 20: What products did James Oglethorpe intend to make profitable in Georgia? Why did his plans fail?

Question 21: Who were the Regulators?

Question 22: What benefit did Boston have over Jamestown? What did this benefit leave settlers free to attend to?

Question 23: Which commandment bound John Winthrop and his puritan colony?

Question 24: Describe Reverend John Cotton’s outline of a woman’s responsibilities:

Question 25: What event put an end to the Great Migration in the early 1640s?

Question 26: What effect did a healthy society (high birthrate and low mortality rate) have on the demographics of New England.

Question 27: What was a 'visible saint'?

Question 28: Why did Perry Miller claim that the 1660s marked the decline of the puritan experience?

Question 29: The Dominion of New England: In 1686, how did Edmund Andros order the northern colonies to behave like colonies, not like sovereign power?

Question 30: What is the total number of executions all through the Salem Witch Trial hysteria?

Question 31: True/False Most New England men could read and write.

Question 32: The first printing press in the English colonies was founded in Cambridge in ________, and by _______ Boston was producing an avalanche of printed matter.

Question 33: Critical Thinking: How did hysteria and a lack of a modern judicial practices fuel the Salem Witch Trials of 1692.

Question 34: How may 'usury' undermine Puritanism?

Question 35: Debating the Past: In your opinion were puritan communities peaceable? Why or why not?

Question 36: What are the Triangular Trade?

Question 37: Why does the text state that Boston (the puritan “Citty upon  a Hill”) stand “on Massachusetts Bay, midway between it Puritan origins and its American future”?

Question 38: What was the economic focus of Middle Colonies?

Question 39: Why so few English in the Middle Colonies?

Question 40: What angered the Paxton Boys?