American Society in the Making
1. Who principally shaped life in Spanish North America?
2. What were the three regions of the Chesapeake Colonies?
3. List the Negative characteristics of the Chesapeake Colony, the "community in the wilderness."
4. What was the headright system? What was the main financial problem for most colonists (Indentured Servants)?
5. Men outnumbered women ____ to one.
6. What is a "squatter? (Please, no bathroom jokes)
7. In 1650 there were only _______ blacks in Virginia and as late as 1670 no more than _________.
8. Why did the English change their views about tobacco? What economic advantages did tobacco have over wheat?
9. Summarize Bacon's Rebellion:
10. List the valuable products produced in the Carolinas
11. Why did South Carolina indigo not interfere with rice harvests?
12. T/F Most runaway slaves became rebels.
13. T/F 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.
14. T/F By modern standards, most affluent planters were uncomfortable.
15. T/F White women (Indentured servants too) rarely worked in the fields.
16. T/F Southern children were subjected to stricter discipline than children in New England.
17. T/F Most southern children didn't go to school and whatever they learned, they got from their parents or other relatives.
18. Describe some examples of how the South lacked formal education:
19. How many convicts were transported to the New World? Why was Georgia and the Back Country an ideal relocation?
20. What products did James Oglethorpe intend to make profitable in Georgia? Why did his plans fail?
21. Who were the Regulators?
22. What advantage did Boston have over Jamestown? What did this advantage leave settlers free to attend to?
23. Which commandment bound John Winthrop and his puritan colony?
24. Explain Reverend John Cotton's outline of a woman's responsibilities:
25. What event put an end to the Great Migration in the early 1640s?
26. What effect did a healthy society (high birthrate and low mortality rate) have on the demographics of New England.
27. What was a "visible saint"?
28. Why did Perry Miller claim that the 1660s marked the decline of the puritan experience?
29. The Dominion of New England: In 1686, how did Edmund Andros order the northern colonies to behave like colonies, not like sovereign power?
30. What is the total number of executions during the Salem Witch Trial hysteria?
31. T/F Most New England men could read and write.
32. "The first printing press in the English colonies was founded in Cambridge in ________, and by _______ Boston was producing an avalanche of printed matter.
33. Critical Thinking: How did hysteria and a lack of a modern judicial practices fuel the Salem Witch Trials of 1692.
34. How might "usury" undermine Puritanism?
35. Debating the Past: In your opinion were puritan communities peaceable? Why or why not?
36. The Triangular Trade:
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"?
38. What was the economic focus of the Middle Colonies?
39. Why so few English in the Middle Colonies?
40. What angered the Paxton Boys?