APUSH 2.2

Question 1

The British colonies participated in political, cultural, and economic exchanges with Great Britain that encouraged what?

Answer 1

Stronger bonds with Britain and resistance to Britain’s control

Question 2

Transatlantic commercial, religious, philosophical, and political exchanges led residents of the British colonie to evole in what?

Answer 2

Their political and cultural attitudes as they became increasingly tied to Britain and one another

Question 3

Diverse religous and ethnic groups (Quakers, Puritans, Catholics) led to what?

Answer 3

Plurism: multiple groups living together

Intellecual exchange from different European groups

Question 4

What were diverse religious and ethnic groups strengthened by?

Answer 4

1st Great Awakening: Edwards and Whutefield led to increase in conversions which resulted in new brances of christianity)
Enlightenment: questioning of goverment (Locke-natural rights, Montesquieu-seperation of powers

Question 5

How did British colonies experiece Anglicization (using more English norms and customs) over time?

Answer 5

Colonial goverments were based on English models
Frequent contact with Britain via transatlantic print culture-spread of ideas and goods via trade and newspaper
Spread of Protestant Evangelicalism: George Whitefield from England and others traveled across the colonies to spread his message

Question 6

The British sought to increase control of its colonies through what?

Answer 6

pursuit of mercantilism

Question 7

Conflicts with colonists and Natives led to what?

Answer 7

Erratic (inconsistant) enforcements

Question 8

Why did Britain seek o limit colonial expansion?

Answer 8

limit conflicts with Natives (especially post 7 years war)

Question 9

What required colonists to export specific goods only to England or English colonies?

Answer 9

Navigation Act

Question 10

What did the navigation act lead to?

Answer 10

widespread smuggling from colonial merchants

Question 11

Domination of New England combined who with the rest of the new world?

Answer 11

Massachusetts

Question 12

What did colonial resistance stem from?

Answer 12

Colonial self goverment
Ideas of liberty
Enlightenment
Religious independence and diversity
Perceived corruption in the imperial system

Question 13

What was colonial self goverment?

Answer 13

Colonists (white land owning men in most cases) were able to vote for colonial representatives, had no say in Parliment

Question 14

What were the ideas of liberty?

Answer 14

Colonists saw themselves as British and wanted same rights

Question 15

What was the Enlightenment?

Answer 15

challenged traditional ideas of goverment, encouragd limiting the power of the goverment

Question 16

What was religious independence and diversity?

Answer 16

1st Great Awakening challenged traditional church authority;led to challenging authority in other areas (goverment)

Question 17

Corrupt rulers like Sir Edmond Andros of the Dominion of New England elminated what?

Answer 17

colonial assemblies

Question 18

Like other European empires in the Americas that prticipated in the slave trade, the English colonies developed a system of slavery that reflected what?

Answer 18

Specific economic, demographic, and geopgraphic charcteristics of those colonies

Question 19

Why did all the British colinies participate in slave trade to some degree?

Answer 19

Large amounts of land
High demand in Europe for colonial goods (tobacco)
Shortage of indentured servants especially post Bacon’s Rebellion

Question 20

Where was slavery found in English colonies?

Answer 20

Small farms in New England
Port cities in the north and south
Plantations in the Chesapeake (MD and VA) and the South (NC, SC, GA)
Most slaves were sent to the Caribbean

Question 21

What was the impact of slavery in the south?

Answer 21

Emergence of strict racial system
Prohibition of interracial relationships
Children of mothers who were enslaved were enslaved (didnt matter who the father was)

Question 22

Africans resisted slavery and sought to maintain some levels of autonomy (family culture and religion). How did Africans resist slavery?

Answer 22

Overtly - through rebellions (Stono rebellion 1739)

Covertly - breaking tools, running away, working slow

Question 23

How did Africans maintain some levels of Autonomy?

Answer 23

Family - surrogate families for slaves who were sold
Culture - language and music
Religion - Combined elements of African religions with Christianity