CHAPTER 3 Flashcards
To Quakers, liberty was:
a universal entitlement.
Pennsylvania’s treatment of Native Americans was unique in what way?
Pennsylvania purchased Indian land that was then resold to colonists and offered refuge to tribes driven out of other colonies.
In seventeenth-century England, the main lines of division focused on:
religion
The English Bill of Rights of 1689
listed parliamentary powers over such individual rights as trial by jury.
What happened in the seventeenth century when land ran out for slave plantations in Barbados?
Plantation owners acquired landholdings in the Carolinas.
What was key to making the enslavement of Africans an enduring economic and social institution in colonial America?
Unlike in Africa, the skin color of enslaved Africans in America made it difficult for them to escape into surrounding society, and slavery became perpetual, as the children of slaves were slaves too.
In the early seventeenth century, how did the English generally view humanity?
as divided between “civilized” people such as themselves, and “savage,” “pagan,” people, such as the Irish, Native Americans, and Africans, all of whom they often compared to animals
Which of the following is true of slavery in history?
The English word “slavery” derives from “Slav,” reflecting the slave trade in Slavic peoples until the fifteenth century.
What is one way plantation slavery in the Americas differed from slavery in previous eras of human history?
Labor on plantations was far more demanding, and the death rate of enslaved people in the Americas was much higher than in the household slavery common in Africa.
What statement accurately depicts the legal status of people of African descent in the Chesapeake prior to 1660?
Blacks’ rights were ambiguous, allowing some Africans to become landowners with servants or slaves.
What was one factor that contributed to the unrest that led to Bacon’s Rebellion?
Governor Berkeley refused to allow white settlement in areas reserved for Indians.
Which group made up the bulk of Nathaniel Bacon’s army?
discontented men who had recently been servants
Bacon’s Rebellion contributed to which of the following in Virginia?
the replacing of indentured servants with African slaves on Virginia’s plantations
Under the new slave code enacted in 1705 by the House of Burgesses, how were slaves classified?
as property, completely subject to the will of their masters
How did Bacon’s Rebellion accelerate Virginia’s shift from using indentured servants to enslaved Africans as the main labor force?
Virginia’s ruling elite sought to avert a further rise of a rebellious population of landless former indentured servants.
Compared to Spanish and French colonists, how did British colonists tend to view the Indians?
as outside their collective colonial identity
England’s Glorious Revolution of 1688
established parliamentary supremacy once and for all.
Why did the accusations of witchcraft in Salem suddenly snowball in 1692?
The only way to avoid prosecution was to confess and name others in the colony as witches.
The Salem Witch Trials of 1692
spurred prominent colonists to seek scientific explanations for natural events.
In the eighteenth century, what group made up the largest percentage of immigrants from the British Isles to America?
convicted criminals
