Chapter 3 Flashcards
T or F: In the 1600s most plantations were large, well maintained estates, usually with over 100 workers
False
T or F: Cotton was the South’s first successful cash crop
False
T or F: New England did not develop large plantations because none of the crops that could be grown there were in great demand elsewhere
True
T or F: Barrel making was a very important industry in the colonies because barrels were used to store and ship almost everything
True
T or F: Mercantilists believed that a country could accumulate gold and silver up buying more goods from other countries than it sold to them
False
T or F: The Dominion of New Englad was a royal province that combined New England colonies under a government appointed by King James II
True
T or F: The a Toleration Act granted freedom of worship to nearly all Protestants but not to Catholic and Jews
True
T or F: American colonist typically kept their families small because they didn’t have sufficient money to raise many children
False
Bacon’s Rebellion convinced many wealthy planters that the best way to keep Virginian society stable was to..
Have land available in the back country
The New England colonist powered sawmills with …
Waterfalls
The people at the top of the colonial New England urban society were …
Gentry
Few farmers of the Middle Colonies because wealthy growing wheat because …
Cutting and threshing wheat had to be done by hand
Enlightenment thinkers emphasized..
Logic and reason
Many indentured servants who came to the Chesapeake Bay region did not acquire their own land because …
They could not afford the cost of tools and livestock in addition to the deed
The Virginia Slave code …
Regulated slavery
The rise of trade in New England led to…
The rise if cities along the coast
Mercantilists believed that to become wealthy and powerful, a country had to …
Accumulate gold and silver
The result of the Staple Act was..
Higher prices of goods the colonies imported from Europe
Philosopher John Locke asserted that all people were born with certain natural rights, including the right to…
Life, liberty, and property
Why did the governor of Spanish Florida promise freedom and land to enslaved Africans?
To weaken South Carolina
During the Great Awakening, ministers held …
Revivals
Rice and indigo, the main cash crops of South Carolina, needed the right kind of climate and techniques to be cultivated. These requirements led to the rise of …
Plantations
Many southern, backcountry farmers practiced ____ farming, growing only enough crops to feed their own families
Subsistence
In the Colonial period, the ____ , a shallow region off Northeast coast of New England, teemed with fish.
Grand Banks
The movement of enslaved Africans to America became known as the ___
Middle Passage
King James II offended many people in England by openly practicing ____
Catholicism
Philosopher John Locke argued that a monarch’s right to rule came from the ___
People
Used to make blue dye for cloth
Indigo
Used to make candles, perfume, and buttons
Whales
Required intensive manual labor to grow
Tobacco
The main cash crop of the Middle Colonies
Wheat
Brought prosperity to New England
Fish
The South’s first successful cash crop
Tobacco
Dried to feed livestock during the New England winters
Apples
Enslaved Africans were brought to South Carolina to cultivate a new type of the crop
Rice
Unsuccessfully grown in New England because the soil was too poor
Wheat
A subsistence crop for the farmers of New England and the Southern backcountry
Corn
Explain the beliefs concerning government of John Locke
Believed government should protect people’s natural rights
Explain the beliefs concerning government of Jean Jacques Rousseau
Social Contract Theory
Explain the beliefs concerning government of Baron Von Montesquieu
Believed government should be divided into branches
