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Chapter 3 Flashcards

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T or F: In the 1600s most plantations were large, well maintained estates, usually with over 100 workers

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False

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T or F: Cotton was the South’s first successful cash crop

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False

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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

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True

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T or F: Barrel making was a very important industry in the colonies because barrels were used to store and ship almost everything

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True

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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

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False

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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

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True

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T or F: The a Toleration Act granted freedom of worship to nearly all Protestants but not to Catholic and Jews

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True

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T or F: American colonist typically kept their families small because they didn’t have sufficient money to raise many children

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False

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Bacon’s Rebellion convinced many wealthy planters that the best way to keep Virginian society stable was to..

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Have land available in the back country

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The New England colonist powered sawmills with …

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Waterfalls

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The people at the top of the colonial New England urban society were …

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Gentry

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Few farmers of the Middle Colonies because wealthy growing wheat because …

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Cutting and threshing wheat had to be done by hand

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Enlightenment thinkers emphasized..

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Logic and reason

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Many indentured servants who came to the Chesapeake Bay region did not acquire their own land because …

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They could not afford the cost of tools and livestock in addition to the deed

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The Virginia Slave code …

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Regulated slavery

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The rise of trade in New England led to…

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The rise if cities along the coast

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Mercantilists believed that to become wealthy and powerful, a country had to …

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Accumulate gold and silver

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The result of the Staple Act was..

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Higher prices of goods the colonies imported from Europe

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Philosopher John Locke asserted that all people were born with certain natural rights, including the right to…

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Life, liberty, and property

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Why did the governor of Spanish Florida promise freedom and land to enslaved Africans?

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To weaken South Carolina

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During the Great Awakening, ministers held …

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Revivals

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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 …

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Plantations

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Many southern, backcountry farmers practiced ____ farming, growing only enough crops to feed their own families

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Subsistence

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In the Colonial period, the ____ , a shallow region off Northeast coast of New England, teemed with fish.

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Grand Banks

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The movement of enslaved Africans to America became known as the ___

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Middle Passage

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King James II offended many people in England by openly practicing ____

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Catholicism

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Philosopher John Locke argued that a monarch’s right to rule came from the ___

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People

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Used to make blue dye for cloth

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Indigo

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Used to make candles, perfume, and buttons

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Whales

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Required intensive manual labor to grow

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Tobacco

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The main cash crop of the Middle Colonies

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Wheat

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Brought prosperity to New England

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Fish

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The South’s first successful cash crop

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Tobacco

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Dried to feed livestock during the New England winters

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Apples

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Enslaved Africans were brought to South Carolina to cultivate a new type of the crop

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Rice

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Unsuccessfully grown in New England because the soil was too poor

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Wheat

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A subsistence crop for the farmers of New England and the Southern backcountry

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Corn

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Explain the beliefs concerning government of John Locke

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Believed government should protect people’s natural rights

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Explain the beliefs concerning government of Jean Jacques Rousseau

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Social Contract Theory

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Explain the beliefs concerning government of Baron Von Montesquieu

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Believed government should be divided into branches

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