Chapter 4 - Becoming America? (1720-1760)

Question 1

What is a polyglot?

Answer 1

Knowing or using several languages, native peoples who knew English were used as translators between cultures

Question 2

How did the population grow in the years following 1720?

Answer 2

The expansion of European settlements changed the dynamic of previous indigenous control outside of the interior of the continent. The population doubled by 1775, reaching 2.5 million. The majority of this growth came from Scotland, Ireland, England, Germany, and Africa.

Question 3

What were the British territorial claims?

Question 4

What were the French territorial claims?

Question 5

What were the Spanish territorial claims?

Question 6

How did the relationships between Anglo-Americans and American Indians develop?

Question 7

What role did New Orleans play during this era?

Question 8

What role did San Diego play during this era?

Question 9

How did trade blossom through the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River?

Question 10

What was the transatlantic slave trade?

Question 11

How were Africans represented through the enslaved population?

Question 12

What was hereditary slavery?

Question 13

What were the patterns of immigration?

Question 14

What changes emerged in the commercial trading practices?

Question 15

How religiously diverse were the colonies and why?

Question 16

What were the “middling sorts”?

Question 17

What role did major cities like New York, Boston, and Philadelphia play?

Question 18

What was King George’s War?

Question 19

What were the differing economies and goals of southern colonies?

Question 20

What is an oeconomical household?

Question 21

What were the “Metis”?

Question 22

How did men’s and women’s role is households differ?

Question 23

What was the “femes covert”?

Question 24

What were the dynamics between members of enslaved families?

Question 25

How did the enslaved population resist against slavery?

Question 26

How did the development of oral cultures shift culture?

Question 27

What was the “Middle Ground”?

Question 28

What were civic rituals?

Question 29

How did culture surrounding consumption develop?

Question 30

What were the beliefs and traditions surrounding gentility?

Question 31

How did consumer goods like tea, madeira, and sugar contribute to the developing country?

Question 32

What did colonial architecture consist of?

Question 33

What were the first universities of America?

Question 34

How did printing and print culture change the course of history?

Question 35

What was the enlightenment?

Question 36

Who was John Locke?

Question 37

Who was Benjamin Franklin and what were his contributions to science?

Question 38

What was the great awakening?

Question 39

Who was George Whitefield?

Question 40

What were the differences between the Old Lights and the New Lights?

Question 41

What were the colonial assemblies?

Question 42

How did free press affect colonial politics?

Question 43

What was the Stono Rebellion?

Question 44

How did Europeans compete within the colonies?

Question 45

What tensions existed between the colonies and the British during wartime?

Question 46

What was the significance of the Ohio country?

Question 47

What role did the Iroquois play in colonial conflicts and trade?