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Lecture 6 Flashcards

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Aspects of New England Colonies

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Settled by the puritans, low African population

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Aspects of Southern Colonies

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Exported cash crops, many slaves, mostly Anglican people

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Which countries experienced high population growth in their New World colonies?

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England, not France or Spain

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Was population growth in the English colonies due to immigrants or natural increase?

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Natural increase

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What was different about the colonist by 1770?

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They had never seen England, had a different connection to the motherland

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Boston

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New England trading hub, filled with rich merchants and fishermen

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Why was population growth slow in New England

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They had shorter growing seasons with smaller farms, mostly run by family labor and not slaves

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What tribes fought alongside New France and New England during the war between them?

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Iroquis and Mahicans

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How was land passed down in New England?

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Through partial inheritance as oppose to primogeniture

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Key aspects of Puritan worship

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Plain wooden building churches, not fancy clothing, very plain services, not idolatrous

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What were the first cattle brought from Britain and why?

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Devon cattle because they were small, easily tamed, and could be used for work, milk, and beef

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When diid New England start building ships for Britain?

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During the English Cival War

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What were the largest exports of New England?

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Cattle and Fish

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Why was there animosity between New England and New France?

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French were catholic and New England was puritan, started hostile attacks between colonies supported by Indian tribes

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King Philip’s War

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1675-1676 King Philip (Metacomet) attacked New England colonies after they expanded into Indian territory, burned down 12 villages in Massachusetts

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Aftermath of King Philip’s War

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Tensions between Indians and colonists grew, Pequot tribe sided with New England, gave New England a unified identity

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The American Jeremiad Sermon

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Sermon preaching that the terrible war was punishment from God and the events were retribution for not living up to their spiritual duties

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Where did the colonists in the Middle colonies come rom?

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Germany, Ireland, and Scotland

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What was the main religion in the Middle Colonies?

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Protestantism, usually poor and came over as indentured servants

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Shendoah Valley Immigrants

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Scot-Irish immigrants who despised the wealthy elite

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Redemtioners

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German indentured servants

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What religious groups settled in the Middle colonies to escape persecution?

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Mennonites, Moravians, and Amish

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What was the main crop in the Middle colonies?

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Wheat, did not require a lot of work so they did not need a lot of slave labor

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New York City / New Amsterdam

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Second largest colonial city filled with merchants, exotic traders, and even freed slaves

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Philadelphia

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Largest colonial city in America, major trading city with lots of Quakers

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What city was the center for printing?

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Philadelphia

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Who was one of the most famous printers in Philadelphia?

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Benjamin Franklin

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Charlestown

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4th largest city in the south, had the largest port

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Population growth in the Southern colonies

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The southern colonies had twice the population of New England and the Middle colonies but with an especially high mortality rate

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Williamsburg

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capitol of the Southern colonies, home to their first college William and Mary, after the king and queen

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South Carolina and Georgia exports

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rice and indigo, latter cotton with the invention of the cotton gin

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Slavery in Georgia

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Founded by James Oglethorpe who originally outlawed but the colony was not profitable without it,

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Where did most American slaves come from?

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Captured by other tribes in Africa, passed between slave traders, bought by white Europeans and shipped to the New World

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Robin Johns

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Former slave who became a slave trader

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Olauda Equiano or Gustavus Vassa

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Freed slave that helped end the slave trade system

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Stone Rebellion

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Slave rebellion in the Southern colonies sparked by the Spanish offering freedom to any man in Florida

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Why were slave rebellions not likely in America?

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Slaves were outnumbered and spread out, some who were not treated poorly didn’t want to risk it

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Negro Acts

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limited slave privileges after the Stone rebellion

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