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Maryland and Virginia belong to New England or Chesapeake Bay?

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Chesapeake Bay

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What did the environment of Chesapeake bay do to its settlers?

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Severely shorten their life span

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What did the shortened lifespans of the residents of Chesapeake bay cause in terms of relationships?

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Men fought over women (I mean they would’ve done that unprompted probably but even more so now that women were outnumbered by men)

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Who had more familial relations, Chesapeake bay or New England?

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New England

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What crop did Chesapeake bay grow?

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Good ol’ devil’s lettuce (tobacco)

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Who were used as an alternative to Indian and African slaves?

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Indentured slaves

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What did indentured servants receive for their work?

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Free man’s dues (a few barrels of corn, a suit of clothes, maybe maybe possibibibly a small piece of land) (I mean or they got nothing and left broke and without work)(or my personal favorite, they ended up dead)

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What is the headright system?

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Whoever paid their passage to the new world got fifty acres of land along with another fifty for every head they brought associated with them

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Who benefited from the headright system?

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The rich planters who reaped the benefits of paying for their slaves voyages

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What was quickly growing in 1670?

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Free, single, angry men who weren’t able to acquire land or a missus

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What did the Virginia assembly do in 1670?

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Denounce free single men as not caring about the country

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Who were most of the rebels that revolted with Nathaniel Bacon

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frontiersmen who were forced into being nobodies in search of usable land and hated William Berkley for his friendly policies towards Indians cause they were raiding them something awful

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Who did the Americas turn to after indentured slaves turned out to not work so great?

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African Americans

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When did most African Americans end up in ‘murica

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Mostly after 1700s, became a big deal in 1680s

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Where were most human cargo ships taken to?

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Spanish/Portuguese South America or sugar-rich West India

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What was grown in the deeper region of the South that was difficult to grow?

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Rice

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What was grown in the deeper region of the South that was difficult to grow?

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Rice

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18
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When did the population of both English and African American peoples explode?

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1775

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Who was the former indentured servant who came to colonial VA hoping to acquire land only to get nothing. Then he throws a hissy fit and rebels.

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Francis Bacon

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When was Francis Bacon around?

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1670s

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Who was the governor of VA who hung the rest of Bacon’s Rebellion?

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William Berkley

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What was the molasses act?

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An attempt by the British authorities to staunch trade with French West Indies

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What area had merchants and the like?

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New England and the Middle Coloneis

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The ethnic group who came to America and set up house making whiskey and hating the government

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Scots-Irish (hey they sound pretty cool)

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Largest ethnic group in America

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English

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Largest ethnic group in America excluding the English

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African Americans

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Around what percent of the population was African Americans?

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20 percent

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Around where was the population of African Americans most dense?

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The South

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29
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Largest cities in ‘murica

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Philadelphia, Ny, then Boston

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What area held the most homogenous population?

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New England

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What area held the most diverse population

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Middle colonies (especially Pennsylvania)

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Who were the Scots-Irish frontiersmen who protested against the colonial elites of Pennsylvania and North Carolina?

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Paxton Boys and Regulators

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What was the religion the Scots-Irish peoples held that brought them together as a community?

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Presbytarian

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34
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Which area held the most diversity in terms of work ventures?

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New England (though it still relied on agriculture)

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The most important manufacturing activity for New England?

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Lumbering

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36
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Who were highly prized in pioneering countries?

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Strong-backed laborers and skilled craftsmen

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37
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Around how much of the British merchant marine was American built?

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one third

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38
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Around when was a huge chunk of the British merchant marine American built?

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1770

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39
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What were the two established or tax supported churches in 1775?

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Anglican and Congregational

40
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What was the sponsored church of New England

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Congregationalist

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What was the sponsored church of Chesapeake bay?

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Anglican

42
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How long did the Anglican church receive money from its people for?

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Not long at all really

43
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Colonies that never had a state supported church

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Rhode Island, New Jersey, Delaware, and Pennsylvania

44
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Around when was about a fourth of the population not religiously affiliated?

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1775 (this number shows up a lot so remember it cause it’s important apparently)

45
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Why was the Anglican church supported for such a short time?

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It had a lackadaisical clergy (e.g. less scathing homilies) and too close ties to the British government

46
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What denomination was never made official in any of the colonies?

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Presbytarianism

47
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What was the neo-trinity of religion?

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Congregationalism, presbyterianism, and rebellion

48
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How was the religious toleration doing around this point in the country (1775 ish)

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Mostly very religiously tolerant, even Catholics could practice as they pleased.

49
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What was the Great Awakening?

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Period of time where the fieryness of hell was emphasized and religious participation heavily increased

50
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What did Jacobus Arminius teach?

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the individual free will, not divine decree, determined a person’s eternal fate

51
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When did the Great Awakening hit hard?

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1730s, 1740s

52
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Wrote “Sinners at the hands of an Angry God” and was American Born. He was a brilliant New England theologian who instigated the Great Awakening.

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Jonathan Edwards

53
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A former british pub owner who became an evangelist spreading the Great Awakening throughout the colonies

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George Whitefield

54
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What denominations carried the movement fo the Great Awakening

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Methodists and Baptists

55
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What did allowing the partial participation of those who weren’t visible saints allow for?

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More church attendance and therefore more muns :D

56
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What is a halfway covenant?

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it allowed people that weren’t visible saints take part in some religious stuff

57
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When were Halfway Covenants mostly around?

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1700s

58
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Where were Halfway covenants mostly around

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New England

59
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Oldest American education facility

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Harvard

60
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Originally trained congregationalist ministers

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Harvard

61
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When was Harvard around?

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1636

62
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Connecticut congregationalist university

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Yale

63
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Rhode island’s baptist university

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Brown unviersity

64
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Ben Franklin was one of this school’s founders, oldest/first non denominational university

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University of Pennsylvania

65
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Anglican university in Virginia, oldest university in southern colonies

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william and Mary

66
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Why were the arts not super popular in the cllonies?

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The simplicity of pioneer life led many to dismissi the arts

67
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John Singleton Copley

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Colonial painter who studied and worked in Britain

68
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Who was the slave girl who became a poet at an early age?

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Phillis Wheatley

69
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When was Phillis Wheatley around

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Late 1700s

70
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Author, scientist, printer; “the first civilized American”

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Ben Franklin

71
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Where was Benjamin Franklin from? (not born, from)

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Pennsylvania

72
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Where was Benjamin franklin born?

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Boston

73
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What did Benjamin write?

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The Poor Richard’s Almanac

74
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When was Ben Franklin born and when did he die?

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1706 and 1790

75
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Who was Ben Franklin married to?

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Deborah Reed

76
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How was Deborah Reed married to Ben Franklin despite not divorcing her late husband

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Common law marriage

77
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Where did Ben Franklin serve as a minister/ambassador

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France

78
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Why did every single denomination in the world go to Ben Frank’s funeral?

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He donated money to all the religions because he thought every one did at least some good

79
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What two documents did Ben Franklin sign?

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DoI and Us Constitution

80
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Who was a Newspaper printer in NY who helped with freedom of press?

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John Peter Zenger

81
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When was John Peter Zenger biggest debut surrounding his scathing articles?

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1734-1735

82
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Who argued in favor of the writing of the truth in the press for Zenger’s case?

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Hamilton

83
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The eloquent lawyer orator who argued in defense of colonial rights

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Patrick Henry

84
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Worst example of a corrupt and incompetent royal governor

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Lord Cornbury

85
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Around when was Lord Cornbury relevant?

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early early 1700s

86
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What was the piece of legislation from New England where every New Egland town with 50+ families must provide elementary education for children of the community?

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The older deluder law

87
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What was th eprimary textbook at the time?

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the bibble

88
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Where did women have more property rights?

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Chesapeake Bay

89
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Why did women have more property rights in Chesapeake bay than New England?

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Husbands frequently died in Chesapeake bay, leaving women to have to marry every time their husband died would be inconvenient, easier to have them take over after their hubby died

90
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Where was the whole ordeal with witches and deviltry?

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Salem, MA

91
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When did the whole Salem ordeal take place?

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1692

92
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What was the whole ordeal with the Salem witch trials?

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People accused everybody of deviltry and they were all taken seriously

93
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Who arrived that questioned the Salem witch trials ?

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Foreign (English) Ministers

94
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What did the British government do about the Salem Witch Trials

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Give money to surviving families

95
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What was the total amount of fatalities of the Salem witch trials?

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20 people and two dogs (like seriously people? why the dogs?)

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