Unit 2 PPTS

Question 1

17th century population growth led to..

Answer 1

colonies growing distinct from europe

Question 2

What caused the colonial population growth?

Answer 2

immigration & high birthrate

Question 3

What caused the high birthrate?

Answer 3

fertile land and abundant food supply

Question 4

European immigrants

Answer 4

escaping religious prosecution & war, economic opportunity, and land

Question 5

Where did the majority of european immigrants settle?

Answer 5

Middle colonies, western frontier of VA, Carolinas

Question 6

English numbers decreased because of…

Answer 6

stability in England

Question 7

Africans

Answer 7

largest group of non-english

Question 8

Which culture(s) dominated colonial society?

Answer 8

English

Question 9

Hereditary aristocracy?

Answer 9

No, claasses based on economic status

Question 10

How was class based?

Answer 10

Economic status, thus socially mobile

save for African-Americanss

Question 11

Center of life?

Answer 11

family

Question 12

Men

Answer 12

Landowners, political power, wealth, right to property

Question 13

Divorce

Answer 13

legal but rare

Question 14

Women

Answer 14

Raised and educated children (8 on average) cooking, cleaning, making clothes, few rights

Question 15

Where did 90% of colonists live?

Answer 15

farms

Question 16

Legislatures in the colonies?

Answer 16

bicameral

Question 17

Lower house

Answer 17

elected, voted on taxation

Question 18

Governors/Upper house

Answer 18

depends on colony
- royal; crown
- proprietary; appointed
- CT, RI; elected

Question 19

New Englant govt.

Answer 19

town meetings, public vote

Question 20

Southern govt.

Answer 20

sheriff, country admins

Question 21

Voting

Answer 21

limited democracy

Question 22

who could vote?

Answer 22

land owning white males

religion played apart until the 1690s

Question 23

New England-Farming

Answer 23

rocky soil, long winter; small farms

Question 24

New England-Industry

Answer 24

logging, shipbuilding, fishing, trading, rum-distilling

Question 25

Middle-fARMING

Answer 25

Rich soil; farms up to 200acres, cereal crops, indentured servants & laborers

Question 26

Cereal Crops

Answer 26

wheat, corn, exported.

Question 27

Middle-Industry

Answer 27

Small manufacturing, iron-making, Trading: PHil., NY

Question 28

South-Farming

Answer 28

varied: small farms w/o slaves, large plantations w/ slaves for tobacco, rice, indigo

Question 29

# S South-Industry

Answer 29

Carolinas; timer, naval stores Goods direct to europe

Question 30

How did the English control the colonial economy?

Answer 30

restricting money

Question 31

Specie

Answer 31

gold & silver coin

Question 32

colonies limited to what?

Answer 32

hard currency to trade with europe

Question 33

attempt to print paper money

Answer 33

led to inflation

Question 34

what did parliament veto?

Answer 34

things that could hurt English merchants

Question 35

Major cities

Answer 35

Boston, NY, Phil., Charleston

Question 36

Roadside taverns

Answer 36

social centers for news & political discussions

Question 37

Pluralism

Answer 37

multiple religions | (dominance of protestant religions in the colonies)

Question 38

"Established" Religions

Answer 38

supported by taxes; ALL taxes, regardless of faith

Question 39

Religious Revival

Answer 39

sparked by Pietism

Question 40

pietism

Answer 40

focus on INDIVIDUAL & god

Question 41

New Lights

Answer 41

baptists, methodistsq

Question 42

old lights

Answer 42

traditionalists | minsiters yes

Question 43

great awakening did what to colonists?

Answer 43

unified them

Question 44

Great awakening and authority?

Answer 44

led to decreased belief in authority; drive expansion of democracy

Question 45

highest ed.

Answer 45

ministers

Question 46

Enlgithengment

Answer 46

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Question 47

Squanto, youth

Answer 47

captured by english, told to slavery in spain, escaped to england & joined the newfoundland company. became interpreter

Question 48

squanto vilage

Answer 48

wiped out by disease

Question 49

alliance

Answer 49

squanto interpreting led to an alliance with the pilgrems; promise to aid eachother if attacked and not attack eachother

Question 50

"a special instrument of god"

Answer 50

decriptor of squanto

Question 51

first thanksgiving

Answer 51

celebration of squanto teaching the pilgrims to grow crops

Question 52

squanto alienation

Answer 52

"sought his own ends and played his own game"

Question 53

powhatans and colonists

Answer 53

ph. gave clns. food until they realized the clns. wanted to stay

Question 54

confederacy chief attakced

Answer 54

colonial settlements-led to war for 14yrs--act of resistance