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| Which colony was the most populous? |
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| What was the male-female ratio in the Chesapeake? |
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| what was AHEM special about 1/3 of the brides in WHAT colony? |
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| In Maryland, 1/3 of all brides were pregnant before the wedding |
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| What three diseases were prevalent in the Chesapeake area? |
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| Typhoid, dysentery, and malaria |
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| In 1630, Chesapeake was exporting ___million lbs of tobacco/year, while by the 1700s, they were exporting ___million |
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| if an aristocrat funds an indentured servant's passage to America, he gains 50 acres of land at a cheap price, which resulted in massive land gains for the rich and the opposite for the poor |
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| describe the life of an indentured servant |
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-served for seven years
-owners often extended serving period for small mistakes |
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NAME THAT MAN:
Nathaniel Bacon |
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led a few thousand of these men in a rebellion against
-William Berkeley, who was friendly towards the NAs, and refused to retaliate when the NAs attacked the frontier
-Bacon's men murdered a LOT of NAs
-Bacon died in the middle of the rebellion, and Berkeley crushed it |
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until 1792, ONLY (REALLY? REALLY???)
_____ out of ____ slaves were brought to America |
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| What happened in 1750 regarding slavery? |
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| they accounted for almost half of the VA population |
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| What part of Africa were most slaves from? |
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| West Africa, ie Senegal and Angola |
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| V/F: some of the earliest black slaves became landowners themselves |
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| Eventually, to clear up codes on slave ownership, slave codes made it so that_____ |
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children of slaves
were made slaves for life (chattels) as well, unless voluntarily freed |
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| Some laws made ____a crime, and not even _______ might qualify a slave for freedom. |
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teaching slaves to read a crime
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conversion to Christianity |
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| Why did slaves in the deep south have it harder? |
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| they were growing rice, which was much harder to grow than tobacco |
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| What is the slave revolt in NYC called? |
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| What major event regarding slavery happened in 1739? |
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| South Carolinian slaves along the Sono River tried to march to Spanish Florida, but failed |
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What were the aristocratic families of Virginia such as the Fitzhughs, the
Lees, and the Washingtons called? Why? |
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| First Families of Virginia, had more land than House of Burgesses |
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| What was the largest social group of VA? |
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| V/F: The southern colonies had plenty of Baptist churches throughout them |
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| falsum. churches were slow to develop |
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| V/F: The South had cities bustling with many diverse cultures |
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| falsum. the south didn't have many cities |
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| V/F: there were AHEM alcohol problems in the south |
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| Why was disease not as rampant in NE? |
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| clean water and cool temperatures |
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| V/F: women in NE were baby-making factories |
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| why did women have more power in the south?? |
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| men died young, women could inherit land, also had smaller # of children to support |
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| who were most of the immigrants to Chesapeake? |
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| what were marriages like in Chesapeake? |
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| one partner usually passed away in abt 7 years |
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| when the price of tobacco was depressed, what did sellers do? |
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| why were indentured servants the go-to labor force originally? |
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-families too small
-Indians died too quickly from colonists' diseases
-Africans cost too much |
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| This system paid the passage of indentured servants for 50 acres of land |
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| who benefited from the headright system? |
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| mostly rich, they ate up land while servants didn't have much land anyway. Plus their masters got stingier |
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| what caused the supply of indentured servants from England to drop (nothing with populations or fires) |
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| In 1698, THIS company lost its charter...what were the effects of it? |
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-THIS company= Royal African Company
-people rushed to cash in on the trade |
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| what was the death rate on the middle passage? |
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| V/F: slaves never had rights in America |
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| falsum. some early slaves gained freedom, but colonists freaked out over the racial threat |
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| What laws were made in the south regarding those who served on plantations? |
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| made distinctions between servants/slaves (became blacks and children) |
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| How did the population of slaves rise naturally? |
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| -plantations were closer, then female population began to rise |
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| Name some African languages that blended with English |
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| as slavery increased, so did what regarding socioeconmics in the south? |
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| gaps in southern social structure |
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| how did planters rule southern society? |
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| owned gangs of slaves and vast domains of land |
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| why were NEers healthier? |
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| clean water, cool temperatures slowed killer microbes |
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| by moving to the New World, NEers added about ___ yrs onto their life span |
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| Women in NE married in their early twenties, and from there on did this |
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| made babies every two years. |
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| what did the NE baby-making mentality cause? |
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| high female & infant mortality rates |
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| what did NE "invent" with regards to the family? |
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| What was the (infuriating) Puritan view of marriage? |
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| women with power undercut the unity between a husband and wife, and that she should be subservient. (it pains me to type this, just so you know Thomas Bailey) |
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| Even though women weren't the boss in NE marriages, what couldn't men do? |
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| What business was a female monopoly? |
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| Why did NErs live in closely-knit villages? |
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-geography
-Indian/French/Dutch threat |
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| How did people in Chesapeake expand? |
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| How did people in Chesapeake expand? |
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| had to get grants of land from colonial legislature |
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| What did NE towns consist of? |
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-meetinghouse for town meetings and worship
-houses
village green for militia |
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| If a town had ___ families, they needed to provide education |
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| V/F: 1/4 of all adults could read and write |
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| technically verum, but 1/2 is even more verum |
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| When was Harvard founded? |
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| What caused NErs to creep away from religion? |
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| they were generations after, and greater populations forced them to move further from the Church |
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| THIS term was used to scare the colonists into coming back to their religion |
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| Define: Half-Way Covenant |
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-church adherents agree to baptism but not "full communion"
-weakened distinction between elect/not
-gave up religious purity for wider audience
-this wider audience had a female majority |
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| Define: Salem Witch Trials |
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-adolescent girls "bewitched by 20 women who were lynched/pressed
-governor put a stop to it when his wife was on the line
-tried to make it up to victims' heirs 20 yrs later
-trials like this occurred in Europe |
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| The rough soil of NE forced colonists to be... |
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| Yankees sold this plant to CT |
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| what was the expression telling of the stages of progression in NE? |
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| get on, get honor, get honest |
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Why were many Europeans turned off by NE?
What did this cause? |
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-scary sermons, rough soil
-not very ethnically diverse |
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| What was probably the only diverse thing about NE? |
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| Why didn't slavery take off in NE? |
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| too costly on small farms |
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| How did NErs change their habitat? |
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-made trails
-cleared forests to sustain deer, livestock
--> caused it to be more adaptable to extreme temperatures |
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| How did the English justify their exploitation of the land? |
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| What off of the cost of Newfoundland was a gold mine? |
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NAME THAT MAN:
Scary witch-hunter |
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| How were NE harvest seasons and workdays ruled? |
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| what was the class structure like in the south? |
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| wasn't originally rigid until laws put poor in their place |
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