Exam Notes

Question 1

Chesapeake

Question 2

New England

Question 3

Virginia

Question 4

West Indies

Question 5

Connecticut

Answer 5

Africans marrying whites could vote here had more freedoms until laws were passed later

Question 6

Pennsylvania

Question 7

Florida

Answer 7

It’s next to West Indies

Question 8

New Brunswick

Question 9

Quaker’s

Answer 9

Founded Pennsylvania

Question 10

Puritans

Answer 10

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Question 11

Civil law verses common law

Answer 11

English system of laws: government exported based on tradition verses legislative law common in Netherlands and France

(Look at notes for more info)

Question 12

Which law is based on written law? Common law or civil law?

Answer 12

Civil? Probably civil law ??? Check notes

Question 13

What is coverture

Answer 13

Legal system where women are covered by husband’s; rights are covered by husband. Become one entity legally.

Question 14

Premageniture

Answer 14

Where eldest son inherits majority or all of property of the father

Question 15

What is repugnancy?

Answer 15

Refers to system of laws that was in place in British North America where Rhode Island Massachusetts could pass any law as long as it wasn’t conflicting with the British law.

Question 16

Massachusetts

Answer 16

Settled by puritans, used a congregational system

There’s 1 congregation per town

The state supported church and town and church records are the most important

Vast majority of records are kept on a town level

Question 17

Majority of records are kept at what level?

Answer 17

Town level: even in Rhode Island

Question 18

What church in any state/area is most important?

Answer 18

The state supported church is most important and town and church records

Question 19

Rhode Island

Answer 19

Colony founded on religious tolerance not liberty but no state supported church exists there there’s some semblance of religious toleration there

Question 20

T or F Congregational church was the established state supported church in Rhode Island? In Pennsylvania?

Answer 20

F for the first one then T for the second on.

Rhode Island didn’t have one church

Question 21

What is the established church of Virginia?

Answer 21

The Church of England

Question 22

What is the established church of Pennsylvania

Answer 22

Puritan/Congregational church???? Check notes to verify

Question 23

What records matter most in Massachusetts

Answer 23

Town and church records matter most

Question 24

Mid Atlantic colonies, what’s unique about them

Answer 24

There’s a lot of religious diversity and no state supported church.
New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware & New York

Question 25

What’s unique about Louisiana

Answer 25

It’s a non British colony
French tule Louisiana for a period then Spanish take over before it goes back to the French before it finally becomes a U.S. state

Question 26

Nova Scotia

Answer 26

Originally was called Acadia before it changed.

French owned, founded in 1604. It eventually fell to the British.

Question 27

New York progress , who owned it?

Answer 27

First it was a Dutch colony before it later became an English colony.

Question 28

Texas

Answer 28

Texas ruled by Mexico
Colonial period lasted until 1836 when they declared independence.

It was independent public until it became a state. (Learn more from notes)

Question 29

What is the Canadian diaspora?

Answer 29

18th century Britain and France fought a war Britain kicked French out which led to the Canadian diaspora

Quebec immigrants dispersed New England …

Question 30

Revolutionary war pension records are:

Answer 30

Military pay records. Used for tracking family information

Question 31

What are loyalist claims

Answer 31

For this that side with British during revolutionary war if they lost property or anything like being forced to leave home in Pennsylvania or Virginia landing in West Indies Nova Scotia they can file to receive recompense for the things that they lost during the war

Question 32

Hannah bars cupboard

Answer 32

Showing how women managed to transfer property showing how moveable goods were passed down matrilineally: shows how some inheritance worked in British south

Question 33

What is a probate town and church record? Define each

Answer 33

Probate records are civil/court records.
Church records are death, marriage etc records.