Lecture 6

Question 1

Aspects of New England Colonies

Answer 1

Settled by the puritans, low African population

Question 2

Aspects of Southern Colonies

Answer 2

Exported cash crops, many slaves, mostly Anglican people

Question 3

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

Answer 3

England, not France or Spain

Question 4

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

Answer 4

Natural increase

Question 5

What was different about the colonist by 1770?

Answer 5

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

Question 6

Boston

Answer 6

New England trading hub, filled with rich merchants and fishermen

Question 7

Why was population growth slow in New England

Answer 7

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

Question 8

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

Answer 8

Iroquis and Mahicans

Question 9

How was land passed down in New England?

Answer 9

Through partial inheritance as oppose to primogeniture

Question 10

Key aspects of Puritan worship

Answer 10

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

Question 11

What were the first cattle brought from Britain and why?

Answer 11

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

Question 12

When diid New England start building ships for Britain?

Answer 12

During the English Cival War

Question 13

What were the largest exports of New England?

Answer 13

Cattle and Fish

Question 14

Why was there animosity between New England and New France?

Answer 14

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

Question 15

King Philip’s War

Answer 15

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

Question 16

Aftermath of King Philip’s War

Answer 16

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

Question 17

The American Jeremiad Sermon

Answer 17

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

Question 18

Where did the colonists in the Middle colonies come rom?

Answer 18

Germany, Ireland, and Scotland

Question 19

What was the main religion in the Middle Colonies?

Answer 19

Protestantism, usually poor and came over as indentured servants

Question 20

Shendoah Valley Immigrants

Answer 20

Scot-Irish immigrants who despised the wealthy elite

Question 21

Redemtioners

Answer 21

German indentured servants

Question 22

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

Answer 22

Mennonites, Moravians, and Amish

Question 23

What was the main crop in the Middle colonies?

Answer 23

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

Question 24

New York City / New Amsterdam

Answer 24

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

Question 25

Philadelphia

Answer 25

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

Question 26

What city was the center for printing?

Answer 26

Philadelphia

Question 27

Who was one of the most famous printers in Philadelphia?

Answer 27

Benjamin Franklin

Question 28

Charlestown

Answer 28

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

Question 29

Population growth in the Southern colonies

Answer 29

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

Question 30

Williamsburg

Answer 30

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

Question 31

South Carolina and Georgia exports

Answer 31

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

Question 32

Slavery in Georgia

Answer 32

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

Question 33

Where did most American slaves come from?

Answer 33

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

Question 34

Robin Johns

Answer 34

Former slave who became a slave trader

Question 35

Olauda Equiano or Gustavus Vassa

Answer 35

Freed slave that helped end the slave trade system

Question 36

Stone Rebellion

Answer 36

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

Question 37

Why were slave rebellions not likely in America?

Answer 37

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

Question 38

Negro Acts

Answer 38

limited slave privileges after the Stone rebellion