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US History I Chpt. 2
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What were the Chesapeake Colony's 3 regions? | - Tidewater - Back Country - Low Countr |
| What is Tidewater? | Maryland & Virginia |
| What is Back Country? | a vast territory that extended from the "fall line" of the foothills of the Appalachians to the furthest point of Western Settlement |
| What is a Fall line? | a place of the foothills of the Appalachian where the waterfalls & rapids end up river travel |
| Why was there a high death rate in the late 18th century? | because of the hot moist climate |
| What was the ration of Men to Women? | 3:2 |
| What colony did Lord Baltimore sell land? | The Carolinas |
| What was the Headright System? | When the household could take any 50 acres of land & claim it by marking its boundaries, planting a crop & constructing a habitation |
| What were Indentured servants? | It was an agreement to work for a stated period in return for their passage |
| What would happen after their serving time? | They were free and usually entitled an outfit. Those without land became squatters |
| What was The Squatters Rights? | It was the right to buy land without paying for the improvements that they have made (this was not an actual law) |
| Where did most of the slavery happen in America? | The Spanish & Portuguese colonies |
| What was a heathen? | A non believer in Jesus Christ |
| Why were white servants more highly prized? | -not as alien -knew how to farm the proper way - not as expensive as slaves at the time |
| What was the Royal African Company? | It was an English Company that made slaves more readily available and it traded 5000 slaves per year. |
| Why was Tobacco hard to grow? | - required semi-land - lots of labor |
| Who were going against each other in Bacon's Rebellion? | William Berkeley & his Green Spring vs. western planters led by Nathaniel Bacon |
| What does Bacon die of? | Dysentery |
| What was the result of Bacon's Rebellion? | Virginia Society became wedded to slavery as an answer to its labor problems class division traded for racial ones |
| What did North Carolina & South Carolina grow? | NC-Tobacco SC-Rice |
| What was the Negro Act? | It forbid blacks from growing their own food, owning money, learning to read or white, could not leave plantations without permission from "master" |
| Why did they create the College of William & Mary? | to train clergyman |
| Why was Georgia founded? | -it was supposed to be a place for honest persons who had been imprisoned for debt -England created a charter for Georgia and transported 50,000 of them to Georgia |
| Why was Savannah founded by James Oglethorpe? | To create a colony for sober, yeomen farmers |
| What were all of the rules in Savannah? | - Did not own slaves - worked fields on their own - land grants limited to 50 acres - wanted everybody sober = no alcohol - slaves were banned - Indian trade was strictly regulated |
| Why did Georgia become a royal colony? | because rules were quickly circumvented |
| Who moved into the back country? | Scots-Irish & Germans |
| What were some responsibilities of a Puritan Father? | - providing physical welfare for the hosuehold - making sure they all behave properly - transacting all economic dealings |
| What were some responsibilities of a Puritan Mother? | -keeping the house educating the children -improving what men brings home |
| What was the Great Migration? | It was the movement of many African Americans who moved from the South to the North |
| What was the Half-Way Covenant? | a form of partial church membership adopted by the Congregational churches of colonial New England in the 1660s |
| What was The DOminion fo New England? | It was when England thought to make all of New England a royal colony - This included NJ and PN |
| Who was Edmund Andros? | - a professional soldier, and administrator |
| What did Andros do? | - abolished popular assemblies -changed the land - grant system to give the king quitrents -enforced religious toleration |
| How was the General Court elected? | Elected by property owners (did not have to be church owners) |
| What did New Englanders start successfully trade? (but only was successful for a little while?) | beaver & other fur bearing animals |
| What did New England turn to after trading only animal furs? | Relied on the Triangle Trade |
| Where did New Englanders trade? | Spain, Canary Islands, West Indies, Madeira |
| who was the governor of the Dominion of New England? | Edmund Andros |
| What marked the beginning of the back country? | The fall line |
| Who was the founder of Georgia? | Oglethorpe |
| Who was the minister who helped end the witch trials? | Increase Mather |
| Who's case helped start freedom of the press in the US | Zenger |
| Who introduced indigo to the South | Eliza Lucas |
| What were the Middle Colonies? | Pennsylvania New Jersey Delaware New York |
| Who took over New York in 1689? | Jacob Leisler |
| Who was Leisler? | a disgruntled merchant and militia merchant |
| Who was the New York Weekly Journal run by? | John Peter Zenger |
| Who were the Paxton Boys? | Scots-Irish from Lancaster County |
| What did Ben Franklin do? | Franklin acknowledged their grievances and said that they would do better |
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