QUIZ 4 - Class 6: Chapter 4, Multi-Ethnic colonies, Britain vs. France

Why weren't slave rebellions common?

1. Intentional separation of families by masters

2. Language barrier

3. No weapons/arming

Barbados Slave Code

Draconian because they wanted to have control over the slaves

1. Slave > Owner population

- 50,000 > 175

2. Intense growing season

Enlightnement

The European cultural intellectual movement regarding logic, thinking, and intellect

- Shaped new opinions on the relationship between humans and their government

John Locke

An English philosopher who believed in Natural Rights

Natural Rights

Rights we were inherently born with, life, liberty, and the right to own property

Pietism

The belief of a relationship between you and God

Deism

The belief of a supreme being or grand architect that made the world based on structure, order, and logic, and stepped away to let it run on natural laws

Sally Hemmings

A slave who had sexual relations with Thomas Jefferson

- Miscegenation

Old Lights

Traditional conservative ministers

ex. Charles Chauncey

- Anglician minister

New Lights

Evangelical progressive ministers

The Great Awakening

The first common religious revival, with a rise in enthusiasm and evangelicalism

- 13/32 colonies experienced the Great Awakening

- "American"

What were distinctly American experiences?

1. The Great Awakening

2. Evangelicalism

3. Colleges training ministers (OL/NL)

ex. Harvard and Princeton

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

The Sage of Philadelphia, and founding father

- "Child of the Enlightenment"

- Loved the French

American vs. French Colonies (1775)

1. Successful economy because of cash crops vs. fur-trade

2. Increased population because of open immigration policies vs. little population because of immigration restrictions

ex. Hugenots can't immigrate to New France

Germans

Also called the Pennsylvania Dutch

Why did the Germans immigrate to America?

1. Wanted religious freedom

- Protestants persecuted in Germany

2. Pacifists

- Did not want to be involved in military

3. Redemptioner system

- German indentured servants migrated

4. High Germany taxes

Scots-Irish

Scottish people who were exiled to Ireland due to religious persecution and did not like any form of government

- Settled in Pennsylvania Frontier

Andrew Jackson

Scotch-Irish 7th President of the United States

- duelist, held 2 pistols in pockets

Multi-Ethnic Colonies

1. British: Virginia and Maryland

2. German: Pennsylvania

3. Scots-Irish: Pennsylvania

Zeninger

Printer John Peter Zeninger was accused of libel, found not guilty. Conflict between freedom of press laws with Britain and America

Dual E Policy

The British policy to the Natives, Expel and Exterminate

Duel

A fight between two people with weapons

Britain vs. France Wars in America

1. French Indian War (1754-1756)

- New France colonists vs. American colonists

2. Seven Years War (1756-1763)

- France vs. Britain/America for land

- British victory, founded New York