Pageant Chap. 4

What diseases cut the life span of newcomers from England to the Chesapeake area by 10 years?

Malaria, dysentery, and typhoid.

What was the consequence of the cultivation of tobacco on the Chesapeake region?

Exhausted soil and insatiable demand for virgin land.

How did Virginia and Maryland encourage the importation of servant workers to their colonies?

Introduction of the "Headright" system—whoever paid the passage of a laborer received the right to acquire fifty acres of land. The Masters would reap the benefit not the laborers.

This rebellion took place 100 years prior to the signing of the Declaration of Independence and resembled a struggle against royal authority? Describe the problem.

Bacon's Rebellion/ About a thousand Virginians rose (including former indentured servants, poor whites and poor blacks) because they resented Virginia Governor William Berkeley's friendly policies towards the Native Americans when Berkeley refused to retaliate for a series of Indian attacks on frontier settlements, others took matters into their own hands, attacking Indians, chasing Berkeley from Jamestown, Virginia, and torching the capital. William Berkeley will be recalled to England because the British gov't and farmers worried about the alliance between the indentured servants and slaves in the Rebellion.

The term "middle passage" refers to what event during colonial period?

The transatlantic sea voyage of slaves from Africa

What was the total percentage of slaves brought to British North America?

5.4% of the 12 million (645k total)

True or False More Africans have come to the United States post 1800s then were brought here during slavery

True

What region of Africa did most of the slaves who reached North America come from?

West Africa

What company lost its charter to transport slaves to North America in 1698?

Royal African Company

Which colony's people especially thrived on the lucrative transportation of slaves to North America?

Rhode Island

What is "chattel slavery"?

Slaves in your possession

In what years were the first slave code enacted in Virginia?

1662

What musical genre can the United States claim as their own?

Jazz (because of slavery)

This slave rebellion took place in 1739 in South Carolina when fifty slaves tried to march to Spanish Florida. What was the reaction to this rebellion?

Stono Rebellion/ In response to the rebellion, the South Carolina legislature passed the Negro Act of 1740 restricting slave assembly, education and movement. It also enacted a 10-year moratorium against importing African slaves, and established penalties against slaveholders' harsh treatment of slaves. It required legislative approval for manumissions, which slaveholders had previously been able to arrange privately.

Who was the "FFV"?

First Families of Virginia

What was the most common religion among the slaves which would play a vital role in their emancipation

Christianity

Why did many urban professionals avoid migrating to the South?

Not an industrial society. Southern life revolved around great plantations.

Why did the population in New England prosper more than their counterparts in the Chesapeake area?

The family remained at the center of New England life. Their population grew from the beginning because of early marriage and booming birthrate—27 in Massachusetts governor William Phips family—by one mother.

What was the difference between New England and Southern women concerning property rights?

Southern women retained their property rights and gave widows the right to inherit their husband's estates. New England woman usually gave up their property rights, but were given property rights if widowed.

What did the "A" stand for in The Scarlet Letter?

Adultery

Who was the author of The Scarlet Letter?

Nathaniel Hawthorne

What was the main goal of Harvard University in the 17th and 18th century?

Train ministers

What did Thomas Jefferson call "the best school of political liberty the world ever saw"?

Town meetings in New England

This new arrangement modified the agreement between the church and its adherents, to admit to baptism, but not "full communion"—the unconverted children of existing members. Why was this instituted?

Halfway Covenant (weakened the distinction between the "elect" and others, further diluting the spiritual purity of the original settlers). To help increase the number of Puritans (young starting to drift from parents ways...go figure).

What hysterical religious event took place in 1692 New England?

Salem Witch Trials

Because of the halfway covenant who because the majority in Puritan congregations?

Women

What concept was alien to the Native Americans when livestock was introduced to the New World?

Exclusive land ownership

What trait came to be claimed by all Americans as a proud badge of courage?

"Yankee ingenuity"—not so much in the South.

Place the following in chorological order: Bacon's Rebellion, Royal African Company slave trade monopoly ended, Harvard College founded, Salem witch trials in Massachusetts, First Africans arrive in Virginia.

African slaves, Harvard College, Bacon's Rebellion, Salem Witch trials, Royal African Company