Pageant Reading Questions for APUSH Time period 2

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

Malaria, dysentary, Typhoid fever

What was the consequence of the cultivation of tobacco on teh Cheasapekae region?

Esxhausted siol demand for new and healthy soil

How did Viriginia and Maryland encourage the importation of servants workers to their colonies?

The headright system

The rebellion took palce 100 years prior to the signing of the Declaration of Indepdence and resembled a struggle agains troyal authoirty? Describe the problem.

Bacon’s Rebellion-indentured servant uprising

The term “middle passage” refers to what event during the colonial period?

The Transatlantic Slave Trade

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

5.4%

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

True

What region of AFrica did msot of the salves who reached North America come form?

West Africa

Which colony’s people especially thrived on the lucrative tranpsortation fo slave sto North America?

Rhode Island

What are chattels?

Slaves in posession

In what years was the first slave code enacted in Virignia?

1662

What musical genre can the US claim s their own?

Jazz

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

Stono Rebellion

What was the FFV?

First Famlieis ot Virginia

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

Royal African slave trade

What was the most comon religion amoung the slaves which would play a virtal rol in their emancipation?

Christianity

Why did many urban professionals avoi dmigrating to the South?

Not enough industry

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

Family-oriented, early marriage, high birth rate

What was the difference between NEw England and OSuhtern women concerning property rights?

Southern women sometimes had more autononmy

What did the A stand for in The Scarlet Letter?

Adultery

Who was the author ofThe Scarlet Letter?

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

To train ministers

What did Thomas JEfferson call “the best school of political liberty the world ever saw?”

New England town meetings

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 insitututed?

Halfway Covenenat

What hysterical religious event took palce in 1692 in New England?

The Salem Witch Trials

Because of the halfway covenant, who became 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.”

How many colonies did the British rule, including Canada b 1775?

32

How fast were the numbers increasing in the colonies in teh 1700s?

They were doubling every 25 years

Besides the English, what other groups made up the melting pot of the 13 oringial colonies-not in the Southwest? Why did this group of people set up in the West?

Scots, Hugenots, Minority Europeans-fr more opprutunity?

In what two areas were most ot he slaves concerntrated in and why?

Virginia, Carolina, Needed labor for tobbaco and other cash crops

The Paxton Boys are responsible for protesting the Quakers lenient policies towards Natives. What is there movement called?

The regulator movement-took place in NC, a small but nasty insureection against eastern domination of the colony’s ffairs

By far which group was the largest non-English speaking group in the colonies in 1775?

Africans

In Boston what were teh poor comeplled to wear?

Red “P” on clothing

Who was responsbile for the following quote in Poor Richar’ds Almanaac? “God heals and the doctor takes th fee.” “he’s the best physician that knows the worthlessness of most medicines?” Don’t go to the doctor with every distemper, nor to the lawyer with every quarrel, nor to the pot for every thirst.”

Ben Fraknlin

After the French and Indian War this line was created to try an stop westward expansion by the colonists-didn’t work? It was establsihed along the….

Procolamation Line of 1763

What was the European name of the French and Indian War? In what year did the wear start in the colonies? Europe?

7 years war-1754

Describe the areas involved in the triangular trade route in the 1770’s

Gold Coast of Africa (slaves)

Carribean-Sugar

New England-Rum and Boston had rum as well

This style of econonmic policy, taking raw materials from the colonists to be turned into manfuactured goods and resold in the colonies enriched England greatly from 1770 to 1775

Mercantalism

This act in 1733 was one of the first to cause a lat er imperial crisis. It applied to the colonists by Parliament and was aimed at squelching North America trade with the French West Indies. It will be repalced 31 years later, causing an icnrease in the price of this commodity?

Molasses Act

What major problem did the colonist face concerning transportation in the 1700s?

Poor infrastructure

Which influential New England church grew out of the Puritan Church and had great influence on the people of New England?

Congregational Church

What was the originial purpsoe of Harvard and Princeton Universitys?

To train clergy and ministers

Which minister is known was one of the greatest if akk 1st Great Awakening ministers hwo preached the folly that good works will lead to salvation-but rahter’s God’s Grace is the most important thing. He was the grandfather of what future VP for Thomas Jefferson

Aaron Burr

What was the nickname for those orthodox clergymen who were deeply skeptical of the emotionalism during the 1st Great Awakening? Name the minsiters which defended the Awakenings for it’s role in revitalizing American religion?

“Old lights” -”new lights”

How did the GReat Awakening play a part in the American Revolution?

Create dunity amoung Americans as they realized they had similar cultures and similar language

Whad did the first colleges in North aemrica between 1636-1769 have in common wihich made it out of reach for all?

all were private

What artist is best known for his portraits of George Washington and ran a museum?

Charles Wilson Peale

Which legal case fought between 1737-35 dealt with the issue of a reporter libeling a corrupt royal governor of New York? (William Corsby)?

Zenger Case

Name the three types of colonies by 1775?

Royal, Charter, Proprietary

Practically every colony utilized this style of legislative body?

Bicomereal/ Two House

Which holiday celebrated in the colonies came to be a truly American festival?

Thanksgiving

Which two countries dominated the American Empire as far as land mass by 1700?

France and Spain

Who ruled over the governments of New France (Canada) from 1700 to 1754?

Kinf of France- Louis XIV