HY 103 Inquizitive Ch 3

What was Bacon's Rebellion (1676) fought over?

Land

American slavery flourished for many reasons, especially among the Chesapeake planters. Identify the statements that describe why Chesapeake planters found African slaves more suitable as a source of labor compared to indentured servants.

Slaves terms never expired. The children of slaves had no rights, and therefore, also became slaves. Slaves were more resistant to epidemics than Natives were.

When the English took over New York from the Dutch, they continued to allow religious toleration but minimized the rights the Dutch people had given to which of the following groups of people?

Blacks Women

Mercantilism encouraged the use of commerce to enrich countries. Identify the statement that describes how the Navigation Laws supported Mercantilism between England and its colonies.

English colonies of the New World had to export their raw materials only on English ships and sell them at English ports.

Identify the statements that describe staple crops and why they were so important to settlers.

Crops like tobacco and rice that were produced for the world market created great wealth for the farmers. Because of the lack of credit and money, colonists had to rely on creating their own wealth, and farming staple crops was a reliable source of revenue.

William Penn was a devout member of the Society of Friends, or Quakers. Identify the statements that best describe this religious group.

Faced prosecution in England. Believed in the equality of all persons (including women, blacks, and Indians) before God. The first group of whites to speak out against slavery.

Identify the statements that describe the consumer revolution in the eighteenth century.

Items that used to be considered luxuries, only available to the wealthy, became accessible to modest farmers. Shops in port cities flourished. British merchants supplied American traders with loans, allowing them to import goods and sell them on the frontier.

William Penn's "holy experiment" allowed the Quakers to thrive in colonial Pennsylvania. Identify the statements that describe how Penn put his ideas in to practice in Pennsylvania.

Native Americans were treated peacefully. Moral laws governing personal behavior were present. Immigrants from all over Europe, no matter the faith they belonged to, were welcome.

A goal of religiously minded English Protestants was to convert Natives to their faith. Identify the name given to those Native Christian converts.

Praying Indians

Initially, Carolina settlers tried raising cattle and trading with the Natives, but what cash crop was ultimately responsible for Carolina's success?

Rice

Identify the statement that explains why Virginia and Maryland shifted toward a reliance on slave labor.

The freedoms Pennsylvania offered European settlers led to a decrease in indentured servants settling for Virginia and Maryland, causing those settlements to seek alternative labor sources.

What does this image reveal about the origins and status of migrants to British North America colonies from 1700-1775?

The largest portion of the English/Welch migrants were convicts. The plurality of migrants were slaves.

Slavery in the United States started in the Chesapeake Bay region, but it eventually spread throughout the colonies in order to support the cash crop production as fewer indentured servants came over from Europe.

True

The Salem Which Trials revealed serious issues with Massachusetts's system of justice and, as a result, the court of Salem was dissolved by the governor and all prisoners were released.

True

By the mid-eighteenth century, the different regions of the British colonies had developed distinct economic and social orders. Identify the economic and social orders of each of the regions.

Virginia and South Carolina: slave plantations that produced tobacco. New England: Small families that produced food for local consumption. Middle colonies: farmers that produced grain for their own use and sale abroad.

Fill in the blanks to complete the passage describing trade in the Atlantic world: People, ideas, and goods flowed back and forth across the Atlantic. Goods from North America and the ___ became a major market for British manufactured goods. Tobacco grown in ___ was marketed in Britain, and then sold to Europe by British merchants. And rum produced in the West Indies was a popular good in ___.

West Indies Chesapeake North American colonies

Identify the statements that describe the Glorious Revolution in England and its impact on the colonies.

As a result of the Glorious Revolution, fault lines in colonial society were exposed, providing an opportunity for local elites to regain authority. As a result of the Glorious Revolution, Protestant domination was secured in most of the colonies. The Glorious Revolution was the culmination of the long struggle between Parliament and the crown for the English government, which established parliamentary supremacy.

The Indian Uprising led by Metacom, or King Philip's War, was the "bloodiest and most bitter conflict" to erupt in southern New England in the late seventeenth century. Identify the statements that describe this conflict and the dynamics between the settlers and Indians.

As a result of the conflict, settlers began to view the Indians as savages. Metacom was captured and executed, while those Indians who were captured were sold into slavery in the West Indies. Indian tribes formed alliances, allowing them to attack several English colonies at one time.

What does the picture reveal about settlements in North America in the seventeenth and early-eighteenth centuries?

Spanish settlements were grouped in present-day Florida and Georgia. These were the most southern settlements in North America. English settlements extended along the Atlantic seaboard, from present-day Maine to Georgia. French settlements were grouped along the St. Lawrence River and the Great Lakes between present-day Canada and America.

Identify the statements that describe the Covenant Chain and its outcomes.

The Iroquois Nations helped the British attack the French and their Indian allies. The English formed an alliance with the Iroquois Nations and pledged to support each other in territorial acquisition and defeat other tribes. It led Iroquois Nations to adopt a policy of neutrality, allowing them to play European empires off each other in their attempt to profit from the fur trade.