study guide HIST 146

Identify the statements that characterize the principles of Christian Republicanism.

-It viewed the American Revolution as being the result of God's desire. -It held that personal virtue was central to the creation of a healthy society.

Identify the statements that describe the Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom.

-Religious requirements for voting were banned. -Compulsory belief in religion enforced by the state was eliminated.

Identify the statements that describe how women contributed to the Revolutionary movement.

-They worked as spies. -They engaged in fund-raising for the patriot cause.

Virginia

-Tobacco was the most common cash crop. -The majority of the population was single men. -The House of Burgesses was their first body of government.

Identify the statements that describe the Great Migration and its impact on New England.

-involved the emigration of Puritans from England to Massachusetts between 1629 and the 1640s -created the foundation for a stable and thriving society in Massachusetts

Inequality, hierarchy, and obedience to authority were the social and political norm in pre-Revolutionary America.

TRUE

Puritanism came out of the rejection of Catholicism and the search for true Protestantism. As such, Puritans encouraged individuals to read the Bible for themselves, rather than rely on sacraments and formulaic prayers administrated by priests. Puritans considered themselves to be true Protestants.

TRUE

Identify the term used by early Americans to describe the ideal proclaiming that women played a vital role in society by raising and training the future leaders and citizens of the Republic.

republican motherhood

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

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

In the late eighteenth century, there was a stark difference between a "society with slaves" and a "slave society." Identify the statements that describe life for blacks in Virginia's "slave society."

-Blacks were not allowed to own arms. -Blacks were tried in separate courts from whites. -Blacks had to be able to demonstrate they were free or show passes from their owners if found off the plantation.

Identify the commonalities between "republicanism" and "liberalism."

-Both philosophies believed in placing limits upon the absolute power of a government. -Both concepts worked their way across the Atlantic to the colonies.

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.

When compared to early and rapid success for the Spanish, the English were slow to get their colonies into a profitable state. Identify the reasons why Jamestown was unsuccessful in the first five years.

-Diseases and illnesses such as malaria, dysentery, and typhoid took a heavy toll on the settlers. -Early English settlers included numerous sons of English gentry and high-status craftsmen who did not want to grow crops or perform labor. -English colonists were too focused on finding large veins of gold as it was rumored the Spanish had done so easily.

Indian culture was transformed by acquiring new items from the English colonists through trading. Identify what Indians acquired and were exposed to by the colonists.

-Indians were exposed to disease, which devastated many tribes. -Indians traded for alcohol, which caused social problems. -Indians acquired guns, which led to overhunting.

Identify the statements that describe the founding of the colony of Georgia.

-It was established to be a buffer state between England's colonies and Spanish Florida. -Its founders intended for it to be a colony where indebted Englishmen could have a fresh start.

What does the map reveal about political allegiances during the Revolutionary War?

-Loyalists were found in every colony. -The majority of colonists either strongly supported the patriots or Loyalists; very few were neutral. -There was strong patriot support along the Atlantic coast.

Identify the statements that describe Loyalists in the American South.

-Loyalists were joined by numerous slaves in their siding with the crown. -In the American South, divisions between Loyalists and patriots tended to take on a class-based dynamic.

Identify how requirements for voting and officeholding changed after the Revolution.

-New constitutions moved toward voting as an entitlement, not a privilege for only those who owned land or paid taxes. -Because of the addition of new legislative seats, men who did not own significant amounts of property were able to assume office. -Southern states minimized any postwar changes to property and requirements so as to preserve the landed gentry's control over political affairs.

Identify the statements that describe poverty in the colonies in the eighteenth century.

-Poor colonists were viewed as lazy and responsible for their own poverty. -Half the wealth in the colonies was held by the richest 10 percent. -Poverty was not as widespread in the colonies as it was in England.

Many migrants settled into the British colonies. Identify the statements that describe the redemptioners.

-formed tightly knit farming communities in rural New York, western Pennsylvania, and the southern backcountry -indentured families that received passage to the New World in exchange for an agreement to work off their debts

Native and English colonial groups traded many goods and ideas. Identify the goods and ideas Indians shared with the colonists.

-furs and animal skins -native farming techniques -free, uncultivated land

Identify the provisions that formed part of the new Pennsylvania constitution adopted in 1776.

-the abolition of the governor's office -the establishment of a one-house legislature

Identify the characteristics of the Enlightenment.

-use of the scientific method -the importance of reason

The idea of freedom suddenly took on new and expanded meanings between 1640 and 1660. Identify the statements that describe the Levellers and their contributions to the expanded idea of freedom during this time.

-was the first democratic political movement that proposed a written constitution, which proposed to abolish the monarchy and expand the right to vote -offered a glimpse of the modern definition of freedom as a universal entitlement based on equal rights, not a function of social class

American colonial voting and political participation was extremely restricted, and as such, directly reflected the English political heritage of North America's dominant colonial founders.

FALSE

In a commercial business sense, slavery was primarily a southern colonial concern.

FALSE

What was the first college established in the English colonies?

Harvard

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

Land

Prior to the outbreak of the Revolutionary War, which colonies had outlawed slavery?

None; it remained legal in all colonies.

"Deism," which is a belief that God withdrew after creating the world, leaving it to function according to scientific laws, came out of the Enlightenment movement.

TRUE

As it pertained to Native Americans, the Revolutionary War was a conflict punctuated by atrocity.

TRUE

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