Chapter 3: Creating Anglo-America, 1660-1750

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

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

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

1. The Iroquois Nations helped the British attack the French and their Indian allies. 2. The English formed an alliance with the Iroquois Nations and pledged to support each other in territorial acquisition and defeat of other tribes. 3. 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.

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

1. believed in the equality of all persons (including women, blacks, and Indians) before God 2. faced persecution in England 3. the first group of whites to speak out against slavery

What does it reveal about ethnic diversity on the Atlantic coast of North America in 1760?

1.Dutch settlements were primarily along the Hudson River in present-day New York. 2.North Carolina was a very diverse colony, with settlers from Germany, the Scottish Highlands, and England, as well as slaves from Africa. 3.The majority of Scotch-Irish lived inland, not directly on the Atlantic coast.

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.

1.Metacom was captured and executed, while those Indians who were captured were sold into slavery in the West Indies. 2.As a result of the conflict, settlers began to view the Indians as savages. 3.Indian tribes formed an alliance, allowing them to attack several English colonies at one time.

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

1.Poor colonists were viewed as lazy and responsible for their own poverty. 2.Poverty was not as widespread in the colonies as it was in England. 3.Half the wealth in the colonies was held by the richest 10 percent.

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

1.The Glorious Revolution was the culmination of the long struggle between Parliament and the crown for the English government, which established parliamentary supremacy. 2.As a result of the Glorious Revolution, fault lines in colonial society were exposed, providing an opportunity for local elites to regain authority. 3.As a result of the Glorious Revolution, Protestant domination was secured in most of the colonies.

Identify the statements that describe the colonial elite.

1.The colonial elite often sought to emulate the lifestyle and customs of the British elite, by wearing English fashion and encouraging their sons to go to school in England. 2.The colonial elite enjoyed time in Charleston or Philadelphia, both urban centers at the time that provided theaters and social events.

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

1.indentured families that received passage to the New World in exchange for an agreement to work off their debts. 2.formed tightly knit farming communities in rural New York, western Pennsylvania, and the southern back country

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.

The Walking Purchase of 1737 represented fair dealings between colonists and natives.

False

There were many rebellions that occurred in the late seventeenth century in both England and the colonies. Most triumphant were the Maryland rebels. Identify the statement that describes what caused the end of religious toleration in Maryland.

Maryland's Protestant Association overthrew the colony's Catholic proprietor, Lord Baltimore

Identify the colony that was founded as a place of spiritual freedom and of peace between Indians and settlers.

Pennsylvania

What does it reveal about the origins and status of migrants to British North American colonies from 1700-1775?

The largest portion of English/Welsh migrants were convicts. The plurality of migrant 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

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

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

rice

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

land

Read the passage from "Letter by a Swiss-German Immigrant to Pennsylvania (August 23, 1769)." Dearest Father, Brother, and Sister and Brother-in-law, I have told you quite fully about the trip, and I will tell you what will not surprise you—that we have a free country. Of the sundry craftsmen, one may do whatever one wants. Nor does the land require payment of tithes [taxes to support a local landlord, typical in Europe]. . . . The land is very big from Canada to the east of us to Carolina in the south and to the Spanish border in the west. . . . One can settle wherever one wants without asking anyone when he buys or leases something. . . . What does the author have in mind when he calls America a "free country"?

Settlers are allowed to do as they choose, from selecting their means of employment, to settling land.

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

blacks, women