7283737110 | Middle Colonies | New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware | 0 | |
7283749453 | Susquehanna | the river that allowed the middle colonies to tap the fur trade. | 1 | |
7283762030 | Benjamin Franklin | came to Philadelphia broke but he was prosperous because he is smart. owned a printing press and was an inventor. | 2 | |
7283768505 | 1600 | England underwent a population boom in this year | 3 | |
7283777752 | 75% | percent of English immigrants that were indentured servants (most were young men from the middle class | 4 | |
7283792310 | what caused indentured servants to leave England | the cloth trade slump in the early 1600's or being forced off their land due to the enclosure movement | 5 | |
7283803343 | why did African slaves become used | the supply of indentured servants ran out & had to get black slaves to replace them | 6 | |
7283810869 | 40% | what percent of indentured servants died before their indenture was up | 7 | |
7283820273 | Massachusetts Bay Colony | 1629-42 11,000 Puritans swarmed to here | 8 | |
7283827504 | puritans brought __________ to the New World | brought culture, religion, work ethic, and thrift to the new world | 9 | |
7283836150 | farmers | most of the colonial work force | 10 | |
7283863838 | immigrants from Europe were | lower class looking for religion and wealth | 11 | |
7283868047 | 6;1 | male-female ratio in the colonies | 12 | |
7283875631 | climate, soil, region, resources | shaped the economical development in the colonies | 13 | |
7283884418 | CHARACTERIZED COLONIAL LIFE | strong belief of land ownership and free enterprise | 14 | |
7283889787 | Cavaliers | English nobility in Virginia that got large land grants | 15 | |
7283895528 | First Families of Virginia | owned large land and and dominated the house of burgesses | 16 | |
7283919820 | Names of FFV's | Custis, Jefferson, Randolph, Lee, & Washington | 17 | |
7283971042 | 1693 | when Va established William & Mary | 18 | |
7288882250 | the Carolinas | Rice and indigo were grown widely here | 19 | |
7288891410 | 7 years | period of typical indentured servitude. | 20 | |
7288897037 | Nathanial Bacon | led a rebellion of free, poor, landless, and single men frustrated by lack of money and women | 21 | |
7288906370 | 1676 | Year of Bacon's Rebellion | 22 | |
7288911869 | William Berkely | VA governor that created peaceful relations with Indians directly after a bloody war with them. | 23 | |
7288922719 | Berkely refused to retaliate against savage Indian attacks | Bacon's men murderously attacked Indian settlements because... | 24 | |
7288936344 | Dysentary | Bacon died in the middle of the rebellion from... | 25 | |
7288944208 | 1619 | The first group of African slaves arrived in America in this year | 26 | |
7288950392 | Mid 1680's | African slaves outnumbered white servants | 27 | |
7288956062 | half of Virginia's population | 1750 Africans were | 28 | |
7288962558 | West Africa (Senegal and Angola) | Most slaves were from | 29 | |
7288968440 | Sugar and Rice cultivation | Deep South slave work | 30 | |
7288977937 | English, Spanish, and French | Africans blended their own languages with... | 31 | |
7288984060 | Banjo and Bongo | Contributions of Africans to American music | 32 | |
7288994307 | A slave revolt killed a dozen whites and 21 blacks | What happened in 1712 in New York | 33 | |
7289003696 | "Stono Rebellion" | slaves rebelled in South Carolina and tried to march to Spanish Florida but failed | 34 | |
7289021334 | led to an eventual civil war | the slavery based agricultural society | 35 | |
7289026951 | New Englanders | tended to migrate as families | 36 | |
7289035695 | ship building, fishing, lumbering, small farms, and rum | New England's economy was based on | 37 | |
7289095247 | Puritans established Harvard as a religious college to become ministers | 1636 Massachusetts | 38 | |
7289107620 | Puritans | intolerant of dissenters who challenged their religion and they believed in connection between religion and government | 39 | |
7289128107 | Rhode Island and new haven | founded by dissenters | 40 | |
7289133698 | Jermiads | Puritans worried about their child being loyal and faithful so these people scolded them for their waning piety to improve faith | 41 | |
7289163510 | 1662 Half Way Covenant | All were welcome to come to the church even if they fell short of the 'visible saint' status | 42 | |
7289170748 | Tituba | a slave Salem girls blamed for trying to get them to marry Satan. | 43 | |
7289180711 | 20 people died (19 hanged 1 pressed) | witch hunt deaths | 44 | |
7289184266 | 15th Century | When witch hunts started in Europe. | 45 | |
7289189547 | the governor's wife was accused of being a witch | why the witch hunts ended in 1693 | 46 | |
7289235547 | New York and Philadelphia | grew as seaports and commercial centers | 47 | |
7289239979 | Quakers | religious group from Pennsylvania | 48 | |
7289247845 | Jews & Huguenots | religious group in New York | 49 | |
7289250885 | Scottish Presbyterian | religious group in New Jersey | 50 | |
7289260019 | Scots Irish | 7% of the population 175,000 people in 1775 most were Presbyterian some were pioneers | 51 | |
7310383999 | became squatters because of their lack of money, moved into the Shenandoah Valley quarreling with Indians and white land owners | the Scots-Irish reached America and | 52 | |
7310416676 | led the armed march of the Parton boys | 1763-64 Scots Irish | 53 | |
7310425872 | the Paxton's | led a march on Philadelphia to protest attacks in the Lehigh Valley and the Quakers peaceful treatment of the Indians. (led to Conestoga Massacre) | 54 | |
7310453494 | NC regulator movement (1765) | led by Scots-Irish, it was aimed against the Tuscarora and the domination by eastern whites in the colony | 55 | |
7310475689 | Germans | 6% of the population in 1775 (most protestant) | 56 | |
7310495063 | African Indentured Servants, slaves, and/or free blacks | In 1775 were 30% of the population | 57 | |
7310519475 | Aristocrats had much power | class differences emerged and | 58 | |
7310527564 | Rum, Whiskey, Weapons,and goods | enriched merchants in New England and Middle Colonies | 59 | |
7310539076 | Yeoman (small farmers) | owned their land and owned few slaves. Landless whites rented from them. | 60 | |
7310551397 | Irish Scots | the paupers and criminals sent to the new world. this system was phased out in the 1700s | 61 | |
7310567999 | Clergy | most honored profession | 62 | |
7310569398 | bleeding | "solution to illness" | 63 | |
7310571158 | inoculation | introduced in 1721 by Dr. Boylston of Boston | 64 | |
7310600096 | Hunting, trading, small farming | mountain laboring | 65 | |
7310604994 | "Triangular Trade" | rum from England, got slaves from West Africa, traded molasses for slaves in the West Indies | 66 | |
7310612032 | skilled craftspeople | prized over doctors and lawyers | 67 | |
7310617334 | small enterprise in NE | Rum, lumber, and textiles | 68 | |
7310639296 | Britain Navy | marked tall trees for ship's masts & colonists hated it even though there were countless good trees | 69 | |
7310716153 | colonies forced into mercantile system | colonies produced the resources, England produced the finished goods. | 70 | |
7310740838 | Molasses Act | hindered trade with the West Indies | 71 | |
7310747592 | smuggling | popular and profitable in Colonial America (John Hancock made a fortune) | 72 | |
7310766043 | official church of GA, NC, SC, VA, MD, and NY | Anglican Church (where was it the official church of) | 73 | |
7310754684 | Anglican Church and Puritan Church | the two established churches of the New World | 74 | |
7310777295 | Anglican sermons and beliefs | shorter sermons, hell was less frightening, amusements were less sacred | 75 | |
7310789126 | Congregational church | grew from the puritan church established in New England colonies. | 76 | |
7310802138 | Quakers | dominated Pennsylvania | 77 | |
7310803813 | Presbyterians | dominated New Jersey | 78 | |
7310806597 | "The Great Awakening" | people were worried they weren't devout enough in the 1700's | 79 | |
7318316923 | England | where the great awakening started | 80 | |
7318336959 | "Doctrine of Armenians" | Protestant Preachers adopted this | 81 | |
7318350241 | Dutch reformists | challenged the orthodox calvinists | 82 | |
7318364183 | congregational preacher with emotionally moving preaching methods. spoke of eternal damnation nonbelievers faced after death | Jonathan Edwards | 83 | |
7318370686 | Jonathan Edwards | Harvard educated and started preaching in 1734 "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" | 84 | |
7318383714 | Edwards describes a man dangling a spider over a blazing flame being able to drop it in at any time | "Sinners in the hands of an angry god" | 85 | |
7318405239 | better orator (preacher) than Edwards, moved him to tears | George Whitfield | 86 | |
7318408333 | circuit riders | spreading the word of god copied Whitfield | 87 | |
7318465303 | orthodox clergyman | skeptical of new light preachers | 88 | |
7318471496 | Princeton, Brown, Rutgers, and Dartmouth | "new light" centers of education | 89 | |
7318485776 | the great awakening | the first religious experience shared by all Americans | 90 | |
7318504751 | New England and the Middle Atlantic | education was most important here and kindergarten and primary schools arose for those able to go (wealthy) | 91 | |
7318514660 | New England | more literate people in this colony than any other | 92 | |
7318521459 | religion and classical languages | Colonial schools emphasized on | 93 | |
7318528544 | more focus on liberal arts and science due to the enlightenment in Europe | changes in the colonial curriculum in the mid 1700's | 94 | |
7318534942 | created high school and the University of Pennsylvania | Ben Franklin | 95 | |
7333119930 | Sweden | log cabin came from | 96 | |
7333135012 | Virginia in 1720 | Georgian red-bricked style dominated this colony | 97 | |
7333147091 | Phillis Wheatley | an African slave (never formally educated) published a book of verse (poems) very popular | 98 | |
7333168378 | Poor Richard's almanac | Ben Franklin published this and it was the most influential in the colonies, most read second to the Bible | 99 | |
7333178967 | first public library | developed by Ben Franklin | 100 | |
7333190308 | John Zenger | New York newspaper printer taken to court and charged with slander against governor William Cosby. | 101 | |
7333220443 | Cosby removed a judge in order to make more of a profit and Zenger wrote about it and was acquitted of slander because the accusations were true | premise of the Zenger v. Cosby case | 102 | |
7333225170 | Andrew Hamilton | Zenger's lawyer | 103 | |
7333239287 | 8 of 13 | how many colonies were royal | 104 | |
7333242766 | 3 | how many colonies have governors chosen by propieters | 105 | |
7333246863 | 2 house legislative body | each colony had a (as a form of gov't) | 106 | |
7333252563 | upper house | represented the king and the royal body | 107 | |
7333255659 | lower house | represented the people- chosen by the people | 108 | |
7333266882 | self taxation with representation | a value colonists cherished | 109 | |
7333275091 | white male landowners 21 years old | requirements for sufferage | 110 | |
7333284083 | lotteries | universally approved because it raised money for churches and universities | 111 | |
7333293003 | beaver pelt and lumber | most valuable resource of New France (Canada) | 112 | |
7333300863 | Quebec | New France's capital established by Samuel de Champlain in 1608 | 113 | |
7333309569 | "Coureirs de Bois" | (runners of the woods) name for French hunter trappers | 114 | |
7333319866 | French voyagers | recruited indians to help them trap and hunt beaver | 115 | |
7333327871 | Ohio Valley, | French settled here | 116 | |
7333331038 | Antoine Cadillac | founded Detroit in 1701 | 117 | |
7333351904 | founded Louisiana in 1682 to halt Spanish expansion into the Gulf of Mexico | Robert de LaSalle | 118 | |
7333356863 | King Louis XIV | who Louisiana was named for | 119 | |
7333379950 | ends up in Spanish Mexico and was murdered in 1687 | Robert de La Salle tried to return to Louisiana but | 120 | |
7333394828 | Illinois country | French set up trading posts and forts here | 121 | |
7333414702 | English captain Robert Jenkins upset the Spanish, got his ear cut off, and it was presented to Parliament in 1731 | the war of Jenkins ear | 122 | |
7333420435 | naval war | confined to the Caribbean Sea and Georgia through the 1730's and early 1740's | 123 | |
7333431074 | the war of Austrian Succession | the war of Jenkins ear merged with this war and was called King George's War in America (largely a European War after 1742) | 124 | |
7333485894 | Cape Breton Island, Canada | During King George's War, France allied with Spain and English captured and reputes the fortress of | 125 | |
7333517397 | Treaty of Aix-la Chapelle | brought peace terms to the war- gave Louisburg fort back to France | 126 | |
7333525304 | The Ohio valley | Battleground among the Spanish, British, and French | 127 | |
7333557325 | Governor Dinwiddie | In 1754, this governor sent Washington to the Ohio Valleys a colonel in command of 150 minutemen | 128 | |
7333566425 | Fort Dequesne | In the Ohio River Valley, a fort controlled by the French. | 129 | |
7333583756 | Killed the French leader | Washington and his men encountered French 40 miles from for Duquesne and opened fire ... | 130 | |
7333594640 | Washington's fort Necessity and fought "Indian Style" and made him surrender after a 10 hr siege | In the Washinton Inaugurates War after their leader died, the French returned and surrounded ... | 131 | |
7333617007 | 7 years war | fourth of the wars between English and French, this one started in America | 132 | |
7333625763 | Washington's battle with the French | 7 Years War began with | 133 | |
7333635474 | England and Prussia v. France, Spain, Austria, and Russia | sides in the 7 years war | 134 | |
7333638685 | French | More Indians sided with the | 135 | |
7333642642 | Albany Congress | In 1754, 7 of the 13 colonies met to unite | 136 | |
7333651088 | the Join or Die snake flag in pieces representing the colonies | Franklin published this before the congress in Albany | 137 | |
7333709131 | the states were reluctant to give up sovereignty or power | why did the Plan of Union in Albany fail | 138 | |
7333719795 | English, colonists, Iroqouis v. French and Indians | sides in the French Indian War | 139 | |
7336879121 | Edward Braddock | In 1775, the British sent whom to lead inexperienced soldiers with slow and heavy artillery | 140 | |
7336886950 | "Indian Tactics" | French ambushed the English using this in a battle near present day Pittsburgh (Great Meadows) | 141 | |
7336889835 | Battle of Fort Neccesity | In this battle, Washington had 2 horses shot from under him, 4 bulletholes in his jacket- Braddock died and gave his military sash to Washington | 142 | |
7336935927 | William Pitt | took control of the British | 143 | |
7336948568 | Moved major assaults to the French West Indies, concentrated on Quebec and Montreal (supply routes to New France), replaced old officers with new (daring) ones. | Changes William Pitt Made | 144 | |
7336953114 | they conquered Fort Louisburg which blocked supply to New France | In 1758 what did the British do | 145 | |
7336964135 | James Wolfe | led one of the most legendary attack of all time in which his men (British) scaled cliffs in the dark to surprise attack the French at Quebec and the Plains of Abraham. French were defeated and Quebec suffered | 146 | |
7336987236 | James Wolfe and Marquis de Montcalm | 2 people that died in the French Indian War (In Quebec battle) | 147 | |
7337023488 | 1759 Battle of Quebec | a decisive victory of the French/Indian War of America | 148 | |
7337057030 | French kicked out of the Americas, British got Canada and land to the Mississippi River, French could keep small sugar islands in the West Indies and St. Lawrence, France gave up Louisiana to Spain as compensation for war losses | conditions of the Peace Treaty at Paris 1763 | 149 | |
7337099744 | Americans felt equal with the redcoats and no longer saw them as invincible. | resulted of the French/Indian war | 150 | |
7337115279 | trade with enemy traders | The British were concerned about this during the war | 151 | |
7339299257 | he had to pay them | what'd Pitt have to do to get the colonists to fight against the French | 152 | |
7339326936 | less military presence in the colonies | after the French/Indian war was over the French were defeated so | 153 | |
7339352800 | Ottowa Chief Pontiac | led French-alliedtribes in a brief, bloody campaign through the Ohio Valley- the whites cruelly retaliated | 154 | |
7339391861 | Jeffery Amherst | ordered blankets infected with smallpox to be distributed to Pontiac's men | 155 | |
7339415923 | Proclamation of 1763 | a document that kept colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains (Indians got the Ohio River Valley) | 156 | |
7339449186 | 1,000 wagons rolled through the town in defiance of the proclamation of 1763 | 1765 Salisbury North Carolina | 157 | |
7339461560 | Revolutionary War | War that lasted 8 years, caused by the independence and oppression felt across the colonies. | 158 | |
7339475187 | Georgia | Only colony planted by the royal government. the rest were done privately or by propieters | 159 | |
7339485065 | Mercantalism | made money for the crown, justified having control of the colonies | 160 |
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