Monday

 

I will give you time to read chapter 5 and work on the following questions. If for some reason, I'm not in class please finish reading chapter 5.

Conquest by the Cradle

Know: Thirteen Original Colonies

1.         1. What was the significance of the tremendous growth of population in Britain's North American colonies?

 

A Mingling of Races

Know: Pennsylvania Dutch, Scots-Irish, Paxton Boys, Regulator Movement

2.         2. What was the significance of large numbers of immigrants from places other than England?

 

 

 

The Structure of Colonial Society

Know: Social Mobility

 

3.         Assess the degree of social mobility in the colonies.

 

 

 

Clerics, Physicians, and Jurists

Know: Smallpox, Diphtheria

4.         4. Why has the relative prestige of the professions changed from colonial times to today?

 

 

 

 

Workaday America

Know: Triangular Trade, Naval Stores, Molasses Act

5.         5. Describe some of the more important occupations in the colonies.

 

 

 

 

Horsepower and Sailpower

Know: Taverns

6.         What was it like to travel in early America?

 

 

Dominant Denominations

Know: Established Church, Anglicans, Congregationalists, Presbyterians

7.         7. How did the denominations in America affect relations with Great Britain?

 

 

 

The Great Awakening

Know: Jonathan Edwards, George Whitefield, Old Lights, New Lights, Baptists

 8.       8. How was the religion encompassed in the Great Awakening different from traditional religion?  What was important about the difference?

 

 

 

Schools and Colleges

Know: Latin and Greek

9.         9. What kind of education could a young person expect in colonial times?

 

 

           A Provincial Culture

Know: John Trumbull, Charles Wilson Peale, Benjamin West, John Singleton Copley, Benjamin Franklin

10.       10. Did Americans distinguish themselves in the arts during the colonial period?  Explain.

 

 

Pioneer Presses

Know: John Peter Zenger

11.       Why was the jury verdict in the Zenger case important?

 

The Great Game of Politics

Kno:    Royal Colonies, Proprietary Colonies, Self-governing Colonies, Colonial Assemblies, Power of the Purse, Town Meetings, Property Qualifications 

12.       How democratic was colonial America?

 

 

Colonial Folkways

13.       13. What were the advantages and disadvantages of living in America during the colonial period?

 

Colonial America: Communities of Conflict or Consensus?

Know: Nash's Urban Crucible Theory

14.       14. Were the colonies marked more by internal consensus or internal conflict?  Explain.