Topic #2 Overview Sheet
 
  Assignment #1
 

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  Assignment #2
 

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Questions:
  1. Describe the economy of the Chesapeake region, and explain why it developed as it did.
  2. How did the economy of South Carolina and Georgia differ from that of the Chesapeake?  How was it similar?
  3. Explain the commercial economy that emerged in the northern colonies alongside the agricultural one.  What role did technology play in this?
  4. What were the limitations of colonial technology?  Just how self-sufficient were American colonists?
  5. What were the goals of a mercantilist economic policy?
  6. What was the "Triangle Trade?"  How was it a response to British mercantile policies?
  7. How were the Navigation Acts an example of Britain's mercantilist thinking?  How successful were they in achieving their goals?
  8. Explain the growing preoccupation with consumption of material goods in the British colonies and how this preoccupation was associated with social status.
  9. How did the plantation system in the American South illustrate both the differences between the colonial and English class systems and the way in which colonial communities evolved in response to local conditions?
  10. What were the characteristics of plantation slavery?
  11. How was the plantation an economic unit?  a social unit?
  12. What was the cause of the Stono Rebellion?
 

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  Assignment #3
 

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Questions:
  1. What were the characteristics of communities that emerged in Puritan New England?
  2. How was the family central to the Puritan community?
  3. How did the experience of America affect the patriarchal family?
  4. Why did people accuse someone of witchcraft?
  5. Who were the typical accused?  typical accusers?
  6. Why did "witchcraft" seem to appear so suddenly in Salem, MA in 1692?  Were there any political / economic / cultural reasons?
  7. How did the witchcraft hysteria of the 1680s and 1690s result from a "gap between the expectations of a united community and the reality of a diverse and divided one?"
 

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  Assignment #4
 

Sources:
  • textbook:  mid-pg. 86 - 89;  end of pg. 91 - 97.    [11th ed. --> mid-pg. 89 - pg. 96]
 

Questions:
  1. How was the Halfway Communion [Halfway Covenant] a move to address these tensions?
  2. What was the First "Great Awakening?"  Who brought it about?  What groups in colonial society were most attracted to this religious movement?
  3. Identify the differences between the "Old Lights" and the "New Lights."
  4. What were the effects of the Great Awakening?
  5. What was the Enlightenment?  How did it differ from the Great Awakening?
  6. What colonial colleges were in operation by 1763?  Why was each founded, and what subjects were studied in the mid-18c?
  7. What evidence was there that the influence of the Enlightenment was spreading in America?
  8. Explain the working of the law in colonial America--the concepts on which it was based, and the way it functioned.
  9. What was the significance of the John Peter Zenger trial?
 

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Quizzes:
  1. Textbook Quizzes --> chapter 3
  2. My Quizzes -->  A
     
Outlines / Lecture Notes / Review Sheets:
  1. Giant AHAP Review Sheet by a student from the class of '04, Horace Greeley HS
  2. Timeline- 1651 to 1700
  3. Timeline- 1701 to 1750
  4. Indian Wars - chart
  5. The Enlightenment - chart (Mr. Perno)
  6. Mercantilism (Mr. Perno)
  7. Lecture outline --> "North American Colonies Matue" (Prof. David McGee, Central Virginia Community College)
  8. Slavery in the American Colonies - outline
  9. 18th Century American Colonies - outline
  10. Note Cards -->  51-100     101-150    

 


 

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