Thursday

 Today we are going to go over you SAQ. I will give you some time to work on AP CLASSROOM and or to fill out graphic organizers for Chapter 4 (I am not collecting this but you might want them). We will also look at a video on AP CLASSROOM about Unit 2.

Note - Tomorrow we will need to read chapter 5.

Primary Sources that you should know for this time period (UNIT 2)

John Smith - "The General History of Virginia"

William Bradford - "Of Plymouth Plantation"

Mayflower Compact

Jonathan Edwards - "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"

Virginia Company - "The Natives Should be Conquered and Extermination"

Stono Rebellion sourses 

This questions 3-4 refer to the following quotation.

…Whereas the enforcing of the conscience in matters of religion has frequently fallen out to be of dangerous consequence in those commonwealths where it has been practiced, and for the more quiet and peaceable government of this Province, and the better to preserve mutual love and amity among the inhabitants thereof. Be it therefore enacted that no person or persons whatever in the Province…professing to believe in Jesus Christ, shall from henceforth be any ways troubled, molested, or discountenanced for or in respect of his or her religion nor in the free exercise thereof within the Province…nor in any way compelled to the belief or exercise of any other religion against his or her consent, so [long] as they not be unfaithful to the Lord Proprietary, or molest or conspire against the civil government established in this Province under him…

 

Maryland Act Concerning Religion, 1644

 

 

3. The passage above was most likely written in response to

1. the growth of autonomous political communities based on English models.
2. Protestant evangelism in North America.
3. the ethnic and religious diversity of the region.
4. the expanding social networks of the Atlantic World.

 

4. The ideas expressed in the passage above most clearly show the influence of which of the following?

1. Resistance to imperial control in the British colonies
2. The British government’s indifference to colonial governance
3. Greater religious independence in the colonies
4. A strong belief in British cultural superiority

 

5. Which of the following groups benefitted the most from the process illustrated above?

1. White indentured servants
2. Small landowners in New England
3. Large landowners in the Chesapeake
4. Native American laborers

 

6. The creator of the illustration above would most likely have supported which of the following?

1. Supporting Native American land claims in the colonies
2. The increased immigration of poor Englishmen to Virginia
3. Increased British economic controls over trans-Atlantic trade
4. British restrictions on westward migration into Indian territories

 

7. Which of the following historical developments most directly led to the end of the labor system seen in the image?

1. The inability to exert substantial control over the white indentured labor force
2. The British Parliament’s ban on indentured servitude in the mid 1600s
3. The impact of New England religious leaders condemning the use of indentured servants
4. Widespread rebellion on the part of Native Americans made tobacco farming both dangerous and unprofitable
   

Wednesday

Today we will continue reading chapter 4 of the American Pageant.

QUESTIONS FOR READING

CHAPTER 4: AMERICAN LIFE IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY         

1.  What were a few of the notable characteristics of Chesapeake life in the seventeenth century?

2.  What was indentured servitude? How did it work in the Chesapeake?

3.  How did the headright system make some very wealthy?

4.  What colony had the most people by 1700?

5.  How did farmers respond to depressed prices of tobacco during the 1600s?

6.  For most of the 1600s, who served as the labor force for the Chesapeake colonies?

7.  What was most often the outcome for indentured servants in the 1600s?

8.  What was Bacon's Rebellion? Its impact?

9.  Where did the majority of African slaves end up in the 1600s?

10.  Why did the American reliance on African slaves increase after 1680?

11.  Describe some of the impacts of slave culture on American society?

12.  Where was slavery the harshest?

13.  Explain how racism became a central concept in the slave trade?

14.  How did African slaves compare to indentured servants as a labor force?

15.  How did slavery impact the social structure of the South?

16.  What group made up the largest portion of the southern social ladder?

17.  How would the typical colonial New England family be described?

18.  Why were Southern women generally allowed to hang on to property titles?

19.  Why weren't Northern women generally allowed to hang on to property titles?

20.  How did New England society expand?

21.  What was the purpose of the New England town meeting? Its impact?

22.  What caused the Salem Witch Trials? The impact?

23.  What was the basis of the New England economy? How did it compare to the Chesapeake    

      economy?

24.  How did New England impact the settlement of the rest of the United States?

25.  How did the lifestyle of the English colonists compare to their European counterparts?

Confining your response to the period 1619 to 1750 answer (A) (B) and (C).

(A) Briefly describe TWO different factors that led to the growth of African slavery from 1619 to 1750 in North American British Colonies.

(B) Briefly explain how ONE of the examples for PART (A) changed colonial society.

(C) Briefly explain ONE way slaves resisted the dehumanizing aspects of slavery.