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.
