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FREE U.S. HISTORY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT APUSH CH.
4 EXAM QUESTIONS
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Question 1: Grievances of Baconites
Answer:
Forced into back country in search of land, resented Berkley's policies towards Indians, attacked Indians because Berkley didn't retaliate after being attacked first
Question 2: How come more than half of N.
- settlers could read and write?
Answer:
Towns with >50 families were required to provide elementary education
Question 3: Why didn't slavery root in N.
- like it did in the south?
Answer:
Staple products didn't flourish, couldn't exist profitably on small farms, no broad/fertile expanses, mountains were close to the shore, and rivers were usually short and rapid
Question 4: How did the indentured servant system work?
Answer:
People volunteered to work for Chesapeake masters in exchange for a transatlantic passage and "freedom dues"
Question 5: Stono River Revolt
Answer:
Slaves tried to march to Florida which was Spanish at the time, but got stopped by local militia
Question 6: Describe the experience of the Middle Passage
Answer:
20% death rate, 10 million loaded, 400,000 made it, branded and bound
Question 7: Head Right System
Answer:
Guaranteed 50 acres of land for anyone that settled into the colonies
Question 8: Where did planters get more labor in the 17th century?
Answer:
Displaced farmers from England
Question 9: What impact did N.
- have on the future western states and towns?
Answer:
Thousands of N. Englanders spread throughout the land from Ohio to Oregon to Hawaii and they sprinkled the land with new communities
Question 10: What rights did southern women have?
Answer:
Advanced the economic security and inherited husband's estates
Question 11: Freedom Dues
Answer:
Goods indentured servants received after working for their masters (ex: barrels of corn, a suit of clothes, and sometimes a small piece of land)
Question 12: Slave Codes
Answer:
States that blacks and their children were the property for their life of their white masters, some colonies made it a crime to teach them how to read or write Question 13: Why was growing tobacco hard agriculturally? What sociological problems would this cause?
Answer:
Growing in the same soil after it's been used once made it not grow as well causing the need for more land causing Indian attacks
Question 14: New York City slave revolt
Answer:
Slaves revolted for freedom which cost the lives of 12 whites and 21 blacks
Question 15: Why were jeremiads becoming prevalent in mid-17th century N. E.?
Answer:
There were worries in the God-fearing pioneers
Question 16: Significance of Outcome of Bacon's Rebellion
Answer:
Virginians looked at Africa for slaves because they thought they would be less troublesome laborers in the fields of tobacco
Question 17: Jeremiads
Answer:
When preachers scolded parishioners for their waning piety
Question 18: What industries existed in colonial N. E.?
Answer:
Clearing forests, herders, shipbuilding, fishing
Question 19: What diseases effected the Chesapeake colony?
Answer:
Malaria, dysentery, and typhoid
Question 20: List the social classes of the south (descending order of power)
Answer:
Planters, small farmers, landless whites, people who were serving their term
Question 21: Yankee Ingenuity
Answer:
Claimed by all Americans as a proud national trait
Question 22: State some of the first families of Virginia
Answer:
Fitzhughs, Lees, Washingtons
Question 23: What was the purpose of the New England Primer?
Answer:
To teach lessons of social duty, Christian faith, reading, and writing in schools
Question 24: What does the Witchcraft Trials show about early N.
- society?
Answer:
The government thought they might have had connections to the devil
Question 25: What occurred during the Salem Witchcraft Trials?
Answer:
20 people were killed because they claimed they had been bewitched in 1692
Question 26: Why did Chesapeake turn to Africans as a slave source?
Answer:
Whites had a short life expectancy and were expensive
Question 27: How did slaves adapt the Christian religion to make it their own?
Answer:
They made a religious dance (ringshout) by shuffling in a circle while answering a preacher's shouts which contributed to the development of jazz