Tuesday, January 21st
Bell Work: Please log-on to your
computer and spend the first 10 minutes
of class today reviewing vocabulary for
Unit 1 using the resources on the “Vocab
and SFIs” page of the class wiki.
Daily Agenda:
 Bell Work: SFI Review
 WOD  voracious
 Clicker Review
 Lecture: The French and
Indian War
 Summarizer
Homework: Read Ch. 4
and complete Cornell
Notes (Due Thursday)
Essential Question:
How did the Seven Years’ War
and its outcomes affect
Britain’s attitude and policies
toward its North American
colonies?
Voracious – an insatiable appetite
(Pronunciation for Word)
 Describe the following images using the word voracious.
(Example)
Tuesday, January 21st Block 2
Voracious – an insatiable appetite
(Possible Answers)
 Cities and mayors are voraciously trying to expand their
cities but do so in holding trees and nature hostage.
 The cookie monster is voracious when it come to cookies.
Example
Tuesday, January 21st Block 2
Voracious – an insatiable appetite
(Pronunciation for Word)
What would voracious most commonly mean to a…
 Dentist
 Football Player
 Student
Experience
Tuesday, January 21st Block4
Voracious – an insatiable appetite
(Possible Answers)
 What would voracious most commonly mean to a…
 Dentist- Cleaning many teeth
 Football Player- Continuously in the gym
 Student- Constantly gaining more knowledge
Experience
Tuesday, January 21st Block 4
Which of the following best explains why
Massachusetts Bay officials banished
Anne Hutchinson?
2006-71%
A – She challenged gender roles and Puritan orthodoxy
B – She was found guilty of practicing witchcraft
C – She preached the doctrine of predestination
D – She gave birth to a child out of wedlock
E – She opened an unlicensed tavern
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7%
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5
In the Colonial period, Quakers were known
for all of the following EXCEPT their
A – acceptance of a greater role for women in public worship
B – opposition to the institution of slavery
2006-43%
C – advocacy of freedom of worship
D – refusal to pay taxes
E – refusal to bear arms
47%
20%
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2
20%
3
7%
7%
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5
Before 1492, many American Indian
cultures were strongly influenced by the
A – spread of corn cultivation
B – ravages of smallpox epidemics
C – regular contacts with Africa
D – invention of the spoked wheel
E – domestication of horses
93%
7%
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5
The Navigation Acts were part of the
British policy known as
A – isolationism
B – capitalism
C – mercantilism
D – monopolism
E – imperialism
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5
The Dutch settled New Netherland
primarily to
A – secure a refuge for the persecuted
B – check the growth of English colonies in North America
C – expand their commercial and mercantile network
D – gain colonies to produce agricultural surpluses
E – secure naval supplies
53%
27%
13%
7%
0%
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Participant Scores
4
Greyson Mills
4
4
4
4
Josh Hornbuckle
Frank Lee
Paul Giglio
Cassie Bolling
Which of the following was true of a
married woman in the colonial era?
2001-79%
A – She would be sentenced to debtor’s prison for debts incurred by her
husband.
B – She could vote as her husband’s proxy in elections.
C – She generally lost control of her property when she married.
D – She was the prime beneficiary by law of her husband’s estate.
E – Her legal rights over her children were the same as her husband.
40%
27%
27%
7%
0%
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5
The North American colonies took
advantage of Great Britain’s policy of
salutary neglect to
2001-52%
A – establish religious freedom as a fundamental right
B - work out trade agreements to acquire needed products from other
countries
C – introduce the practice of slavery into the New World
D – Establish a standing army
E – make favorable territorial settlements with the French
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5
Which of the following was true of the
Northeast American tribes at the time
Europeans began colonization
2001-39%
A –Their economies depended entirely on hunting and gathering.
B – Their political and linguistic differences hindered their united
opposition to the Europeans.
C –Their populations were immune to European diseases.
D – Their warriors rarely engaged in intertribal warfare.
E – Their cultures made no distinction between men’s work and women’s
work
53%
33%
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5
The Halfway Covenant provided for which
of the following?
A –The baptism of children of baptized but unconverted Puritans.
B – The granting of suffrage to non church members.
C –The expansion of women’s power within the Congregational church.
D – The granting of full membership in the Congregational church to all
New Englanders.
E – The posting of banns by engaged couples.
67%
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The Puritans believed that their purpose
in the colonies was to:
A. become an example of faith for the world to see
B. create a democracy that would model ancient Greece
C. abide by the rules of the Church of England
D. earn riches to send back to the Mother Country
E. forge an alliance with natives in order to gain power for England
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Participant Scores
9
Josh Hornbuckle
9
8
8
8
Paul Giglio
Alex Evinger
Cassie Bolling
Participant 24
The largest group of immigrants to the
colonies in the late-seventeenth century
were
A – Irish
B – Russian
C – German
D – African
E – Swedish
40%
33%
20%
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Public education was MOST encouraged by
which of the following colonies:
A – Massachusetts
B – Virginia
C – Georgia
D – New York
E – Maryland
73%
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Anne Hutchinson and Roger Williams were
expelled from the Massachusetts Bay
Colony because they
A – did not believe in the grace of God
B – felt the individual was just as important as faith
C – did not wish to separate from the Church of England
D – questioned the practice of antinomianism
E – refused the Half-Way Covenant
53%
40%
7%
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How were the Mayflower Compact and the
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut similar
in purpose?
A – Both established specific requirements for voting and defined the powers of the
governor.
B – Both established democracy for men and women in their respective colonies.
C – Both extended religious toleration to all who wished to settle in New England.
D – Both were covenants that suggested men must work together to achieve their goals.
E – Both were agreements for leaving the colonies if conditions became too harsh.
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The Salem Witch Trials of 1692 were
A – a product of poisoning of the colonists by native tribes
B – indicative of social and economic tensions among colonists
C – a phenomena isolated to Salem
D – attacks by elite women on poorer citizens
E – isolated by the hunting of female victims
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Participant Scores
12
Josh Hornbuckle
11
11
11
11
Alex Evinger
Frank Lee
Cassie Bolling
Paul Giglio
Colonial 1700s
Unit 1.5
Rise of Consumerism
 Caused by the early stages of the Industrial Revolution
 More affluent Americans showed off wealth
 Average colonists more wealthy than British counterparts
 Advertising in Journals and Newspapers
began
 An emerging merchant class develops
 How does this fit within the idea of an “American?”
Science and Education
 The Enlightenment caused more scientific and intellectual
exploration
 Education higher in the colonies due in part to religion (especially Massachusetts)
 Increase of Newspapers and Almanacs
 Poor Richard’s Almanac by Ben Franklin
 Franklin also made postal system one of the best (night riders)
 Medicine overall improving
 Cotton Mather with inoculation of smallpox (later used by Washington)
Self-government
 Many areas were largely self-governing
 Colonial Assemblies were able to make many laws
 Crown appointed many positions, but usually not too powerful
and usually in largest cities
 How would this play into the future of the colonies?
French and Indian War
 France, Spain, and Britain had several conflicts in the 1600s and early 1700s in which
Colonist were involved.
 King William’s War – New England Clashes
 Queen Anne’s War – New England and South (vs. Spanish)
 King George’s War – New England (and primarily Europe)
 In 1754, conflict began over claims in the Ohio River valley (Middle grounds).
 Started the Seven Years War (which lasted 9 years), but was known in the Americas as
the French and Indian War.
 It was a world war. Why?
Our Father emerges
 Ft. Necessity – 1754 – Col. George Washington leads a group of
colonial militia in unsuccessful battle.
 What reason (personally) did Washington have to lead the troops?
 It is called the French and Indian War, but what are the real sides?
 For the actual fighting, William Pitt takes over British troops in
1757 and later the British won at Quebec.
 Impressment
French and Indian War Importance
 Treaty of Paris 1763 ends war. Britain wins.
 Britain gets Canada (from France)
 Britain gets Florida (from Spain)
 Britain gets Ohio River Valley
 Passes the Proclamation of 1763

Colonists were not allowed to settle past the Appalachian Mts.
o Why would that upset the Colonists?
 What were some of the other effects of the war?
Reflection Questions
 How was the “American” developing during the 1700s?
 What role did the north play in the expansion of slavery in
the colonies?
 How did the French and Indian War begin and what were the
effects of the war?
 Even through legally they did not have much power, in what
ways did women hold unofficial power?