AP History
Mr. Dunn
Chapter 3 Study Guide
Society, and Culture in Provincial America
1630’s-1760s
Important Terms, People, and Ideas
Indentured Servants
Chesapeake v. New England
Slave trade
Middle Passage
Slave Codes
Immigrants
Tobacco/cash crop
Specie
Triangular Trade
Plantation life
Stono Rebellion
New England Town
Primogeniture
Salem Witch Trials
City Life
Great Awakening
Half Way Covenant
Jonathan Edwards
George Whitefield
Enlightenment
Cotton Mather
Small Pox Inoculation
John Peter Zenger
Colonial Governments
Questions
1. What was the initial source of population in the colonies?
2. Discuss when how and why the source of population changed to natural increase.
3. Compare the following for the Chesapeake and New England Areas
Chesapeake
Life Expectancy
Sex Ratio
Marriage and
Family
Childbirth and
Infant Mortality
Status of Women
New England
4. Describe the following relating to the Slave Trade
Who:
When:
Where:
How:
5. Why did English immigration substantially decline?
6. Why did the following groups of people come to the American Colonies and where did they settle?
French Huguenots
German Protestants
Scots-Irish
Scottish Highlanders
Presbyterian Lowlanders
7. Make a list of items that colonists were not likely to have.
8. Why did colonists not have many manufactured goods?
9. Describe the currency situation.
10. Describe the Triangular Trade.
11. How did merchants defy the navigation acts in order to make more money?
12. Who did colonial Americans buy their manufactured goods from? Why?
13. What type of control did Southern plantation holders have over the majority of the southern agrarian
population? Why?
14. What was the characteristic social unit in New England? Describe how it was structured.
15. Describe how land inheritance was different in a Puritan community.
16. Describe the type of women who were accused of witchcraft.
17. What were the causes of the witchcraft controversies?
18. What purpose did cities serve?
19. Describe the positive and negative aspects of colonial cities.
Positive
Negative
20. Describe the Anti-Catholic and anti Semitic (Jewish) actions taken in the colonies.
21. Describe the impact that the Great Awakening had on organized religion.
22. Describe the arguments of enlightened thinkers.
23. Describe the literacy rate in the colonies. Who was literate and to what extent?
24. Fill out the following chart on early American Colleges
Name
When
Where
Harvard
William and Mary
Yale
Princeton
Religious Connection
25. Describe the role of Cotton Mather in the inoculation of smallpox.
26. Describe the significance of the John Peter Zenger trial.
27. Compare the power of colonial assemblies with the power of Parliament.
28. How did a governor receive his job?
29. How was the power of a governor limited?
30. What did provincial governments become accustomed to?