Chapter 3 Study Guide: The Southern, Middle, and New England Colonies
Chapter 3.1 Southern Colonies
1) Southern economy based on ___________________?
2) Define cash crop3) First successful cash crop for the South was _________________.
4) Main cash crops for South Carolina were _______________ and ________________.
5) Define plantation6) Explain why the colonists built few roads in the Chesapeake region.
7) Indentured servant sold their ______________ in return for passage to America, ________,
_____________, and ________________.
8) The Headrights System gave the landowner _____ of land for each indentured servant.
9) The percentage of indentured servants that died in the colonies in 1600s was _______%
10) Define gentry11) Define subsistence farming12) Who was the Governor of Virginia who was thought to be corrupt and would not attack the Native
Americans at Nathaniel Bacon’s Request?
13) Describe Bacon’s Rebellion and who won.
14) Explain what the Middle Passage was15) Define the slave code and explain how it regulated slaveryChapter 3.2 New England and the Middle Colonies
1) Explain the importance of lumber to the colonies and to England2) Explain what a town meeting is, what they did in one, and why it is important3) How many people were executed during the Salem Witch Trials?
4) Who was the first person accused of being a witch?
5) Explain the difference between the accusers and the persons accused of witchcraft.
Accusers were –
Accused were6) Explain what the Triangular Trade was and some of the items that were traded
7) The Caribbean planters oftentimes paid the New England merchants for their goods with
_________________________.
8) The crop that made the Middle Colonies wealthy and attracted immigrants to live in the Middle
Colonies was _______________________.
9) Define entrepreneurs
10) Define capitalists
Chapter 3.3 The Imperial System
1) Explain the Mercantilism economic theory –
2) This person asked Parliament to pass the Navigation Acts _________________________.
3) Why did he want the navigation acts passed?
4) The Navigation Act required three things the colonies had to do, list them.
5) Which crops could only be sold to England or other English colonies?
5) Describe the Staple Act6) This person created the Dominion of New England ___________________.
7) How did the Dominion of New England punish the colonists?
8) He was the first governor-general of the Dominion of New England _______________________.
9) How did this governor-general make the colonists angry with him?
10) Why were the people upset with James II?
11) What was the Glorious Revolution and why did it happen in 1688?
12) Who replaced James II on the throne?
13) List five things your book says about the English Bill of Rights.
14) The Toleration Act gave ____________________________ freedom of worship, but __________
and _____________________ were denied the freedom of worship.
15) After the Glorious Revolution, what happened to Andros and the Dominion of New England?
16) Explain Natural Rights17) Explain Locke’s Theory of governance18) Name the English document written in 1215 that defined English rights.
Chapter 3.4 A Diverse Society
1) Who was Cotton Mather and what did he cure?
2) Who was America’s first large groups of German immigrants looking for religious freedom?
3) Why was John Peter Zenger arrested?
4) John Peter Zenger’s court case led to freedom of ______________.
5) Explain what Gullah is6) How were slaves punished in the colonies?
7) Describe what passive resistance is8) Describe the Stono Rebellion, what caused it, and how it ended9) The Enlightenment challenged whose authority?
10) Define rationalism11) Explain Locke’s theory of governance12) Explain Rousseau’s theory of governance13) Explain Montesquieu’s theory of governance14) Who was Jonathan Edwards and why is he significant?
15) Who was George Whitefield and why is he significant?
16) John Wesley was the founder of _____________________.
17) Why did most Africans become Baptists?
14) The Toleration Act gave ____________________________ freedom of worship, but __________
and _____________________ were denied the freedom of worship.
15) After the Glorious Revolution, what happened to Andros and the Dominion of New England?
16) Explain Natural Rights17) Explain Locke’s Theory of governance18) Name the English document written in 1215 that defined English rights.
Chapter 3.4 A Diverse Society
1) Who was Cotton Mather and what did he cure?
2) Who was America’s first large groups of German immigrants looking for religious freedom?
3) Why was John Peter Zenger arrested?
4) John Peter Zenger’s court case led to freedom of ______________.
5) Explain what Gullah is6) How were slaves punished in the colonies?
7) Describe what passive resistance is8) Describe the Stono Rebellion, what caused it, and how it ended9) The Enlightenment challenged whose authority?
10) Define rationalism11) Explain Locke’s theory of governance12) Explain Rousseau’s theory of governance13) Explain Montesquieu’s theory of governance14) Who was Jonathan Edwards and why is he significant?
15) Who was George Whitefield and why is he significant?
16) John Wesley was the founder of _____________________.
17) Why did most Africans become Baptists?