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AP US History 5
Chapter 5
Question | Answer |
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Percentage of Germans in 1775 | 6% |
In 1775, what group of immigrates built up 1/3 of the Pennsylvania population? | Germans |
Percentage of Scots-Irish in 1775 | 7% |
Paxton Boys | 1764-led a revolt against the Quakers lenient policy toward the Indians |
Regulator Movement | Rebellion in North Carolina |
Percentage of Other European Groups in 1775 | 5% |
Who felt little loyalty to the English Crown | Other European Groups |
Percentage of Africans in 1775 | 20% |
Where was slavery biggest in the colonies? What percentage? | South & 90% |
Jean de Crebecoeur | wrote about America's diverse population |
"Poor Whites" | Tenant Farmers |
Percentage of Agriculture in colonies | 90% |
"Bread Basket" Colonies | Middle Colonies |
Ministry | Most Honored Profession |
Physicians | Poorly trained Not well respected Epidemics (small pox,diphtheria) |
Jurists | Became more respected with time |
Fishing in New England | Cod |
Commerce and Land Speculation | Quick Money |
Triangle Trade | Europe to Africa to America textiles,rum,manufactured goods to slaves to beaver,sugar,tobacco,cotton,lumber |
Manufacturing | limited ("kill devil" rum, beaver hats, Iron, lumber |
Where was Iron manufactured in the colonies? | Valley Forge in Pennsylvania |
Household Manufacturing | spinning and weaving |
Naval Stores | High Valued items (tar, pitch, rosin, turpentine, timper) |
Molasses Act of 1733 | stopped colonists trade with French West Indies colonists bribed and smuggled around the act americans needed cash to buy goods from british |
Roads | terrible conditions slow travel |
Waterways | main transportaion slow and undependable cheap and pleasant |
Taverns | Gossip, Informaion, public opinion |
Postal Service | 1700s slow, infrequent, no secrecy |
Great Awakening | new liberal ideas religiously less fervent |
Jonathan Edwards | Northampton, Massachusetts "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" |
George Whitefield | New evangelical style of preaching Drama Human helplessness and Divine Omnipotence |
England Education | only wealthy educated |
New England Education | focused on boys had many primary and secondary schools |
Southern and Middle Education | Some Elementary schools Rich used tutors |
University of Pennsylvania | Ben Franklin First American College with no church control |
Phyllis Wheatley | Slave girl and poet |