Chapter 3: Part 2 – Flashcards
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The English Bill of Rights of 1689
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listed parliamentary powers over such individual rights as trial by jury
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In what ways did England reduce colonial autonomy during the 1680s?
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It created the Dominion of New England, run by a royal appointee without benefit of an elected assembly
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The Glorious Revolution witnessed uprisings in colonial America, including ones in:
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New York and Maryland
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Captain Jacob Leisler, the head of the rebel militia that took control of New York in 1689:
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was overthrown and killed in so grisly a manner that the rivalry between his friends and foes polarized New York politics for years.
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How did the new Massachusetts charter of 1691 change that colony's government?
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It made Massachusetts a royal colony rather than under the control of Puritan saints
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Once Massachusetts became a royal colony in 1691:
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it was required to abide by the English Act of Toleration, which displeased many Puritan leaders.
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According to New England Puritans, witchcraft:
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resulted from pacts that women made with the devil to obtain supernatural powers or interfere with natural processes.
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Person most likely to have been accused of witchcraft in seventeenth-century New England:
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A woman beyond childbearing age who was outspoken, economically independent, or estranged from her husband.
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Why did the accusations of witchcraft in Salem suddenly snowball in 1692?
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The only way to avoid prosecution was to confess and name others
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Who finally ended the Salem witch trials?
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the Massachusetts governor
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As accusations and executions multiplied in Salem, what was the long-term impact of the witchcraft trials there?
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The number of witchcraft prosecutions in Massachusetts declined markedly.
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Population diversity in colonial British America
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Great Britain originally promoted emigration to the colonies as a means of ridding itself of excess population but cut back in the eighteenth century, opening the colonies to a more diverse group of settlers.
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Great Britain sought to attract which of the following to its American colonies in the eighteenth century?
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Protestants from non-English and less prosperous parts of the British Isles.
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The Scottish and Scotch-Irish immigrants to the colonies:
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were often physicians, merchants and teachers.
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The German migration to the English colonies:
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led to the formation of many farming communities.
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English and Dutch merchants created a well-organized system for "redemptioners." What was this system for?
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for carrying indentured German families to America where they would work off their transportation debt
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The separation of church and state:
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existed only in a few colonies.
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The biggest reason Jews left Europe was:
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to escape rigid religious restrictions in German-speaking areas of Europe
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Indians in eighteenth-century British America:
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were well integrated into the British imperial system.
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What role did Native Americans play in British imperial wars during the eighteenth century?
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They did much of fighting in the wars
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The Walking Purchase of 1737:
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was a fraudulent deal for the Lenni Lenape Indians.
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Agriculture in the colonies during the eighteenth century:
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Because New York's landlords had taken over so much land, agriculture grew more slowly in New York than in other colonies.
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During the colonial era, Philadelphia:
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became home to a varied population of artisans and craftsmen
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North American crops and products:
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were part of a commercial trade network that knitted together a far-flung empire
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The colonial elite
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They controlled colonial government
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"Anglicization" meant:
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to make english in form or character.
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How did the colonial elite view their role in society?
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It meant the power to rule--the right of those blessed with wealth and prominence to dominate others.
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Poverty in the colonial period:
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Limited supplies of land, especially for inheritance, contributed to poverty
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As English colonial society became more structured in the eighteenth century, what were the effects on women?
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Women's work became more clearly defined as tied closely to the home.
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By the eighteenth century, colonial farm families:
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viewed land ownership almost as a right, precondition of freedom.
