1. 1607-1763

2.   Southern Colonies  New England Colonies  Middle Colonies  Imperialistic System  Diversity Major Themes

3.  The Southern Colonies  Describe the Southern economy and the plantation system.  Outline the development of slavery in the South.  Explain the rise of the planter elite in colonial Southern society.

4.   Commercial agriculture 1.tobacco 2.rice & indigo 3.Plantations  Demand  Chesapeake Bay  Indentured Servitude 1.need 2.contract  South Carolina 1.rice 2.indigo Economy

5.   Plantation system tended to create a society with distinct social classes  Gentry  Self contained communities  Planters 1.1600’s 2.1700’s  Yeoman farmers 1.Subsistence farming 2.tobacco Society

6.   Governor William Berkeley 1.Tax exemption 2.Voting disenfranchisement  Land  Nathaniel Bacon (1676)  Result 1.Land expansion 2.Expansion of slavery 3.Royal African Company (1672) Bacon’s Rebellion

7.   10-12 million slaves transported to the Americas b/w 1450-1870  Middle Passage  Chattel slavery  Slave code Slavery

8.   Why did Southern tobacco planters use indentured servants to work their fields?  What was the difference between the planter elite and backcountry farmers?  What situation led to Bacon’s Rebellion?  Why was slavery particularly entrenched in the Southern colonies? Chapter 3.1 Review Questions

9. New England & Middle Colonies New England’s Economy New England Towns Rise of Cities Middle Colonies

10.   Diverse economy  Corn  Grand Banks  Whaling  Lumbering 1.Timber 2.Fall line New England’s Economy

11.   Church covenants  Town proprietors  Town meetings  Selectmen  Meetinghouse  “Holy Watching” New England Towns

12.   Merchants  Triangular Trade 1.New England 2.Caribbean 3.England  Urban Social Class 1.Wealthy merchants 2.Artisans 3.Unskilled workers 4.Forced laborers  Overcrowding Rise of Cities

13.   Fertile land  Wheat  Rivers (Hudson, Delaware, and Susquehanna)  Wheat boom  Entrepreneurs  Capitalists  Class System 1.Wealthy entrepreneurs 2.Farmers 3.Tenant farmers Middle Colonies

14.   How did the geography of New England affect its economy?  What was the importance of New England town meetings?  What social classes made up urban society in colonial America?  How did geography affect the economy of the Middle Colonies? Chapter 3.2 Review Questions

15. The British Imperial System Mercantilism The Glorious Revolution

16.   Economic system that emphasized a country had to accumulate gold and silver through exports and imports  Self sufficient in raw materials  Provides reliable markets & eager suppliers  Navigation Acts 1.All goods must be transported in GBR ships 2.Enumerated commodities 3.Staple Act  Custom inspectors  Commissioners of Trade and Plantations (1675)  Dominion of New England (1686)  Sir Edmund Andros Mercantilism

17.   James II  Mary and William of Orange  Glorious Revolution  English Bill of Rights 1.Abolish king’s absolute power 2.Impose taxes or raise army 3.Freedom of speech and cruel & unusual punishment 4.Toleration Act  New Charter for Massachusetts Bay  John Locke 1.Two Treatises of Government 2.Justification of revolution 3.Natural rights Glorious Revolution of 1688

18.   Why did James II create the Dominion of New England?  What did the English Bill of Rights provide? Chapter 3.3 Review Questions

19. Diverse Society Family Life Immigrants Africans Enlightenment Great Awakening

20.   Explosive growth  Birthrate  Legal status  Disease  Cotton Mather Family Life

21.   Pennsylvania Dutch  Scot-Irish  Jews Immigrants

22.   West Africa  South Carolina 1.Gullah 2.Control  Virginia 1.English 2.Control  Stono Rebellion Africans

23.   Enlightenment 1.Rationalism 2.Jacques Rosseau 3.Baron Montesquieu  Great Awakening 1.Pietism 2.Revivals 3.Jonathan Edwards 4.George Whitfield Intellectual Movements

24.   Why did the colonial population increase dramatically in the 1700’s?  What reasons did immigrants have for coming to the American colonies?  How did enslaved Africans fight back against slavery?  What was the difference between the Enlightenment and Great Awakening? Chapter 3.4 Review Questions