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Chapter 5 Questions and Vocabulary

  1. What was the population in the colonies in 1700 compared to 1775? How much of the increase was attributed to immigrants (white and black) as opposed to natural fertility?
  2. What were the most populous colonies and what cities could be actually called cities?
  3. Briefly describe the following foreign groups who immigrated to the colonies by saying were they primarily lived, what jobs they did, and why they moved to the colonies. Also give their population total in 1775:
  4. Germans (Pennsylvania Dutch)
  5. Scots-Irish
  6. Other European Groups
  7. What percentage of the population did African slaves account for in 1775?
  8. What is the significance of the population boom in the 1700’s?
  9. How did colonial social structure differ from Europe?
  10. How did this social structure begin to show “Europeanization” on the eve of the revolutionary war?
  11. In the New England countryside, what was happening to the amount of land available? Why?
  12. How did the changing social structure manifest itself in the south?
  13. Who were the “jayle birds?”
  14. What was the leading industry? How many people were employed in this field?
  15. What are some other industries that prospered in the colonies?
  16. What was the most important manufacturing activity?
  17. Why was there a trade imbalance between the colonies and Britain developing in the 1700’s? How could the colonists rectify this problem?
  18. Why did Parliament enact the Molasses Act in 1733? How did American colonists react?
  19. Describe travel in the colonies in the 1700’s.
  20. Why were taverns important and what are some pastimes played at them?
  21. In what colonies was the Anglican Church the official established religion?
  22. In what colonies was the Congregational Church the official religion?

20. What were some of the causes for the apparent decline in religious piety by the early 18c?

21. What was the First "Great Awakening?" Who brought it about? What groups in colonial society were

most attracted to this religious movement?

22. Identify the differences between the "Old Lights" and the "New Lights."

23. What were the effects of the Great Awakening?

24. Identify some of the ways in which American colonists placed a high value on education in the 17c and

early 18c.

25. What colonial colleges were in operation by 1763? Why was each founded, and what subjects were

studied in the mid-18c?

  1. What was the significance of the John Peter Zenger trial?
  2. Name some important artists and their medium from the 1700’s colonial period
  3. Give a brief description of Benjamin Franklin and his many talents

Vocabulary

Paxton BoysNew LightsJacobus Armnius

Regulator MovementPoor Richards almanacJonathan Edwards

Molasses ActZenger TrialGeorge Whitefield

ArminianismRoyal ColoniesJohn Trumbull

Great AwakeningProprietary ColoniesJohn Singleton Wheatley

Old LightsCrevecoeurJohn Peter Zenger