Ch 4 Study Guide the MOSAIC of EIGHTEENTHCENTURY AMERICA

Chapter 4: The Mosaic of Eighteenth-Century America

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Ch 4 Study Guide THE MOSAIC OF EIGHTEENTHCENTURY AMERICA

PEOPLE, PLACES & EVENTS

1. Albany Congress in 1754

2. Upper Ohio Valley in the 1750s

3. AngloFrench rivalry in America

4. Africans, ScotsIrish, and Germans in colonial America

5. American population in the 1700s

6. The Scots-Irish & the frontier of British America in the 1700s,

7. Eighteenth-century immigrants

8. New kinds of communities in the eighteenth century

9. Types of new communities in eighteenth-century AngloAmerica

10. Divisions in colonial society in the 1700s

11. The society of the eighteenthcentury backcountry

12. The attraction of the backcountry

13. The political and economic life of the seaport towns

14. The colonial seaports & overseas trade

15. Conflicts in the seaport towns of the early to mid1700s

16. Slaves in the seaport cities

17. Slaves on southern plantations

18. Slaves on Carolina plantations versus in the Chesapeake

19. Slave communities on southern plantations

20. Americans & the influence of the Enlightenment

21. The Enlightenment in America: for & against

22. The Great Awakening

23. The doctrine of “Rational Christianity”

24. The Great Awakening the revivalist movement

25. English versus American social structure

26. American reservations about English society

27. The theory of the “balanced constitution”

28. English and American politics differences

29. Colonial exports

30. British administration of its empire in America

COMPLETION

1. In 1754, North American colonials found themselves caught in the middle of a great contest between two empires, [ ] and [ ].
2. As war loomed in the mid1750s, commissioners from several English colonies went to Albany to try to win the support of the [ ] nations.
3. In 1763, a band of ScotsIrish backcountry farmers known as the [ ] protested Pennsylvania’s inadequate defenses by marching on Philadelphia after killing some Indians.
4. The most serious intercolonial border dispute prompted guerrilla resistance by the Green Mountain Boys in the area of presentday [ ] against the government of the neighboring colony.
5. [ ] was an intellectual movement in both Europe and America that celebrated the power of human reason.
6. The boy preacher from England who stirred revival fires up and down the colonial seaboard was [ ].
7. No group in the government in London cared less about the American colonies in the early to mid1700s than [ ].
8. As England’s manufacturing system developed, American colonists were drawn to England’s economy because of the colonists’ growing appetite for English [ ].

IDENTIFICATION

Students should be able to describe the following key terms, concepts, individuals, and places, and explain their significance.

Terms and Concepts

King William’s War / Queen Anne’s War
King George’s War / Albany Plan of Union
March of the Paxton Boys / tenant rebellions
North Carolina Regulation / South Carolina Regulation
Battle of Alamance / Artisans
Apprentice / Journeyman
Impressments drivers / “Negro election day”
maroon communities / Stono Rebellion
Enlightenment / Board of Trade and Plantations
rational Christianity / dame schools
Great Awakening / evangelical Christianity
balanced constitution / rotten boroughs

Individuals and Places

Hendrik / Benjamin Franklin
George Whitefield / Jonathan Edwards
William Tennent / Catherine Macauly
Fort Necessity / Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys
William Pitt

MAP IDENTIFICATIONS

Students have been given the following map exercise: On the map on the following page, label or shade in the following places. In a sentence, note their significance to the chapter.

1. Concentrations of ScotsIrish settlement in the eighteenth century
2. Concentrations of German settlement in the eighteenth century
3. Concentrations of AfricanAmerican population (above 50% of total population) in the eighteenth century

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