AP US History Name______Period______

Chapter

4 / Study Guide / American Life in the Seventeenth Century
1607-1692
Terms and Names:Define each term/person thoroughly, using your own words
  1. Indentured servitude
  2. Head-right system
  3. William Berkeley
  4. Middle passage
  5. Slave codes
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  1. Stono River Rebellion
  2. ringshout
  3. Harvard College
  4. William and Mary
  5. jeremiads
  6. Half-Way Covenant

Short Answer: Carefully answer each question thoroughly, using information from the text. It is best if you can put it in your own words. It is advisable to makes your notes more manageable and organized by using bullet points, charts, diagrams, numbered lists and graphs. They need to make sense to you. Customize them. Include questions in the margins to ask in class.

  1. List characteristics of life in the Chesapeake region, including life expectancy, family structures, gender roles, and population. What sort of impact did these facts have on life in the Chesapeake, in general?
  2. How did tobacco affect the economy and society of the Chesapeake region? Consider the environment, Indian relations, crop prices, labor, and growth of the colonies.
  3. Outline the multiple causes and effects of Bacon’s Rebellion.
  4. Describe the slave trade and the character of 17th century African-American slavery in the North American colonies. Furthermore, discuss why race-based slavery did not proliferate earlier than the 1670’s and 1680’s. What changed?
  5. Outline the challenges and sufferings African American slaves faced. Also list some of the important cultural contributions to American society. (“From African to African American,” pp. 74-75)
  6. Diagram the social structure of the southern colonies.
  7. Contrast the New England population and society with that of the south in as many ways as you can.
  8. In which colonial region (New England or Southern) did women have more freedom? Support your answer with evidence.
  9. Explain the relationship between jeremiads and the Half-Way Covenant.
  10. Outline the social, economic, and religious causes of the Salem Witchcraft Trials of 1692.
  11. Compare and contrast Colonial society and social mobility with its European counterpart. In what ways was life in the American colonies more democratic and egalitarian? In what ways did the upper class resist this? What examples of social class conflict and tension can you cite?