Review Questions Chapter 3 pages 104-109 and Chapter 4 pages 112-134


1. How did the English Mercantile system try to regulate American possessions in the seventeenth century? What did the Navigation Acts call for and what were they trying to do?

 

2. What was the Glorious Revolution all about? What were the result in the colonials?

 

3. What does the Salem witchcraft incident reveal about the nature of colonial social order?

 

4. What were the characteristics of northern agriculture? Why did many New Englanders turn to trade or move west? How were values changing in northern colonies?

 

5. What were conditions like for indentured servants and black slaves?

 

6. How were family and sex roles different in the eighteenth century American society? How did these roles vary between planters and small frontier farmers?


7. What were the characteristics of the tobacco culture and rice coast?

Describe the slave trade and explain how the presence of people from Africa altered the direction of American society. What were the roles of religion and family in English American slavery?

 

8. What position had France achieved in the New World by 1690? What were the causes and results of conflicts between France and England to 1713? How well are the Spanish settle North America in the early 1700's?