Chapter IV: American Life in the Seventeenth Century

REVISED

  1. What factors made the Massachusetts Bay Colony a healthier place to live than Virginia?
  2. How were slavery and tobacco cultivation interrelated?
  3. To what extent did slavery exist in the Northern Colonies? Why did it exist as it did?
  4. Why did Nat Bacon rebel? Why did Bailey say that his revolt "was symptomatic of much that was to be American?"
  5. Why did the Salem Witch Trials happen? What was their outcome?
  6. Why did Bostonians consider themselves as residents of the "hub of the universe"?
  7. Who were the "FFV's"? What did they have to do with the Cavalier tradition?
  8. Who were the "Roundheads"? What did they have to do with the Puritans? While were about it, what did "Cavaliers" have to do with Virginians other than provide a mascot for the University of Virginia?
  9. Identify:
    • Gullah
    • Half-way Covenant
    • Indentured Servants
    • African Diaspora
    • Gumbo
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