Darty AMH 2010
Chapter Four "Colonial America in the Eighteenth Century" Exam Terms


population boom--immigration and natural increase
New England (Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maine, Rhode Island, New Hampshire): partible inheritance, trade and shipping: commercial fishing, livestock, timber and naval stores, general characteristics
Middle/Mid-Atlantic Colonies (Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Delaware): German/Pennsylvania Dutch, Scots-Irish, redemptioners, Gottfried Mittelberger, indentured servants, William Moraley, family labor, general characteristics
Benjamin Franklin, Pennsylvania Gazette (b.1728), Poor Richard's Almanack (b.1733)
Southern Colonies (Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia): Atlantic slave trade, chattel, enslavement, Middle Passage, "new Negroes", acculteration ("seasoning"), task system, fictive kinship, slave codes, runaway slaves, gentry, general characteristics
Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative (1789)
Stono Rebellion (1739)
colonial consumption, anglophiles, printing press, literacy, newspapers
Congregationalism, Deism, Great Awakening, Jonathan Edwards "Sinners in the Hands of An Angry God", William Tennant--revivals, George Whitefield, itinerant ministers/preachers, evangelism, New Lights and Old Lights
American Enlightenment, American Philosophical Society
mercantilism, Board of Trade and Plantations (1696), fur trade, colonial governors, colonial legislatures (bicameral--lower house/assembly and upper house/council)


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