By 1744 the Great Awakening was increasing in fervor in New ...

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Question 1

Compare the roles and rights of women in seventeenth-century Europe with those of their counterparts on the American colonial frontier. Explain how conditions improved or worsened for American women during the eighteenth century.
 
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Question 2

Compare the development of agriculture in the New England, mid-Atlantic, and southern colonies. How did different types of farming contribute to the formation of different types of societies in the three regions?
 
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Question 3

Analyze the ways in which contact with the French, Spanish, and English transformed life for Native Americans during the first half of the eighteenth century.
 
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Question 4

Discuss the factors that contributed to a population explosion in North America from 1680 to 1750. How and why did immigrants of the eighteenth century differ from those of the previous century? Did America prove to be their land of opportunity?
 
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Question 5

By 1744 the Great Awakening was increasing in fervor in New England.
 
  Indicate whether the statement is true or false.

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Answer 1

Answer: In contrast to their European counterparts, American women on the colonial frontier seldom remained unmarried and enjoyed greater rights in control of property, in conducting business, and in consenting to a marriage partner. American women also typically married at a younger age and bore more children. Through the eighteenth century, colonial American women had limited career choices and rights but broad responsibilities.

Answer 2

Answer: Dense forests, poor soil, and a cold climate limited the development of agriculture and forced economic diversification in the northeastern colonies. More favorable conditions in the mid-Atlantic colonies led to modest surpluses of foodstuffs that could be sold. Northern agricultural work routines were less intense and burdensome than the cultivation of staple crops in the South. A plantation economy and society dominated the tidewater South, but the backcountry settlers there pursued mixed farming and cattle raising.

Answer 3

Answer: Despite maintaining many cultural practices, the interior Indian tribes suffered from the commercial, diplomatic, and military contact with British colonizers. Involvement in the fur trade spread diseases, aggravated warfare, depleted their lands of game animals, and drew Native Americans into a market economy in which their trading partners gradually became their trading masters. Racial intermixture and social fluidity were greater in the French and Spanish than in the English colonies, but contact with Europeans still resulted in reduction and degradation of tribal Americans.

Answer 4

Answer: The population explosion in North America from 1680 to 1750 was fed from both internal and external sources. Among whites, a higher marriage rate, larger families, and lower mortality rate than in Europe prevailed by the 1720s. Immigrants of this era arrived from Germany, Switzerland, Ireland, and Africa rather than England, and they were mostly indentured servants and slaves. Only a small proportion of the eighteenth-century arrivals achieved their dream of becoming independent landholders.

Answer 5

Answer: FALSE