Author Question: What changes transformed life in the southern colonies from 1680 to 1750? What similarities or ... (Read 62 times)

Jkov05 · **on:** Sep 21, 2019

Question 1

A system of small forts, trading posts, and agricultural villages throughout the central area of North America was established in the early eighteenth century by the ________.

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

Question 2

The largest number of eighteenth-century European immigrants to colonial America were the Protestant ________.

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

Question 3

The author maintains that for urban artisans in eighteenth-century America, fortuitous circumstances rather than hard work or frugal living were often the critical factors in achieving success.

Would the same argument be more or less true for urban workers today?
What will be an ideal response?

Question 4

What changes transformed life in the southern colonies from 1680 to 1750? What similarities or differences existed between the tobacco coast, the rice coast, and the backcountry?

What will be an ideal response?

tandmlomax84 · **Reply #1 on:** Sep 21, 2019

Answer 1

Answer: French

Answer 2

Answer: Scots-Irish

Answer 3

Answer: The author notes that an advantageous marriage, luck in avoiding illness, and the size of an inheritance were often the critical factors in determining the success of urban artisans in the eighteenth century. Due to technological progress and our increased control over nature, it would seem that such fortuitous circumstances would have less impact today over one's fate. The answer to this question, however, will depend on the student's philosophical outlook.

Answer 4

Answer: Between 1680 and 1750, the white tidewater settlements in the South made the transition from a frontier society marked by a high immigration rate, a surplus of males, and an unstable social organization to a settled society composed mostly of native-born families. Although the economy was perhaps more diversified in the Upper South, slaves overwhelmingly replaced indentured servants on both the tobacco and rice coasts, and planter elites emerged to dominate political and social life. Thousands of immigrants flooded into the backcountry South, an isolated, primitive region.