APUSH Questions from Notes Fall
What ideas, institutions, and responsibilities shaped New England farm women's lives?
- ANS-- Men are the head of the house in all ways
- Women tended gardens, spun thread and yarn, knitted sweaters, made candles and
soap, churned milk to butter, fermented malt for beer
- Bearing children (6 or 7)
- Excluded from an equal role in church
What factors threatened the freeholder ideal in mid century New England and what
strategies did farming families use to preserve this ideal? - ANS-- Parents not having
enough for the children to inherit
- Children having kids with others before marriage so they were able to choose
- Farming families petitioned the provincial government for frontier land grants and
hacked new farms out of the forests
How did rapid immigration and economic growth trigger conflict in the middle colonies? -
ANS-- There wasn't enough land to go around for how many people were coming
- Very difficult to actually own a home unless you were an official or inherited it
- Really greedy over land and money
What attracted so many German and Scots-Irish migrants to Pennsylvania in such large
numbers? - ANS-- Freedom to practice their religions
- Wages were far better
- High taxes for Scots-Irish
- They had more room to speak within the governments in the colonies and in general
What issues divided the various ethnic and religious groups of the middle colonies?
What core values did they agree upon. - ANS-- The Scots-Irish proposed a strong
Indian policy that no one liked
- They wanted more say within the government (general confederacy formed)
- Ben Franklin didn't care about the "boorish" German migrants
What conditions and ideas led to the emergence of Enlightenment in America? - ANS--
Newton aided in the science behind astronomy and invented calculus
- Franklin popularized the outlook of the Enlightenment
, In what ways was the spread of ideas during the Enlightenment and the Great
Awakening similar, and how were they different? - ANS-- Many important people
supported the Enlightenment and The Great Awakening
- The Enlightenment was more about discovery of science while the Great Awakening
was religious
How did the Seven Years' War reshape Britain's empire in North America and affect
Native Peoples? - ANS-- Colonists and countries were fighting over land that wasn't
even their own
- They were being pushed to the side and forgotten
How did the prosperity of the British empire improve and endanger the lives and
interests of the colonists? - ANS-- Raised living standards
- Everyone was in debt
What was the impact of the Great War for Empire on British policy makers? - ANS--
Debt soared
- Taxes were raised on everything even ordinary items
- Revealed how little power Britain had in colonies
Why did most British and colonial leaders reject the idea that the colonies should be
represented in Parliament (virtual representation)? - ANS-- Ben Franklin proposed the
idea
- Too far away from mother country
- Already had "representation" from the transatlantic merchants and West Indian sugar
planters
Why did the Stamp Act lead to so much more resistance than the Sugar Act? - ANS--
Sugar Act only affected merchants while the Stamp Act affected all people living in the
colonies
Why were southerners more threatened by challenges to the institution of slavery than
northerners? - ANS-- Southerners held more plantations that required labor from many
people which was made up of all the slaves from Africa, losing slaves meant losing
huge businesses and farms
How did the non-importation movement bring women into the political sphere? - ANS--
Women were the ones to make the household items. Therefore, when they stopped
using as many imported products they were praised by the male politicians
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