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(approx.) 1/4 million: What was the population of America at the end of 17th century
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(approx.) 25,000: what was the population of New York in 1770s
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(approx) 1/4: how many of the indentured servants were women?
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(approx) 25,000: How many slaves lived in America by the end of the 17th century?
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11 million: How many slaves were forced to immigrate to the Americas
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1615: When did the first ship carrying convicts came to America
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before 1620: When did the first black laborers arrive in English North America
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Chesapeake bay: How is the area of the first colonies called?
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Cotton Mather: Who initiated smallpox inoculation in Massachusetts
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english laborers: the dominant group of colonists were
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French Calvinists (after 1685): What was the first big group of non-english immigrants?
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General Court of Massachusetts (1636): Who established Harvard
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great house: How was the house of the planter, located in the middle of a larger cluster of buildings, called?
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Gullah: What is the name of the language the slaves developed to communicate with each other
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indentured servants: During the seventeenth century, at least three-fourths of the immigrants who came to the Chesapeake colonies came as:
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indentured servants (bond to their master for 4-5 years and promised freedom afterwards): 3/4 of the immigrants (especially in Southern colonies) were
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isolated farm: What was the characteristic social unit in the South
18.
John and Charles Wesley: Who were the founders of Methodism
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late 1600s: When did the white and the black become the dominant population group (along the Atlantic coast)
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late 1600s: When did the male-female ratio become balanced?
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late 1600s: When did the supply of slaves to North America became plentiful?
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Maryland act (1691): Which act deprived Maryland's catholics (3,000 people) of political and religious rights
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merchants: The leaders of the cities were generally _______
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mid 1700s: When did the colonists started to call themselves Americans
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mid-Atlantic (New York, Pennsylvania): The indentures coming after 1700 preferred ________ colonies to southern colonies because of better work conditions
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molasses: What was rum made of
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New England (the Puritan church): Which area was more religious (New England X Chesapeake)
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patriarchal: Most puritans subscribed to the ______ model.
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Pennsylvania Dutch: About 3000 Palatinate Germans found home in the America after 1709 and became known as
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Philadelphia and New York: Which were the two largest ports in the 1770s
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Royal African Company of England: Which group maintained a monopoly on the slave trade until 1697
32.
Salem (Massachusetts), 1692: When and where broke out the most famous witchcraft event
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Scotch-Irish Presbyterians: "What was the most numerous ""newcomers"" group?"
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selectmen: "At a yearly ""town meeting"" a group of men was chosen to decide the important questions, they were called ______"
35.
Slave Codes: The treatment of the slaves in every state was regulated by
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Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign parts: What is the name of the institution found by the Church of England in 1701
37.
Stono Rebellion in South Carolina (1739): Which slave revolt was the most important
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the South: The vast majority of the slave around 1760 lived in ________
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tobacco: What was the basis of the economy in the Chesapeake region?
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Toleration act (1649): By which act was Maryland distinguished as a Catholic refuge
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town: What was the characteristic social unit in the North
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very hight at first (75 yrs), dropped during 17th century, then started to increase: How was the life expectancy in the Chesapeake
