The Unfinished Nation: A Concise History of the American People (Brinkley), 7th Edition

Chapter 3: Society and Culture in Provincial America

Study Questions

Your Results:

1			Explain the system of indentured servitude that developed in the American colonies.
2			What factors contributed to the rapid increase in colonial population during the last half of the seventeenth century?
3			How and why did the status of women in colonial America differ from region to region?
4			Describe the steps that led to the establishment of black slavery in the English American colonies.
5			How did the economies of South Carolina and Georgia differ from that of the Chesapeake? How were they similar?
6			Why did the northern colonies turn to economic pursuits other than agriculture? What obstacles did these new pursuits have to overcome?
7			What was the "triangular trade," and what does it reveal about colonial economics?
8			What were the characteristics of communities that emerged in Puritan New England?
9			What were the effects of the Great Awakening?
10			Explain the working of the law in colonial America, the concepts on which it was based, and the way it functioned.

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