READING GUIDE
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READING GUIDE
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18th century New England school primer
Click date for reading and discussion question for that week's assignment
Monday, September 9, Pages 2-5, 7-8, 58-63 & Chapter Two, Who Built America
Ten of the following questions will appear on a quiz in class, Wednesday, September 11
1. Until the 1670s, most of the laborers
for the largest tobacco landholders in the Chesapeake were:
A) Slaves. B) Indentured Servants. C. Sharecroppers. D. Family members.
2. "The first two generations
of [colonial Virginia and Maryland] planters, rich in land but poor in workers,
had to find and discipline a labor force in order to make their land yield wealth."
Whom did they recruit and/or coerce into this labor force?
A) Orphans. B) Indentured servants. C) Slaves. D) Indians.
3. Which description best characterizes
the Black population in the Chesapeake in 1650?
A) Most all were slaves. B) Most all were indentured servants. C) Most all were
free. D) Some were free; more were indentured servants and slaves.
4. Before the 1650s, what percentage
of indentured servants died before their servitude expired?
A) Virtually all. B) Very few. C) About 1/3. D) About 2/3.
5. By 1660, which characterized the
male/female ratio in Virginia?
A) Women slightly outnumbered men. B) Men slightly outnumbered women. C) Women
outnumbered men by at lest 3 to 1. D) Men outnumbered women by at least 3 to
1.
6. In the 1660s, if you were a young
white child in Virginia, your chances of living to your 21st birthday were:
A) Very good. B) Almost nil. C) 50/50. D) About 25%.
7. In the aftermath Of Bacon's Rebellion,
Virginia and Maryland planters relied mainly on whom for their labor force?
A) Black slave labor. B) White indentured servants. C) Indian servants and slaves.
8. Throughout most of the 1700s,
which race was in the majority in South Carolina?
A) Blacks. B) Indians. C) Whites.
9. The Stono Rebellion was:
A) A slave rebellion in South Carolina. B) A rebellion led by Nathaniel Bacon
in Virginia. C) An uprising of white indentured servants in Maryland. D) An
Indian uprising in Georgia.
10. In the colonial South, the Great
Awakening tended to promote:
A) Greater inequality. B) Greater equality. C) The status quo.
11. Which statement most accurately
characterizes the colonial South in the mid-1700s?
A) Most political and economic power was concentrated in a few white families.
B) Almost all white males owned slaves, could vote and could hold office. C)
Substantial numbers of blacks could vote and hold office.
12. In the mid-1700s, slavery and
staple crop production insured that the South's wealth was:
A) More equally distributed among whites than in the northern colonies. b) More
unequally distributed among whites than in the northern colonies.
13. A black majority population and
mountainous terrain were more likely to shelter escaped slaves (maroons) in:
A) The Caribbean. B) Georgia. C) Maryland. D) South Carolina. E) Virginia..
14. By the 1700s, the African-American
population in the southern colonies was more than_____times greater than the
New England and the middle colonies combined.
A) Two. B) Three. C) Four. D) Five.
15. According to the chart on page
92, whites were in the majority in South Carolina in:
A) 1700. B) 1710. C) 1720. D) 1730. E) 1740.
16. The English navigation Acts of
the 1650s and 1660s:
A) Encouraged free trade of Chesapeake tobacco (unrestricted by taxes, tariffs
or regulations). B) Limited the tobacco trade mainly to England and its colonies.
C) Promoted the tobacco trade to Dutch and French colonies in Western Hemisphere.
17. The overproduction of tobacco
in the Chesapeake colonies in the 1660s and 1670s:
A) Increased prices and made tobacco planting less profitable. B) Increased
prices and made tobacco planting more profitable. C) Decreased prices and made
tobacco planting less profitable. B) Decreased prices and made tobacco planting
more profitable.
Tuesday, September 17, Chapter Three, Who Built America
1. The first generation of Massachusetts settlers enjoyed life expectancies
_____ than in Europe.
A) Shorter. B) Longer. C) The same as.
2. The ratio of women to men in the 1700s was more balanced in:
A) New England. B) The Chesapeake Colonies. C) South Carolina and Georgia.
3. Puritan New England society was _____________ in structure.
A) Matriarchal. B) Patriarchal. C) Equalitarian.
4. Who in New England was like to build fences around their land?
A) English Settlers. B) Indian hunters. C) Both.
5. Who in New England believed in the rights of individual property ownership?
A) English Settlers. B) Indian hunters. C) Both.
6. Who was the King Phillip referred to in King Phillip’s War?
A) The Massachusetts governor, John Winthrop. B) The English King, James
Phillip. C) The Wampanoag chief, Metacom. E) The French King, Philippe.
7. The impact of the Glorious Revolution in England was:
A) The strengthening of John Andros’ rule.
B) The restoration of the Puritan controlled government and church.
C) The establishment of a royal government together with restoration of
Massachusetts’ elected assembly.
8. Which Indian tribe was most successful in the 17th and 18th centuries in
containing white settlement?
A) Iroquois. B) Peqot. C) Wampanoag.
9. Where in 18th century colonial America was tenancy most common?
A) New England. B) New York and New Jersey. C) Pennsylvania.
10. Which New England town was NOT active in the slave trade?
A) Boston. B) Providence. C) Newport. D) All were involved in the slave trade.
E) None were involved in the slave trade.
11. Most of New England’s population in the 17th and 18th centuries lived:
A) In rural areas. B) In towns. C) Equally in rural areas and towns.
12. From 1690 to 1775, the richest 10% in northern port towns:
A) Increased their share of wealth. B) Decreased their share of the wealth. C)
Controlled about the same percentage of wealth in 1775 as in 1690.
13. From 1690 to 1775, the poorest 60% in northern port towns:
A) Increased their share of wealth. B) Decreased their share of the wealth. C)
Controlled about the same percentage of wealth in 1775 as in 1690.
14. The majority of slaves in the colonial north lived:
A) On plantations. B) On small farms. C) In towns.
15. In the 1700s, which colonies had the lowest percentage of blacks in the
total population?
A) New England. B) The Middle Colonies. C) The Southern Colonies.
16. What percentage of the total population in the North could NOT vote in the
1700s?
A) 10-20%. B) 40-50%. C) 80-90%. D) 100%.
17. The English Navigation Acts of the 1650s and 1660s sought to arrange
economic activity for whose benefit?
A) The mother country (England). B) The colonies. C) Both the mother country and
the colonies.
Monday,
September 23, Chapter Four, Who Built America
Ten of the following questions will appear on a quiz in class Monday, September 23
INSTRUCTIONS:
Match the items on list #1 with the items on list #2.
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LIST #1 1. Albany Plan 2. Phillip Livingston 3. Battle of Alamance 4. Proclamation Line, 1763 5. Stamp Act 6. Sons of Liberty 7. Committees of Correspondence 8. Ebenezer MacIntosh 9. Thomas Paine 10. Slaves and Indians 11. Boston Tea Party 12. Andrew Oliver 13. Crispus Attucks 14. Boston Massacre/ Battle of
Golden Hill 14. Declaration of Independence 15. Coercive Acts |
LIST #2 A.
Internal colonial tax enacted by British parliament and not
colonial by colonial assemblies. B.
Ben Franklin’s proposed colonial union that came to nothing. C.
“We have it in our power to begin the world over again.” D.
Half Indian, half African victim of Boston Massacre. E.
Many sided with the British during the Revolution. F.
Prevented colonists from seizing/claiming Indian lands west of the
Appalachian Mountains. G.
Universal rights rooted in natural law rather than British legal
precedents. H.
Boston Shoemaker who led popular uprising during Stamp Act crisis. I.
British response to Boston Tea Party. J.
Target of NY tenant uprisings. K.
Friction between British soldiers and urban laborers competing for
jobs. L.
Organized in the mid-1770s to mobilize and build patriot coalitions
between town and country. M.
Organizations enlisting poor, middling & wealthy colonists in
response to Stamp Act. N.
Hated British Customs officer and stamp tax collector forced to
resign by popular protest. O.
Targeted British East India Company monopoly. P. Fought between disenfranchised poor and middling whites and N.C. government dominated by coastal elite. |
Monday, September 30, Chapter Five, Who Built America
Ten of the following questions will
appear on a quiz in class on Monday, September 30.
INSTRUCTIONS:
Match the items in list #1 with those in list #2.
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LIST #1 A. First Amendment B. Saratoga C. Thayendanega (a.k.a. Joseph Brant) D. James Cannon E. Yorktown F. Adam Smith G. John Adams H. Pennsylvania State Constitution, 1776 I. NY State constitution J. Louisiana K. Articles of Confederation L. Shays Rebellion M. Lord Dunsmore N. Matthew Lyon O. Quok Walker P. Federalist papers Q. Three Fifths Compromise R. Northwest Ordinance S. Second Amendment T. Whiskey Rebellion U. St. Domigue, 1791 V. Battle of Tippecanoe |
LIST #21. Willliam Henry Harrison defeats Shawnees, 1811 2. Right to bear arms 3. “Great overgrown rich men will be improper to be trusted” 4. Created single chamber state legislature 5. Sued for and won freedom under Massachusetts Constitution 6. Formula for counting slaves to determine political representation 7. Created a state senate to represent property, not people 8. Site of the British surrender ending Revolutionary War 9. Western Massachusetts farmers & debtors shut down courts 10. Slave revolt in Haiti 11. Thoughts on Government (advocating a republican government based on hierarchy and order) 12. Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, James Madison 13. Sold to U.S. by Napoleon for $15 million 14. Site of key battle and turning point in American Revolution 15. Put down by an army led by Hamilton and Washington 16. Free markets 17. Sided with the British 18. Established a weak federal government with no executive 19. Promised freedom to slaves who sided with British 20. Banned slavery in territory north of the Ohio River 21. Freedoms of speech, press, religion and assembly 22. Imprisoned under Alien & Sedition Act; then re-elected to office. |
Monday,
October 7, Chapter Six in
Who Built America
Read for Monday, October 7. As you read, think about these broad questions:
How and why did slavery expand? How and why were Indians pushed westward? How did slavery shape the class structure of the South (including white non-slaveholders)? How did planters exercise control over the daily life of plantations? What possibilities were there for slave resistance? How did slaves resist? How did slavery shape political development in the South? In the nation? How did evangelical religious movements change the south – black and white?
Ten of the following questions will appear on a quiz in class on Monday, October 7
Quiz questions:
Match
the items in list #1 with those in list #2.
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LIST #1 1. Nat Turner 2. Eli Whitney 3. Davey Crockett 4. Andrew Jackson 5. Henry Clay 6. Trail of Tears 7. Task system 8. George Fitzhugh 9. Methodists, Baptists, Presbyterians 10. Denmark Vesey 11. David
Walker 12. Gag
Rule 13. 1828 Tariff 14. Missouri Compromise 15. Red Sticks 16. William Lloyd Garrison |
LIST #2 A. Planned 1822 slave insurrection in Charleston B. Maine/
36 degrees, 30 minutes latitude C. South
Carolina declared it null and void in 1832 D. Saw planters as beneficent, patriarchal
guardians of slaves E. Young Creek warriors defeated at battle of
Horseshoe Bend F. Made cultivation of short, staple cotton
profitable; extended slavery G. The way slave labor was organized on many rice
plantations H. Baptist “minister” who led 1831 Virginia
insurrection I. Victories at New Orleans and in Indian campaigns
made him national hero and promoted his political career J. Boston abolitionist leader and editor K. Personality and masculine image key to his
congressional election L. Engineered the Missouri Compromise M. Militant
and uncompromising 1829 appeal to slaves to rebel N. 800-mile forced march of Cherokees to Oklahoma O. Their combined membership multiplied three-fold,
1800-1860 P. Suppressed anti-slavery petitions |
Wednesday,
October 16,
Read for Wednesday, October 16. Quiz questions to be posted.
Midterm Due
Monday,
October 28,
Read for Monday October 28. Quiz questions to be posted.
Monday,
November 4 – Pages 11-16 and Chapters One and Two in Freedom’s Unfinished
Revolution
Think
about the questions in the margins of the narrative and documents in Freedom’s
Unfinished Revolution. Think
about the activities at the end of each chapter.
IDENTIFY.
William Lloyd Garrison, The Liberator, Nat Turner, Underground
Railroad, B’rer Rabbit, David Walker, Frederick Douglass, Missouri Compromise,
Wilmot Proviso, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mexican-American
War, Harriet Tubman, Bloody Kansas, Compromise of 1850, Kansas-Nebraska Act,
Charles Sumner, Preston Brooks, Roger Taney, Dred Scott, John Brown, Harpers
Ferry, John Fremont.
Monday,
November 11 - Pages 57-106 (Introduction
to Part 2 and Chapters 3 and 4) in Freedom’s
Unfinished Revolution
Think
about the questions in the margins of the narrative and documents.
Think about the activities at the end of the chapter.
IDENTIFY. Fort Sumter, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Contraband Policy, Benjamin Butler, Bull Run, The First Confiscation Act, The Second Confiscation Act, The Conscription (Draft) Act of 1863, George McClellan, Mary Chestnut, Emancipation Proclamation, Fernando Wood, Tammany Hall, Archbishop John Hughes, Draft Riots, Richmond Food Riots, Jefferson Davis
IMPORTANT. The quiz on Monday will be (1) open book and (2) ten multiple choice questions based on a close reading of the chapters. To prepare, READ the chapters closely. Think about (A) questions in the margins of the narrative and documents, (B) activities at the end of the chapter and (C) the identifications.
Think
about the questions in the margins of the narrative and documents. Think about
the activities at the end of the chapter.
IDENTIFY.
Second South Carolina Volunteers, Massachusetts Firty-Fith, Milliken’s
Bend, Fort Wagner, Nathan Bedford Forrest, Fort Pillow, Savannah Agenda, Field
Order Number 15, William Tecumseh Sherman, Edwin Stanton, Garrison Frazier,
Gettysburg, Vicksburg, Skidaway Island, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant,
Thirteenth Amendment.
IMPORTANT - The quiz on Monday will be (1) open book and (2) ten multiple choice questions based on a close reading of the chapters. To prepare, READ the chapters closely. Think about (A) questions in the margins of the narrative and documents, (B) activities at the end of the chapter and (C) the identifications.
Monday,
November 25 – Pp.
145 - 192 in Freedom’s Unfinished Revolution
Think
about the questions in the margins of the narrative and documents.
Think about the activities at the end of the chapter.
IDENTIFY. Gullah, Gideonites, Edward Philbrick, Harriet Ware, Martin Delaney, Freedman’s Bureau, O.O. Howard, Charles Manigault, Bute Street AMA Church, Andrew Johnson, Thomas W. Higginson, Bernice Johnson Reagon, James Baldwin, Ring Shouts, Fisk/Howard/Hampton.
Monday, December 2 – Chapters Nine and Ten in Freedom’s
Unfinished Revolution
Think About the questions in the margins of the narrative
and the documents. Think about
the activities at the end of the chapter.
IDENTIFY. Thirteenth Amendment, Fourteenth Amendment, Fifteenth s Acts of 1866, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Reconstruction Acts of 1867, Plessy Amendment, Andrew Johnson, Presidential Reconstruction, Congressional Reconstruction, Radical Republicans, Alexander Stephens, Black Codes, Colored Peoples Conventions, Freedmen’s Bureau, Civil Right v. Ferguson, Brown v. Topeka Board of Education, Union Leagues, Carpetbaggers, Scalawags, W.E.B. DuBois, Tuni9s Campbell, Robert Smalls, Thomas Dixon, Birth of a Nation, Hiram Revels
Monday,
December 9
– Chapters Eleven
and Twelve and the Epilogue in Freedom’s Unfinished Revolution
Think
about the questions in the margins of the narrative and documents. Think about
the activities at the end of the chapter.
IDENTIFY.
Theodore Roosevelt, Homestead Act, Freedmen’s Bureau, Field Order Number
15, Thaddeus Stevens, Sharecropping, Ku Klux Klan, Nathan Bedford. The Enforcement
and Ku Klux Klan Acts, Ulysses Grant, Stalwarts, Depression of 1873, Mississippi
Plan, Martin W. Gary, Rutherford Hayes, Railroad Strike of 1877, Presidential
Compromise of 1876-1877, Exodusters, Jim Crow, Marcus Garvey, W. E. B. DuBois,
NAACP, Plessy v. Ferguson, Brown v. Topeka, Harlem Renaissance.
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