Culture of the Colonists
90% of colonists do this profession.
What is a farmer?
How did colonists justify slavery?
What is Christianity? To convince enslaved Americans that God wanted slavery and to encourage white Americans to continue slavery.
The American portion of the 7 Years War, which led to British debt and French resentment that would be crucial to the American Revolution.
What is The French and Indian war?
The document written by Thomas Paine to advocate for American independence from Great Britain.
What is Common Sense?
- Forced to fight
- Did it as a show of goodwill (in the hopes that their enslaves would view them as Americans and deserving of freedom)
The American work ethics stemmed from this religion.
What is Puritanism?
Name one art form with which Enslaved African Americans expressed themselves creatively.
Folk Tales, Coiling(form of basket weaving), Sewing and Quilting, Music
A tax created by the British to support the new branch of their military. Made stamped paper mandatory then taxed it.
What is the Stamp Act?
This led to
- protests that would bring the phrase "No taxation without representation".
- Stamp Act congress to draft a petition to repeal the Stamp Act and would create unity in the colonies
Who is Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, or Robert R. Livingston?
Why did some Black Americans fight on the British side during the American Revolution?
Britain was more likely to establish emancipation.
This trade event led to diverse backgrounds in the colonies.
What is the Triangle Trade? Europeans and Africans came to America through this.
Enslaved African American work songs developed into what genre of music.
What is Jazz or Blue Grass?
Indirection taxation on glass, lead, paper, print, and tea that were used to pay colonial governors(who had previously been paid directly by colonial assemblies).
What are the Townshend Acts? They sparked even more protests in the colonies.
An agreement between a government and it's people to outline the rights and duties of each of them.
What is a social contract?
The Declaration of Independence is a social contract that provide natural rights to "all" its citizens.
The first person to be killed the Revolutionary war, in the Boston Massacre.
Who is Crispus Attucks, a famous Black American?
These bodies meant that colonies had more control over their government.
What are colonial assemblies? They were ran by white men.
African Americans used this to communicate with each other, raise morale and comment on their oppressor.
What are work songs/field hollers?
The act that extended Quebec's boundary to the Ohio River in an effort to facilitate cooperation with French Canadians and their British colonies.
What are the Quebec Acts?
The document that was signed to signify that the British recognize American independence and that Britain ceded most of "their" land east of the Mississippi river.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
What is the Lord Dunmore's Ethiopian Regiment?
List all Denomonation of Protestants
Puritans, Church of England, Quakers, Lutherans, Baptists
Other notable religious groups are Catholics and Eastern Orthodox.
An event where people sing and dance in a circular shape until reaching spiritual ecstasy.
What is a game song/ring shout?
The convention of delegates from 12 out of 13 of the colonies that drafted a response to the intolerable acts. They called for a boycott of British goods.
What is the 1st Continental Congress?
The Continental army stopped for a winter to recoup at this location.
Where is Valley Forge?
They did not want to give weapons to enslaved people, with the goal of keeping white, slave holding Americans safe.