Cities in the East & North
What is the city that is known for the Great Lake next to it?
Chicago
Were marriages between enslaved people legally recongnized?
No
why was water so important to the city?
Good resource
What do tenant farmers do?
They rented land from property owners
What group in Philadelphia was growing?
African American
How were these cities so advanced?
They were near larger water sources
What other way did white plantation owners measure their wealth?
Number of people they enslaved
What were the 2 largest in the American cities colony in 1760?
New York & Philadelphia
What part of the united states mostly relied on farming?
The south
What did settlers in Philadelphia use as communication?
letters
Who was the most privileged group in the Northern cities?
White people
Where did free African Americans form their communities?
Southern cities
What years did major cities start to develop?
1820-1840
Why did the wealthiest white farmers build plantations near rivers?
They could ship their crops to market by boat
Why was Philadelphia home to African Americans?
all of them were free.
How much of New York Cities population was born in another country?
3 million
What percent of enslavers owned 20 or more African Americans?
4 percent
Why did African Americans build churches and society?
To help create communtities bonds and a sense of community identity
Where were yeomen mostly located?
Upper South & Hilly areas
Who were the two leaders that created the free african society?
Absalom Jones & Richard Allen
What year did Pennysylvania adopt a plan to gradually free enslaved people?
1780
Name all kinds of white Southerners?
Yeomens, tenant farmers, rural poor, and plantation owners
Why did European settlements began to form in early colonial times?
So that they could become cities
What were the cities that linked Western farmers with Northern cities? ( It's 4)
Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, and Louisville.
How many free African Americans lived in Philadelphia by 1830?
A. 14,500
B. 6,000
C. 1400