Native Americans
Name one tribe from Maine
Wabanki, Penobscot, Passamaquoddy, Micmac, Maliseet, etc
How were witches executed in Salem?
Most by hanging, some by stoning or crushed with rocks
True or False, at some point there was slavery in all 13 colonies
True.
What was the Boston massacre?
The Boston Massacre was a confrontation in Boston on March 5, 1770, in which a group of nine British soldiers shot five people out of a crowd of three or four hundred who were abusing them verbally and throwing various missiles.
The images/cartoons that emerged from this angered colonies throughout the 13 colonies and pushed them towards rebellion.
True or False, Georgia originated as a colony for people desperately in debt.
True.
In the 1730s, James Oglethorpe, a retired British army officer, decided to make it his mission to help the impoverished and debt-ridden inhabitants of London get a fresh start in life. He thought the best solution was for them to resettle in America. In 1732, Olgethorpe’s plan came to fruition, when 20 trustees received funds from Parliament and a Royal charter, authorizing them to enact their own taxes and laws and hand out land grants to settlers.
The corporation created to establish Georgia was a charity, and none of the trustees themselves could receive any land or pay. In order to prevent any of the settlers from becoming too wealthy, they set a 500-acre limit on individual land holdings, and speculators were kept out by banning settlers who’d received free land from selling or borrowing money against it.
What tribe did Pocahontas belong to?
Powhatan
Who was the first person accused of witchcraft?
Tituba Indian was an enslaved woman who was the first person to be accused of witchcraft during the Salem witch trials of 1692-1693
How long (roughly) might a contract be for an indentured servant?
7-10 years
Name 3 things that were taxed by the British that angered the colonists
Paper/Parchment, Tea, Indigo, Wine, Molasses, Glass, Wax, paint, sugar, etc.
True or false, the pilgrims were the first colonists to settle in what became the 13 colonies?
False.
Jamestown was already a semi-successful settlement when they arrived in 1620 and some settlers had even arrived earlier than that.
Describe, with a reasonable amount of detail, the 'true' story of Pocahontas
Student Answers
What kinds of things could lead to accusations of witchcraft?
Odd behavior, not adhering to social/religious norms, being unmarried, someone not liking you, etc.
Name 3 differences between slavery and indentured servitude
Student answers
What was salutary neglect? How did it ending push the colonies toward revolution?
In American history, salutary neglect was the policy of the British Crown of avoiding strict enforcement of parliamentary laws, especially trade laws, as long as British colonies remained loyal to the crown.
When this ended, it led to more taxation and a greater British legal and military presence. The colonists did not like this.
What colony was founded as a safe haven for catholics?
Maryland
The Calverts eventually built a capital, St. Mary’s City, where they erected a church and school as well as government buildings. Maryland became predominantly Catholic, and in 1649 enacted a law that guaranteed religious freedom—at least for Christian believers.
Name 7 tribes that resides in the original 13 colonies
What was 'spectral evidence'? What was a witch's mark? What was the touch test?
Spectral evidence was testimony in which witnesses claimed that the accused appeared to them and did them harm in a dream or a vision.
A witch's mark or devil's mark was a bodily mark that witch-hunters believed indicated that an individual was a witch, during the height of the witch trials.
In cases where a possessed person fell into spells or fits, the suspected witch would be brought into the room and asked to a lay a hand on them. A non-reaction signaled innocence, but if the victim came out of their fit, it was seen as proof that the suspect had placed them under a spell.
Why did slavery increase in the colonies during the 1700s while indentured servitude decreased?
As an economic model, slavery was more efficient and cost effective. Not only would a save owner have the unfree labor for life, they would also have their children and were not expected to provide any services to them.
Indenture Servants also more often ran away/broke their contracts. When slavery increased and slave rebellions did happen more frequently, the colonies enacted brutal laws to keep slaves from doing this.
How did the French and Indian War play a role in the colonists wanting independence?
How did rising population play a role in this too?
The French & Indian War led to increased taxes on the colonists as well as forced quartering of soldiers, which the colonies HATED.
With a rising population, the colonists wanted to expand. The British restricted their borders and would not let them.
What was the biggest reason Native American population steeply declined when the colonists arrived?
Disease (like smallpox)
What was the name of Pocahontas's husband? What did he do?
What role did gender play in the SWT? What role did religion play? What role did class status play?
Also, why did they end?
Women defying gender norms might be accused.
Religion defined the early colonies and explained the unexplained. Science/Medicine could not provide answers to some of these issues so people turned to their priest (who was often their leader and/or doctor)
At first, poorer women were accused. When wealthier people started getting accused and executed (or exonerated) the SWT ended.
What was the only colony to (briefly) ban slavery? What was the colony that had the most Toal slaves throughout its colonial history?
Georgia
New York
Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
When did they write it?
Of the 56 signers, how many owned slaves? (Answer within 3)
Thomas Jefferson write it in (July) 1776.
41 signers owned slaves
True or False, King George was mentally ill.
True. (though some Historians debate exactly how to classify it.)
It was during this battle of wills and wits with the Americans that King George’s illness may have begun to manifest itself. His intolerable and often erratic behavior is attributed to acute porphyria, a disease that causes a buildup of porphyrin compounds in the body, which are produced during the formation of one of the components of hemoglobin, the oxygen-carrying element in blood cells., King George’s own symptoms included abdominal pain, constipation, rashes, confusion, insomnia, anxiety, hallucinations and severe weakness of his limbs.
During his worst episodes, this happily married and moralistic monarch, and father of 15 children, wantonly chased ladies around the court, assaulted his family and royal servants, and babbled incoherently often without respite.