Vocabulary/ Events
Land stretching from central Pennsylvania southward through the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia and into upland North and South Carolina.
What is "backcountry"?
What Catholics in Lutheran areas and followers of small Protestant sects faced after Germany was divided into numerous small states.
What is "persecution"?
The government in London was convinced that colonial development improved the nation's ____ and ____.
What is positive?
According to the first document, this food is most plentiful in America.
What is bread?
Receiving a passage in exchange for a promise to work off debt in America.
What is "redemption"?
The main reasons Germans decide to emigrate.
What is persecution, agricultural rises, and difficulty of acquiring land?
Offered European immigrants 7 years residency.
What is a law of 1740?
The author of the "Memorial against Non- English Immigration" found the growing diversity of the colonial population to be ___.
What is disturbing?
This is the youngest age to sign the Oath for German migrants.
What is 16?
Taxes on landowners to a local landlord.
What is the Payment of Tithes?
People that received passage in exchange for a promise to work off their debt in America.
What are "redemptioners"?
In the eighteenth century, the arrival ____ and ___ increased, while the amount emigrating from ___ decreased.
What is African, non- English European arrivals, and England?
Johannes Hänner called America this.
What is "a free country"?
These people took vacant land.
What is Papists?
In the eighteenth century, a mass migration of Germans to Austria-Hungary, the Russian empire, New York, western Pennsylvania, and the southern backcountry.
What is the German Migration?
This was enhanced upon the arrival of Britain's colonies.
What is ethnic and religious diversity?
The government of London worried that large-scale emigration did this.
What is drained labor?
What group thinks non-English migrants to Pennsylvania go to remote areas of the land where there are not many people. They adhere by their own laws and customs from their home land and don't really fit in with the English colonists.
What are Petitioners?
These people snuck over on British shipping.
What are Menists?
A purchase made in 1737 of Indian land, colonists of Pennsylvania tricked Lenni Landscape Indians to agree to cede land equal to the length someone could walk in 36 hours, but the colonists marked out an area using a team of runners.
What is The Walking Purchase of 1737?
The Germans emigrated to these places.
In the 18th century, European immigrants arrived to be this.
The Petition suggests that these people should be entitled to the benefits of freedom in the American colonies.
What are the English colonists?
This is the author of the "Letter by a Swiss-German Immigrant to Pennsylvania".
Who is Johanne Hänner?