Unit 2 – Terms and Concepts
Chapter 3
Chapter 3-Putting Down Roots: Opportunity and Oppression
in Colonial Society
*Be able to answer the following questions and/or fully
explain the significance of the terms and concepts.
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The importance of the family in early Colonial America
Reasons for developing regional differences (i.e. New England,
Middle, and Southern regions)? Be able to compare and
contrast!
Indentured Servants – You already know this one! 
Examples of cultural convergence in England’s American
colonies? How did this affect the colonies’ relationship with
England-the mother country?
What factors explain the remarkable social stability achieved in
early New England?
5. Structure of the typical New England family?
6. Life expectancy and population growth in New England
7. Organization of New England Towns
8. Congregational Church
9. The “elect”
10. Halfway Covenant (1662) – This comes about 35 years AFTER
the establishment of the Massachusetts Bay Colony – Why?
11. Importance of education in New England – Why?
12. Establishment of colleges such as Harvard and Yale
13. Role of women in New England?
14. “feminization of colonial religion”
15. Sumptuary Laws in New England
16. Yeoman Farmers
17. Social and Economic mobility in New England
What factors contributed to political unrest in the Chesapeake
region during this period?
18. High mortality (death) rates in the Chesapeake
19. Weak family units/instability
20. Indentured Servitude
21. Slow and unstable population growth
22. Role of women in the Chesapeake?
23. Tobacco – the Chesapeake staple
24. Reasons for the economic inequality in the Chesapeake?
25. Planter Class (economic and social status)?
26. Freemen
27. Rigid Social and Economic structure of the Chesapeake?
28. Demographic shift in the Chesapeake after 1680 – from
instability to permanence.
29. Lack of social and economic mobility
How did African American slaves preserve an independent cultural
identity in the New World?
30. Slavery existed in each of the thirteen colonies – more
prevalent in the South.
31. First African slave arrive in Virginia in 1619.
32. African slaves remain a small portion of the overall population
of British North America until around 1680.
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Royal African Company
Slave Codes
Gullah
Compare and Contrast the institution of slavery in New England
versus the Middle Colonies versus the Chesapeake versus the
Deep South.
37. Development of an African American culture.
38. Reasons for the natural growth of the African American
population?
39. Stono Uprising (causes and effects)
Why did England discourage free and open trade in colonial
America?
40. England’s policy of “salutary neglect” – Ask Ms. Irish!
41. After 1660, “intervention replaced indifference” – Why?
42. Mercantilism
43. Navigation Acts (1660, 1663, 1673, and 1696)
44. Vice-Admiralty Courts
How did colonial revolts affect the political culture of Virginia and
New England?
45. Virginia Governor Sir William Berkeley
46. Disenfranchisement of all landless freemen (1670) – causing
lots of ANGRY, FRUSTRATED freemen!
47. Nathaniel Bacon
48. Berkeley’s unpopular policy toward Native American attacks in
the Virginia backcountry (frontier).
49. Bacon’s Rebellion (1676) – Shows up on the AP Exam A LOT!
Need to know the causes and effects!
50. King Phillip’s War (1675) – happened in New England / the
Massachusetts frontier
51. Dominion of New England
52. Sir Edmund Andros
53. Glorious Revolution (impact in New England)
54. English Bill of Rights – the rights of ALL Englishmen!
55. Salem Witchcraft Trials (1692)
56. Glorious Revolution (Impact in New York)
57. Jacob Leisler
58. Leisler’s Rebellion(1689)