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APUSH Chapter 3 AMSCO | Comprehensive Questions and Answers Latest Updated 2024/2025 With, Exams of History

Africans - The largest single group of non-English immigrants did not come to America by choice. By 1775, the African American population (slave and free) comprised 20 percent of the colonial population. About 90 percent were in the southern colonies. (p. 46) Poor Richard's Almanac - Benjamin Franklin's highly popular collection of information, parables, and advice colonial families - Family wa

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APUSH Chapter 3 AMSCO | Comprehensive Questions and Answers Latest Updated 2024/2025
With 100% Verified Solutions
Africans - The largest single group of non-English immigrants did not come to America by choice. By
1775, the African American population (slave and free) comprised 20 percent of the colonial population.
About 90 percent were in the southern colonies. (p. 46)
Poor Richard's Almanac - Benjamin Franklin's highly popular collection of information, parables, and
advice
colonial families - Family was very important in the colonies; couples married young and had many
children. Most families lived on farms. Men worked, owned land, and dominated politics. Women did
housework, educated the children, and worked with her husband.
colonial governors - In the royal colonies, these were appointed by the King; in the proprietary colonies,
these were appointed by the proprietor; in Rhode Island and Connecticut, these were elected by
popular vote
colonial legislatures - In every colony the lower of these two houses was elected; this lower house
controlled taxes. Only in Rhode Island and Connecticut were the upper houses elected.
county government - • originally started as parishes
• 159 in GA
•serves the people at a local level
• usually governed by a
commissioner or board of
commissioners
Dutch - Corruption of a German word used as a term for German immigrants in Pennsylvania
English cultural domination - Most of the population of the colonies was English, but Africans and
Europeans created some diversity in the culture of the colonies.
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APUSH Chapter 3 AMSCO | Comprehensive Questions and Answers Latest Updated 2024/20 25 With 100% Verified Solutions Africans - The largest single group of non-English immigrants did not come to America by choice. By 1775, the African American population (slave and free) comprised 20 percent of the colonial population. About 90 percent were in the southern colonies. (p. 46) Poor Richard's Almanac - Benjamin Franklin's highly popular collection of information, parables, and advice colonial families - Family was very important in the colonies; couples married young and had many children. Most families lived on farms. Men worked, owned land, and dominated politics. Women did housework, educated the children, and worked with her husband. colonial governors - In the royal colonies, these were appointed by the King; in the proprietary colonies, these were appointed by the proprietor; in Rhode Island and Connecticut, these were elected by popular vote colonial legislatures - In every colony the lower of these two houses was elected; this lower house controlled taxes. Only in Rhode Island and Connecticut were the upper houses elected. county government - • originally started as parishes

  • 159 in GA •serves the people at a local level
  • usually governed by a commissioner or board of commissioners Dutch - Corruption of a German word used as a term for German immigrants in Pennsylvania English cultural domination - Most of the population of the colonies was English, but Africans and Europeans created some diversity in the culture of the colonies.

Enlightenment - A movement in the 18th century that advocated the use of reason in the reappraisal of accepted ideas and social institutions. established church - chosen religion of a state George Whitefield - Credited with starting the Great Awakening, also a leader of the "New Lights." Germans - This group of immigrants settled chiefly on the rich farmlands west of Philadelphia. By 1775, they comprised 6 percent of the colonial population. (p. 46) Great Awakening - Religious revival in the American colonies of the eighteenth century during which a number of new Protestant churches were established. hereditary aristocracy - A form of government in which rule is in the hands of an "upper class" or aristocratic family. This inevitably means those with the power to hold wealth, and to define who shall remain in poverty and slavery. Huguenots - French Protestants influenced by John Calvin Immigrants - people who have left the country of their birth to live in another country J. Hector St. John Crevecoeur - A Frenchman who wrote , "America is a new man, who acts upon new principles; he must therefore entertain new ideas, and form new opinions. From involuntary idleness, servile dependence, and useless labor, he has passed to toils of a very different nature, rewarded by ample subsistence. This is an American." (1782) John Peter Zenger - Journalist who questioned the policies of the governor of New York in the 1700's. He was jailed; he sued, and this court case was the basis for our freedom of speech and press. He was found not guilty. Johnathan Edwards - An American theologian and congregational clergyman whose sermons stirred the religious revival (Great Awakening); known for sinners in the hands of an angry god sermon.