(Jedediah Sanger--founder of the "Land of Hope and Dreams")Welcome first time Bloggers!
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3. Keep your questions material specific--demonstrate that you know something about a topic, and ask a question that digs for a deeper understanding.
Example: I was wondering about Daniel Boorstin's bias concerning the Quakers--do you think that the Quakers were just a convenient example to advance his ideas concerning Native-colonist relations?
What not to do: What is up with Nathaniel Bacon? or Puritans--what's the story with them?
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Okay, lets get started.
Sample question 1:
The heart of Puritan social organization was
A. The Anglican Church
B. The Albany Plan of Union
C. the Congregation
D. The Royal Governorship
E. Royal Colonial Settlement policy
Post your answer, and explain your answer with a thoughtful prose response!
Sample question 2:
One political idea that New England and Chesapeake Bay colonies held in common was:
A. The need to experiment in the concept of "self-rule"
B. Tribal government
C. A lasting peace with all colonial people
D. Proper Quaker pacificism
E. Communal land rights
Let's start reviewing!
27 comments:
C congregation you said in class and A because they wanted self rule and other awnsers are bad
Dylan:
You forgot the thoughtful response part. Try that again, please.
Okay, but why was congregational life so important to Puritans--and what makes the other answers so awful for sample question 2?
The congregation unified the puritans even the ones who were not devoted church goers. And for other one C and D are the same, tribal government doesn't sound european, and everyone wanted their own land so no communal land
hello other people
Okay, Dylan, it seems like its just you and me for now. How about some review terms to know. I'll shoot some at you, and you take a crack at defining them:
Mayflower Compact
King Philip's War
Virginia House of Burgesses
Roger Williams
headright system
Jeremy's here too.
Mayflower compact: agreement by pilgrims on communal life
I was going to say C for the first question too. But I did not want to be the first one to comment.
hi
Mayflower Compact
King Philip's War
Virginia House of Burgesses
Roger Williams
headright system
did we discuss these in class?
King Philip was the indian leader who revolted against colonist in new england. England one but both sides had high loses
I used process of elimination for both questions. Number one was "C". "A" was wrong because the Puritans were attempting to break away from the Anglican Church because they felt it was becoming corrupted. The Albany plan of Union just doesn't make sense and it doesn't relate at all to the Puritans as far as I know. Answer "D" doesn't make sense because the Puritans came to the United States seeking religious freedom that they did not have back in England. I have never heard of "E" If that is important to know could you clarify that please?
Question two was "A". "B" is wrong because it was the Native Indians that used Tribal Governments, not the English. "C" is clearly wrong because there was much fighting with the Indians. Quaker pacifism was only majorly practiced in Pennsylvania ruling out "D". And "E" is wrong because the rich landowners owned the majority of the land.
could you review the headright system?
Roger williams was the quacker founder of Rhode island and had all those wishful ideas and soon quacker became the minority but they were still accepted
Isn't the Mayflower Compact a form of government, or more of an outline? The book made it clear that it was not a form of government, rather a collection of ideas for later ones... I think.
The HoB is basically a senate/house type of body, only made first in Virginia, I think.
Roger Williams had something to do with religious freedom.
Wasn't the House of Burgesses an early form of representative government in colonial Virginia?
I'm here
Also, could you give us more practice questions?
could we go over the headright system
Okay--Jennie arrived a bit late to the review, but turned in the most thoughtful and complete answers to the sample questions. Ellie wants to know more about the headright system.
The headright system was an incentive plan to populate the colonies. Check out this description from John Steele Gordon: "Virginia Co. in 1616 changed its land policy . . in hopes of getting more men ti immigrate, it gave land away free to new settlers under a system known as head rights. Every man who could pay his own way was awarded 50 acres, with another 50 acres for every relative he brought and for every servant whose way he paid. These "indentured servants" who agreed to work for a term of years to off the cost of their passage, were also entitled to 50 acres of land once their indentures paid off. Of course, they had to survive to collect, and about 25% of immigrants died in their first year in the Chesapeake."
I like that explanation from Mr. Gordon--concise and complete!
Sample Question 3:
Indentured servitude in the Chesapeake Bay region increased due to
A. The Glorious Revolution
B. The headright system
C. The House of Burgesses
D. The end of the slave trade
E. Bacon's Rebellion
Sample Question 4:
The Tories of England were characterized by their
A. support for a storng Parliament
B. the belief in the near absolute authority of monarchy
C. refusal to allow the Crown to maintain a standing army
D. toleration of dissenters
E. banishment of the Times of London from political discourse
Sample 5
The First Great Awakening can be seen as a direct result of
A. ethnic pluralism
B. existentialism
C. Congregational organization
D. Englightenment thought
E. postmodernism
Please provide "Jennie-esque" responses, please.
I'm going to have to go ahead and agree with everyone else. The first question is "c" because the Puritan's moved to the colonies for religous toleration(though they didn't pass this on to the quakers)this rules out any motives such as d and e. They wanted a place for their congregation as seen through the treatment of quakers. Puritans were centered around congregation not country which rules out all the other sensible answers.
For question 3 would chose B. the headright system based on the definition you gave me. Giving land for every person who comes with you to the new world seems like it would greatly increase the number of people (including servants) one chooses to bring with them.
For number 4 I would choose B. Process of elimination can eliminate C. D. and E. because they seem too specific to be the defining factor of a group. A and B are opposites and I know the Tories were greatly concerned with the monarchy.
Question 5 refers to a religious revival, so that eliminates B and D. E is in the wrong time period and A seems irrelevant so I would pick C.
I'm not sure where everyone went, but my blogging time is coming to an end. 39 Multiple choice questions for tomorrow--try to remember to bring a No. 2 pencil.
Ellie, you are on point the headright system question, as well as the Tories. I don't quite agree with you on Sample #5. Look over the text on the First Great Awakening. This movement is crucial to understanding New England social life. The notion that people's lives were determined by the whims of an angry deity helps explain much of the New Englander focus on living a dutiful and moral life.
Review your text, look at some review questions, and get some rest! See you all tomorrow.
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