for Outlines the essay questions for the first exam.
Question # 1
1) Origin of Cavaliers/ (plantation society)
2) Origins of the New England Puritans/Yankees
3) Reasons they came to North America
4) Different ideas of liberty
5) Different ways of dealing with the Native Americans
6) The social aspect
-Cavaliers create the racial caste system
-Rise in population of slaves after Bacons Rebellion
7) Their impact in American History
a) racial caste system (cavaliers)
b) orderly society where everyone has a place (puritan)
Question # 2
Describe the Cavaliers
a) Reason they left the west country
-Primogenitor
-English revolution parliamentarian won the royalist (cavaliers lost)
b) What they intended to do when they came to Virginia
-Work force
-Indenture servants
-Cheaper slaves (west Africans)
-South Atlantic System
They do not work out (indentured servants)
-Bacons Rebellion
-Berkley Slave develops code
-Racial caste system
Created a southern labor system
Describe the West Africans
-Development of their language and culture
Conclusion
To keep Virginia stable this had to be done. Successful republican government requires
political stability.
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Question # 3
Brief description of the Revolution
Origins of the Revolution
I.
a)
b)
c)
d)
Folkways of freedom
Virginia Cavaliers and West Africans
Puritans
Quakers
Scots-Irish
II
Economic success of the colonies
a) prosperity of the different regions
b) core versus the periphery
Why the patriots won and the British lost
III
Salutary neglect
a) Rise of the assemblies
b) Dominion of New England
IV
a)
b)
c)
d)
Britain engaged in other struggles
French- Indian war
William Pitt
Grenvilles sugar and stamp act
Sons of liberty
Consequences of the Revolution