Chapters+Three+and+Four+Society+and+Culture+in+Provincial+America+and+The+Empire+in+Transition

Dates: 1734 1754 1774 1775 1776  Key Concepts:
 * Indentured Servitude
 * Gender ratio
 * Patriarchic societies
 * The Middle Passage
 * Slave Codes
 * Southern Cash-Crop Economy
 * Triangular Trade
 * Rise of the Merchant Class
 * Stono Rebellion
 * Organization of Puritan Communities
 * Salem Witch Trials
 * The Great Awakening
 * The Enlightenment
 * Higher Education
 * Rise of Colonial Legislatures
 * Decentralization of Empire
 * Albany Plan of Union
 * Seven Year’s War/French and Indian War
 * George Grenville
 * Proclamation of 1763
 * Sugar Act
 * Stamp Act
 * Currency Act
 * Paxton Boys
 * Virginia Resolves
 * Stamp Act Congress
 * Sons of Liberty
 * Townshend Acts
 * Boston Massacre
 * Committees of Correspondence
 * Virtual vs Actual Representation
 * Thomas Paine and “Common Sense”
 * Tea Act and the Boston Tea Party
 * Coercive Acts
 * First Continental Congress
 * Minutemen
 * Lexington and Concord

Essential Questions: Why were indentured servants necessary and what were their lives like? What was the purpose of slavery in the United States? Where did most slaves come from? What problems arose because of slavery? How did the colonists attempt to deal with these problems? Why were there few slaves in the North? What were the main differences between the northern and southern economies? How did this effect the development of their societies, their culture, their personality, and their government? What was the Triangular Trade? How was it related to mercantilism? What were its inherent weaknesses? How did the emerging merchant class put pressure on the relationship with England? How were Puritan communities organized? What types of problems came from this system? How did self-government develop there? What was The Great Awakening? How did it affect people’s lives? Why was it significan Why were colonial legislatures so strong? How did they develop and why? What potential problems can you foresee? What was The Albany Plan of Union? What makes it significant? What problems did it seek to address? What was the basis for French and Colonial conflict in the New World? How was the French and Indian War fought? What were the results of the war? What role did the Indians play in the war? Why was the result of the war devastating to Native Americans? What was the cause of England’s debt? How did they think the debt should be repaid? Why did the colonists have a problem with this? What was the Proclamation of 1763? Was it obeyed? Why or why not? What was the result? What was the Stamp Act? Why were colonists so opposed to it? What did they do in response? Was their response justified? What were the Townshend Acts? How were they received by the colonists? Characterize the developing relationship between the British and their colonists. What was meant by “No taxation without representation”? How did this reflect the debate about virtual versus actual representation? What was the purpose of the Tea Act? Why did colonists oppose it? What was their response? How did Parliament react to actions of the colonists? What was the First Continental Congress? What did they hope to achieve? What happened at Lexington and Concord? Why was it significant?