Worksheet #2

American History

2.2

  1. Who were the “pilgrims?” Why did they leave England? Where were they heading? Where did they end up?

 

 

2.4

2. What is a cash crop? What was the first one in the colonies?

 

 

  1. What were indentured servants?

 

 

 

  1. What caused Bacon’s Rebellion? Who did he wind up fighting against?

 

 

  1. Why did some planters begin to switch over to slave labor?

 

 

 

  1. Why was cash cropping really not an option for most in New England? What kind of economic activities grew up there instead?

 

 

 

  1. What became the chief economic activity in the Middle colonies?

 

 

  1. Which region, north or south, began to have the largest cities by the middle of the 1700s? What helped contribute to this difference?

 

 

2.5

  1. What is the difference between the Great Awakening and the Enlightenment?