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What did the Great Awakening, inter-colonial trade and American attitudes toward English culture and constitutional theory have in common?
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They contributed to a growing sense of shared American identity.
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Anglo-American women in colonial times?
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Could own property or execute legal documents only if they were widowed or unmarried.
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Colonial law generally defined slaves as chattels. This meant that slaves were considered as?
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Pieces of property with no rights.
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What is NOT TRUE of English colonial families in mid-18c America?
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Women, while subservient to their husbands, set the moral standards by which children were raised and decided how the children would be educated and trained.
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Colonial cities functioned primarily as?
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Mercantile centers for collecting agricultural goods and distributing imported manufactured goods.
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The Salem Village witchcraft crisis occurred for which reasons?
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Experiencing feelings of powerlessness and insecurity, many Puritans found in witchcraft an explanation for the disorder and change around them.
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Between 1650 and 1750, family life in the English colonies changed such that in?
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Northern colonies it grew less patriarchal, while in southern colonies it grew more patriarchal.
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According to the Whig ideology, the best defense against corruption and tyranny rested in the?
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Eternal vigilance by the people.
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Benjamin Franklin's concept of the "ideal American" differed from John Winthrop's in which ways?
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Franklin valued individualism; Winthrop valued the submission of individual will to the good of the community.
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Thomas Jefferson once observed that the best school of political liberty the world ever saw was the?
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New England town meeting.
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By the early 1700s, the slave codes of the English colonies in North America established all of the following rules EXCEPT that they?
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Allowed a slave with some white ancestry to apply for freedom.
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Which of the following is an accurate description of the Sons of Liberty, created in 1765?
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This inter-colonial association was created by the elite in an attempt to channel crowd action into acceptable forms of resistance.
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The ideology of revolutionary republicanism?
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borrowed ideas from a variety of former Whig and Enlightenment thinkers.
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The Stamp Act Congress was significant because it?
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Marked an important step toward the unity of the colonies.
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Benjamin Franklin epitomized which movement in colonial America?
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The Enlightenment.
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