AHIS 100
Colonial Society
Dr. Kane
mkane2@albany.edu
Office Hrs: W 10:30-11:30 & F 11:30-12:30
Social Science 60S
maevekane.net/ahis100/lecture-slides
September 21
coming up
- 30 multiple choice and short answer
- includes questions about 1 document from section, document provided
- includes lecture iclicker questions, but reworded or reordered--don't just memorize A/B/C/D!
- discussion questions for section readings good study help
- 1 essay question
- "explain why" format
- connections between land labor and identity
- sections V and VI from this week's textbook reading not on exam
- this week's section reading and lecture on exam
- study guide on Blackboard 5pm tonight
how did religion influence 18th century European attitudes towards land and territory North America?
- A. The success of French Catholic military raids and conversion efforts among Native Americans made British Protestants fear takeover by Catholics
- B. The freedom offered to runaway enslaved people in Spanish Catholic territory made British Protestants fearful of Catholic-influenced slave uprisings
- C. Religious revivals in British North America caused Americans to marry earlier and have more children than Europeans, causing colonial land claims to expand
- D. British Protestant religious revivals drove wars against French and Spanish Catholics and non-Christian Native groups
1750 land claims
1750 land claims
1750 settlements
why did credit become pervasive throughout early North America?
- A. North American colonies lacked the cash to transact all business in hard currency, so credit was used out of necessity
- B. European colonists wished to emulate European fashions and credit was the only way to afford expensive imported goods
- C. European governments enforced the use of bills of credit to tighten mercantilist economic control over their colonies
- D. Plantation commodities were uncertain and unstable, requiring plantation owners to buy on credit against the next season's credit
what was one problem with the use of credit in early North America?
- A. Colonies did not recognize one anothers' bills of credit, hampering trade between British colonies
- B. Colonies of different countries did not recognize one anothers' bills of credit, hampering trade between colonies of different countries
- C. Bills of credit depended on the trustworthiness of the person signing them, like a personal check, and so were not widely trusted
- D. Only very wealthy colonists could obtain credit, restricting the purchase of imported goods to the very wealthy
