American Yawp Colonial America

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Why were colonists buying new stuff instead of making their own?

• The new middle class had money to spend and wanted to impress others.

• New taxes on tools made it too expensive to make their own stuff.

• People wanted to distance themselves from others and put themselves into groups that they wanted to be part of.

• Colonists were too poor to buy stuff locally and because British companies used cheap labor they could sell stuff cheaper. (Like Wal Mart).

Use the internte to look up Thorstein Veblen's theory of "conspicuous consumption" (CC). 1. How does the idea of CC relate to why colonists were buying goods instead of making them? 2. Do you see evidence of CC today--give two examples.

Define predestination.

The Great Awakening was a religious movement in the Colonies. The movement ingnited a sense of __________,

• Collectivism

• Republicanism

• Socialism

• Individualism

How did Enlightenment ideas like science, reason, and secularism clash with the ideas of the Great Awakening?

What does the Stono Rebellion show about how many enslaved people felt and what they wanted?

The first one hundred years of life of the N. American colonies beginning in Jamestown in 1607can be described as...

• Dominated by English Governance

• Free to mostly self-govern.

• Peace between Native Americans and colonists.

• Constant battles with the French and Spanish.

What European empririal power controlled the interior of North America?

• Spain

• France

• England

• Portugal

1. 1. Who was William Pitt?

2. 2. Define impressment.

3. 3. Which Native American confederacy was England and France trying to convince to help them?

4. 4. What part of North America was the Confederacy located?