Which of the following characterized the New England freehold society of the early 18th century

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Rethinking the Colonial State: Family, Gender, and Governmentality in Eighteenth-Century British Frontiers

The American Historical Review

Vol. 116, No. 5 (DECEMBER 2011)

, pp. 1294-1322 (29 pages)

Published By: Oxford University Press

https://www.jstor.org/stable/23309638

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Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire

What were the Southern colonies consisted of?

Georgia, North and South Carolina, Maryland and Virginia

List the Middle colonies.

Delaware, New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania

What were the Chesapeake Bay colonies?

How do the Chesapeake Bay colonies differ from the New England colonies?

Their fortune is made through cultivation of tobacco and their political and religious view differ. (slavery, big/small business, Puritans in the North and Lutheran/Catholic/Baptists {Christianity} in the South)

What did the Navigation Acts of 1657 restrict?

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When they married, women passed legal ownership of all personal property to their husbands.nition

The English philosopher John Locke believed which of the following ideas?

People had natural rights such as life, liberty, and property.

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Farmers abandoned traditional grain crops and adopted livestock agriculture instead.

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Negotiated the terms for a period of servitude through which they would pay for their trip.

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Colonists’ sense of personal worth and dignity in rural New England contrasted sharply with European peasant life.

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Which of the following features characterized the Middle Atlantic colonies of New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania in the eighteenth century?

Which of the following eighteenth-century Pennsylvania immigrant groups quickly lost its cultural identity by practicing intermarriage with other Protestants?

Which of the following statements characterizes eighteenth-century religious practice in Pennsylvania?

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Population growth made freehold land scarce

Which of the following characterized the New England freehold society of the early eighteenth century?

Many relatively equal landowning families whose livelihoods came from agriculture and trade

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Fathers had a cultural duty to provide inheritances for their children.

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The freehold system in the American colonies became unsustainable.

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The Boston smallpox epidemic

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The print revolution made the American Reformation possible.

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Each religious sect enforced moral behavior among its members.

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How did the pietism movement of the eighteenth century differ from Puritanism?

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Why was the print revolution that occurred in the colonies during the early 18th century significant?

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