Taylor's Homework

Check up Questions on page 52


1) The greatest amount of settlers came from England.

2)The colonies grew so quickly because on the immigrants that kept coming.

3)Sunday worship services had singing and music.

4)The middle colonies had the greatest religious diversity.

5)The southern colonies were mostly Anglican but they tolerated others and made them pay taxes to the church while the other colonies were tons of different religions so they all tolerated each other and not only one religion was dominant.

6)The Moravians wrote the the first classical music to be composed in America.

Identify

colonial era- from the founding of Jamestown in 1607 to the Revolutionary War in 1775

Scots-Irish- people of Scottish descent who had settled in Northern Ireland during the 17th century

Philadelphia- the largest city know as the city of brotherly love

Moravians- German immigrants who followed the teachings of reformer John Huss

John Huss- a German reformer

Count von Zinzendorf- of Saxony, came to the colonies briefly and led the Moravians in the founding of the city of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

Bethlehem- city Count von Zinzendorf founded

Congregational churches- churches where each local congregation had an important voice in it's own church government



Check up Questions on page 57

1) bread, butter, cheese, chicken, steak, pork, ice cream, etc....

2) The middle colonies were called the bread colonies because the produced and abundance of grain.

3) The crops grown in the southern colonies were tobacco, indigo, and rice. The rice country was the coastal regions of South Carolina and Georgia.

4) The three industries particularly suited for New England were the Fur Industry, the Ironworks, and the Lumber Industry (Naval Stores and Timber)

5) New England's chief overseas customer was England.

6) The success of New England would lead to conflict with England because they were so successful and it interfered with English manufacturing and England believe in mercantilism.

7) The triangular trade route was when a ship went to the West African coast and then to the West Indies and finally back to New England

Identify

homespun- a cloth which started as linen spun into wool yarn which was then woven into a cloth

indigo- the leaves of this plant produced a blue dye which was in demand in English textile plants

Antigua- an island in British possession that became the strongest center of Christianity among the blacks of the the West Indies in the 1700s

barter- trading

textile industry- cloth industry

blacksmiths- men who shod horses and forged other needed things out of iron

leather workers- men who made harnesses, boots, and shoes

millers- men who operated gristmills where colonists could have grain ground into flour



Count von Zinzendorf


http://www.zinzendorf.com/countz.htm

http://www.christianitytoday.com/history/special/131christians/zinzendorf.html