What drove significant Migrations of Germans and Scots-Irish into the colonies
What drove significant migrations of Germans and Scots-Irish into the colonies and where did these groups settle? Contrast the kind of slavery that developed in the Deep South with that of the Chesapeake.
- How did class structure become increasingly stratified by the eighteenth century and what barriers to class mobility increased the “Europeanization” of America”?
- Describe the predominant economic activities in the New England, Middle and Southern economies.
- List the several ways in which New England merchants profited from triangular trade and how might the molasses act be seen as a harbinger of future conflict between the colonies and Great Britain?
- How did the various churches, established and non-established, fundamentally shape eighteenth century colonial life, including education and politics.
- Generally, what was the purpose of education in colonial America?
