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1 .       Because of their religious and ethnic diversity, the Middle Colonies were in a near constant state of conflict and turmoil. 

 
 


2 .       Over half of the settlers in the southern colonies in the seventeenth century came to English North America as indenturedservants. 

 
 


3 .       By 1730, the majority of South Carolina's population was black. 

 
 


4 .       While the production of cash crops was crucial to the southern colonies' prosperity, they nevertheless developed a quite diversified economy. 

 
 


5 .       Southern whites generally exaggerated the danger of slave rebellion in English North America. 

 
 


6 .       Unlike the Puritan church in New England, the Anglican church never became a powerful force in southern colonial life. 

 
 


7 .       New England households were usually extended; aunts, uncles, cousins, and grandparents often lived in the same house as a man, his wife, and his children. 

 
 


8 .       Throughout most of the seventeenth century, at least with respect to local issues, England's North American colonies were largely left to govern themselves. 

 
 


9 .       The Salem witchcraft episode in the 1690s restored the public's respect for Puritan ministers throughout New England. 

 
 


10 .       Yale University was the first institution of higher education in English North America. 

 
 


11 .       As in the South, colonial New England's economic prosperity depended on growing surplus cash crops for export. 

 
 


12 .       By 1760, all the Middle Colonies had popularly elected representative assemblies, for which most adult white males could vote. 

 
 


13 .       As in New England and the southern colonies, voters in the Middle Colonies usually deferred to the leadership of the landed gentry. 

 
 


14 .       The Paxton Boys were Scotch-Irish frontiersmen who marched on Philadelphia to try to gain more representation in the Pennsylvania assembly. 

 
 






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