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The largest number of immigrants to the Middle Colonies were

A) Dutch.
B) Catholic.
C) German.
D) Yankees.

E) B) and C)
F) All of the above

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Who kidnapped Olaudah Equiano and sold him into slavery?

A) Other Africans
B) Portuguese traders
C) British merchants
D) American planters

E) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

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Use the following to answer questions : Select the word or phrase from the Terms section that best matches the definition or example provided in the Definitions section. -Protestant immigrants from Northern Ireland, Scotland, and northern England. Deteriorating economic conditions in their homelands contributed to increasing migration to the colonies in the eighteenth century.

Which statement characterizes slaves in the middle colonies in the eighteenth century?

Describe what happened to slaves once they reached America and how planters attempted to acculturate them to their new surroundings.

Describe the reciprocal nature of the trading relationship between Indians and colonists along settlement frontiers during the eighteenth century and identify the dilemma this relationship created for the Indians.

Why did New England's population lag behind the growth in other colonies?

Identify the stipulations of the agreements that enabled redemptioners to immigrate to the middle colonies.

The rapid increase in the population of eighteenth-century colonial America resulted in an expanding economy, which sharply contrasted with the results of population booms in Europe. Discuss the fundamental economic environment that sustained New England's rapidly growing population. Include in your discussion the major causes of New England's significant population growth and analyze the effects of New England's growing population on land distribution, land usage, and the overall economy.

How did newly imported African slaves develop kinship relationships in the existing slave communities?

Use the following to answer questions : Select the word or phrase from the Terms section that best matches the definition or example provided in the Definitions section. -A system of labor in which a slave was assigned a daily chore to complete and allowed to do as he wished on its completion. This system offered more freedom than the carefully supervised gang-labor system.

Which group dominated the commercial economy of New England in the eighteenth century?

How did most redemptioners pay for their voyage across the Atlantic?

The huge increase in the slave population in the South during the second half of the eighteenth century can be attributed to natural increase and

Provide evidence that supports the following statement: Demographically, communities in New England during the eighteenth century were more homogeneous than communities in the middle and southern colonies.

The slave rebellion at Stono, South Carolina, was not followed by any similar uprisings during the colonial period. Describe the actions of the slaves, explain how the rebellion was suppressed, and identify the long-term consequences of this rebellion.

Why did New Englanders have only a quarter of the wealth the free colonists in the South had in 1770?