Tensions among social groups (Edexcel GCSE History): Flashcards

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Tensions among social groups
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5 main types of social tensions (British America 1713-41)

Racial, religious, class, town vs countryside, old vs new

Yamasee War dates and location

1715-17, South Carolina

Year inter-racial marriage banned in all 13 colonies

1713

Scots-Irish immigrants' typical work status

Indentured servants

1718 Transportation Act purpose

Allowed Britain to send convicts to colonies

Dominant religious group in New England colonies

Congregationalists

1730 Virginia Inspection Act result

Favoured larger landowners, caused riots by common planters

Why German Lutherans immigrated to British America

To farm own land and practise faith freely

Natural population growth definition

Birth rates exceeded death rates

Main urban vs rural tension

Merchants vs landowners over laws and taxes

Pennsylvania requirement for new immigrants

Oath of loyalty

Yamasee War outcome

Tribes defeated, frontier tensions continued

Effect of many enslaved people in Southern colonies

Increased white colonists' fears of rebellions

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