AP US History Document Based Question
Directions: The following question requires you to construct an essay that integrates your interpretation of Documents and your knowledge of the period referred to in the question. In the essay you should strive to support your assertions both by citing key pieces of evidence from the documents and by drawing on your knowledge of the period.
"If colonial life in 1775 differed from that of 1675, the change
was largely due to population increase." Assess the validity of this
statement.
Document A
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Act for Regulating and
Orderly Celebrating of Marriage, 1673.
It is Ordered by this Court; That whatsoever person from henceforth shall directly or indirectly endeavour to draw away the Affections of any Maid in this Colony, upon pretence of Marriage, before he hath obtained liberty and allowance from her Parents, Governours or Guardians, he shall forfeit for the first offence, five pounds, for the second offence towards the fame party ten pounds, and for the third offence, upon information or complaint by such Parents or Governours to any Magistrate, giving Bond to prosecute the party, he shall be committed to Prison, and upon hearing and conviction, by the next County Court, he shall be adjudged to continue in Prison until the Court of Assistants shall see cause to release him.
Document B
“..... And we further declare these, the ensuing persons in this list, to have been his wicked, and pernicious counsellors, aiders and assisters against the commonalty in these our cruel commotions:
Sir Henry Chicherly, Knt. Col. Charles Wormley Phil. Dalowell Robert Beverly Robert Lee Thos. Ballard William Cole Richard Whitacre Nicholas Spencer Mathew Kemp Jos. Bridger Wm. Clabourne Thos. Hawkins, Jr. William Sherwood Jos. Page, Clerk Jo. Cliffe, Hubberd Farrell John West Thos. Reade
And we do further demand, that the said Sir William Berkeley, with all the persons in this list, be forthwith delivered up, or surrender themselves, within four days after the notice hereof, or otherwise we declare as followeth: that in whatsoever house, place, or ship any of the said persons shall reside, be hid, or protected, we do declare that the owners, masters, or inhabitants of the said places, to be confederates and traitors to the people, and the estates of them, as also of all the aforesaid persons, to be confiscated. This we, the commons of Virginia, do declare desiring a prime union amongst ourselves, that we may jointly, and with one accord defend.....”
[Signed] Nath Bacon, Gen'l. By the Consent of the People.
Document C
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John
Locke's Letter Concerning Toleration, 1689.
“Since you are pleased to inquire what are my thoughts about the mutual toleration of Christians in their different professions of religion, I must needs answer you freely that I esteem that toleration to be the chief characteristic mark of the true Church. For whatsoever some people boast of the antiquity of places and names, or of the pomp of their outward worship; others, of the reformation of their discipline; all, of the orthodoxy of their faith—for everyone is orthodox to himself—these things, and all others of this nature, are much rather marks of men striving for power and empire over one another than of the Church of Christ. Let anyone have never so true a claim to all these things, yet if he be destitute of charity, meekness, and good-will in general towards all mankind, even to those that are not Christians, he is certainly yet short of being a true Christian himself.”
Document D
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Resolutions of
“These are the reasons why
we are against the traffic of men-body, as followeth:
Is there any that would be done or handled at this manner? viz.,
to be sold or made a slave for all the time of his life? How fearful and
faint-hearted are many at sea, when they see a strange vessel, being afraid it
should be a Turk, and they should be taken, and sold for slaves into
Turkey..... There is a saying, that we should do to
all men like as we will be done ourselves; making no difference of what
generation, descent, or colour they are. And those
who steal or rob men, and those who buy or purchase them, are they not all
alike? This is from our meeting at
Garret Henderich, Derick op de Graeff, Francis Daniel Pastorius, Abram op de Graeff.
Document E
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William
Penn's Plan of
PLAN OF
A brief and plain scheme how the English colonies in the North parts of America,—viz., Boston, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, New Jerseys, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, and Carolina,—may be made more useful to the crown and one another's peace and safety with an universal concurrence.
1. That the several colonies before mentioned do meet once a year, and oftener if need be during the war, and at least once in two years in times of peace, by their stated and appointed deputies, to debate and resolve of such measures as are most advisable for their better understanding and the public tranquillity and safety.
2. That, in order to it, two persons, well qualified for sense, sobriety, and substance, be appointed by each province as their representatives or deputies, which in the whole make the congress to consist of twenty persons.
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Document H
Document I
“The God that holds you over the pit
of hell, much as one holds a spider or some loathsome insect over the fire,
abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked. His wrath towards you burns like fire;
he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else but to be cast into the fire. He is
of purer eyes than to bear you in his sight; you are ten thousand times as
abominable in his eyes as the most hateful, venomous serpent is in ours.
You have offended him infinitely
more than ever a stubborn rebel did his prince, and yet it is nothing but his
hand that holds you from falling into the fire every moment. It is to be
ascribed to nothing else that you did not go to hell the last night; that you
were suffered to awake again in this world, after you closed your eyes to
sleep. And there is no other reason to be given why you have not dropped into
hell since you arose in the morning, but that God's hand has held you up. There
is no other reason to be given why you have not gone to hell since you have sat
here in the house of God provoking his pure eye by your sinful, wicked manner
of attending his solemn worship. Yea, there is nothing else that is to be given
as a reason why you do not this very moment drop down into hell.
O sinner! consider
the fearful danger you are in! It is a great furnace of wrath, a wide and
bottomless pit, full of the fire of wrath that you are held over in the hand of
that God whose wrath is provoked and incensed as much against you as against
many of the damned in hell. You hang by a slender thread, with the flames of
Divine wrath flashing about it, and ready every moment to singe it and burn it
asunder. . . .” Jonathan Edwards's ''Sinners in the Hands of
an Angry God'' Sermon, 1741.
Jonathan Edwards, Works (Andover, Mass.: Allen, Morrill &
Wardwell, 1842), vol. 2, pp. 10-11.
Document J
