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104 PERIOD 2 Colonial America amid Global Change: 1607–1754

Meanwhile, in the rural countryside, where the vast majority of colonial Ameri-
cans lived, families remained the central unit of economic organization. Yet even farms
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were affected by the transatlantic circulation of goods and people. In areas along the
Atlantic coast, rural families were drawn into commercial networks in a variety of
ways. Towns and cities needed large supplies of vegetables, meat, butter, barley, wheat,
and yarn. Farm families sold these goods to residents and bought sugar, tea, and other
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imported items that diversified their diet. Few rural families purchased ornamental or
luxury items, but cloth or cheese bought in town saved hours of labor at home.
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■ What cultural changes did British North Americans experience in the
early 1700s?

AP ® Skills Workshop: Writing Historically

Responding to a Short-Answer Question with a Secondary Source

As you progress through this course, you will have many chances to practice differ-
ent historical thinking skills and reasoning processes both to convey your historical
knowledge and to make a compelling argument. Let’s look at a Short-Answer Question
(SAQ) that uses a single secondary source, in this case a map, and asks you to compare
elements of the map to make your claims, which you will support with evidence.
European Empires in
North America (1715–1750) James
Bay

Louisbourg
Quebec
MANDAN
NEW FRANCE
St. Lawrence R. ABENAKI
Lake Superior Montreal MAINE
(part of
William Henry
ANISHINAABEG Ft. Michilimackinac Lake Huron HURON Ft. MOHAWK N.H. MASS.) Ft.
Frontenac
Lake Michigan OTTAWA Niagara L. Ontario Ft. Orange CONN. Boston
Ft. No. 4
Ft.
Oswego
MASS.
HAUDENO-
Ft.
SAUNEE
NEW
SIOUX Detroit L. Erie YORK R.I.
FOX POTAWATOMI PENNSYLVANIA New York
Ft. WYANDOT Philadelphia NEW ATLANTIC
St. Joseph JERSEY
MIAMI DELAWARE LENNI- OCEAN
SHAWNEE LENAPE DELAWARE
ILLINOIS MARYLAND N
Missouri R.
Cahokia Ohio R. E
Ft. de Chartres Kaskaskia VIRGINIA W
S
OSAGE CHEROKEE CAROLINA 0 150 300 miles
NORTH
Mississippi R. SOUTH 0 150 300 kilometers
COMANCHE CREEK CAROLINA
CHICKASAW Charleston Approximate Areas of
LOUISIANA Ft. GEORGIA Effective Control
Ft. Rosalie Toulouse Ft. Frederica
CHOCTAW Ft. British
Natchitoches Pensacola St. George St. Augustine Spanish
(1698)
San Antonio CADDO Ft. French
(1718) New St. Francis French influence
San Juan Orleans British fort
(1718)
Bautista Ft. FLORIDA
(1700) Rio Grande St. Louis Spanish fort
French fort
Gulf of Mexico
Spanish missions,
1716–1717
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