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Which colony was intended as a haven for Catholics in the seventeenth century? |
Maryland |
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Why was France able to hold onto its vast North American domain against Spanish and English expansion? |
They maintained stable relations with the Native Americans. |
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Why did Puritans decide they needed to leave Great Britain? |
Charles I ended his predecessor’s practice of tolerating Puritans |
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Which statement concerning those accused of witchcraft in the Salem trials is true? |
They included both low-status individuals and prominent citizens. |
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What became South Carolina’s staple crop in the 1600s |
Rice |
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Besides Great Britain, France, and Spain, what other countries established colonies in North America in the 1600s? |
Sweden and the Netherlands |
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What was the main purpose of France’s North American empire? |
to provide furs and agricultural surpluses for the West Indies and timber for the French navy. |
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Who dissented from the Puritans and followed Roger Williams to Rhode Island? |
Anne Hutchinson |
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What happened to tobacco prices around 1660? |
They plunged below the break even point for what was needed for a family to survive. |
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What did Governor John Winthrop of Massachusetts Bay colony advocate? |
He supported distinct roles for the different classes |
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Why was Harvard College founded? |
to train ministers. |
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Which statement accurately describes eighteenth-century European immigrants to the British North American colonies? |
They included large numbers of Irish and Germans and declining proportions of English. |
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What was the environmental impact of the rapid expansion of English settlement east of the Appalachians? |
Deforestation |
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What did Deists argue? |
they believed in a God who had created a perfect universe and then allowed it to operate according to natural laws. |
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How was eighteenth-century colonial settlement affected by the Native American populations? |
Through the depopulation and dislocation of Native Americans, European colonial settlements were able to expand rapidly. |
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Why did Great Britain become more powerful in North America than either France or Spain in the first half of the 18th century? |
Great Britain’s population in North America more than quadrupled. |
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Which of the following correctly suggests the conditions of landownership among farm families in well-settled areas? |
The great majority of landowners could not provide their children with land when they married. |
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Which of the following was not a typical condition in eighteenth-century American cities? |
Declining population because of out-migration to regions beyond the mountains where land was available |
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Which statement does not accurately describe George Whitefield? |
He challenged the movement of Protestantism away from its roots in the teachings of Martin Luther. |
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What happened as a result of the Stono Rebellion? |
The South Carolina legislature established a harsh new code to keep slaves under constant surveillance and ensure that masters disciplined their slaves. |
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What did the Navigation Acts do? |
They required most colonial trade to go through England and be transported on English ships. |
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Who limited towns to a single annual meeting each year, enforced the Navigation Acts, and suppressed the colonial legislature in Massachusetts? |
Edmund Andros |
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What did most eighteenth-century American intellectuals think about science? |
They believed that science explained the laws of nature. |
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What was the typical qualification for holding office in eighteenth-century English colonies, outside of New England? |
Significant property ownership |
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What was the Great Awakening? |
It was a revival movement that emphasized the sinfulness of human beings and the need for immediate repentance. |
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Why was John Peter Zenger’s acquittal significant? |
It helped set the precedent that the jury could decide what was libel or not and established truth as a defense against a charge of libel. |
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How did William Pitt plan to encourage the Americans to assume the military burden in the Seven Years’ War in America? |
He promised that if the colonies raised the necessary men, Parliament would bear the financial burden. |
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What did the 1773 the Tea Act do? |
It eliminated all remaining import duties on tea and, as a result, significantly lowered the price of tea in the colonies. |
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What did Virginia governor Lord Dunmore promise slaves in 1775? |
If they were able-bodied and helped in restoring royal authority they would be granted freedom. |
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Which of the following men was a British prime minister during the reign of George III? |
Correct! Lord Frederick North |
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Which of the following statements represents the conception most American colonists held of parliamentary power in the 1760s? |
Parliament had limited powers of legislation that included authority to regulate imperial trade but excluded the authority to tax the colonists. |
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What were the greatest killers in Virginia during the 1600s? |
Epidemic diseases like typhoid fever and malaria |
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Which of the following reduced the Native American population in New England? |
all of these choices |
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Why was the Act for Religious Toleration of 1649 significant? |
It protected Catholics in Maryland from religious persecution. |
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What of the following was not a characteristic of the government in Pennsylvania under William Penn? |
Discrimination against non-Quakers |
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Which of the following facts characterized life in the Chesapeake region in the early seventeenth century? |
Women had a somewhat greater status because of their scarcity. |
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What qualification allowed a man to vote for governor and members of the General Court in seventeenth-century Massachusetts? |
church membership |
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New Light preachers like Gilbert Tennent shook the foundations of the social order by sowing seeds of doubt about |
ministers |
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What was mercantilism? |
a government policy aimed at achieving national economic self-sufficiency |
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Who founded the first colony in Georgia? |
James Oglethorpe |
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Which branch of government was most likely to defend the interests of colonists? |
The lower house of the legislature |
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Which of the following colonies remained outside the Dominion of New England? |
Maine |
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What did the Townshend Duties do? |
They set moderate tax rates that did not price goods out of the colonial market. |
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Which of the following was a result of the Pequot War? |
Connecticut seized Pequot land and gave it to its colonists. |
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Which statement accurately describes the role of religion in the Chesapeake region in the seventeenth century? |
It confronted a chronic shortage of clergymen. |
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Who bore the bloodiest fighting in the course of King William’s War? |
The Iroquois |
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How did planters in the French West Indies defy their government’s mercantilist policies? |
They refined their own sugar rather than sending it directly to France. |
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What was one of the results of King George’s War? |
The English captured and then returned the French fort that guarded the entrance to the St. Lawrence River. |
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What did the English do after 1660? |
They renewed efforts to expand and control colonial trade. |
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Who wrote Essay Concerning Human Understanding |
John Locke |
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Who led the group in Parliament who opposed the domestic and foreign policies of George III? |
John Wilkes |
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How did the colonists attempt to reconcile with England in 1775? |
They presented the Olive Branch Petition to King George III to show their concerns. |
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Which statement accurately describes the county court system in Virginia? |
all of these choices |
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How did Bacon’s Rebellion transform labor systems in Virginia? |
it influenced planters to abandon indentured servants in favor of slaves. |
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Why did class tensions in the Chesapeake region lessen after 1690? |
Poor whites shared a common interest with upper-class whites in maintaining social control over blacks. |
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Why did Charles I restore the Virginia assembly? |
He needed tobacco revenues and the support of Virginia’s planters. |
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What was the main reason the population of the British North American colonies increased in the eighteenth century? |
settlers had a big birth rate |
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Which of the following statements about Georgia is not correct? |
It was populated by large numbers of shiftless debtors who otherwise would have had to rot in jail. |
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