Deck 4: English Colonies in an Age of Empire 1660s-1763

Question 1

George Washington's family plantation was located in:

A) Monticello.
B) Mount Vernon.
C) Richmond.
D) Jamestown.

Answer 1

Mount Vernon.

Question 2

Martha Washington's last name prior to marrying George was:

A) Todd.
B) Buchanan.
C) Custis.
D) Jefferson.

Answer 2

Custis.

Question 3

In the 1700s, the most advanced economic power in Europe was:

A) England.
B) France.
C) Spain.
D) Holland.

Answer 3

England.

Question 4

England's economic system between 1651 and 1733 could best be described as:

A) feudal.
B) mercantilist.
C) socialist.
D) physiocratic.

Question 5

The Navigation Act of 1651 required that all:

A) trade carried out in the English empire must be conducted in English ships.
B) maps be taxed at a high rate.
C) explorers register their voyages with Parliament.
D) none of the above

Question 6

In the eighteenth century, which of the following had the highest export share of manufactured products?

A) Africa
B) West Indies
C) British mainland colonies
D) Great Britain

Question 7

Which product was the most important colonial export?

A) sugar
B) rice
C) tobacco
D) cotton

Question 8

Which region was the predominant exporter of sugar?

A) British West Indies
B) New England
C) Lower South
D) Middle colonies

Question 9

Which region was the predominant exporter of fish?

A) Chesapeake region
B) New England
C) Lower South
D) Middle colonies

Question 10

Which region was the predominant exporter of tobacco?

A) Chesapeake region
B) New England
C) British West Indies
D) Middle colonies

Question 11

By the middle of the eighteenth century, nearly one-half of New England's exports went to:

A) Spanish America
B) the Lower South
C) the West Indies
D) Scotland

Question 12

When a combination of poor harvests and warfare in Europe created demand, many colonial farmers diversified by producing this crop:

A) cotton.
B) corn.
C) indigo.
D) wheat.

Question 13

Which colonial region dominated transatlantic shipping?

A) the Carolinas
B) the West Indies
C) New England
D) New York

Question 14

Merchants brought sugar byproducts back to New England to be distilled into:

A) schnapps.
B) vodka.
C) gin.
D) rum.

Question 15

English merchants ________ credit to colonists.

A) generously extended
B) were reluctant to extend
C) were barred by law from extending
D) none of the above

Question 16

By 1770, the largest British provincial town was:

A) New York.
B) Boston.
C) Charleston.
D) Philadelphia.

Question 17

The University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia was originally chartered as:

A) Pennsylvania State University.
B) Benjamin Franklin University.
C) The College of Philadelphia.
D) Pennsylvania College.

Question 18

Colonial manufacturing took place primarily in:

A) artisans' workshops.
B) factories.
C) guilds.
D) sweatshops.

Question 19

Once an apprentice completed his training, he became a:

A) senior apprentice.
B) journeyman.
C) master.
D) unionist.

Question 20

During the eighteenth century, the gap between the rich and poor in the colonies:

A) narrowed.
B) widened, then narrowed.
C) widened.
D) remained constant.

Question 21

Eighteenth-century America imported ______ English manufactured goods than it did previously.

A) more (on a per capita basis)
B) fewer (on a per capita basis)
C) fewer (total)
D) about the same number of (on a per capita basis)

Question 22

The eighteenth-century Governor's Palace of Virginia was located in:

A) Williamsburg.
B) Jamestown.
C) Richmond.
D) Norfolk.

Question 23

Courtesy books:

A) contained the rules of polite behavior.
B) were used as advertisements for merchants who sold wares to the colonial elite.
C) were left as "calling cards" by wealthy colonial women when they went visiting.
D) none of the above

Question 24

Literacy rates among eighteenth-century colonists were:

A) high relative to the rest of the world.
B) low relative to the rest of the world.
C) lower than those witnessed during the seventeenth century.
D) declining among women.

Question 25

Thinkers during the Age of Enlightenment stressed:

A) religious revelation.
B) the power of human reason.
C) faith in God.
D) the limits of human reason.

Question 26

An example of an Enlightenment thinker popular among colonists is:

A) Aristotle.
B) Aquinas.
C) Locke.
D) Augustine.

Question 27

Of the following, the man who made the greatest scientific contributions was:

A) Cotton Mather.
B) William Byrd.
C) John Locke.
D) Benjamin Franklin.

Question 28

Colonists who could read were most likely to read:

A) philosophical treatises.
B) English magazines.
C) courtesy books.
D) the Bible.

Question 29

All of the following established the Puritan religion as the official religion EXCEPT:

A) Rhode Island.
B) Connecticut.
C) New Hampshire.
D) Massachusetts.

Question 30

Most Congregationalist ministers were trained at:

A) The University of Pennsylvania.
B) The College of William and Mary.
C) Princeton University.
D) Harvard University.

Question 31

The Halfway Covenant allowed whom to be baptized?

A) Indians
B) the children of those who had been baptized but had not experienced conversion
C) the children of those who had never been baptized themselves
D) Catholics

Question 32

A 1691 royal charter granted "liberty of conscience" to:

A) all Christians.
B) people of all faiths.
C) all Protestants.
D) Anglicans.

Question 33

Which established church dominated the Middle Colonies?

A) Anglican
B) Puritan
C) Quaker
D) none of the above

Question 34

The Great Awakening referred to a renewed interest in:

A) religion and spirituality.
B) self-government.
C) classical thought.
D) Enlightenment thought.

Question 35

William Tennent, Sr. led a faction of what religious group?

A) Quakers
B) Presbyterians
C) Anglicans
D) Puritans

Question 36

George Whitefield belonged to the clergy of which religion?

A) the Anglican religion
B) the Puritan religion
C) the Quaker religion
D) the Catholic religion

Question 37

Jonathan Edwards' preaching style could be best described as:

A) optimistic.
B) comforting.
C) fire and brimstone.
D) welcoming of all.

Question 38

Those converted in religious revivals were called:

A) Newcomers.
B) New Lights.
C) Old Lights.
D) Heretics.

Question 39

What was one of the political legacies of the Great Awakening?

A) deference to religious authorities on moral matters
B) an emphasis on individual choice
C) a focus on classical political philosophy
D) none of the above

Question 40

In the eighteenth century, the English government took _______ direct interest in colonial affairs.

A) less (relative to the seventeenth century)
B) more (relative to the seventeenth century)
C) no
D) the same (relative to the seventeenth century)

Question 41

What was the name of the body formed in 1675 to oversee colonial affairs?

A) Colonial Council
B) Colonial Trade Organization
C) Lords of America
D) Lords of Trade

Question 42

Who succeeded Charles II to the English throne?

A) George III
B) James II
C) Elizabeth I
D) Charles III

Question 43

Maine was originally part of which colony?

A) New Hampshire
B) Connecticut
C) Massachusetts
D) Vermont

Question 44

William of Orange took over the throne of England after the:

A) Glorious Revolution.
B) Great Revolution.
C) Bloodless Revolution.
D) Battle of Hastings.

Question 45

Who did King James put into power to govern the Dominion of New England?

A) William of Orange
B) Edmund Andros
C) Mary, his daughter
D) Jacob Leisler

Question 46

After he was too slow to relinquish command to the newly arrived governor of New York in 1691, this man was arrested for treason and executed.

A) William of Orange
B) Jacob Leisler
C) Edmund Andros
D) William Dummer

Question 47

The Bill of Rights passed by the British Parliament in 1689 declared that:

A) future monarchs were to be bound by the rule of law.
B) colonists had the same rights as those living in England.
C) all subjects retained the freedom of religion.
D) none of the above

Question 48

Landholding in America was ________ than in England.

A) more concentrated
B) more widespread
C) less widespread
D) more concentrated in the hands of an aristocracy

Question 49

Colonial governments could be best described as involving:

A) virtual representation.
B) actual representation.
C) direct representation.
D) indirect representation.

Question 50

Governors exercised ________ power over colonial assemblies than the King did over Parliament.

A) less
B) more
C) a similar amount of
D) less indirect

Question 51

During the first half of the eighteenth century, England's holdings in America:

A) grew.
B) shrank.
C) remained constant.
D) disappeared.

Question 52

Of the following, which group was not relied on by Spain and France to stake their claims to American territory?

A) missionaries
B) Native Americans allies
C) soldiers
D) traders

Question 53

Which region's population had the highest proportion of English settlers in 1760?

A) New England
B) the Middle Colonies
C) Chesapeake
D) the Lower South

Question 54

When colonists settled Pennsylvania's Susquehanna Valley, they displaced:

A) Cherokee Indians.
B) Oneida Indians.
C) Delaware Indians.
D) Catawba Indians.

Question 55

Spanish traders were officially prohibited from giving _____ to Indians.

A) gold
B) tobacco
C) guns
D) alcohol

Question 56

In the early eighteenth century, this group controlled California and Texas.

A) the French
B) the Spanish
C) the English
D) the Portuguese

Question 57

The chapel San Antonio de Valero later came to be known as:

A) the Alamo.
B) San Francisco.
C) the Presidio.
D) San Diego.

Question 58

In the 1760s, the Spanish feared that ________ might gain a foothold in California.

A) Russia
B) Great Britain
C) France
D) the Dutch

Question 59

Which country established fur trading posts in Alaska by the 1760s?

A) France
B) Russia
C) England
D) Holland

Question 60

England fought which country in the War of the League of Augsburg?

A) Holland
B) Germany
C) France
D) Spain

Question 61

A funded debt is a debt:

A) whose entire principal is repaid with interest.
B) where only principal is repaid.
C) whose interest only is paid.
D) assumed by a third party.

Question 62

Which of the following wars brought the most decisive gains for Britain?

A) King William's War
B) King George's War
C) Queen Anne's War
D) French and Indian War

Question 63

This strain of thought stressed the threats that a standing army and powerful state posed to personal liberty.

A) Iroquois League
B) Enlightenment
C) "Real Whig" ideology
D) Grand Settlement

Question 64

In the Grand Settlement of 1701, the Iroquois pledged neutrality with respect to England and:

A) Holland.
B) France.
C) Spain.
D) Portugal.

Question 65

King George's War was known in Europe as _______.

A) The War of Austrian Succession
B) The Seven Years' War
C) The War of Spanish Succession
D) King William's War

Question 66

Who put forth the Albany Plan of Union?

A) George Washington
B) Benjamin Franklin
C) Thomas Jefferson
D) James Madison

Question 67

Which British general led an attack against Fort Duquesne?

A) Braddock
B) Washington
C) Townshend
D) Worthington

Question 68

The French and Indian War:

A) started in North America.
B) ended in 1748.
C) left France strengthened relative to Britain.
D) had few consequences for the American colonies.

Question 69

In the French and Indian War, the French had initial successes using:

A) standard European battlefield tactics.
B) guerrilla tactics.
C) diplomacy with the British.
D) its powerful navy to keep British ships out of the North Atlantic.

Question 70

In the 1763 Treaty of Paris, France retained:

A) its holdings around the Great Lakes.
B) Quebec.
C) its West Indian possessions.
D) much territory east of the Mississippi River.

Question 71

Which British Secretary of State directed the country's war effort from 1757 to 1761?

A) Braddock
B) Townshend
C) Pitt
D) Worthington

Question 72

Which of the following happened first?

A) James II becomes king of England
B) Glorious Revolution
C) Queen Anne's War
D) King George's War

Question 73

Which of the following happened last?

A) Queen Anne's War
B) King William's War
C) Charles II becomes king of England
D) Great Awakening begins

Question 74

In what ways did Enlightenment thinking break down the importance of organized religion?

Question 75

How did the Great Awakening affect people's political views?

Question 76

How did political representation differ in the colonies and in England?

Question 77

Describe the relationship backcountry settlers had with the Indians.

Question 78

Describe the importance of shipping to the New England economy.

Question 79

Describe the role of taxation in the development of colonial notions of personal liberties.

Question 80

Analyze the role British styles and culture played for colonial elites and commoners.