Deck 4: The Maturing of Colonial Society

Question 1

Most immigrants to colonial America after 1713 were

A) skilled craftsmen and shopkeepers.
B) sons of wealthy gentry.
C) university-trained Puritans.
D) slaves and indentured servants.

Answer 1

slaves and indentured servants.

Question 2

All of the following were true about slave marriages and family life EXCEPT:

A) Slave marriages were rarely secure.
B) One spouse was often sold, resulting in the breakup of the marriage.
C) Few slaves experienced stable family lives.
D) Slaves easily forgot about loved ones lost to sale.

Answer 2

Slaves easily forgot about loved ones lost to sale.

Question 3

As a result of extensive contact with European colonizers during the early eighteenth century, Native American tribes of the interior

A) altered patterns of tribal life and leadership.
B) adopted the white man's culture and religion.
C) benefited from commercial trade and development.
D) abandoned hunting for subsistence agriculture.

Answer 3

altered patterns of tribal life and leadership.

Question 4

It was noted as early as the 1750s that the gap in population between England and her colonies was closing rapidly.

Question 5

A shipboard mortality rate of 15 percent in the colonial era made it the most unhealthiest of all times to seek American shores.

Question 6

Eighteenth-century indentured servants possessed many opportunities for economic advancement.

Question 7

The population of the colonies had surpassed one million people by 1750, most of whom had spread deep into the interior beyond the Appalachian Mountains.

Question 8

The spiritual motives of the Spanish missionaries resulted in a greater appreciation and respect for tribal peoples than in other North American colonial empires.

Question 9

The switch from subsistence to commercial hunting drew Native Americans into a market economy in which their trading partners gradually became trading masters.

Question 10

A growing transatlantic trade undermined the entrepreneurial ethos in America and increased concern for the public welfare.

Question 11

As cities grew, new values took hold in British North America.

Question 12

Food shortages were frequent occurrences in British North America.

Question 13

During the Age of Reason, European thinkers discarded Calvinism.

Question 14

John Locke, an Enlightenment thinker, wrote Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689).

Question 15

In the 1750s, the concept that slavery violated the Enlightenment's emphasis on human equality began to grow.

Question 16

By 1744 the Great Awakening was increasing in fervor in New England.

Question 17

The largest number of eighteenth-century European immigrants to colonial America were the Protestant ________.

Question 18

A system of small forts, trading posts, and agricultural villages throughout the central area of North America was established in the early eighteenth century by the ________.

Question 19

Benjamin Franklin's popular work, ________, next to the Bible, was the most widely read book in the colonies, containing quips, adages, and homespun philosophy.

Question 20

Eliza Lucas Pinckney, a wealthy South Carolina planter's wife, experimented successfully in the 1740s with the cultivation of ________, a plant from which a blue dye could be extracted for use in textiles.

Question 21

During the latter part of the seventeenth century, King Louis XIV attempted to make ________ the most powerful nation in Europe and to expand its empire in the New World.

Question 22

In Massachusetts and ________, the Great Awakening split congregations into Old Lights and New Lights.

Question 23

Between 1746 and 1769, six new ________ were created in British North America.

Question 24

The colonial assemblies were modeled after the House of ________ in England.

Question 25

Popular ________ in British North America seldom faced effective police power.

Question 26

In the early eighteenth century, ________ government came to New Jersey, North Carolina, and South Carolina.

Question 27

By 1763 there were 23 ________ circulating in the colonies.

Question 28

The power of the colonial press was tested in 1733 by the _________ case.