Deck 4: Provincial America and the Struggle for a Continent

Question 1

The author of A Faithful Narrative of the Surprising Work of God was

A) Solomon Stoddard.
B) John Locke.
C) Benjamin Franklin.
D) Jonathan Edwards.
E) Squanto.

Answer 1

Jonathan Edwards.

Question 2

The region of least economic growth during the eighteenth century was

A) the mid-Atlantic colonies.
B) New England.
C) Chesapeake.
D) the Deep South.
E) New York.

Answer 2

New England.

Question 3

Colonists usually viewed men who held positions of power as

A) trustworthy, honest civil servants.
B) lazy elites who wouldn't work at respectable jobs.
C) God's chosen representatives.
D) potentially corrupt officials who could undermine the liberty of the people.
E) having no significance to their lives.

Answer 3

potentially corrupt officials who could undermine the liberty of the people.

Question 4

The Scots-Irish in South Carolina were

A) Catholics who moved from England to Scotland and then to North America.
B) clannish, violent, heavy-drinking Indian-haters who dominated the back country.
C) Quakers who set up Protestant missions to Christianize the Indians.
D) the best educated and most dignified of the Anglican immigrants in the Middle Colonies.
E) the governing elite.

Question 5

When the British fought the Spanish and French in the era 1740 to 1763, most slaves and eastern land Indians

A) took no sides.
B) sympathized with Spain and France.
C) allied with the English.
D) were taken as hostages by the English.
E) united against all whites.

Question 6

Which of the following was not a major southern cash crop in the early 1700s?

A) cotton
B) tobacco
C) indigo
D) wheat
E) rice

Question 7

By 1750, the richest men in British North America were

A) South Carolina rice planters.
B) New England merchants.
C) Virginia tobacco planters.
D) New York landlords.
E) the King's tax collectors.

Question 8

Benjamin Franklin's profession was as a

A) lawyer.
B) doctor.
C) printer.
D) farmer.
E) baker.

Question 9

The Great Awakening of the 1740s refers to

A) a massive religious revival.
B) the beginning of a colonial revolt with Great Britain.
C) the British attempt to implement imperial controls.
D) the spread of enlightenment ideals.
E) the introduction of the printing press in America.

Question 10

In regard to slavery, the government of Spanish Florida

A) participated in and profited from the international slave trade.
B) prohibited Africans, free or slave, from entering the colony.
C) offered freedom and protection to runaway slaves from the English colonies.
D) never established an official policy.
E) executed any slave found in its territory.

Question 11

The religious message of the Great Awakening can best be described as the

A) rejection of predestination.
B) belief that good works were the key to salvation.
C) idea that a conversion experience was essential to salvation.
D) conviction that the clergy was most responsible for a person's salvation.
E) belief in the essential goodness of man.

Question 12

The religious revivals of the 1740s through 1770s

A) led to a decline in the number of female church members.
B) almost destroyed the Freemasons.
C) united all the major colonial churches into one interdenominational organization.
D) increased the size and strength of the Baptist, Methodist, and Presbyterian churches.
E) converted most of the Indians in the colonies.

Question 13

George Whitefield

A) refused to visit England, claiming it was beyond redemption.
B) was an English Anglican minister whose dramatic sermons attracted crowds of thousands.
C) wrote the influential religious tract, the Book of Common Prayer.
D) led major religious dissenting factions in the Middle Colonies.
E) carried out a major slave rebellion.

Question 14

Only percent of the volunteers in the War of Jenkins's Ear returned home.

A) 2
B) 10
C) 15
D) 25
E) 40

Question 15

By the 1720s, most colonial governments

A) included an appointed governor, a council, and an elected assembly.
B) had a hereditary governor's office.
C) had lost legislative independence and were virtually powerless.
D) were corrupt, inefficient, and undemocratic.
E) had become democratic in their operation.

Question 16

The most popular revivalist of the Great Awakening was

A) Gilbert Tennent.
B) George Whitefield.
C) James Davenport.
D) Hugh Bryan.
E) John Winthrop.

Question 17

Political factions were most likely to develop in the

A) northern colonies.
B) Mid-Atlantic colonies.
C) upper South colonies.
D) lower South colonies.
E) Caribbean colonies.

Question 18

Colonial governors dealt with the assemblies by

A) using the army to enforce royal prerogatives.
B) appealing to church leaders to mediate disputes.
C) using the courts to control their power.
D) ignoring their complaints.
E) relying on flattery, patronage, and persuasion.

Question 19

The Molasses Act (1733)

A) forbade the importation of molasses into the colonies.
B) placed a prohibitive duty on foreign molasses.
C) forbade the production of molasses in the colonies.
D) decreed that all molasses must go to the mother country.
E) attempted to abolish the manufacture of rum.

Question 20

"Fiat money" issued in eighteenth-century America was backed by

A) gold.
B) silver.
C) hard specie.
D) government bonds.
E) the government's promise to accept it in payment of taxes.

Question 21

Eliza Lucas Pinckney was

A) a religious leader.
B) responsible for introducing indigo to South Carolina.
C) adopted by Native Americans.
D) killed by Native Americans.
E) the inventor of the cotton gin.

Question 22

After 1720, which of the following surpassed England in terms of voluntary migrants to America?

A) Dutch
B) Chinese
C) Germans
D) Belgian
E) Scottish

Question 23

Zabdiel Boylston

A) was a famous Indian fighter.
B) discovered that Africans were immune to malaria.
C) saved Boston from a smallpox epidemic.
D) gained fame as a preacher during the Great Awakening.
E) put down the Stono slave rebellion.

Question 24

The largest slave revolt in the history of the thirteen colonies was

A) the Stono Rebellion.
B) Bacon's Rebellion.
C) Leisler's Rebellion.
D) the War of Jenkins's Ear.
E) Turner's Rebellion.

Question 25

The most prosperous family farms in colonial America were found in

A) the Chesapeake.
B) the Mid-Atlantic colonies.
C) New England.
D) the lower South.
E) the frontier west of the Adirondack mountains.

Question 26

The War for North America refers to which of the following?

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

Question 27

In 1745, an ill-equipped colonial army successfully captured the Canadian fortress city of

A) Quebec.
B) Toronto.
C) Montreal.
D) Louisbourg.
E) Windsor.

Question 28

Before the Revolution, colonial physicians embraced radical politics.

A) no
B) few
C) many
D) most
E) all

Question 29

George Whitefield was embraced by all of the following except

A) Congregationalists.
B) Baptists.
C) Presbyterians.
D) Anglicans.
E) none of these choices

Question 30

All of the following are true of slavery in the Old South except

A) 90% of slaves went to the Old South.
B) More slaves went to Maryland than South Carolina.
C) The majority of slaves arrived from Africa on overcrowded ships.
D) Slaves did most of the manual labor.
E) In South Carolina, slaves outnumbered the rest of the population.

Question 31

Legally, in colonial America, women were considered equal to men.

Question 32

In the Peace of Paris (1763) that ended the French and Indian War, Britain

A) lost Florida to France.
B) acquired all of North America east of the Mississippi except for New Orleans.
C) gave Martinique, Guadalupe, and Cuba to Spain.
D) withdrew from Canada.
E) surrendered Georgia to Spain.

Question 33

The Shepherd's Tent in New London to train awakened preachers was founded by

A) George Whitefield.
B) James Davenport.
C) Gilbert Tennent.
D) Hugh Bryan.
E) John Winthrop.

Question 34

Until independence, the printing capital of North America was

A) New York.
B) Albany.
C) Philadelphia.
D) Baltimore.
E) Boston

Question 35

Apart from Charleston, the largest concentration of slaves in North America was in

A) Richmond.
B) Baltimore.
C) New Orleans.
D) New York City.
E) Atlanta.

Question 36

For most of the Seven Years' War, Spain

A) sided with England.
B) sided with France.
C) alternated between England and France.
D) remained completely neutral and uninvolved.
E) sided with the Indians.

Question 37

The War of Jenkins's Ear was fought between the

A) British and the Prussians.
B) British and the Spanish.
C) Spanish and the French.
D) British and the Indians.
E) Dutch and the Indians.

Question 38

The rise of which profession helped to spread the Enlightenment?

A) merchants
B) lawyers
C) physicians
D) artisans
E) tailors

Question 39

During the French and Indian War, British and American troops differed in that

A) the British were disciplined professionals; the Americans were undisciplined volunteers.
B) the British followed orders without question; the Americans only obeyed orders they considered reasonable.
C) the British enlisted for long terms of service; the Americans enlisted for one campaign.
D) the British subjected soldiers to harsh discipline; the Americans thought that harsh discipline violated the terms of their enlistment.
E) all of these choices

Question 40

In the 1759 siege of Quebec, British General was killed along with his French counterpart, General Montcalm.

A) Braddock
B) Wolfe
C) Amherst
D) Abercrombie
E) Winthrop

Question 41

The "country" constitutions of the southern colonies relied on elaborate royal patronage to achieve political stability.

Question 42

Many Chesapeake planters turned to wheat as a second crop.

Question 43

As late as 1750, New Jersey had as many settlers as New York, but fewer slaves.

Question 44

During the course of the eighteenth century, those who held high political office increasingly came from the lower social status.

Question 45

Most of the settlers of Georgia shared the proprietors' dislike of slavery and alcohol.

Question 46

The French did not have the institution of slavery in their North American colonies.

Question 47

The founder of the Georgia colony was John Locke.

Question 48

The Mid-Atlantic colonies were pluralistic societies from the start.

Question 49

George Washington commanded the Virginia contingent during the defeat of General Braddock's forces in western Pennsylvania.

Question 50

William Pitt, who became Britain's war minister in 1757, believed that coercion was the only way to deal with the colonies.

Question 51

A woman's dowry usually included cash and goods.

Question 52

Most of the 230,000 voluntary immigrants to British North America between 1730 and 1775 settled in New England.

Question 53

Africans and African Americans who genetically inherit sickle cell anemia have some immunity to malaria.

Question 54

The "court" constitutions of the northern colonies cultivated a politic of harmony to achieve political stability.

Question 55

The task system was practiced by Carolina rice planters.

Question 56

New Englanders used French West Indian molasses to make rum.

Question 57

In 1754, George Washington ordered the attack that started the French and Indian War.

Question 58

Benjamin Franklin founded the first newspaper in British America.

Question 59

In 1775, Boston was the largest city in the colonies.

Question 60

More settlers owned books and read outside of New England than in it.

Question 61

New Englanders constructed more ships than all of the other colonies combined.

Question 62

Until 1700, many Chesapeake widows inherited all of their husbands' property and administered their own estates.

Question 63

By 1750, tobacco and rice planters had many contacts with each other and thought of themselves as "southerners."

Question 64

Benjamin Franklin's "Snake Cartoon" was meant to stress unity among the colonies during the French and Indian War.

Question 65

Baptists and Methodists expected their ministers to attend college.

Question 66

In his day, Benjamin Franklin's greatest fame came from his work in founding the Library Company of Philadelphia.

Question 67

In the eastern woodlands, most Indians identified with France, not England, as the only ally committed to their survival and independence.

Question 68

Land prices in Georgia were the highest in North America.

Question 69

The Great Awakening created several new colleges.

Question 70

In the early eighteenth century, British colonists considered themselves the freest people on earth.

Question 71

The Cherokee were the only Native Americans to openly welcome the British settlers into the backcountry.

Question 72

The Molasses Act of 1733 virtually ended New England's molasses trade with the French West Indies.

Question 73

After 1720, Ireland and Germany replaced England as the main source of free immigrants.

Question 74

In seventeenth-century America, a majority of settlers owned books.

Question 75

After 1700, the European double standard that punished women for their sexual indiscretions while tolerating male offenses became the norm in New England.

Question 76

The leading industry of New England was_____________.

Question 77

After 1750, Oxford and Cambridge Universities continued to meet the colonies' need for Anglican churchmen.

Question 78

The possession of a(n)_____________ gave Africans real protection against malaria.

Question 79

Through the French and Indian War, France and England sought to assert their authority over Indian allies and white colonists.

Question 80

Virginia and New Jersey were not invited to attend the 1754 Albany Congress.