Deck 5: Colonial Society on the Eve of Revolution,1700-1775

Question 1

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Benjamin Franklin

Answer 1

Student answers will vary.

Question 2

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
old and new lights

Answer 2

Student answers will vary.

Question 3

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Molasses Act

Answer 3

Student answers will vary.

Question 4

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
rack-renting

Question 5

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
triangular trade

Question 6

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Benjamin West

Question 7

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Charles Wilson Peale

Question 8

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
John Singleton Copley

Question 9

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Michel-Guillaume de Crèvecoeur

Question 10

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Phillis Wheatley

Question 11

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Jonathan Edwards

Question 12

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
George Whitefield

Question 13

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Jacobus Arminius

Question 14

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
John Peter Zenger

Question 15

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Andrew Hamilton

Question 16

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Regulator movement

Question 17

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
John Trumbull

Question 18

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Anglicans

Question 19

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Paxton Boys

Question 20

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Great Awakening

Question 21

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
praying towns

Question 22

COMPLETION
Identify the customary eighteenth-century shipping routes for the following cargoes by reference number on the map.

____ Slaves

Question 23

All of the following are reasons the thirteen Atlantic seaboard colonies sought independence except

A) distinctive social structures.
B) distinctive economic structures.
C) distinctive political structures.
D) distinctive ethnic or racial structures.
E) the appearance of a recognizably American way of life.

Question 24

The population growth of the American colonies by 1775 is attributed mostly to

A) white immigration from Europe.
B) the natural fertility of Native Americans.
C) the importation of slaves from Africa.
D) the influx of immigrants from Latin America.
E) the natural fertility of all Americans.

Question 25

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Presbyterian

Question 26

COMPLETION
Identify the customary eighteenth-century shipping routes for the following cargoes by reference number on the map.

____ Timber and foodstuffs

Question 27

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
taverns

Question 28

COMPLETION
Identify the customary eighteenth-century shipping routes for the following cargoes by reference number on the map.

____ Sugar and molasses

Question 29

As a result of the rapid population growth in colonial America during the eighteenth century

A) a momentous shift occurred in the balance of power between the colonies and the mother country.
B) the British government was pleased that more workers would be available to fill an increasing need for laborers in Britain.
C) the need for slave labor declined.
D) the colonists became more dependent on Britain for the goods that they needed to survive.
E) the British government granted greater autonomy to colonial governments.

Question 30

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
jayle birds

Question 31

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Scots-Irish

Question 32

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
naval stores

Question 33

One feature common to all of the eventually rebellious colonies was their

A) relatively equal wealth.
B) economic organization.
C) similar social structures.
D) rapidly growing populations.
E) support of religious freedom.

Question 34

Identify the statement that is false.

A) In 1700, the Atlantic seaboard colonies contained fewer than 300,000 inhabitants.
B) In 1700, only about 20,000 inhabitants were blacks.
C) By 1775, the Atlantic seaboard colonies contained almost 2.5 million inhabitants.
D) By 1775, the black population rose to over 1 million.
E) White immigrants in 1775 made up about 400,000 of the inhabitants.

Question 35

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Congregational Church

Question 36

COMPLETION
Identify the customary eighteenth-century shipping routes for the following cargoes by reference number on the map.

____ Rum

Question 37

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Arminians

Question 38

COMPLETION
Identify the customary eighteenth-century shipping routes for the following cargoes by reference number on the map.

____ Tobacco,fish,lumber,and flour for British textiles

Question 39

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
almshouses

Question 40

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
heresies

Question 41

With regard to governmental authority,the Scots-Irish colonists

A) showed remarkable willingness to follow authority.
B) supported only Britain.
C) cherished no love for the British or any other government.
D) stated a preference for Catholic authority.
E) established good relations with local Indians.

Question 42

An armed march in Philadelphia in 1764,protesting the Quaker oligarchy's lenient policy toward the Indians was known as

A) Bacon's Rebellion.
B) March of the Paxton Boys.
C) Regulator Movement.
D) Shays' Rebellion.
E) Oligarchy Revolution.

Question 43

Colonial immigrants laid the foundations for a new multicultural American national identity by

A) merging their religious traditions with those of Native Americans
B) intermarrying with people from other ethnic groups.
C) pushing their settlements from the East Coast into the backcountry.
D) importing increasing numbers of slaves.
E) None of these

Question 44

Identify the statement that is false.

A) The population of the thirteen colonies, mainly Anglo-Saxon, was the least mixed to be found anywhere in the world.
B) The South, holding about 90 percent of the slaves, displayed its historic black-and-white racial composition.
C) New England, mostly staked out by the original Puritan migrants, showed the least ethnic diversity.
D) The Middle Colonies received the bulk of later white immigrants and boasted the most variety of peoples.
E) In 1775, outside of New England, about one-half the population was non-English.

Question 45

In 1760,fearful of heavy concentrations of resentful slaves,which colonial legislature unsuccessfully sought to pass legislation that would halt the further importation of slaves.?

A) South Carolina
B) North Carolina
C) Georgia
D) Virginia
E) Maryland

Question 46

In North Carolina,spearheaded by the Scotch-Irish,a small insurrection against eastern domination of the colony's affair was known as

A) Bacon's Rebellion.
B) March of the Paxton Boys.
C) Regulator Movement.
D) Shays' Rebellion.
E) Whiskey Rebellion.

Question 47

On the eve of the American Revolution,social and economic mobility in the colonies decreased for all of the following reasons except

A) earlier wars made Northern merchants rich and created a class of widows and orphans.
B) the supply of unclaimed land in New England began to diminish
C) farmers' sons and daughters were forced to hire out as wage laborers.
D) the average size of New England farms increased dramatically.
E) the gap between owners of large Southern plantations and small farms widened.

Question 48

By the end of the 1700s,what was the percentage of people living in rural areas of colonial America?

A) 25 percent
B) 40 percent
C) 60 percent
D) 75 percent
E) 90 percent

Question 49

The most honored profession in early colonial society was

A) medicine.
B) law.
C) the ministry.
D) farming.
E) the merchants.

Question 50

The average age of the American colonists in 1775 was

A) 30.
B) 27.
C) 25.
D) 20.
E) 16.

Question 51

By the mid-1700s,the number of poor people in the American colonies

A) became greater than in all of Europe.
B) had increased to the point of overpopulation.
C) had begun to decline from seventeenth-century levels.
D) remained tiny compared with the number in England.
E) was about one-third of the population.

Question 52

The population of the thirteen American colonies was

A) about evenly divided among Anglo-Saxons, French, Scots-Irish, and Germans.
B) perhaps the most diverse in the world, although it remained predominantly Anglo-Saxon.
C) overwhelmingly African.
D) the less diverse in the world.
E) None of these

Question 53

The most ethnically diverse region of colonial America was ____,whereas ____ was the least ethnically diverse.

A) New England, the South
B) the middle colonies, the South
C) the South, New England
D) the middle colonies, New England
E) the frontier regions, New England

Question 54

The South held about ____ percent of the slaves in the thirteen colonies of North America.

A) 100
B) 90
C) 80
D) 70
E) 50

Question 55

How did British authorities respond to efforts by colonial legislatures to restrict or halt the importation of slaves?

A) They applauded and supported these efforts.
B) British leaders vetoed such efforts.
C) They allowed only South Carolina's legislation to stand.
D) They viewed such colonial actions as morally callous.
E) The British refused to intervene and did nothing.

Question 56

By 1775,the ____ were the largest non-English ethnic group in colonial America.

A) Africans
B) Germans
C) West Indians
D) Scots-Irish
E) Irish

Question 57

By 1775,which of the following communities could not be considered a city in colonial America?

A) New York
B) Charlestown
C) Philadelphia
D) Boston
E) Baltimore

Question 58

The Scots-Irish can best be described as

A) pugnacious, lawless, and individualistic.
B) loyal to the British king.
C) people who did not like to move.
D) builders of sturdy homes and well-kept farms.
E) strong supporters of the Catholic Church.

Question 59

The riches created by the growing slave population in the American South

A) were distributed evenly among whites.
B) helped to narrow the gap between rich and poor.
C) created a serious problem with inflation.
D) were not distributed evenly among whites.
E) enabled poor whites to escape tenant farming.

Question 60

In contrast to the seventeenth century,by 1775,colonial Americans

A) had become more stratified into social classes.
B) had all but eliminated poverty.
C) found that it was easier for ordinary people to acquire land.
D) had nearly lost their fear of slave rebellion.
E) had few people who owned small farms.

Question 61

Which of the following was not considered to be a naval store?

A) Tar
B) Pitch
C) Rosin
D) Turpentine
E) Glass

Question 62

What proportion of the British merchant marine fleet was American built?

A) One-fourth
B) One-third
C) Two-thirds
D) Three-fifths
E) None

Question 63

As the Revolution approached,Presbyterian and Congregational ministers in general

A) remained neutral.
B) supported the Revolutionary cause.
C) sided with the Anglican clergymen.
D) opposed the idea of revolution.
E) split on the issue of independence.

Question 64

The triangular trade of the colonial American shipping industry

A) was not that profitable.
B) involved America, France, and England.
C) relied on the Spanish fleet for protection.
D) saw the Spanish gaining the largest profits.
E) involved the trading of rum for African slaves.

Question 65

Identify the statement that is false.

A) The triangular trade was infamously profitable and made up most of the colonial commerce.
B) A trader would leave New England with a cargo of rum and sail to the Gold Coast of Africa.
C) A trader would barter rum with African chiefs for captured African slaves.
D) A trader would travel to the West Indies with the African slaves for molasses.
E) A trader would travel to New England with the molasses, where it would be distilled into rum.

Question 66

The Molasses Act of 1733 was intended to

A) stimulate the colonies' triangle trade with Africa and the West Indies.
B) satisfy colonial demands for earning foreign exchange money.
C) inhibit colonial trade with the French West Indies.
D) increase the colonists' standard of living and protect the livelihood of colonial merchants.
E) require Americans to sell their molasses to British merchants.

Question 67

One of the surest avenues to speedy wealth in the American colonies was

A) commercial ventures.
B) a plantation.
C) fishing.
D) manufacturing.
E) selling slaves.

Question 68

By the early eighteenth century,religion in colonial America was

A) stronger than at any previous time.
B) holding steadfastly to the belief that spiritual conversion was essential for church membership.
C) moving away from clerical intellectualism.
D) less fervid than when the colonies were established.
E) becoming less tolerant.

Question 69

Transportation in colonial America was

A) surprisingly fast for the time.
B) safer by road than by any other means.
C) slow by any of the means available.
D) so poor that no mail service was established until the 1800s.
E) fast only on the waterways.

Question 70

In 1775,the ____ churches were the only two established (tax-supported)churches in colonial America.

A) Methodist and Anglican
B) Presbyterian and Congregational
C) Congregational and Anglican
D) Quaker and Catholic
E) Presbyterian and Anglican

Question 71

American colonists sought trade with countries other than Great Britain

A) in order to gain their independence.
B) mainly to anger the king.
C) to anger Parliament.
D) to help strengthen the French.
E) to make money to buy what they wanted in Britain.

Question 72

Match each denomination on the left with the region where it predominated.

A) A-2, B-3, C-l
B) A-2, B-1, C-3
C) A-1, B-3, C-2
D) A-3, B-2, C-1
E) A-3, B-1, C-2

Question 73

The least honored profession in early colonial society was

A) physician.
B) teacher.
C) minister.
D) farmer.
E) merchant.

Question 74

Colonial American taverns were all of the following except

A) frequented mainly by the lower class.
B) another cradle of democracy.
C) hotbeds of agitation for the Revolutionary movement.
D) important in crystallizing public opinion.
E) places providing amusements.

Question 75

Although manufacturing in the colonies was of only secondary importance,they did produce which of the following?

A) Rum
B) Beaver hats
C) Lumber
D) Iron
E) All of these

Question 76

By the eighteenth century,the various colonial regions had distinct economic identities; the northern colonies relied on ____,the Chesapeake colonies relied on ____,and the southern colonies relied on ____.

A) cattle and grain, tobacco, rice and indigo
B) furs and skins, tobacco, iron works
C) rice and indigo, lumber and timber, tobacco
D) shipbuilding, iron works, cattle and grain
E) cattle and grain, tobacco, fishing

Question 77

The leading industry in the American colonies was

A) fishing.
B) manufacturing.
C) commerce.
D) agriculture.
E) slave trading.

Question 78

English officials tried to establish the Church of England in as many colonies as possible because

A) they were concerned about the eternal souls of the colonists.
B) the church would act as a major prop for royal authority.
C) such an action would restore enthusiasm for religion.
D) the American colonists supported such a move.
E) such an action brought in more money to England.

Question 79

One feature of the American economy that strained the relationship between the colonies and Britain was the

A) British demand to halt the importation of slaves.
B) growing desire of Americans to trade with other nations in addition to Britain.
C) lack of any British regulations regarding trade with foreign nations.
D) British rejection of the Molasses Act.
E) the Americans' unwillingness to trade with the French West Indies.

Question 80

The most important manufacturing enterprise in colonial America in the eighteenth century was

A) iron making.
B) arms and munitions production.
C) lumbering.
D) rum distilling.
E) making clothes.