Deck 4: Provincial America and the Struggle for a Continent

Question 1

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

Answer 1

cotton

Question 2

The right to vote among white males in colonial America was

A)unrestricted.
B)limited by property requirements.
C)open to all men over age 25.
D)determined by one's religion.
E)based on nationality.

Answer 2

limited by property requirements.

Question 3

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.

Answer 3

a massive religious revival.

Question 4

Georgia was founded originally as a refuge for

A)Catholics.
B)Quakers.
C)the poor.
D)the "criminally insane."
E)runaway slaves.

Question 5

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 6

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.

Question 7

Benjamin Franklin's profession was as a

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

Question 8

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 9

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 10

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 11

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.

Question 12

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 13

After about 1700,the status of women in New England

A)rose slowly.
B)rose sharply.
C)reached its highest point.
D)remained constant.
E)declined.

Question 14

By 1775,slightly over what percent of Chesapeake tobacco was reexported to Europe from Britain?

A)10 percent
B)25 percent
C)50 percent
D)75 percent
E)90 percent

Question 15

The population of North America doubled every ____ years during the 18ᵗʰ century.

A)10
B)25
C)50
D)75
E)100

Question 16

The Anglicanization of the role of colonial women was exemplified by

A)an expansion of women's property rights.
B)laws that allowed a wife to make legal contracts without the consent of her husband.
C)a double standard that punished women but not men for sexual offenses.
D)the dowry tradition which endowed women with land when they married.
E)reduction in the work load of most women.

Question 17

Under the task system,slaves were

A)organized into work gangs supervised by white slave drivers.
B)"taken to task" or beaten for the slightest infraction of the rules.
C)allowed to divide up work and choose which they tasks they wanted to do.
D)given specific jobs to do and allowed free time when they were completed.
E)allowed to change overseers if the work load became too heavy.

Question 18

"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 19

The wheat blast first appeared in what region during the 1660s?

A)Backcountry
B)Middle colonies
C)New England
D)Southern tobacco coast
E)Southern rice coast

Question 20

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 21

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 22

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 23

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 24

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 25

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 26

The Enlightenment

A)was a religious movement emphasizing strict adherence to biblical teachings.
B)rejected religious fanaticism in favor of rational knowledge.
C)discounted the writings of Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin as "too idealistic."
D)was an organization of scientists who experimented with electricity.
E)had minimal impact on England.

Question 27

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 28

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 29

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.

Question 30

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 31

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 32

During his lifetime,Benjamin Franklin was

A)virtually unknown outside of Boston.
B)most famous for his electrical experiments for which he received honorary degrees from Harvard,Yale,and other colleges.
C)the first president of Harvard University.
D)sent to prison for writing libelous articles about the governor of New York.
E)not well known until the American Revolution.

Question 33

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 34

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 35

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 36

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 37

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 38

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 39

Which of the following did not occur as a result of the French and Indian War?

A)France surrendered New Orleans to Britain.
B)Spain ceded Florida to Britain.
C)France gave all of Louisiana west of the Mississippi to Spain.
D)Britain returned Martinique to France.
E)France surrendered Canada to Britain.

Question 40

The Albany Congress refers to

A)the drafting of New York's colonial government.
B)the extra-legal group opposed to British policy.
C)the attempt to unite the British mainland colonies into a federation.
D)the proclamation drafted against France.
E)an organization to defend Canada against the British.

Question 41

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

Question 42

Before the Revolution,____ colonial physicians embraced radical politics.

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

Question 43

Benjamin Franklin founded the first newspaper in British America.

Question 44

The founder of the Georgia colony was John Locke.

Question 45

After 1700 almost no man would plead guilty in a New England colonial court to sexual offenses,except for making love to his wife before their wedding day.

Question 46

Before 1776,as many as 70,000 free immigrants to the Mid-Atlantic colonies were Germans.

Question 47

The immigrants saw ____ as their favored destination because the region's expanding economies offered many opportunities.

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

Question 48

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 49

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

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

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

Question 52

By the 1720s,every colony had an appointive governor except

A)Connecticut and Rhode Island.
B)Pennsylvania.
C)Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
D)Massachusetts and Connecticut.
E)South Carolina.

Question 53

George Whitefield was embraced by all of the following except

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

Question 54

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

Question 55

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 56

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

Question 57

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 58

The rise of which profession helped to spread the Enlightenment?

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

Question 59

Until independence,the printing capital of North America was

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

Question 60

All of the following British officers remained in America after the Seven Years' War and became generals in the American army during the Revolution except

A)Hugh Mercer.
B)Horatio Gates.
C)Arthur St.Clair.
D)Richard Montgomery.
E)James Wolfe.

Question 61

Baptists and Methodists expected their ministers to attend college.

Question 62

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

Question 63

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

Question 64

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

Question 65

Land prices in Georgia were the highest in North America.

Question 66

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

Question 67

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

Question 68

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

Question 69

The task system was practiced by Carolina rice planters.

Question 70

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

Question 71

Archbishop of Canterbury,John Tillotson,had a significant impact on tutors at Harvard College,including John Leverett,Jr.who went on to become president of Harvard in 1707.

Question 72

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

Question 73

Beginning in the 1720s,the South Carolina Gazette began to reprint political essays primarily aimed at religious bigotry and political and financial corruption.

Question 74

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

Question 75

A woman's dowry usually included cash and goods.

Question 76

Many Chesapeake planters turned to wheat as a second crop.

Question 77

In 1727,Thomas Jefferson founded a debating club that later became the American Philosophical Society.

Question 78

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

Question 79

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

Question 80

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