Exam 5: The Cultures of Colonial North America

What motivated Pennsylvania colonists to establish a tradition of religious tolerance?

Which of these was an important difference between the New York elite who owned land along the Hudson River and the wealthy proprietors of Pennsylvania?

Most American colonists followed European tradition in __________.

After 1661, the new attitude in England toward religion resulted in which change in Massachusetts?

Who were the "strolling poor" and what problems increased their numbers? How did the rising number of the poor impact colonial society?

Why was rice farming only undertaken by men of considerable means?

Which of these was the largest and most prosperous European colony on North America in 1750?

For most North American colonists of the mid-eighteenth century, __________.

According to the Calvinist theology of election, __________.

Which social groups did New Lights tend to come from?

Which of these was an important difference between Florida and New Mexico?

In Connecticut in the 1760s, the Great Awakening __________.

How was English colonial society different from the Spanish and French colonial societies?

The rising colonial demand for Indian lands stemmed from __________.

What types of opportunities outside of the home did colonial women have in eighteenth-century British North America? How did widowhood affect a woman's position in colonial society?

Jonathan Edwards tried to reconcile what potentially contradictory influences in his writings?

By the early eighteenth century, Indians on the southern fringe of the Great Plains had acquired horses from __________.

What did outside observers tend to notice about social rank in the English colonies?

By the mid-eighteenth century, most of the British North American colonies __________.

Which statement best represents the impact of the Enlightenment on the colonies?