Question 1

The second stage of economic development during the 1700s stimulated economic competition between the North American colonies and England.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False  True

Question 2

Discuss the power of Enlightenment ideas, such as reason and natural rights, in the colonies. How did it shape Americans' view of religion, education, and their place in the British Empire?

Accepted Answer

Colonists debated how the Enlightenment idea of "natural rights" might influence their actions as colonists under the rule of the British crown. They discussed how far an individual's reason could push them away from established faiths, as they rejected authoritarianism, irrationality, and obscurantism.Some became deists, a faith holding that God had merely set up this world and then allowed humans to develop it as their reason allowed. Famous American Enlightenment thinkers include Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and Thomas Paine.The ideas associated with the Enlightenment inspired both harmony and conflict with religious leaders, and many of the most consequential American intellectual outpourings from the colonial period are either rejections of or support for the Enlightenment. Cotton Mather, for instance, produced important sermons as he refined a Puritan theology that articulated the centrality of God to an individual's well-being. William Bradford, John Winthrop, and Edward Johnson wrote histories of New England, giving special testament to the sacrifices made to religion by the colonial founders, but also hedging a bit toward the Enlightenment by praising the individual fortitude of those founders. They seemed to be trying to balance the imperatives of reason with those of revelation. And religion animated the poems of Anne Bradstreet, Edward Taylor, and Michael Wigglesworth. The American Enlightenment did not produce many atheists or agnostics, but it did begin a process whereby religious thinkers tried to find a balance between science and religion.The necessity of training ministers, especially in New England, had led to the creation of an educational system, and the Enlightenment ideals of individual progress via human reason prodded the slow democratization of the system over the course of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Reflecting this balance between religious and secular ideals, America's first college, Harvard, was founded in 1636, not as an official church school, but under the prevailing Puritan philosophy and with a mission to create a literate ministry. In 1642, Massachusetts passed a law requiring parents to teach all children to read. In 1647, it passed a law requiring towns to maintain a primary school. Although they did so more slowly than New England, the Middle Colonies also launched endeavors in public education.

Question 3

Which of the following led to what would have been the first-ever colonial union that would have placed all of England's colonies in America under a single president-general?

Accepted Answer

A) The Albany Plan 
B) The Treaty of Paris 
C) The Great Awakening 
D) The Stono Rebellion 
E) The Glorious Revolution 
A) The Albany Plan 
B) The Treaty of Paris 
C) The Great Awakening 
D) The Stono Rebellion 
E) The Glorious Revolution A

Question 4

Which of the following is true about slave resistance in the Southern Colonies?

Accepted Answer

A) Pontiac's Rebellion was the single largest revolt by slaves demanding freedom. 
B) Violent uprisings against white suppression were a constant feature in the life of Southern Colonies. 
C) Slave revolts were exceedingly rare, probably because most slaves did not yet work in gangs. 
D) Slave resistance depended on the organizational skill of Northern agitators. 
E) Slavery had become such an overpowering and totalitarian institution that resistance was impossible. 
A) Pontiac's Rebellion was the single largest revolt by slaves demanding freedom. 
B) Violent uprisings against white suppression were a constant feature in the life of Southern Colonies. 
C) Slave revolts were exceedingly rare, probably because most slaves did not yet work in gangs. 
D) Slave resistance depended on the organizational skill of Northern agitators. 
E) Slavery had become such an overpowering and totalitarian institution that resistance was impossible.

Question 5

The American Enlightenment adopted the European conventional thinking that humans were incapable of social change and that life on earth was little more than a temporary interlude on the journey to eternal salvation or damnation.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 6

Explain the economic conditions that prevailed in the Middle Colonies.

Accepted Answer

In the Middle Colonies, farms were large

Question 7

Explain the "middle passage" stage of enslavement.

Accepted Answer

Once aboard the transport ship, slaves f

Question 8

Describe the Great Awakening.

Accepted Answer

The Great Awakening was a religious reac

Question 9

Highly influential in America, the Enlightenment:

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A) stressed man's connection to God as the highest achievement by humans. 
B) prioritized the ability to reason as the highest form of human attainment. 
C) reinforced belief in the unquestioned primacy of rulers. 
D) led to the argument that humans' time on earth was an interlude on their journey toward salvation. 
E) led to the belief that human beings have only a limited capacity to change their social circumstances. 
A) stressed man's connection to God as the highest achievement by humans. 
B) prioritized the ability to reason as the highest form of human attainment. 
C) reinforced belief in the unquestioned primacy of rulers. 
D) led to the argument that humans' time on earth was an interlude on their journey toward salvation. 
E) led to the belief that human beings have only a limited capacity to change their social circumstances.

Question 10

John Locke, a prominent Enlightenment thinker, argued that:

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A) humans were born virtuous. 
B) humans had the responsibility of checking the growth of social institutions that would inevitably become premised on inequality and favoritism. 
C) a balance in economy was determined by the laws of supply and demand. 
D) one's environment was more significant than divine decree in the development of one's character. 
E) God was central to an individual's well-being. 
A) humans were born virtuous. 
B) humans had the responsibility of checking the growth of social institutions that would inevitably become premised on inequality and favoritism. 
C) a balance in economy was determined by the laws of supply and demand. 
D) one's environment was more significant than divine decree in the development of one's character. 
E) God was central to an individual's well-being.

Question 11

In Pontiac's Rebellion, _____.

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A) the Iroquois League attacked French forts in Quebec 
B) the Ottowa tribe soundly defeated the Indian allies of the French at Detroit 
C) Indians began a devastating intertribal war 
D) Indians united in their attempt to protest English intrusion into their lands 
E) the French attempted to evict Spain from North America 
A) the Iroquois League attacked French forts in Quebec 
B) the Ottowa tribe soundly defeated the Indian allies of the French at Detroit 
C) Indians began a devastating intertribal war 
D) Indians united in their attempt to protest English intrusion into their lands 
E) the French attempted to evict Spain from North America

Question 12

Describe the economy of New England during the 1700s.

Accepted Answer

New England's hilly terrain and short gr

Question 13

The Treaty of Paris (1763)resulted in _____.

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A) Spain being evicted from North America 
B) France losing all its territory in mainland North America 
C) England controlling trade in the Chesapeake area 
D) France controlling trade in Virginia 
E) England unifying all its colonies in North America 
A) Spain being evicted from North America 
B) France losing all its territory in mainland North America 
C) England controlling trade in the Chesapeake area 
D) France controlling trade in Virginia 
E) England unifying all its colonies in North America

Question 14

Explain Pontiac's Rebellion.

Accepted Answer

By 1763, several Indians had followed Ne

Question 15

Which of the following statements is true of the Glorious Revolution?

Accepted Answer

A) Many of the proprietors who had founded the North American colonies were removed. 
B) The Crown was able to reassert control of the colonies. 
C) England was changed into a Protestant nation by James II. 
D) All the English colonies were unified under a single president-general. 
E) England and France signed the Treaty of Paris to evict Spain out of North America. 
A) Many of the proprietors who had founded the North American colonies were removed. 
B) The Crown was able to reassert control of the colonies. 
C) England was changed into a Protestant nation by James II. 
D) All the English colonies were unified under a single president-general. 
E) England and France signed the Treaty of Paris to evict Spain out of North America.

Question 16

As a result of the Great Awakening, the Baptists:

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A) lost large numbers of the faithful to new religious sects that emerged. 
B) saw their numbers and influence grow considerably in the Chesapeake area. 
C) founded Brown College. 
D) established their first churches in the colonies. 
E) became the strongest group in New England. 
A) lost large numbers of the faithful to new religious sects that emerged. 
B) saw their numbers and influence grow considerably in the Chesapeake area. 
C) founded Brown College. 
D) established their first churches in the colonies. 
E) became the strongest group in New England.

Question 17

Discuss the expansion of slavery and the Triangular Trade that flourished between 1700 and 1763. How did different colonial regions participate in slavery and the Triangular Trade? How did slavery change?

Accepted Answer

Triangular Trade refers to a pattern of

Question 18

_________ was a hub for commerce in the Middle Colonies. 
A. The Chesapeake area 
B. Albany 
C. Philadelphia 
D. Georgia

Accepted Answer

The answer of _________ was a hub for commerce in...

Question 19

Which of the following was the last stage in the enslavement of Africans?

Accepted Answer

A) The middle passage across the Atlantic Ocean 
B) Capture in Africa 
C) The period of adjustment to the New World 
D) Deportation to Africa if found unskilled by slave traders 
E) Employment as skilled artisans across various North American colonies 
A) The middle passage across the Atlantic Ocean 
B) Capture in Africa 
C) The period of adjustment to the New World 
D) Deportation to Africa if found unskilled by slave traders 
E) Employment as skilled artisans across various North American colonies

Question 20

_________ was the Enlightenment thinker who argued that one's environment was more significant than divine decree in the development of one's character. 
A. William Bradford 
B. Copernicus 
C. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 
D. John Locke

Accepted Answer

The answer of _________ was the Enlightenment thinker who argued...

Exam 4: Expansion and Control, 1700-1763

The second stage of economic development during the 1700s stimulated economic competition between the North American colonies and England.

Discuss the power of Enlightenment ideas, such as reason and natural rights, in the colonies. How did it shape Americans' view of religion, education, and their place in the British Empire?

Which of the following led to what would have been the first-ever colonial union that would have placed all of England's colonies in America under a single president-general?

Which of the following is true about slave resistance in the Southern Colonies?

The American Enlightenment adopted the European conventional thinking that humans were incapable of social change and that life on earth was little more than a temporary interlude on the journey to eternal salvation or damnation.

Explain the economic conditions that prevailed in the Middle Colonies.

Explain the "middle passage" stage of enslavement.

Describe the Great Awakening.

Highly influential in America, the Enlightenment:

John Locke, a prominent Enlightenment thinker, argued that:

In Pontiac's Rebellion, _____.

Describe the economy of New England during the 1700s.

The Treaty of Paris (1763)resulted in _____.

Explain Pontiac's Rebellion.

Which of the following statements is true of the Glorious Revolution?

As a result of the Great Awakening, the Baptists:

Discuss the expansion of slavery and the Triangular Trade that flourished between 1700 and 1763. How did different colonial regions participate in slavery and the Triangular Trade? How did slavery change?

_________ was a hub for commerce in the Middle Colonies. A. The Chesapeake area B. Albany C. Philadelphia D. Georgia

Which of the following was the last stage in the enslavement of Africans?

_________ was the Enlightenment thinker who argued that one's environment was more significant than divine decree in the development of one's character. A. William Bradford B. Copernicus C. Jean-Jacques Rousseau D. John Locke

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Toward Revolution, 1763-1775

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The Continued Move West

The Impending Crisis

The Civil War

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The Industrial Age: North, South, and West

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