Exam 4: The Maturing of Colonial Society

Between 1746 and 1769, six new ________ were created in British North America.

A growing transatlantic trade undermined the entrepreneurial ethos in America and increased concern for the public welfare.

As a result of extensive contact with European colonizers during the early eighteenth century, Native American tribes of the interior

The population of the colonies had surpassed one million people by 1750, most of whom had spread deep into the interior beyond the Appalachian Mountains.

As cities grew, new values took hold in British North America.

The spiritual motives of the Spanish missionaries resulted in a greater appreciation and respect for tribal peoples than in other North American colonial empires.

Eighteenth-century indentured servants possessed many opportunities for economic advancement.

By 1744 the Great Awakening was increasing in fervor in New England.

During the Age of Reason, European thinkers discarded Calvinism.

By 1763 there were 23 ________ circulating in the colonies.

Food shortages were frequent occurrences in British North America.

Benjamin Franklin's popular work, ________, next to the Bible, was the most widely read book in the colonies, containing quips, adages, and homespun philosophy.

Eliza Lucas Pinckney, a wealthy South Carolina planter's wife, experimented successfully in the 1740s with the cultivation of ________, a plant from which a blue dye could be extracted for use in textiles.

In the 1750s, the concept that slavery violated the Enlightenment's emphasis on human equality began to grow.

John Locke, an Enlightenment thinker, wrote Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689).

In Massachusetts and ________, the Great Awakening split congregations into Old Lights and New Lights.

During the latter part of the seventeenth century, King Louis XIV attempted to make ________ the most powerful nation in Europe and to expand its empire in the New World.

The colonial assemblies were modeled after the House of ________ in England.

A system of small forts, trading posts, and agricultural villages throughout the central area of North America was established in the early eighteenth century by the ________.

The switch from subsistence to commercial hunting drew Native Americans into a market economy in which their trading partners gradually became trading masters.