Deck 3: Colonial America Amid Global Change

Question 1

What kind of workers and businesspeople populated Pennsylvania in the seventeenth century?

A) Farmers, artisans, and merchants
B) Farmers, fishermen, and factory workers
C) Farmers, hunters, and fishermen
D) Farmers, factory workers, and innkeepers

Answer 1

Farmers, artisans, and merchants

Question 2

Which European power actually contracted its role and reach in North America in the eighteenth century?

A) Spain
B) France
C) The Netherlands
D) England

Answer 2

The Netherlands

Question 3

Who was eligible to vote for the government under William Penn's leadership in seventeenth-century Pennsylvania?

A) All men who were practicing Quakers
B) Only men and women who owned property
C) Only men who owned property
D) Only men who owned property and were residents for two years

Answer 3

Only men who owned property

Question 4

What strategy for establishing a colonial presence in North America did France pursue more often and more successfully than Spain or England?

A) Extensive trade with a range of Indian nations
B) Extensive network of forts along the Atlantic coast
C) Extensive use of fishing and gaming as sources of wealth
D) Extensive use of advanced weapons to fight off Indians

Question 5

The global economy that emerged in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries was fragile and prone to economic crises caused by

A) unpredictable crops.
B) natural disasters.
C) protests against slavery.
D) outbreaks of war.

Question 6

Before the new king and queen of England replaced it with the Church of England in 1692, what was the established religion of Maryland?

A) Society of Friends
B) Catholicism
C) Puritanism
D) Unitarianism

Question 7

The farm families and villages throughout colonial Massachusetts pushed the boundaries of their territory into what area for more and better land?

A) Rhode Island
B) New York
C) Martha's Vineyard
D) Maine

Question 8

What was the standard punishment for runaway indentured servants in the American colonies when they were caught?

A) They were severely whipped.
B) Their contract was extended.
C) Their contract was null and void.
D) They were sold to the highest bidder.

Question 9

Spanish authorities in Florida imposed harsh and violent punishments on Indians for trying to block which of Spain's profit-making endeavors in the 1670s?

A) Cultivation of farm land for tobacco
B) Land clearing for housing
C) Cattle ranching
D) Cultivation of farm land for indigo

Question 10

Who succeeded Charles II to the throne in England and centralized authority both at home and in the colonies?

A) Charles III
B) Cromwell
C) Elizabeth
D) James II

Question 11

How did William Penn treat the Lenni-Lenape Indians already living on the land deeded to him by King Charles II, which would become known as Pennsylvania?

A) He declared war on them.
B) He negotiated treaties with them.
C) He avoided them at all costs.
D) He fought them only when threatened himself.

Question 12

What new crop did the Lucas family cultivate that was first imported to Europe from India in the seventeenth century and became a profitable export in South Carolina?

A) Cotton
B) Indigo
C) Tobacco
D) Sugarcane

Question 13

Who ascended to the throne of England in 1689 as a result of the Glorious Revolution?

A) William and Elizabeth
B) James and Mary
C) William and Mary
D) Franklin and Marshall

Question 14

The first sustained war between the French and English in North America was known as

A) King Philip's War.
B) the American Revolution.
C) King William's War.
D) the French Revolution.

Question 15

King James II of England and King Louis XIV of France both believed their reigns were granted by what authority?

A) Birth
B) Military might
C) The people
D) Divine right

Question 16

What two colonies united in 1702 to form the colony of New Jersey?

A) King and Queen's Jersey
B) East and West Jersey
C) North and South Jersey
D) New and Old Jersey

Question 17

Which European superpower was at the heart of many of the continent's wars between 1689 and 1713?

A) Spain
B) England
C) The Netherlands
D) France

Question 18

Who in the Lucas family undertook the following tasks in running the family plantations in South Carolina: balancing the books, supervising the slaves, caring for other family members, and educating the youngest children?

A) The father
B) The mother
C) The eldest daughter
D) The grandfather

Question 19

After receiving rights to huge tracts of land in the Middle Atlantic region of North America from King Charles II, William Penn rejected the Church of England and turned Pennsylvania into a refuge for

A) Quakers.
B) Anglicans.
C) Baptists.
D) Unitarians.

Question 20

Queen Anne's War, which ravaged North America from 1702 until 1713, was sparked by

A) the death of Charles II without an heir.
B) English encroachment on Indian lands.
C) the murder of Queen Anne.
D) the end of King William's War.

Question 21

What was the central priority of mercantilism, a commercial policy adopted by both the French and English in the seventeenth century?

A) Only working with licensed merchants
B) Trading as many goods as the market would bear
C) Maintaining a favorable trade balance
D) Getting the highest price for one's goods on the market

Question 22

Why did many English colonists grow frustrated with the British crown in the early decades of the eighteenth century?

A) Taxation without representation existed.
B) Harsh penal codes were enacted and severe punishments were delivered.
C) Terms of indentured servitude were ruthlessly extended.
D) The army frequently abused the colonial militia.

Question 23

What goods were the staple trade items sent from the East to Europe and the Americas in the eighteenth century?

A) Silk, olive oil, and wine
B) Cod, mackerel, and shingles
C) Pine boards, barrel staves, and rum
D) Sugar, rice, and indigo

Question 24

What external forces challenged traditional Native American gender roles and generational relations?

A) Agricultural innovations
B) European trade practices
C) Increased incidence of violence
D) Lopsided gender ratios

Question 25

France imported what raw materials from its colonies, which it then manufactured into items for sale in foreign markets?

A) Gold and tobacco
B) Rice and spices
C) Sugar and rum
D) Fur and lumber

Question 26

Use the following passage to answer the question:

A) English settlers were cutting down Tuscarora forests.
B) The English failed to protect Tuscarora villages from Spanish attacks.
C) Tuscaroras were victims of the trade in Indian slaves.
D) English missionaries suppressed Tuscarora religious practices.

Question 27

In 1665 England was devastated by the Great Plague, and in 1666 London was decimated by fire, so how did both the country and the city still manage to flourish?

A) The colonies turned out to be profitable ventures.
B) The crown's gold was safe in a bank.
C) Mostly poor people were killed in both events.
D) France uncharacteristically offered financial and military support.

Question 28

What establishments became popular gathering places in eighteenth-century port cities where merchants, captains, and traders met to discuss new ventures and keep up with recent events?

A) Pubs
B) Coffeehouses
C) Wharves
D) Tippling Houses

Question 29

The Caribbean shipped rum, molasses, and slaves to North America in return for?

A) Coconuts and indigo
B) Money because they had everything they needed
C) Irish indentured servants
D) Salted cod and other foodstuffs

Question 30

What did Father Santa Ana and a Spanish general send to the Apache to signal a desire for peace in 1749?

A) Their weapons
B) An indigenous peace pipe
C) Three Apache captives
D) Their own sons

Question 31

Which European immigrants helped to settle English colonial frontiers throughout North America by the mid-eighteenth century?

A) Scottish and Italian
B) French and Dutch
C) German and Italian
D) Irish and German

Question 32

Which Indian tribe, defeated in war in the Carolinas by an alliance of English colonists and other Indian tribes, forfeited its lands in 1715 and joined the Iroquois Confederacy as its sixth nation?

A) Cherokee
B) Catawba
C) Tuscarora
D) Yamasee

Question 33

When did trade networks become truly global?

A) Late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries
B) Late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries
C) Late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries
D) Late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries

Question 34

What territory did England incorporate into Great Britain through the 1707 Act of Union?

A) Ireland
B) Scotland
C) West Indies
D) Virginia

Question 35

What war in the South between Indians and English was the region's most serious challenge to European dominance and was bloodier than King Philip's War?

A) The Yamasee War
B) The Tuscarora War
C) Queen Anne's War
D) King William's War

Question 36

Which globalizing industry developed its own specialized sailing vessels in the eighteenth century?

A) Tobacco planting
B) Sugar refining
C) Indigo processing
D) Slave trading

Question 37

Extensive parliamentary restrictions that limited the North American colonies' ability to trade with the rest of the world were meant to generate wealth for England but had the unintended consequence of

A) making it more difficult to find buyers for goods.
B) weakening the trade ties between England and the West Indies.
C) creating wealth for North American merchants.
D) encouraging rampant piracy and other illegal activities.

Question 38

How did American merchants respond to the 1733 Molasses Act passed by Parliament to disrupt the molasses trade between France and the North American colonies?

A) They successfully lobbied parliament for its repeal.
B) They smuggled molasses into the ports anyway and bribed customs agents.
C) They flew Spanish flags on the ships carrying the molasses.
D) They imported raw sugarcane and processed it in America.

Question 39

Why did the captain of a Spanish naval ship capture an English ship captain in 1739 and cut off his ear?

A) It was typical behavior for warring captains.
B) The Englishman had bombed the Spaniard's vessel.
C) The Englishman was trading illegally in Spanish territory.
D) The Englishman had captured the Spaniard's daughter in a raid.

Question 40

Small communities of Jews settled in which colony during the 1740s?

A) Pennsylvania
B) South Carolina
C) Maryland
D) Georgia

Question 41

Where did the vast majority of Americans live in the eighteenth century?

A) Rural areas
B) Urban areas
C) Seaport areas
D) Suburban areas

Question 42

Britain was responsible for what percentage of the traffic in African slaves between 1700 and 1808?

A) 20 percent
B) 40 percent
C) 60 percent
D) 80 percent

Question 43

What long-established system of labor began to die out by the early eighteenth century?

A) Apprenticeships
B) Slavery
C) Indentured servitude
D) Wage-based work

Question 44

What did farm families do with the children they could not usefully employ on the farm?

A) Bound them out to neighbors
B) Sold them into slavery
C) Sent them to find work in the city
D) Sent them to live with relatives

Question 45

Which group of immigrants were known as "redemptioners"-workers whose passage was paid by a shipping agent who then found an employer to pay off the fee in return for several years of work?

A) English in Massachusetts
B) Irish in New Jersey
C) Germans in Pennsylvania
D) Dutch in New York

Question 46

Slaves who had been "seasoned" had

A) been raped by their previous master.
B) been beaten into submission.
C) been trained to work as house cooks.
D) regained their strength and adjusted to their new environment.