Deck 5: Colonial Society and Bonds of Empire, 1700-1750

Question 1

Redemptioners​

A) ​were missionaries who sought to convert Indians to Christianity.
B) wanted English colonial society to become more devout Christians.
C) ​were activists who sought to end the slave trade.
D) ​were Europeans who sold their labor or that of their children in order to migrate to the new world.
E) ​None of these are correct.

Answer 1

D

Question 2

Even as England implemented mercantilist policies on its transatlantic commerce, smugglers continued to evade capture and prosecution.​

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Which of the following is not true about the Middle Colonies in the first half of the eighteenth century?​

A) ​Most migrants to the region were English.
B) ​Population growth was driven mainly by immigration.
C) ​Slavery as an institution was as important to the Middle Colonies as it was to the southern colonies.
D) ​The Middle Colonies became one of the most diverse regions in the North American colonies.
E) ​Settlers who migrated to the region become increasingly devoted to economic advancement.

Answer 3

C

Question 4

Slave rebellions were far more common in British North America than in the Caribbean.

Question 5

In New England​ and the Middle Colonies

A) ​the number of slaves imported depended on the Atlantic labor market.
B) ​slaves constituted a large percentage of the population in a few urban centers.
C) urban slaves worked in wharves, shipyards, or ships.​
D) ​most urban slaves did not marry or have children.
E) ​All of these are correct.

Question 6

As the dynamic transatlantic economy lead to economic colonial growth, the gap between rich and poor widened, especially in urban areas.​

Question 7

As New England settlers made their way to the frontier during the first half of the eighteenth century,​

A) ​religious observance continued to be at the center of life.
B) ​New Englanders in cosmopolitan areas became less concerned with material gain.
C) ​local churches gained in strength as those who lived in urban areas increased church membership and attendance.
D) ​New Englanders became more concerned with the pursuit of wealth than with personal salvation.
E) ​community and consensus still remained core values throughout all areas of New England.

Question 8

While Spain had relied on missions to settle the region of Alta California, they proved deadly to natives as they lead to the spread of disease among Indians of the region.

Question 9

After the Glorious Revolution​

A) the number of English migrants increased.​
B) ​the number of Scots and Irish migrants decreased.
C) ​the number of English migrants decreased.
D) ​the English crown encouraged the migration of English-born workers to the colonies in order to create a productive economy in the colonies.
E) ​None of these are correct.

Question 10

The European wars of the early eighteenth century had little impact on the colonies.​

Question 11

While long-standing tensions often led to hostilities between native groups, Indians never allied with Europeans against other native groups.​

Question 12

The Edict of Nantes outlawed the practice of ​_________________ in France.

A) ​Catholicism
B) ​Protestantism
C) ​Judaism
D) ​Anglicanism
E) ​Islam

Question 13

The Edict of Nantes practically forced French Protestants to migrate to New France.​

Question 14

Georgia ​

A) was established as a utopian experiment.​
B) ​was established as a buffer against Spanish Florida.
C) ​was intended for settlement by the worthy poor who had been released from English prisons.
D) ​initially attracted few settlers due to restrictions on rum, land ownership and the importation of slaves .
E) ​All of these are correct.

Question 15

The sharing and spread of ideas during the Enlightenment Era happened as quickly in New Spain as it did in the British North American colonies.​

Question 16

Slave women who arrived in North America through 1750​

A) ​constituted eighty percent of all women who sailed to North America before 1800.
B) ​performed much of the domestic work in the colonies.
C) ​led to the natural increase in the slave population in North America.
D) ​were more likely to survive because the work regimes on the mainland were not as brutal as those in the Caribbean.
E) ​All of these are correct.

Question 17

Cultural continuity of African customs was more common among Lowcountry rural slaves than among Lowcountry urban slaves.​

Question 18

French and Spanish colonies lacked the population growth and diversity that would come to characterize English colonies.​

Question 19

Which of the following factors contributed to the rise in population in North America during the first half of the eighteenth century?​

A) ​the migration of slaves into the colonies
B) ​rising birthrate in the colonies
C) ​migrants coming to North America to escape impoverished homelands
D) ​convicted felons from England coming as forced laborers
E) ​All of these are correct.

Question 20

Which group did the English crown encourage to migrate during the second part of the eighteenth century?​

A) ​child-bearing women
B) ​land-owning men
C) ​English Anglicans
D) ​convicts
E) ​members of the clergy

Question 21

​Which of the following is not true about urban slaves in the Lowcountry?​

A) ​They felt a great sense of solidarity with Plantation slaves.
B) ​Many dressed in extravagant clothing.
C) ​Many worked in highly skilled trades.
D) ​Highly skilled urban slaves arranged for their own employment and lodging.
E) ​They had a good command of the English language.

Question 22

The Treaty of Utrecht​

A) ended the War of the Spanish Succession.​
B) ​was signed in 1713.
C) ​resulted in the Bourbon Philip V being crowned the King of Spain.
D) ​resulted in the Bourbon King Philip relinquishing his claim to the French throne.
E) ​All of these are correct.

Question 23

The Code Noir​

A) ​allowed intermarriage in cases where a female slave had become pregnant.
B) ​was known about by few slaves.
C) ​allowed for slaves to appear in court.
D) ​imposed strict rules that raised slaves' desire to rebel.
E) led to many slaves bringing charges of abuse against their masters.

Question 24

Under Spanish law, slavery in colonial New Mexico​

A) ​was encouraged.
B) ​was illegal.
C) ​was replaced by a system of indentured servitude.
D) ​was not practiced in any form.
E) ​existed in the form of large numbers of African slaves.

Question 25

By the eighteenth century, the land-owning elite in the South ​

A) ​held twice as much land as the average landowner.
B) ​controlled more than a thousand acres of land.
C) ​owned at least ten slaves.
D) ​controlled half the wealth in the Chesapeake.
E) ​All of these are correct.

Question 26

Which of the following is true about seventeenth-century British North America's consumer culture?​

A) ​Status was communicated through traditional signs of prosperity such as houses land and livestock.
B) ​Regulations on production lessened the availability of consumer goods.
C) ​Titles and rank remained a major marker of status.
D) ​Social status was increasingly communicated through the purchase of consumer goods.
E) ​Consumer goods were only within the reach of the very wealthy.

Question 27

Slaves in New France​

A) ​were not nearly as important as in the Caribbean.
B) ​were mainly captive Indians.
C) ​worked as stevedores, farmhands, domestic servants and assistants in artisanal industries.
D) ​were found among half of land-owning colonists.
E) ​All of these are correct.

Question 28

Which one of these was not an English law aimed at protecting the English economy?​

A) ​the Hat Act
B) ​the Iron Act
C) ​the Act of Union
D) ​the Molasses Act
E) ​the Wool Act

Question 29

​Land in New France

A) ​was far less equitably distributed than in British North America.
B) ​was first granted to a seigneur, who then sold small plots of land to settlers.
C) ​was distributed in a way that led to a concentration of wealth among a small group of seigneurs.
D) ​was never truly owned by settlers on land belonging to a seigneur.
E) ​All of these are correct.

Question 30

The Code Noir was enacted in ​

A) ​Louisiana.
B) ​the French Caribbean.
C) ​New France.
D) ​New Spain.
E) ​the English Caribbean.

Question 31

With the major European nations warring over territory and trade in North America,​ the ​_________________ crown hoped to establish its own power in Europe through the exploration of the Northern Pacific.

A) Portuguese
B) ​Russian
C) ​Dutch
D) ​Italian
E) ​Austrian

Question 32

As a result of the Russian presence, King Carlos III of Spain ordered the settlement of

A) ​New Mexico.
B) ​Texas.
C) ​Baja California.
D) ​Alta California.
E) ​Florida

Question 33

The distribution of land in eighteenth century New England was fairly egalitarian because​

A) ​there were restrictions on the amount of land owned by one person.
B) ​indentured servants lived out the terms of their indenture and, therefore, had access to land.
C) ​of the custom of dividing land among heirs.
D) ​an economic crisis lead to a great deal of foreclosures on farms and, therefore, many were able to purchase cheap land.
E) ​more and more land was ceded by native groups to English settlers.

Question 34

Which of the following was an effect of the dynamic transatlantic economy of the eighteenth century?

A) ​a lessening of the gap between the rich and poor
B) ​income inequality increased mainly in rural areas
C) ​the elite and middle classes engaged in new forms of ritual consumption
D) ​laborers depended less and less on products containing sugar and caffeine as they had no access to them.
E) ​None of these are correct.

Question 35

During the eighteenth century, the frontier regions of New Spain​

A) experienced slow population growth.​
B) ​had few civilians but were well staffed in terms of military personnel.
C) had a booming agricultural industry dependent on African slave labor.
D) ​had dynamic trade relations with other parts of the Spanish empire.
E)  None of these are correct.

Question 36

Which of the following was a European War that was not fought during the first half of the eighteenth century? ​

A) King William's War
B) ​War of the Spanish Succession
C) ​War of the Quadruple Alliance
D) ​War of the Austrian Succession
E) ​All of these are correct.

Question 37

In eighteenth-century New England​

A) ​population growth accompanied the expansion of trade.
B) ​farmers began to produce food for large, distant markets.
C) ​a large ship-building industry flourished in conjunction with overseas trade.
D) ​farmers experienced increasing economic uncertainty as they grew more dependent on overseas demand.
E) ​All of these are correct.

Question 38

The Russian-American Company​

A) ​was a company that imported slaves from Africa to Russian settlement along the pacific coast.
B) ​was a company founded for the sole purpose of establishing colonial settlements in Canada.
C) ​was organized by Russian merchants to establish fur trading companies on the North Pacific Coast.
D) ​was a colonial militia group formed to defend Russian settlements from Indian attacks.
E) ​None of these are correct.

Question 39

As wealthy colonists strove to emulate European gentility, they built their homes in the ​_________________ style.​

A) ​Stuart
B) ​Georgian
C) ​Bourbon
D) ​Edwardian
E) ​Elizabethan

Question 40

On the British North American mainland ​_________________ were the richest colonists.​

A) ​white Southerners
B) ​urban professionals
C) ​colonial governmental officials
D) merchants in the middle colonies
E) ​members of the European nobility

Question 41

Which of the following was one of the forms of government conceived by Enlightenment thinkers?​

A) ​Anarchy
B) ​Totalitarianism
C) ​Aristocracy
D) ​Autocracy
E) ​All of these are correct.

Question 42

Which of the following is true about sexual practices in the British colonies?​

A) ​Adultery carried a potential death sentence, but it was applied rarely.
B) ​Sex between unmarried persons was forbidden by law but practiced commonly.
C) ​In cases where an unmarried woman became pregnant, the punitive fine was cut in half if the couple became engaged.
D) ​Male homosexuality was deemed a capital offense, while female homosexuality was not even acknowledged within the criminal codes.
E) ​All of these are correct.

Question 43

George Whitefield ​

A) ​became the leading figure in the Great Awakening.
B) ​helped to create a truly broad evangelical movement.
C) ​published and distributed his sermons throughout the British North American colonies.
D) ​was one of the founders of Methodism.
E) ​All of these are correct.

Question 44

Two Treatises of Government was authored by

A) ​John Locke.
B) ​Jonathan Edwards.
C) ​Benjamin Franklin.
D) ​George Whitefield.
E) ​None of these are correct.

Question 45

Which of the following is not true about women's duties in colonial America​?

A) ​Women in rural and urban settings spent the same amount of time in domestic production.
B) ​Women were responsible for their family's medical care.
C) ​Women were responsible for their family's basic education.
D) Women in urban areas spent more time in marketplace exchanges.​
E) Women and men had different domestic responsibilities.

Question 46

Which of the following was a common form of slave resistance?​

A) working slowly
B) running away
C) sabotaging crops
D) sabotaging equipment
E) ​All of these are correct.

Question 47

As far as elaborating on the concept of liberalism, the most prominent thinker was​

A) ​Benjamin Franklin.
B) ​Thomas Jefferson.
C) ​John Locke.
D) ​John Peter Zenger.
E) Thomas Gordon.

Question 48

The concept of ​_________________ occupied the center of English political identity during the eighteenth century.​

A) equality
B) ​oligarchy
C) ​liberty
D) ​tyranny
E) ​aristocracy

Question 49

Coverture defined the rights of ​

A) ​unmarried women.
B) ​married women.
C) widowed women.​
D) ​property owning women.
E) ​slave women.

Question 50

Enlightenment thinkers​

A) ​rejected many traditional beliefs.
B) ​argued that religious belief was the real basis for truth.
C) supported the Calvinist notion of predestination.
D) ​were rejected in British North America.
E) ​were embraced by the Spanish Inquisition.

Question 51

In New France​

A) ​colonial assemblies similar to those in the British colonies emerged.
B) ​the monarchy sought to exercise little control.
C) ​the most powerful colonial official was the governor-general.
D) ​there was no or regulation of parish priests.
E) ​land-owning citizens elected their colonial governors.

Question 52

As a Deist, Benjamin Franklin ​

A) ​rejected the notion that God existed.
B) ​reaffirmed the Calvinist notion of predestination.
C) ​believed that God had created the universe but did not interfere in daily affairs.
D) ​wrote publicly in support of the Spanish Inquisition.
E) ​believed that God still had a hand in the fate of humans.

Question 53

​A white woman in colonial America typically had a child every

A) ​two to two and a half years.
B) ​five years.
C) ​four to four and half years.
D) ​eight years.
E) seven to seven and a half years.

Question 54

Throughout the first half of the eighteenth century, the English colonies were governed with ​_________________ as the mother as England was preoccupied with wars in Europe and managing its commercial empire.​

A) ​liberalism
B) ​salutary neglect
C) ​deference
D) ​a mixed and balanced government
E) ​oligarchy

Question 55

The colonial assemblies that emerged during the first half of the eighteenth century in the British colonies​

A) ​had control over taxation.
B) ​at times, had control over the governor's salary.
C) ​challenged the influence of the colonial governor.
D) ​had control over the militia.
E) ​All of these are correct.

Question 56

The Great Awakening​

A) ​spread throughout New Spain as quickly as it did throughout British North America.
B) ​was a reaction to the waning of orthodox Calvinist belief in British North America.
C) ​began during the late eighteenth century.
D) ​lead to a less emotional form of religious preaching.
E) ​was a movement carried out by Catholic missionaries.

Question 57

Which of the following is true about voting rights in seventeenth-century British North America?​

A) ​Only white property-owning men could vote.
B) ​Voting rights were never withheld on the basis of a person's religion.
C) ​Most white men were unable to vote.
D) ​In terms of overall percentage, more men were able to vote in Britain than in the colonies.
E) ​In some cases, Native Americans were given the right to vote.

Question 58

In Catholic New Spain, Hispanic wives and daughters often lived in seclusion because ​

A) ​women were seen as more vulnerable to epidemics.
B) ​in this way women were protected from Indian attacks.
C) ​New World Spaniards wanted to emulate customs of European gentility.
D) ​Hispanic men believed that they could increase their honor by protecting the sexual purity of their female relatives.
E) ​None of these are correct.

Question 59

William Harvey discovered ​

A) ​that the sun was at the center of the solar system.
B) ​gravity.
C) ​that blood circulates through the body and how blood functions.
D) ​how to develop more accurate clocks.
E) ​how to develop a mechanized spinning machine.

Question 60

The Zenger case dealt with

A) ​the treatment of slaves.
B) ​the right of citizens to vote.
C) ​the right for colonial newspapers to criticize the government.
D) ​the property rights of married women.
E) ​the collection of taxes in the colonies.

Question 61

Talk About:  King George's War​

Question 62

Talk About:  Code Noir​

Question 63

Talk About:  redemptioners​

Question 64

Talk About:  War of the Spanish Succession ​

Question 65

Talk About:  Act of Union​

Question 66

Talk About:  Queen Anne's War​

Question 67

Talk About:  métis ​

Question 68

Talk About:  Scots-Irish​

Question 69

Talk About:  Walking Purchase​

Question 70

Talk About:  Edict of Nantes​

Question 71

Talk About:  Georgian style​

Question 72

Talk About:  indigo plant​

Question 73

Talk About:  Treaty of Utrecht​

Question 74

Talk About:  War of the Austrian Succession​

Question 75

Talk About:  Moravians​

Question 76

Talk About:  Pietists?

Question 77

Talk About:  War of the Quadruple Alliance​

Question 78

Talk About:  Huguenot​

Question 79

Talk About: natural increase

Question 80

Talk About:  The Yamasee War​