Deck 5: Colonization and Conflict in the North

Question 1

Based on the information presented in the map, "Non-English Settlements in Eighteenth-Century British North America," which ethnic group was most likely to settle on the frontier?

A) the Scots-Irish
B) the Germans
C) the Dutch
D) the Irish

Answer 1

the Scots-Irish

Question 2

"By the beginning of the eighteenth century land scarcity pushed both native-born and newly arrived families to look westward." Descendants of old Yankee families would establish themselves ________, while European immigrants found more luck ________.

A) in frontier New England; south of New York
B) in the Hudson River valley; along the Great Wagon Road
C) along the Great Wagon Road; south of New York
D) south of New York; in frontier New England

Answer 2

in frontier New England; south of New York

Question 3

Three distinctive communities existed in eighteenth-century America. These include all of the following
EXCEPT

A) urban seaport communities.
B) mill towns.
C) raw frontier pioneer farms.
D) plantation communities (both masters and slaves).

Answer 3

mill towns.

Question 4

The society of the eighteenth-century backcountry was characterized by all the following EXCEPT

A) frequent moves.
B) economic equality.
C) isolation.
D) stability.

Question 5

________ differences heightened sectional tensions between the seaboard's established communities and the frontiers.

A) Racial
B) Economic
C) Ethnic
D) Gender

Question 6

Which of the following statements is NOT true about slave communities on southern plantations?

A) With few slaves imported directly from Africa, African folkways soon disappeared.
B) Slave marriages were not legally recognized.
C) Resistance to slavery ran the gamut from subtle sabotage and flight to outright violent rebellion.
D Black family life was sustained, despite the high possibility that a family member would have to be
) sold due to a master's death or indebtedness.

Question 7

Among the effects of the Great Awakening, all the following are correctly stated, EXCEPT that

A) Americans became more sharply polarized along religious lines.
B) many westerners embraced evangelical Protestantism and swelled the denominations of the Baptists and the Presbyterians.
C) many urban easterners embraced evangelical Protestantism and thus swelled such denominations as Quakers and Anglicans.
D though divisive, it also had a unifying effect, since it was the only experience that many people . throughout all the colonies had in common.

Question 8

One of the important distinctions between eighteenth-century English and American social structure was that

A) while England had a large lower class, there were no poor people in America.
B) while England had a large lower class, England's more industrialized economy created more opportunities for upward mobility than did agrarian America.
C) while England's aristocrats claimed titles and legal privileges by hereditary right, only a few American elites inherited titles and political power.
D) while less than one-third of England's inhabitants belonged to the "middling sort," three-quarters of
white Americans could be described as "middle class."

Question 9

Under which system of law did women have greater legal rights, especially with regard to property rights?

A) English law
B) Spanish law
C) "frontier law"
D) The English and Spanish systems gave women the same legal rights.

Question 10

How, according to your text, was it possible for a slave to be legally emancipated in French colonial Louisiana?

A) a written statement of emancipation, written by the slave in French, according to French common law
B) a writ of manumission signed by the colonial governor
C) after 14 years of honorable service to one master
D) as a reward for militia service

Question 11

In 1689 the League of Augsburg was at war with what nation?

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

Question 12

Which of the following items were NOT among the small luxuries colonial Americans looked towards Britain to supply?

A) handmade lace
B) tins of tea
C) Irish soap
D) gloves

Question 13

The Native American people we know as the Comanches referred to themselves as Nemene, or "________."

Question 14

No group in the government in London cared less about the American colonies in the early to mid-1700s than ________.

Question 15

What "forces of division"
were operating in the British colonies during the first half of the eighteenth century? Discuss with specific reference to at least two of the following areas: immigration, the backcountry, boundary disputes, and seaport towns.

Question 16

Compare and contrast the character of backcountry settlements with that of older rural communities in eighteenth-century America.

Question 17

Compare and contrast the lives of eighteenth-century American women in established rural communities, on the frontier, and in major seaports.

Question 18

Discuss male and female black slaves' experiences in South Carolina, the Chesapeake, and major seaports.

Question 19

Compare and contrast the economy, social structure, and politics of England and America in the eighteenth century.

Question 20

Describe the basic outlook of the intellectual movement known as the Enlightenment.

Question 21

Why did some American visitors to England feel ambivalent about life and society in their "parent country"?

Question 22

Comment on the following statement: "That America evolved in ways distinct from that of England was a direct result of British colonial policy."

Question 23

In what ways were major American seaports of the eighteenth century similar to cities today? In what ways were they different? How has urban life changed in the last 300 years?

Question 24

Discuss the different ways in which enslaved African Americans dealt with their situation.

Question 25

Why was the Great Awakening disruptive socially as well as religiously? Explain the causes of disruption in both cases.
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