Deck 4: Expansion and Control, 1700-1763

Question 1

The main export from the Middle Colonies was

A) tobacco.
B) livestock.
C) fruit.
D) potatoes.
E) wheat.

Answer 1

wheat.

Question 2

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

A) Lenient laws gave slaves a minimum degree of freedom, making open rebellion unnecessary.
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.

Answer 2

Slave revolts were exceedingly rare, probably because most slaves did not yet work in gangs.

Question 3

Which of the following is not true about John Peter Zenger?

A) He was arrested for publishing an attack on the governor.
B) He was acquitted because his charge proved correct.
C) The Zenger case turned out to be a central test for freedom of the press in colonial America.
D) It would take another 100 years before "truth" would become a legitimate defense against libel charges.
E) The Zenger case illustrated the deep anti-authoritarian sentiment at the time.

Answer 3

It would take another 100 years before "truth" would become a legitimate defense against libel charges.

Question 4

The rapid increase of New England's population between 1660 and 1760 stemmed from all of the following,except

A) a high birthrate.
B) the importance of families in New England society.
C) a hospitable and healthy environment.
D) a voracious appetite for African slaves in the region.
E) an environment friendly to commerce.

Question 5

Adam Smith,a key figure of the Enlightenment,became most famous for his ideas about

A) crimes and punishment.
B) supply and demand.
C) education.
D) religion.
E) treatment of the insane.

Question 6

As New England's population multiplied,colonists

A) began to limit the size of their families.
B) abandoned the practice of agriculture.
C) pushed further westward in search of land.
D) flocked to the cities of Boston and New York in large numbers.
E) began to return to the mother country.

Question 7

Which of these countries was not a major source of immigration to the Middle Colonies from 1700-1760?

A) Ireland
B) Scotland
C) the Netherlands
D) England
E) Germany

Question 8

Which of the following statements best characterizes the economy of the Chesapeake?

A) In the Chesapeake, cotton was king.
B) It was known as "the best poor man's country."
C) Families were the backbone of the economic structure.
D) Farmers in the Chesapeake remained tied to tobacco and failed to diversify.
E) Thanks to immigration, the Chesapeake developed into a diverse and highly complicated economy.

Question 9

Communities in the southern colonies

A) centered on the local church.
B) were slow to develop.
C) were based solely on stable families.
D) were the year-round home to wealthy plantation owners who liked the warm climate.
E) had people with a longer life expectancy than other regions.

Question 10

In which region did a slow growing season encourage diversified farming?

A) The Chesapeake
B) New England
C) Virginia
D) The Southern Colonies
E) Slow growing seasons shaped the economies in all these colonies.

Question 11

Highly influential in America,the Enlightenment

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

Question 12

Which of these was not true of the Chesapeake?

A) The early colonists were largely male.
B) The majority of the people lived some distances apart, on scattered farms and plantations.
C) The climate of the region led to high mortality rates up through 1700.
D) By the mid-1700s, about 60 percent of the population was slaves.
E) It was based on an aristocratic social structure, with a declining number of indentured servants over time.

Question 13

As a result of the Great Awakening,the Baptists

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

Question 14

The region known for being more diverse than the others was

A) the Chesapeake.
B) New France.
C) the Southern Colonies.
D) the Middle Colonies.
E) New England.

Question 15

Which is an example of the Triangular Trade in operation?

A) Fish and grains from New England were traded to the frontier for fur pelts.
B) Wine, spices, and gold were traded to England directly from New England.
C) Slaves and gold were traded from England to the West Indies.
D) Sugar and molasses were sent to New England from the West Indies and then distilled by New England colonists to make rum that was traded to Africa for gold and slaves.
E) Manufactured ships from New England were purchased by England, France, and the Netherlands.

Question 16

The wealthy families of the Chesapeake believed they should control political and religious institutions because they

A) had money.
B) were better educated.
C) had invested the most in settling the land.
D) had social responsibilities which they acquired as the region's economic elite.
E) had the most to lose if things didn't go well.

Question 17

Most of the slaves in New York worked

A) on plantations.
B) on farms.
C) in craftsmen's shops.
D) in the harbor.
E) in domestic service.

Question 18

Which was true of New England by the mid-1700s?

A) Britain was purchasing about one-fourth of their seafood from New England.
B) The two principal products were maize and lumber.
C) They had begun to supply all of England's naval vessels.
D) Their surplus crops were limited to grain and cereals.
E) England was purchasing about one-third of all British ships from New England.

Question 19

The members of the "natural aristocracy" were

A) southern plantation owners.
B) tobacco farmers in the Chesapeake.
C) merchants and wealthy landowners who made their fortunes in the New World.
D) former farmers turned plantation owners who dominated government in the South.
E) those who grew wealthy enough to found their own towns.

Question 20

Why did the Puritan experiment in the New World last only a few short generations?

A) People began to move further out from the town center to hinterlands that were out of the range of church authority.
B) Increasing prosperity weakened the younger generation's commitment to church principles.
C) Fervent sermons-jeremiads-on society's increasing depravity did little to rouse parishioners.
D) All of these choices.
E) None of these choices.

Question 21

The difference between the "Old Lights" and "New Lights" was

A) the Old Lights stressed emotionalism in their preaching; the New Lights did not.
B) the Old Lights relied on a network of itinerant preachers; the New Lights did not.
C) the Old Lights advocated a more rationalistic theology; the New Lights stressed emotionalism.
D) the Old Lights favored evangelicalism and individual prayer; the New Lights urged for a ministerial connection to God.
E) the Old Lights embraced Enlightenment ideals; the New Lights saw them as incompatible with faith.

Question 22

The Negro Act,which consolidated South Carolina's slave codes into one comprehensive law,was passed in response to

A) the Stono Rebellion.
B) Nat Turner's Rebellion.
C) Gabriel Prosser's Rebellion.
D) the Gullah Uprising.
E) Bacon's Rebellion.

Question 23

By the early 1700s,New York and Pennsylvania became known to English traders as the "bread colonies."

Question 24

What were the most significant events of the French and Indian War? What were the major provisions of the treaty that brought it to an end?

Question 25

The first demonstration by the colonists that they were becoming increasingly politically unified and shared a sense of common political goals was the

A) Albany Congress.
B) Stono Rebellion.
C) reaction to the Stono Rebellion.
D) trial of John Peter Zenger.
E) French and Indian War.

Question 26

New England's flat land and long growing season encouraged tobacco cultivation.

Question 27

Which of the following is not true about the importation of slaves into the Western Hemisphere in the colonial period?

A) About five million slaves were forcibly brought to the West Indies and Brazil.
B) Only about five percent of Africans were shipped to the United States.
C) American colonists bought most slaves in the seventeenth century, but increasingly shied away from the trade as they approached revolution.
D) More than 95 percent of colonial Africans remained slaves for life.
E) People were enslaved in Africa as a result of kidnapping.

Question 28

In the Chesapeake,the majority of slaves worked as

A) house servants.
B) artisans.
C) factory workers.
D) field hands.
E) shipbuilders.

Question 29

For many colonists,the result of the Glorious Revolution was

A) more control from Britain.
B) no real change in their relationship with Britain.
C) higher taxes.
D) lower taxes.
E) less oversight from the British government.

Question 30

In what ways did religion change in the colonies as a result of the Great Awakening?

Question 31

Discuss the consequences of the British victory in the French-Indian War for Native Americans.

Question 32

Describe what a typical "middle passage" would have been like for its slave passengers.

Question 33

Which was not a part of the Treaty of Paris?

A) The Mississippi River became the dividing line between England and Spain.
B) France lost its holdings in North America.
C) Spain received Louisiana from France.
D) The western interior of North America went to the English.
E) England was required to accept only partial territorial control of Canada and Florida from France.

Question 34

A jeremiad is a long Puritan speech that emphasized society's fall from purity and grace to its current,depraved state.

Question 35

In Pontiac's Rebellion

A) the Iroquois League attacked French forts in Quebec.
B) the Ottawa tribe soundly defeated the Indian allies of the French at Detroit.
C) Indians began a devastating intertribal warfare.
D) different tribes united under Chief Pontiac in their fight against English intrusion of Indian lands in the Northwest.
E) Indians delivered a sound defeat to the English in the "long war for the west."

Question 36

Which was not true of the middle passage?

A) Sick slaves were thrown overboard to try to prevent the spread of diseases.
B) Slaves were kept mostly below deck, away from fresh air.
C) Slaves from several different tribes were packed on the same ship, making them feel even more cut off from everything familiar.
D) The trip usually lasted from four to eight weeks.
E) It is estimated that just over half the slaves died on the journey.

Question 37

The Triangular Trade connected the West Indies,New York,and Boston in a triangle form.

Question 38

As the English colonists moved deeper into the Ohio Valley,they

A) found open fields and rich soils for farming.
B) had to deal with several strange animals that caused problems with their fields.
C) encroached on the lands where the French were involved in fur trading.
D) encountered fierce opposition from native tribes there.
E) infuriated the British government, which had ordered them to remain closer to the coast.

Question 39

Discuss the repercussions of the American Enlightenment in colonial society and politics.

Question 40

Discuss the development of the four distinct regions of the English colonies in America.

Question 41

The major hub of the American slave trade in 1750 was New York City.

Question 42

The Stono Rebellion in New York City convinced the citizens of that state to gradually abolish slavery to avoid future riots and uprisings.

Question 43

At the Albany Congress in 1754,prominent politicians and businessman from the British colonies considered national independence from Britain for the first time.

Question 44

Throughout the 1700s,the Chesapeake developed a strongly egalitarian social structure that anticipated revolutionary republican values.

Question 45

Known as the "New Lights," the Protestant denominations of the Great Awakening supported evangelism,new methods of prayer,and equality before Christ.

Question 46

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 hell.