Deck 3: The British Atlantic World, 1607-1750

Question 1

As part of its mercantilist policy in the late seventeenth century,England committed which of the following actions?

A) Cut back on monetary appropriations to the Royal Navy
B) Awarded the West African slave trade to the Dutch
C) Drove the Dutch from New Netherland
D) Awarded the West African slave trade to the Spanish

Answer 1

Drove the Dutch from New Netherland

Question 2

Which of the following occurred in the aftermath of the Glorious Revolution of 1688?

A) Plymouth,Maine,and Massachusetts Bay were joined to create a new royal colony.
B) Catholic Ireland came under the control of the English government.
C) The king appointed Sir Edmund Andros as governor of New England.
D) New York and New Jersey sought independence from the crown.

Answer 2

Plymouth,Maine,and Massachusetts Bay were joined to create a new royal colony.

Question 3

Why was the Covenant Chain between New York and the Iroquois people in the eighteenth century significant?

A) It served as a model for relations between the British Empire and other Native American groups.
B) The treaty prevented the Dutch from regaining control of the colony after the Glorious Revolution.
C) The alliance encouraged Native Americans in Massachusetts to migrate and join the Iroquois Nation.
D) It discouraged French efforts to seek a similar alliance with Iroquois people in the area.

Answer 3

It served as a model for relations between the British Empire and other Native American groups.

Question 4

Which of the following was an outcome of the Navigation Acts in the mid-seventeenth century?

A) Colonists were required to export their sugar and tobacco only to England.
B) The size of the British merchant fleet decreased by 50 percent.
C) Violent protests broke out in every major colonial port city.
D) French and Dutch naval fleets launched devastating attacks against English shippers.

Question 5

Which of the following events provoked a major crisis for Puritans in Massachusetts in the seventeenth century?

A) A Dutch blockade of the Boston harbor
B) The introduction of slavery into the colony
C) The annulment of Massachusetts' charter
D) The Stono Rebellion

Question 6

In Maryland,the aftermath of the Glorious Revolution was characterized by

A) an uprising that became a decade-long war.
B) the loss of power of the planter elite to yeomen farmers.
C) the establishment of the Church of England as the official church.
D) the abolition of indentured servitude.

Question 7

Which of the following describes the character of Britain's empire in America before 1660?

A) Royal bureaucrats imposed colonial order harshly and consistently.
B) Involved in its own situations at home,England took no interest in any of its colonies.
C) Angered by strict imperial rule,the colonists demanded their rights as Englishmen.
D) The British ruled their American colonies in a haphazard and lax manner.

Question 8

Which of the following statements is true of the Quaker religion in the 1660s?

A) It taught that God imbued all men and women with an "inner light" of grace.
B) Quakerism was the American version of the Church of England.
C) Quakers held beliefs that were very similar to those of Puritans.
D) The Quaker clergy were among the best educated in the colonies.

Question 9

Which American colony was established in the 1660s as a haven for Quakers?

A) New York
B) Massachusetts
C) Connecticut
D) Pennsylvania

Question 10

Which of the following statements describes the change in English economic philosophy toward the colonies beginning in the 1650s?

A) No longer content with a favorable balance of trade with European countries,the English government controlled trade with the colonies.
B) To increase efficiency,Americans were required to ship their goods to England on the first available vessel,whatever its nation of registry.
C) Confident in the colonies' solvency,the royal government no longer required payment of American colonial debts in gold or silver coins.
D) The English required Dutch ships to carry sugar and tobacco from America to England before delivering them elsewhere.

Question 11

Which of the following describes the process of tribalization that occurred in America in the early eighteenth century?

A) The adaptation of European colonizers to the manners and morals of native people
B) An adoption of American identity by colonists from a variety of European origins
C) Stateless peoples' adaptation to the demands imposed on them by neighboring states
D) American colonists' growing attachment to their specific local identities.

Question 12

Which of the following statements characterizes the impact of the War for Spanish Succession (1702-1713)in the American Southeast?

A) The Creek nation used the European war to expand its power into northern Florida and North Carolina.
B) With the help of the Iroquois,the Spanish captured and burned Charleston,South Carolina.
C) The Choctaw tribal peoples used the European war to expand their power into Georgia and northern Florida.
D) White Carolinians refused to aid or ally with Native American troops for fear that those tribes would attack frontier English settlements.

Question 13

Where did the first colonists who settled South Carolina and introduced racial slavery in the 1660s come from?

A) England
B) Brazil
C) Barbados
D) Virginia

Question 14

Which of the following statements describes the dominant approach to settlement in North Carolina in its early years?

A) Independent yeoman farm families were recruited to settle both colonies.
B) The proprietors planned to set up a manorial system,but this plan failed.
C) To attract settlers,the proprietors advertised heavily in Europe.
D) The proprietors were successful in creating a manorial system and a large class of serfs.

Question 15

The Navigation Acts of the mid-seventeenth century included which of the following stipulations?

A) Americans had to transport goods on English,not colonial,ships.
B) American colonists were required to trade with the French West Indies.
C) European goods imported to the colonies had to go through English ports.
D) Massachusetts shippers could not refuse to participate in the slave trade.

Question 16

For which of the following reasons did Britain's King James II create the Dominion of New England in 1686?

A) He aimed to strengthen royal control of the American colonies.
B) James believed it was necessary to prevent further colonial revolts.
C) James wanted to draft New Englanders into the fight against Metacom and his people.
D) James wanted to consolidate colonial forces to fight the French more effectively.

Question 17

Which of the following describes the significance of the Glorious Revolution of 1688 in England and America?

A) It had little impact on either England or North America apart from overthrowing James II.
B) The event led to a period of lax British rule of its American colonies,with few new laws or taxes.
C) It created democratic governments in Massachusetts,New York,and Maryland,but not in England.
D) The change represented a major step toward democracy in both England and the North American colonies.

Question 18

The Navigation Acts,implemented in the American colonies by Britain in the mid-seventeenth century,were originally intended to

A) increase royal revenue by taxing colonial shipping.
B) cut the Dutch and French out of the colonial trade.
C) allow the colonies to be more self-sufficient.
D) build up the colonial shipbuilding industry.

Question 19

Which of the following was true of the Restoration Colonies of New York,Pennsylvania,New Jersey,and the Carolinas in the 1660s?

A) Their constitutions re-created Europe's manorial system in America.
B) They were created by Charles II as he expanded English power in America.
C) Their rulers envisioned a traditional Anglican social order lead by a gentry class.
D) They were all founded by wealthy investors looking for riches in the New World.

Question 20

For which of the following reasons did the 1686 Dominion of New England anger American colonists?

A) It combined the colonial legislatures into one body.
B) The plan banned the Puritans' religious practices.
C) It invalidated the Massachusetts Bay colony's original land titles.
D) The plan threatened to prohibit slavery in the colonies.

Question 21

The extent of violence perpetrated by whites against slaves in any particular geographic area depended on which of the following factors?

A) Its religious composition
B) The region's relationship with England
C) Its population density
D) Its racial composition

Question 22

People from which of the following groups modeled themselves after the English aristocracy in the first half of the eighteenth century?

A) Chesapeake landowners
B) New York yeomen
C) Massachusetts farmers
D) Philadelphia artisans

Question 23

Which of the following characterized tobacco,rice,and sugar production in eighteenth-century America?

A) Each drove the expansion of the slave trade for a time.
B) These crops all originated in the colony of Virginia.
C) Each saved its respective production colonies from extinction.
D) Each led the American colonies to a greater dependence on England.

Question 24

Which of the following combinations describes wealthy Chesapeake and southern women in the first half of the eighteenth century?

A) Genteel and deferential
B) Illiterate and hardy
C) Industrious and political
D) Uneducated and lonely

Question 25

Which of the following was true of slavery in the American colonies in the eighteenth century?

A) Generally conditions were better in South Carolina and the West Indies than in Virginia.
B) Aside from some noteworthy rebellions,slaves rarely rebelled or even dissented.
C) Planters valued African slaves equally,regardless of their origin in Africa.
D) Slaves created a sophisticated culture with extended kin relationships and traditions.

Question 26

Which of the following statements characterizes African states' involvement in the Atlantic slave trade?

A) The West African kingdom of Dahomey refused to allow the export of male slaves.
B) The Asante kings used the profits of slave trading to expand their political dominion.
C) In the West African kingdom of Benin,the sale of slaves became a state monopoly.
D) No African kingdoms actively participated in the Atlantic slave trade.

Question 27

Which agricultural product served as the foundation for the South Atlantic System in the eighteenth century?

A) Sugar
B) Tobacco
C) Rice
D) Indigo

Question 28

When the early eighteenth-century Anglo-French wars temporarily ended with the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713,Britain had

A) lost ground to the French in the struggle for North America,with the French then firmly in control of all territory north of New England and west of the Appalachians.
B) lost control of the Iroquois and access to the western Indian trade,although it had gained control over the mouth of the Mississippi River.
C) won major territorial and commercial gains,including Newfoundland,Acadia,and the Hudson's Bay region as well as access to the western Indian trade.
D) neither gained nor lost land because both sides were exhausted and agreed to restore all territories taken from each other since 1689.

Question 29

How did South Carolina planters respond in the aftermath of the Stono Rebellion in 1739?

A) They improved the working conditions of their slaves.
B) They shipped most of their slaves to the West Indies.
C) The planters decided to import fewer Africans.
D) They hanged about 20 percent of the black population.

Question 30

Which of the following statements characterizes the impact of the slave trade on Africa?

A) Profits from the slave trade boosted most African economies.
B) The slave trade,which shrank Africa's population,reduced its larger states to loose tribal confederations.
C) The slave trade hardened African class divisions and changed gender relations.
D) Slavery within Africa disappeared after its leaders began to export slaves to the Americas.

Question 31

The term Middle Passage refers to which of the following?

A) The social mobility of freed slaves as they acclimated to life off the plantation
B) Life on sugar plantations,where slaves were treated as neither humans nor animals
C) African slaves' perilous transatlantic journey to the Americas
D) The assimilation process endured by Africans who lived in the Americas

Question 32

Which of the following occurred as a consequence of the "tobacco revolution" in Virginia and Maryland in the late seventeenth century?

A) Increased enslavement of Indians
B) Much harsher working conditions for slaves
C) Diminishing profits for planters
D) The creation of a slave-based plantation economy

Question 33

During the period between 1676 and 1750,how did the Virginia gentry try to reduce social discontent?

A) The gentry urged even the smallest landholders to purchase slaves and thus support the slavery system.
B) They raised the annual poll tax from five to forty-five pounds of tobacco a year.
C) They disenfranchised poorer whites by increasing the amount of land a man had to own in order to vote.
D) Virginia gentry enacted legislation that favored medium-scale farmers at the expense of both the richest and the poorest farmers.

Question 34

What method did Chesapeake planters use in the early eighteenth century to prevent slave revolts?

A) They provided incentives such as holiday feasts for compliant slaves.
B) They bought slaves of different ethnic backgrounds to limit their ability to organize.
C) Planters paid slaves for extra work and permitted them to buy their own freedom.
D) Planters provided basic education to which free blacks had no access.

Question 35

Which of the following statements describes slaves' lives in the North American colonies in the eighteenth century?

A) Slaves continued the ritual scarring practices that originated in many African tribes.
B) Traditional musical instruments and forms persisted in most African American cultures.
C) Slaves worked conscientiously to adopt the cultural styles and values of American whites.
D) Planters' control made it impossible for slaves to create or maintain strong families.

Question 36

Which of the following explains why Chesapeake planters treated their slaves less harshly than West Indian planters in the eighteenth century?

A) Chesapeake planters were Christians while West Indian planters were not.
B) West Indian planters denied slaves' humanity while Chesapeake planters recognized it.
C) Tobacco cultivation was more difficult than sugar production,requiring healthier slaves.
D) Profits on sugar were considerably higher than those made through tobacco production.

Question 37

Merchants from which nation dominated the slave trade during between 1650 and 1700?

A) France
B) England
C) Portugal
D) Holland

Question 38

Which of the following was true for the Iroquois in New York during the period of imperial warfare in the early eighteenth century?

A) They became embroiled in conflicts between Indians and Europeans in the Carolinas.
B) The tribe allied with France and Britain and declared their intention to remain neutral.
C) The tribe declared itself a French ally but then destroyed a number of French settlements.
D) The Iroquois swore loyalty to the English in time of war but also aided the American colonists.

Question 39

Which of the following changes occurred in white society in the Chesapeake colonies at the same time that slavery was being forced on Africans?

A) The importation of white indentured servants,especially females,increased rapidly at the same time.
B) A rising mortality rate among white males was increasing the incentives for their widows to buy slaves to work the land.
C) A more rigid class structure with a well-defined and highly visible economic and political elite began to emerge.
D) Small planters found it easier to prosper by purchasing slaves,making white society more egalitarian.

Question 40

The transatlantic slave trade resulted in which of the following outcomes in the eighteenth century?

A) Humanitarian appeals from the Virginia legislature
B) The emergence of polygamous marriage in many African societies
C) Rising wealth for southern planters at the expense of New England's populace
D) The need to expand public education in the northern and middle colonies

Question 41

Answer the following questions :
gentility

A)A colony created through a grant of land from the English monarch to an individual or group,who then set up a form of government largely independent of royal control.
B)Epithet for members of the Society of Friends.Their belief that God spoke directly to each individual through an "inner light" and that neither ministers nor the Bible were essential to discovering God's Word put them in conflict with both the Church of England and orthodox Puritans.
C)English laws passed,beginning in the 1650s and 1660s,requiring that certain English colonial goods be shipped through English ports on English ships manned primarily by English sailors in order to benefit English merchants,shippers,and seamen.
D)A royal province created by King James II in 1686 that would have absorbed Connecticut,Rhode Island,Massachusetts Bay,Plymouth,New York,and New Jersey into a single,vast colony and eliminated their assemblies and other chartered rights.James's plan was canceled by the Glorious Revolution in 1688,which removed him from the throne.
E)A quick and nearly bloodless coup in 1688 in which James II of England was overthrown by William of Orange.Whig politicians forced the new King William and Queen Mary to accept the Declaration of Rights,creating a constitutional monarchy that enhanced the powers of the House of Commons at the expense of the crown.
F)A monarchy limited in its rule by a constitution.
G)An era of warfare beginning with the War of the League of Augsburg in 1689 and lasting until the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815.In that time,England fought in seven major wars;the longest era of peace lasted only twenty-six years.
H)The adaptation of stateless peoples to the demands imposed on them by neighboring states.
I)The alliance of the Iroquois,first with the colony of New York,then with the British Empire and its other colonies.This alliance became a model for relations between the British Empire and other Native American peoples.
J)A new agricultural and commercial order that produced sugar,tobacco,rice,and other tropical and subtropical products for an international market.Its plantation societies were ruled by European planter-merchants and worked by hundreds of thousands of enslaved Africans.
K)The brutal sea voyage from Africa to the Americas that took the lives of nearly two million enslaved Africans.
L)Slave uprising in 1739 along the Stono River in South Carolina in which a group of slaves armed themselves,plundered six plantations,and killed more than twenty colonists.Colonists quickly suppressed the rebellion.
M)A refined style of living and elaborate manners that came to be highly prized among well-to-do English families after 1600 and strongly influenced leading colonists after 1700.
N)A term used to describe British colonial policy during the reigns of George I .By relaxing their supervision of internal colonial affairs,royal bureaucrats inadvertently assisted the rise of self-government in North America.
O)The power of elected officials to grant government jobs and favors to their supporters;also the jobs and favors themselves.

Question 42

Answer the following questions :
Covenant Chain

A)A colony created through a grant of land from the English monarch to an individual or group,who then set up a form of government largely independent of royal control.
B)Epithet for members of the Society of Friends.Their belief that God spoke directly to each individual through an "inner light" and that neither ministers nor the Bible were essential to discovering God's Word put them in conflict with both the Church of England and orthodox Puritans.
C)English laws passed,beginning in the 1650s and 1660s,requiring that certain English colonial goods be shipped through English ports on English ships manned primarily by English sailors in order to benefit English merchants,shippers,and seamen.
D)A royal province created by King James II in 1686 that would have absorbed Connecticut,Rhode Island,Massachusetts Bay,Plymouth,New York,and New Jersey into a single,vast colony and eliminated their assemblies and other chartered rights.James's plan was canceled by the Glorious Revolution in 1688,which removed him from the throne.
E)A quick and nearly bloodless coup in 1688 in which James II of England was overthrown by William of Orange.Whig politicians forced the new King William and Queen Mary to accept the Declaration of Rights,creating a constitutional monarchy that enhanced the powers of the House of Commons at the expense of the crown.
F)A monarchy limited in its rule by a constitution.
G)An era of warfare beginning with the War of the League of Augsburg in 1689 and lasting until the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815.In that time,England fought in seven major wars;the longest era of peace lasted only twenty-six years.
H)The adaptation of stateless peoples to the demands imposed on them by neighboring states.
I)The alliance of the Iroquois,first with the colony of New York,then with the British Empire and its other colonies.This alliance became a model for relations between the British Empire and other Native American peoples.
J)A new agricultural and commercial order that produced sugar,tobacco,rice,and other tropical and subtropical products for an international market.Its plantation societies were ruled by European planter-merchants and worked by hundreds of thousands of enslaved Africans.
K)The brutal sea voyage from Africa to the Americas that took the lives of nearly two million enslaved Africans.
L)Slave uprising in 1739 along the Stono River in South Carolina in which a group of slaves armed themselves,plundered six plantations,and killed more than twenty colonists.Colonists quickly suppressed the rebellion.
M)A refined style of living and elaborate manners that came to be highly prized among well-to-do English families after 1600 and strongly influenced leading colonists after 1700.
N)A term used to describe British colonial policy during the reigns of George I .By relaxing their supervision of internal colonial affairs,royal bureaucrats inadvertently assisted the rise of self-government in North America.
O)The power of elected officials to grant government jobs and favors to their supporters;also the jobs and favors themselves.

Question 43

Answer the following questions :
proprietorship

A)A colony created through a grant of land from the English monarch to an individual or group,who then set up a form of government largely independent of royal control.
B)Epithet for members of the Society of Friends.Their belief that God spoke directly to each individual through an "inner light" and that neither ministers nor the Bible were essential to discovering God's Word put them in conflict with both the Church of England and orthodox Puritans.
C)English laws passed,beginning in the 1650s and 1660s,requiring that certain English colonial goods be shipped through English ports on English ships manned primarily by English sailors in order to benefit English merchants,shippers,and seamen.
D)A royal province created by King James II in 1686 that would have absorbed Connecticut,Rhode Island,Massachusetts Bay,Plymouth,New York,and New Jersey into a single,vast colony and eliminated their assemblies and other chartered rights.James's plan was canceled by the Glorious Revolution in 1688,which removed him from the throne.
E)A quick and nearly bloodless coup in 1688 in which James II of England was overthrown by William of Orange.Whig politicians forced the new King William and Queen Mary to accept the Declaration of Rights,creating a constitutional monarchy that enhanced the powers of the House of Commons at the expense of the crown.
F)A monarchy limited in its rule by a constitution.
G)An era of warfare beginning with the War of the League of Augsburg in 1689 and lasting until the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815.In that time,England fought in seven major wars;the longest era of peace lasted only twenty-six years.
H)The adaptation of stateless peoples to the demands imposed on them by neighboring states.
I)The alliance of the Iroquois,first with the colony of New York,then with the British Empire and its other colonies.This alliance became a model for relations between the British Empire and other Native American peoples.
J)A new agricultural and commercial order that produced sugar,tobacco,rice,and other tropical and subtropical products for an international market.Its plantation societies were ruled by European planter-merchants and worked by hundreds of thousands of enslaved Africans.
K)The brutal sea voyage from Africa to the Americas that took the lives of nearly two million enslaved Africans.
L)Slave uprising in 1739 along the Stono River in South Carolina in which a group of slaves armed themselves,plundered six plantations,and killed more than twenty colonists.Colonists quickly suppressed the rebellion.
M)A refined style of living and elaborate manners that came to be highly prized among well-to-do English families after 1600 and strongly influenced leading colonists after 1700.
N)A term used to describe British colonial policy during the reigns of George I .By relaxing their supervision of internal colonial affairs,royal bureaucrats inadvertently assisted the rise of self-government in North America.
O)The power of elected officials to grant government jobs and favors to their supporters;also the jobs and favors themselves.

Question 44

For this question,refer to the following map,"The Growing Power of the American Merchant,1750." The process of transactions depicted on the map above most directly led to controversies over

A) regional distinctiveness among the British colonies.
B) colonial resistance to perceived corruption in the imperial system.
C) accommodation with some aspects of American Indian culture.
D) Protestant evangelism and religious toleration.

Question 45

Answer the following questions :
Dominion of New England

A)A colony created through a grant of land from the English monarch to an individual or group,who then set up a form of government largely independent of royal control.
B)Epithet for members of the Society of Friends.Their belief that God spoke directly to each individual through an "inner light" and that neither ministers nor the Bible were essential to discovering God's Word put them in conflict with both the Church of England and orthodox Puritans.
C)English laws passed,beginning in the 1650s and 1660s,requiring that certain English colonial goods be shipped through English ports on English ships manned primarily by English sailors in order to benefit English merchants,shippers,and seamen.
D)A royal province created by King James II in 1686 that would have absorbed Connecticut,Rhode Island,Massachusetts Bay,Plymouth,New York,and New Jersey into a single,vast colony and eliminated their assemblies and other chartered rights.James's plan was canceled by the Glorious Revolution in 1688,which removed him from the throne.
E)A quick and nearly bloodless coup in 1688 in which James II of England was overthrown by William of Orange.Whig politicians forced the new King William and Queen Mary to accept the Declaration of Rights,creating a constitutional monarchy that enhanced the powers of the House of Commons at the expense of the crown.
F)A monarchy limited in its rule by a constitution.
G)An era of warfare beginning with the War of the League of Augsburg in 1689 and lasting until the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815.In that time,England fought in seven major wars;the longest era of peace lasted only twenty-six years.
H)The adaptation of stateless peoples to the demands imposed on them by neighboring states.
I)The alliance of the Iroquois,first with the colony of New York,then with the British Empire and its other colonies.This alliance became a model for relations between the British Empire and other Native American peoples.
J)A new agricultural and commercial order that produced sugar,tobacco,rice,and other tropical and subtropical products for an international market.Its plantation societies were ruled by European planter-merchants and worked by hundreds of thousands of enslaved Africans.
K)The brutal sea voyage from Africa to the Americas that took the lives of nearly two million enslaved Africans.
L)Slave uprising in 1739 along the Stono River in South Carolina in which a group of slaves armed themselves,plundered six plantations,and killed more than twenty colonists.Colonists quickly suppressed the rebellion.
M)A refined style of living and elaborate manners that came to be highly prized among well-to-do English families after 1600 and strongly influenced leading colonists after 1700.
N)A term used to describe British colonial policy during the reigns of George I .By relaxing their supervision of internal colonial affairs,royal bureaucrats inadvertently assisted the rise of self-government in North America.
O)The power of elected officials to grant government jobs and favors to their supporters;also the jobs and favors themselves.

Question 46

For this question,refer to the following excerpt. "At last to my new master's house I came,
At the town of Wicocc[o]moco call'd by name,
Where my Europian clothes were took from me,
Which never after I again could see.
A canvas shirt and trowsers then they gave,
With a hop-sack frock in which I was to slave:
No shoes nor stockings had I for to wear,
Nor hat,nor cap,both head and feet were bare.
Thus dress'd into the Field I nex[t] must go,
Amongst tobacco plants all day to hoe,
At day break in the morn our work began,
And so held to the setting of the Sun.
My fellow slaves were just five Transports more,
With eighteen Negroes,which is twenty four ...
We and the Negroes both alike did fare,
Of work and food we had an equal share...."
Poem by indentured servant James Revel,c.1680
This source most likely originated in which colonial region?

A) In one of the New England colonies
B) In a French colony just after the emergence of the Atlantic slave trade
C) In a Spanish colony just prior to the Pueblo Revolt
D) In a colony in the Chesapeake

Question 47

The British colonists in eighteenth-century North America enjoyed a significant degree of autonomy over their royal governors mainly due to

A) the practice of salutary neglect.
B) their control over governors' salaries.
C) democratic election processes.
D) their ability to recall unpopular officials.

Question 48

Answer the following questions :
Glorious Revolution

A)A colony created through a grant of land from the English monarch to an individual or group,who then set up a form of government largely independent of royal control.
B)Epithet for members of the Society of Friends.Their belief that God spoke directly to each individual through an "inner light" and that neither ministers nor the Bible were essential to discovering God's Word put them in conflict with both the Church of England and orthodox Puritans.
C)English laws passed,beginning in the 1650s and 1660s,requiring that certain English colonial goods be shipped through English ports on English ships manned primarily by English sailors in order to benefit English merchants,shippers,and seamen.
D)A royal province created by King James II in 1686 that would have absorbed Connecticut,Rhode Island,Massachusetts Bay,Plymouth,New York,and New Jersey into a single,vast colony and eliminated their assemblies and other chartered rights.James's plan was canceled by the Glorious Revolution in 1688,which removed him from the throne.
E)A quick and nearly bloodless coup in 1688 in which James II of England was overthrown by William of Orange.Whig politicians forced the new King William and Queen Mary to accept the Declaration of Rights,creating a constitutional monarchy that enhanced the powers of the House of Commons at the expense of the crown.
F)A monarchy limited in its rule by a constitution.
G)An era of warfare beginning with the War of the League of Augsburg in 1689 and lasting until the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815.In that time,England fought in seven major wars;the longest era of peace lasted only twenty-six years.
H)The adaptation of stateless peoples to the demands imposed on them by neighboring states.
I)The alliance of the Iroquois,first with the colony of New York,then with the British Empire and its other colonies.This alliance became a model for relations between the British Empire and other Native American peoples.
J)A new agricultural and commercial order that produced sugar,tobacco,rice,and other tropical and subtropical products for an international market.Its plantation societies were ruled by European planter-merchants and worked by hundreds of thousands of enslaved Africans.
K)The brutal sea voyage from Africa to the Americas that took the lives of nearly two million enslaved Africans.
L)Slave uprising in 1739 along the Stono River in South Carolina in which a group of slaves armed themselves,plundered six plantations,and killed more than twenty colonists.Colonists quickly suppressed the rebellion.
M)A refined style of living and elaborate manners that came to be highly prized among well-to-do English families after 1600 and strongly influenced leading colonists after 1700.
N)A term used to describe British colonial policy during the reigns of George I .By relaxing their supervision of internal colonial affairs,royal bureaucrats inadvertently assisted the rise of self-government in North America.
O)The power of elected officials to grant government jobs and favors to their supporters;also the jobs and favors themselves.

Question 49

For this question,refer to the following map,"The Growing Power of the American Merchant,1750." This map would be most useful to historians analyzing

A) the differences in imperial goals in the various European models of colonization.
B) the growing mistrust between colonial settlers and European leaders.
C) mercantilist aims and priorities of Britain in the Atlantic world.
D) the growth of ideas on race in this Atlantic System.

Question 50

Answer the following questions :
patronage

A)A colony created through a grant of land from the English monarch to an individual or group,who then set up a form of government largely independent of royal control.
B)Epithet for members of the Society of Friends.Their belief that God spoke directly to each individual through an "inner light" and that neither ministers nor the Bible were essential to discovering God's Word put them in conflict with both the Church of England and orthodox Puritans.
C)English laws passed,beginning in the 1650s and 1660s,requiring that certain English colonial goods be shipped through English ports on English ships manned primarily by English sailors in order to benefit English merchants,shippers,and seamen.
D)A royal province created by King James II in 1686 that would have absorbed Connecticut,Rhode Island,Massachusetts Bay,Plymouth,New York,and New Jersey into a single,vast colony and eliminated their assemblies and other chartered rights.James's plan was canceled by the Glorious Revolution in 1688,which removed him from the throne.
E)A quick and nearly bloodless coup in 1688 in which James II of England was overthrown by William of Orange.Whig politicians forced the new King William and Queen Mary to accept the Declaration of Rights,creating a constitutional monarchy that enhanced the powers of the House of Commons at the expense of the crown.
F)A monarchy limited in its rule by a constitution.
G)An era of warfare beginning with the War of the League of Augsburg in 1689 and lasting until the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815.In that time,England fought in seven major wars;the longest era of peace lasted only twenty-six years.
H)The adaptation of stateless peoples to the demands imposed on them by neighboring states.
I)The alliance of the Iroquois,first with the colony of New York,then with the British Empire and its other colonies.This alliance became a model for relations between the British Empire and other Native American peoples.
J)A new agricultural and commercial order that produced sugar,tobacco,rice,and other tropical and subtropical products for an international market.Its plantation societies were ruled by European planter-merchants and worked by hundreds of thousands of enslaved Africans.
K)The brutal sea voyage from Africa to the Americas that took the lives of nearly two million enslaved Africans.
L)Slave uprising in 1739 along the Stono River in South Carolina in which a group of slaves armed themselves,plundered six plantations,and killed more than twenty colonists.Colonists quickly suppressed the rebellion.
M)A refined style of living and elaborate manners that came to be highly prized among well-to-do English families after 1600 and strongly influenced leading colonists after 1700.
N)A term used to describe British colonial policy during the reigns of George I .By relaxing their supervision of internal colonial affairs,royal bureaucrats inadvertently assisted the rise of self-government in North America.
O)The power of elected officials to grant government jobs and favors to their supporters;also the jobs and favors themselves.

Question 51

For which of the following reasons did war break out between England and Spain in the late 1730s?

A) Spanish merchants had eroded the British slave trade in the Caribbean.
B) Spain was angry over the English settlement of Georgia.
C) England offered support to the growing Spanish Protestant movement.
D) English pirates persisted in attacking Spanish ships.

Question 52

The Molasses Act of 1733 primarily targeted the colonists' molasses trade with what country?

A) Portugal
B) Spain
C) France
D) Britain

Question 53

Answer the following questions :
constitutional monarchy

A)A colony created through a grant of land from the English monarch to an individual or group,who then set up a form of government largely independent of royal control.
B)Epithet for members of the Society of Friends.Their belief that God spoke directly to each individual through an "inner light" and that neither ministers nor the Bible were essential to discovering God's Word put them in conflict with both the Church of England and orthodox Puritans.
C)English laws passed,beginning in the 1650s and 1660s,requiring that certain English colonial goods be shipped through English ports on English ships manned primarily by English sailors in order to benefit English merchants,shippers,and seamen.
D)A royal province created by King James II in 1686 that would have absorbed Connecticut,Rhode Island,Massachusetts Bay,Plymouth,New York,and New Jersey into a single,vast colony and eliminated their assemblies and other chartered rights.James's plan was canceled by the Glorious Revolution in 1688,which removed him from the throne.
E)A quick and nearly bloodless coup in 1688 in which James II of England was overthrown by William of Orange.Whig politicians forced the new King William and Queen Mary to accept the Declaration of Rights,creating a constitutional monarchy that enhanced the powers of the House of Commons at the expense of the crown.
F)A monarchy limited in its rule by a constitution.
G)An era of warfare beginning with the War of the League of Augsburg in 1689 and lasting until the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815.In that time,England fought in seven major wars;the longest era of peace lasted only twenty-six years.
H)The adaptation of stateless peoples to the demands imposed on them by neighboring states.
I)The alliance of the Iroquois,first with the colony of New York,then with the British Empire and its other colonies.This alliance became a model for relations between the British Empire and other Native American peoples.
J)A new agricultural and commercial order that produced sugar,tobacco,rice,and other tropical and subtropical products for an international market.Its plantation societies were ruled by European planter-merchants and worked by hundreds of thousands of enslaved Africans.
K)The brutal sea voyage from Africa to the Americas that took the lives of nearly two million enslaved Africans.
L)Slave uprising in 1739 along the Stono River in South Carolina in which a group of slaves armed themselves,plundered six plantations,and killed more than twenty colonists.Colonists quickly suppressed the rebellion.
M)A refined style of living and elaborate manners that came to be highly prized among well-to-do English families after 1600 and strongly influenced leading colonists after 1700.
N)A term used to describe British colonial policy during the reigns of George I .By relaxing their supervision of internal colonial affairs,royal bureaucrats inadvertently assisted the rise of self-government in North America.
O)The power of elected officials to grant government jobs and favors to their supporters;also the jobs and favors themselves.

Question 54

Answer the following questions :
Second Hundred Years' War

A)A colony created through a grant of land from the English monarch to an individual or group,who then set up a form of government largely independent of royal control.
B)Epithet for members of the Society of Friends.Their belief that God spoke directly to each individual through an "inner light" and that neither ministers nor the Bible were essential to discovering God's Word put them in conflict with both the Church of England and orthodox Puritans.
C)English laws passed,beginning in the 1650s and 1660s,requiring that certain English colonial goods be shipped through English ports on English ships manned primarily by English sailors in order to benefit English merchants,shippers,and seamen.
D)A royal province created by King James II in 1686 that would have absorbed Connecticut,Rhode Island,Massachusetts Bay,Plymouth,New York,and New Jersey into a single,vast colony and eliminated their assemblies and other chartered rights.James's plan was canceled by the Glorious Revolution in 1688,which removed him from the throne.
E)A quick and nearly bloodless coup in 1688 in which James II of England was overthrown by William of Orange.Whig politicians forced the new King William and Queen Mary to accept the Declaration of Rights,creating a constitutional monarchy that enhanced the powers of the House of Commons at the expense of the crown.
F)A monarchy limited in its rule by a constitution.
G)An era of warfare beginning with the War of the League of Augsburg in 1689 and lasting until the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815.In that time,England fought in seven major wars;the longest era of peace lasted only twenty-six years.
H)The adaptation of stateless peoples to the demands imposed on them by neighboring states.
I)The alliance of the Iroquois,first with the colony of New York,then with the British Empire and its other colonies.This alliance became a model for relations between the British Empire and other Native American peoples.
J)A new agricultural and commercial order that produced sugar,tobacco,rice,and other tropical and subtropical products for an international market.Its plantation societies were ruled by European planter-merchants and worked by hundreds of thousands of enslaved Africans.
K)The brutal sea voyage from Africa to the Americas that took the lives of nearly two million enslaved Africans.
L)Slave uprising in 1739 along the Stono River in South Carolina in which a group of slaves armed themselves,plundered six plantations,and killed more than twenty colonists.Colonists quickly suppressed the rebellion.
M)A refined style of living and elaborate manners that came to be highly prized among well-to-do English families after 1600 and strongly influenced leading colonists after 1700.
N)A term used to describe British colonial policy during the reigns of George I .By relaxing their supervision of internal colonial affairs,royal bureaucrats inadvertently assisted the rise of self-government in North America.
O)The power of elected officials to grant government jobs and favors to their supporters;also the jobs and favors themselves.

Question 55

For this question,refer to the following excerpt. "At last to my new master's house I came,
At the town of Wicocc[o]moco call'd by name,
Where my Europian clothes were took from me,
Which never after I again could see.
A canvas shirt and trowsers then they gave,
With a hop-sack frock in which I was to slave:
No shoes nor stockings had I for to wear,
Nor hat,nor cap,both head and feet were bare.
Thus dress'd into the Field I nex[t] must go,
Amongst tobacco plants all day to hoe,
At day break in the morn our work began,
And so held to the setting of the Sun.
My fellow slaves were just five Transports more,
With eighteen Negroes,which is twenty four ...
We and the Negroes both alike did fare,
Of work and food we had an equal share...."
Poem by indentured servant James Revel,c.1680
The ideas expressed in the passage above most directly reflect which of the following continuities in U.S.history?

A) Landowner competition over resources
B) The economic and class tensions resulting after migration to the Western Hemisphere
C) The struggles of governmental organizations to address the effects of mass migrations
D) Intellectual movements challenging the established order

Question 56

Answer the following questions :
South Atlantic System

A)A colony created through a grant of land from the English monarch to an individual or group,who then set up a form of government largely independent of royal control.
B)Epithet for members of the Society of Friends.Their belief that God spoke directly to each individual through an "inner light" and that neither ministers nor the Bible were essential to discovering God's Word put them in conflict with both the Church of England and orthodox Puritans.
C)English laws passed,beginning in the 1650s and 1660s,requiring that certain English colonial goods be shipped through English ports on English ships manned primarily by English sailors in order to benefit English merchants,shippers,and seamen.
D)A royal province created by King James II in 1686 that would have absorbed Connecticut,Rhode Island,Massachusetts Bay,Plymouth,New York,and New Jersey into a single,vast colony and eliminated their assemblies and other chartered rights.James's plan was canceled by the Glorious Revolution in 1688,which removed him from the throne.
E)A quick and nearly bloodless coup in 1688 in which James II of England was overthrown by William of Orange.Whig politicians forced the new King William and Queen Mary to accept the Declaration of Rights,creating a constitutional monarchy that enhanced the powers of the House of Commons at the expense of the crown.
F)A monarchy limited in its rule by a constitution.
G)An era of warfare beginning with the War of the League of Augsburg in 1689 and lasting until the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815.In that time,England fought in seven major wars;the longest era of peace lasted only twenty-six years.
H)The adaptation of stateless peoples to the demands imposed on them by neighboring states.
I)The alliance of the Iroquois,first with the colony of New York,then with the British Empire and its other colonies.This alliance became a model for relations between the British Empire and other Native American peoples.
J)A new agricultural and commercial order that produced sugar,tobacco,rice,and other tropical and subtropical products for an international market.Its plantation societies were ruled by European planter-merchants and worked by hundreds of thousands of enslaved Africans.
K)The brutal sea voyage from Africa to the Americas that took the lives of nearly two million enslaved Africans.
L)Slave uprising in 1739 along the Stono River in South Carolina in which a group of slaves armed themselves,plundered six plantations,and killed more than twenty colonists.Colonists quickly suppressed the rebellion.
M)A refined style of living and elaborate manners that came to be highly prized among well-to-do English families after 1600 and strongly influenced leading colonists after 1700.
N)A term used to describe British colonial policy during the reigns of George I .By relaxing their supervision of internal colonial affairs,royal bureaucrats inadvertently assisted the rise of self-government in North America.
O)The power of elected officials to grant government jobs and favors to their supporters;also the jobs and favors themselves.

Question 57

For this question,refer to the following excerpt. "At last to my new master's house I came,
At the town of Wicocc[o]moco call'd by name,
Where my Europian clothes were took from me,
Which never after I again could see.
A canvas shirt and trowsers then they gave,
With a hop-sack frock in which I was to slave:
No shoes nor stockings had I for to wear,
Nor hat,nor cap,both head and feet were bare.
Thus dress'd into the Field I nex[t] must go,
Amongst tobacco plants all day to hoe,
At day break in the morn our work began,
And so held to the setting of the Sun.
My fellow slaves were just five Transports more,
With eighteen Negroes,which is twenty four ...
We and the Negroes both alike did fare,
Of work and food we had an equal share...."
Poem by indentured servant James Revel,c.1680
The agricultural needs of the crop described in this passage most directly contributed to which of the following?

A) The emergence of the Atlantic slave trade
B) The development of more effective means of enslaving Native peoples
C) A decline in the belief in European racial and cultural superiority
D) The development of a close-knit,homogeneous society

Question 58

The Americans' major objection to the Navigation Acts related to which of the following stipulations?

A) The requirement that Americans maintain a favorable balance of trade with England
B) Americans' obligation to export all tobacco to England,unless there was a surplus
C) The prohibition on fur trading west of the Appalachian Mountains
D) A ban on the building of oceangoing ships in the North American colonies

Question 59

What did the British policy of salutary neglect of the American colonies in the early eighteenth century mean?

A) The British relaxed their supervision of the colonies' internal affairs while concentrating on defense and trade policies.
B) Britain ignored Americans' hopes for independence instead of suppressing them violently.
C) The English failed to enforce nearly all the laws that Parliament passed regarding the colonies.
D) Britain refused to defend the colonies and instead expected colonial taxpayers to assume the entire burden.

Question 60

Answer the following questions :
Navigation Acts

A)A colony created through a grant of land from the English monarch to an individual or group,who then set up a form of government largely independent of royal control.
B)Epithet for members of the Society of Friends.Their belief that God spoke directly to each individual through an "inner light" and that neither ministers nor the Bible were essential to discovering God's Word put them in conflict with both the Church of England and orthodox Puritans.
C)English laws passed,beginning in the 1650s and 1660s,requiring that certain English colonial goods be shipped through English ports on English ships manned primarily by English sailors in order to benefit English merchants,shippers,and seamen.
D)A royal province created by King James II in 1686 that would have absorbed Connecticut,Rhode Island,Massachusetts Bay,Plymouth,New York,and New Jersey into a single,vast colony and eliminated their assemblies and other chartered rights.James's plan was canceled by the Glorious Revolution in 1688,which removed him from the throne.
E)A quick and nearly bloodless coup in 1688 in which James II of England was overthrown by William of Orange.Whig politicians forced the new King William and Queen Mary to accept the Declaration of Rights,creating a constitutional monarchy that enhanced the powers of the House of Commons at the expense of the crown.
F)A monarchy limited in its rule by a constitution.
G)An era of warfare beginning with the War of the League of Augsburg in 1689 and lasting until the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815.In that time,England fought in seven major wars;the longest era of peace lasted only twenty-six years.
H)The adaptation of stateless peoples to the demands imposed on them by neighboring states.
I)The alliance of the Iroquois,first with the colony of New York,then with the British Empire and its other colonies.This alliance became a model for relations between the British Empire and other Native American peoples.
J)A new agricultural and commercial order that produced sugar,tobacco,rice,and other tropical and subtropical products for an international market.Its plantation societies were ruled by European planter-merchants and worked by hundreds of thousands of enslaved Africans.
K)The brutal sea voyage from Africa to the Americas that took the lives of nearly two million enslaved Africans.
L)Slave uprising in 1739 along the Stono River in South Carolina in which a group of slaves armed themselves,plundered six plantations,and killed more than twenty colonists.Colonists quickly suppressed the rebellion.
M)A refined style of living and elaborate manners that came to be highly prized among well-to-do English families after 1600 and strongly influenced leading colonists after 1700.
N)A term used to describe British colonial policy during the reigns of George I .By relaxing their supervision of internal colonial affairs,royal bureaucrats inadvertently assisted the rise of self-government in North America.
O)The power of elected officials to grant government jobs and favors to their supporters;also the jobs and favors themselves.

Question 61

What role did mob violence play in early colonial politics between 1650 and 1750?

Question 62

Why did the manorial system envisioned by the proprietor of the Carolinas fail to take hold in the late seventeenth century?

Question 63

Answer the following questions :
Middle Passage

A)A colony created through a grant of land from the English monarch to an individual or group,who then set up a form of government largely independent of royal control.
B)Epithet for members of the Society of Friends.Their belief that God spoke directly to each individual through an "inner light" and that neither ministers nor the Bible were essential to discovering God's Word put them in conflict with both the Church of England and orthodox Puritans.
C)English laws passed,beginning in the 1650s and 1660s,requiring that certain English colonial goods be shipped through English ports on English ships manned primarily by English sailors in order to benefit English merchants,shippers,and seamen.
D)A royal province created by King James II in 1686 that would have absorbed Connecticut,Rhode Island,Massachusetts Bay,Plymouth,New York,and New Jersey into a single,vast colony and eliminated their assemblies and other chartered rights.James's plan was canceled by the Glorious Revolution in 1688,which removed him from the throne.
E)A quick and nearly bloodless coup in 1688 in which James II of England was overthrown by William of Orange.Whig politicians forced the new King William and Queen Mary to accept the Declaration of Rights,creating a constitutional monarchy that enhanced the powers of the House of Commons at the expense of the crown.
F)A monarchy limited in its rule by a constitution.
G)An era of warfare beginning with the War of the League of Augsburg in 1689 and lasting until the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815.In that time,England fought in seven major wars;the longest era of peace lasted only twenty-six years.
H)The adaptation of stateless peoples to the demands imposed on them by neighboring states.
I)The alliance of the Iroquois,first with the colony of New York,then with the British Empire and its other colonies.This alliance became a model for relations between the British Empire and other Native American peoples.
J)A new agricultural and commercial order that produced sugar,tobacco,rice,and other tropical and subtropical products for an international market.Its plantation societies were ruled by European planter-merchants and worked by hundreds of thousands of enslaved Africans.
K)The brutal sea voyage from Africa to the Americas that took the lives of nearly two million enslaved Africans.
L)Slave uprising in 1739 along the Stono River in South Carolina in which a group of slaves armed themselves,plundered six plantations,and killed more than twenty colonists.Colonists quickly suppressed the rebellion.
M)A refined style of living and elaborate manners that came to be highly prized among well-to-do English families after 1600 and strongly influenced leading colonists after 1700.
N)A term used to describe British colonial policy during the reigns of George I .By relaxing their supervision of internal colonial affairs,royal bureaucrats inadvertently assisted the rise of self-government in North America.
O)The power of elected officials to grant government jobs and favors to their supporters;also the jobs and favors themselves.

Question 64

How did British policies in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries shape the American colonies and the British/American relationship?

Question 65

How did the system of slavery develop in the British American colonies? What role did Africans play and what roles did Europeans play? Why did it develop differently in the Chesapeake,the Carolina low country,and the West Indies?

Question 66

How did Britain's North American plantation and neo-European colonies become more closely interconnected after 1700? What developments caused them to become more closely tied to each other? How did they benefit from these ties? Can you see any disadvantages to the colonies in a more fully integrated Atlantic system?
Answer Key

Question 67

Answer the following questions :
tribalization

A)A colony created through a grant of land from the English monarch to an individual or group,who then set up a form of government largely independent of royal control.
B)Epithet for members of the Society of Friends.Their belief that God spoke directly to each individual through an "inner light" and that neither ministers nor the Bible were essential to discovering God's Word put them in conflict with both the Church of England and orthodox Puritans.
C)English laws passed,beginning in the 1650s and 1660s,requiring that certain English colonial goods be shipped through English ports on English ships manned primarily by English sailors in order to benefit English merchants,shippers,and seamen.
D)A royal province created by King James II in 1686 that would have absorbed Connecticut,Rhode Island,Massachusetts Bay,Plymouth,New York,and New Jersey into a single,vast colony and eliminated their assemblies and other chartered rights.James's plan was canceled by the Glorious Revolution in 1688,which removed him from the throne.
E)A quick and nearly bloodless coup in 1688 in which James II of England was overthrown by William of Orange.Whig politicians forced the new King William and Queen Mary to accept the Declaration of Rights,creating a constitutional monarchy that enhanced the powers of the House of Commons at the expense of the crown.
F)A monarchy limited in its rule by a constitution.
G)An era of warfare beginning with the War of the League of Augsburg in 1689 and lasting until the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815.In that time,England fought in seven major wars;the longest era of peace lasted only twenty-six years.
H)The adaptation of stateless peoples to the demands imposed on them by neighboring states.
I)The alliance of the Iroquois,first with the colony of New York,then with the British Empire and its other colonies.This alliance became a model for relations between the British Empire and other Native American peoples.
J)A new agricultural and commercial order that produced sugar,tobacco,rice,and other tropical and subtropical products for an international market.Its plantation societies were ruled by European planter-merchants and worked by hundreds of thousands of enslaved Africans.
K)The brutal sea voyage from Africa to the Americas that took the lives of nearly two million enslaved Africans.
L)Slave uprising in 1739 along the Stono River in South Carolina in which a group of slaves armed themselves,plundered six plantations,and killed more than twenty colonists.Colonists quickly suppressed the rebellion.
M)A refined style of living and elaborate manners that came to be highly prized among well-to-do English families after 1600 and strongly influenced leading colonists after 1700.
N)A term used to describe British colonial policy during the reigns of George I .By relaxing their supervision of internal colonial affairs,royal bureaucrats inadvertently assisted the rise of self-government in North America.
O)The power of elected officials to grant government jobs and favors to their supporters;also the jobs and favors themselves.

Question 68

Answer the following questions :
Stono Rebellion

A)A colony created through a grant of land from the English monarch to an individual or group,who then set up a form of government largely independent of royal control.
B)Epithet for members of the Society of Friends.Their belief that God spoke directly to each individual through an "inner light" and that neither ministers nor the Bible were essential to discovering God's Word put them in conflict with both the Church of England and orthodox Puritans.
C)English laws passed,beginning in the 1650s and 1660s,requiring that certain English colonial goods be shipped through English ports on English ships manned primarily by English sailors in order to benefit English merchants,shippers,and seamen.
D)A royal province created by King James II in 1686 that would have absorbed Connecticut,Rhode Island,Massachusetts Bay,Plymouth,New York,and New Jersey into a single,vast colony and eliminated their assemblies and other chartered rights.James's plan was canceled by the Glorious Revolution in 1688,which removed him from the throne.
E)A quick and nearly bloodless coup in 1688 in which James II of England was overthrown by William of Orange.Whig politicians forced the new King William and Queen Mary to accept the Declaration of Rights,creating a constitutional monarchy that enhanced the powers of the House of Commons at the expense of the crown.
F)A monarchy limited in its rule by a constitution.
G)An era of warfare beginning with the War of the League of Augsburg in 1689 and lasting until the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815.In that time,England fought in seven major wars;the longest era of peace lasted only twenty-six years.
H)The adaptation of stateless peoples to the demands imposed on them by neighboring states.
I)The alliance of the Iroquois,first with the colony of New York,then with the British Empire and its other colonies.This alliance became a model for relations between the British Empire and other Native American peoples.
J)A new agricultural and commercial order that produced sugar,tobacco,rice,and other tropical and subtropical products for an international market.Its plantation societies were ruled by European planter-merchants and worked by hundreds of thousands of enslaved Africans.
K)The brutal sea voyage from Africa to the Americas that took the lives of nearly two million enslaved Africans.
L)Slave uprising in 1739 along the Stono River in South Carolina in which a group of slaves armed themselves,plundered six plantations,and killed more than twenty colonists.Colonists quickly suppressed the rebellion.
M)A refined style of living and elaborate manners that came to be highly prized among well-to-do English families after 1600 and strongly influenced leading colonists after 1700.
N)A term used to describe British colonial policy during the reigns of George I .By relaxing their supervision of internal colonial affairs,royal bureaucrats inadvertently assisted the rise of self-government in North America.
O)The power of elected officials to grant government jobs and favors to their supporters;also the jobs and favors themselves.

Question 69

What were some of the causes of rising friction between the colonials and the British in the first half of the eighteenth century?

Question 70

How did Native Americans attempt to turn European rivalries to their advantage in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries? How successful were they?

Question 71

In what colonies were enslaved Africans most successful in creating African American communities? Where were they least successful? How do you explain the differences?

Question 72

Did the American colonials benefit economically from their participation in the South Atlantic trade system?

Question 73

Explain the causes and the results of the Glorious Revolution in England and America.

Question 74

What kind of society did William Penn create in Pennsylvania? What was its organizing foundation? How did it differ from New England?

Question 75

What was the British policy of salutary neglect? Why did the British follow this policy? What consequences did it have for the British colonies in North America?

Question 76

How did the decades-long process of imperial warfare affect the colonies between 1689 and the 1760s? What impact did it have on Native Americans,colonists,and the relationship between the two?

Question 77

What was the role of the colonies in the British mercantilist system after the 1650s?

Question 78

Answer the following questions :
salutary neglect

A)A colony created through a grant of land from the English monarch to an individual or group,who then set up a form of government largely independent of royal control.
B)Epithet for members of the Society of Friends.Their belief that God spoke directly to each individual through an "inner light" and that neither ministers nor the Bible were essential to discovering God's Word put them in conflict with both the Church of England and orthodox Puritans.
C)English laws passed,beginning in the 1650s and 1660s,requiring that certain English colonial goods be shipped through English ports on English ships manned primarily by English sailors in order to benefit English merchants,shippers,and seamen.
D)A royal province created by King James II in 1686 that would have absorbed Connecticut,Rhode Island,Massachusetts Bay,Plymouth,New York,and New Jersey into a single,vast colony and eliminated their assemblies and other chartered rights.James's plan was canceled by the Glorious Revolution in 1688,which removed him from the throne.
E)A quick and nearly bloodless coup in 1688 in which James II of England was overthrown by William of Orange.Whig politicians forced the new King William and Queen Mary to accept the Declaration of Rights,creating a constitutional monarchy that enhanced the powers of the House of Commons at the expense of the crown.
F)A monarchy limited in its rule by a constitution.
G)An era of warfare beginning with the War of the League of Augsburg in 1689 and lasting until the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815.In that time,England fought in seven major wars;the longest era of peace lasted only twenty-six years.
H)The adaptation of stateless peoples to the demands imposed on them by neighboring states.
I)The alliance of the Iroquois,first with the colony of New York,then with the British Empire and its other colonies.This alliance became a model for relations between the British Empire and other Native American peoples.
J)A new agricultural and commercial order that produced sugar,tobacco,rice,and other tropical and subtropical products for an international market.Its plantation societies were ruled by European planter-merchants and worked by hundreds of thousands of enslaved Africans.
K)The brutal sea voyage from Africa to the Americas that took the lives of nearly two million enslaved Africans.
L)Slave uprising in 1739 along the Stono River in South Carolina in which a group of slaves armed themselves,plundered six plantations,and killed more than twenty colonists.Colonists quickly suppressed the rebellion.
M)A refined style of living and elaborate manners that came to be highly prized among well-to-do English families after 1600 and strongly influenced leading colonists after 1700.
N)A term used to describe British colonial policy during the reigns of George I .By relaxing their supervision of internal colonial affairs,royal bureaucrats inadvertently assisted the rise of self-government in North America.
O)The power of elected officials to grant government jobs and favors to their supporters;also the jobs and favors themselves.

Question 79

Answer the following questions :
Quakers

A)A colony created through a grant of land from the English monarch to an individual or group,who then set up a form of government largely independent of royal control.
B)Epithet for members of the Society of Friends.Their belief that God spoke directly to each individual through an "inner light" and that neither ministers nor the Bible were essential to discovering God's Word put them in conflict with both the Church of England and orthodox Puritans.
C)English laws passed,beginning in the 1650s and 1660s,requiring that certain English colonial goods be shipped through English ports on English ships manned primarily by English sailors in order to benefit English merchants,shippers,and seamen.
D)A royal province created by King James II in 1686 that would have absorbed Connecticut,Rhode Island,Massachusetts Bay,Plymouth,New York,and New Jersey into a single,vast colony and eliminated their assemblies and other chartered rights.James's plan was canceled by the Glorious Revolution in 1688,which removed him from the throne.
E)A quick and nearly bloodless coup in 1688 in which James II of England was overthrown by William of Orange.Whig politicians forced the new King William and Queen Mary to accept the Declaration of Rights,creating a constitutional monarchy that enhanced the powers of the House of Commons at the expense of the crown.
F)A monarchy limited in its rule by a constitution.
G)An era of warfare beginning with the War of the League of Augsburg in 1689 and lasting until the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815.In that time,England fought in seven major wars;the longest era of peace lasted only twenty-six years.
H)The adaptation of stateless peoples to the demands imposed on them by neighboring states.
I)The alliance of the Iroquois,first with the colony of New York,then with the British Empire and its other colonies.This alliance became a model for relations between the British Empire and other Native American peoples.
J)A new agricultural and commercial order that produced sugar,tobacco,rice,and other tropical and subtropical products for an international market.Its plantation societies were ruled by European planter-merchants and worked by hundreds of thousands of enslaved Africans.
K)The brutal sea voyage from Africa to the Americas that took the lives of nearly two million enslaved Africans.
L)Slave uprising in 1739 along the Stono River in South Carolina in which a group of slaves armed themselves,plundered six plantations,and killed more than twenty colonists.Colonists quickly suppressed the rebellion.
M)A refined style of living and elaborate manners that came to be highly prized among well-to-do English families after 1600 and strongly influenced leading colonists after 1700.
N)A term used to describe British colonial policy during the reigns of George I .By relaxing their supervision of internal colonial affairs,royal bureaucrats inadvertently assisted the rise of self-government in North America.
O)The power of elected officials to grant government jobs and favors to their supporters;also the jobs and favors themselves.

Question 80

Describe the major elements of the South Atlantic System.How did the system work? How did it shape the development of the various colonies and Britain?