Ch 1-4

Question 1

The Treaty of Utrecht in 1713

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transferred territory from the French to the English in North America.

Question 2

When he became British prime minister, George Grenville

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believed the American colonists had been indulged for far too long.

Question 3

Colonial protests directed against the Townshend Duties took the form of

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a colonial nonimportation agreement.

Question 4

In the fifteenth century, slavery in Africa

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generally allowed certain legal protections for the enslaved.

Question 5

The Virginia Company

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had its charter revoked by James I.

Question 6

The English Reformation resulted from

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a political dispute between King Henry VIII and the Catholic Church.

Question 7

The largest contingent of immigrants during the colonial period were the

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Scotch-Irish.

Question 8

The verdict of the 1734–1735 libel trial of New York publisher John Peter Zenger

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increased freedom of the press in the colonies.

Question 9

The Church of England was the official faith of

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Virginia.

Question 10

As a leading figure of the Great Awakening, Jonathan Edwards preached

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highly orthodox Puritan ideas.

Question 11

In North America as a result of the Seven Years’ War, England

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confirmed its commercial supremacy and increased its political control of the settled regions.

Question 12

The Proclamation of 1763

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was supported by many Indian tribal groups.

Question 13

The Stamp Act of 1765

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helped to unite the colonies in opposition to the English government.

Question 14

The Tea Act of 1773

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a. followed a few years of relative calm between England and the American colonies.
b. lowered the price of tea for American colonists.
c. was intended to benefit a private British company.
d. provided no new tax on tea.

Question 15

In 1775, the Conciliatory Propositions

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were issued as an appeal by the British government to colonial moderates.

Question 16

The Mutiny (or Quartering) Act of 1765

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required colonists to evacuate their farms to occupying British soldiers.

Question 17

The Sugar Act of 1764 was designed to

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a. damage the market for sugar grown in the colonies.
b. eliminate the illegal sugar trade among the colonies, the French, and the West Indies. Incorrect
c. establish new vice-admiralty courts in America to try accused smugglers.
d. lower the colonial duty on molasses.

Question 18

The “Virginia Resolves” stated that

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anyone who supported the right of Parliament to tax was an enemy of the colony.

Question 19

In what way did sixteenth-century Europeans benefit from trade between the Americas and Europe?

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A large number of new crops became available in Europe.

Question 20

In the seventeenth century, English Quakers

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a. granted women a position within the church generally equal to that of men.
b. had no paid clergy.
c. were pacifists.
d. believed all could attain salvation.

Question 21

Which of the following statements regarding Sir William Berkeley is FALSE?

Answer 21

He extended political representation for frontier settlers.

Question 22

In 1680, the Pueblo Indians rose in revolt against Spanish settlers after the Spanish

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made efforts to suppress Indian religious rituals.

Question 23

Most seventeenth-century English immigrants to the North American colonies were

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laborers.

Question 24

24. Seventeenth-century southern plantations

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tended to be rough and relatively small.

Question 25

In comparing the colonial societies of Spanish America and English America, people of mixed races had a

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higher status than pure Africans in Spanish America.

Question 26

Which statement about the economy of the northern colonies is true?

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The economy was more diverse than in the southern colonies.

Question 27

By 1775, the non-Indian population of the English colonies was just over

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2 million

Question 28

During the eighteenth century, rising consumerism in the American colonies was encouraged by

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increasing class distinctions within society and the association of material possessions with status in the upper class.

Question 29

British official Thomas Hutchinson

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Had his home ransacked by Anti-Stamp Act demonstrators.

Question 30

The Boston Massacre

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was transformed by some colonists into a symbol of British oppression.

Question 31

The leading colonial figure involved in the Boston Massacre was

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Samuel Adams

Question 32

The colonial boycott of tea in 1773

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was led in large part by women, who were the primary consumers of tea.

Question 33

The Massachusetts Bay Puritans

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created a colonial “theocracy.”

Question 34

According to the terms of the Peace of Paris of 1763

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France ceded Canada and all of its claims to land east of the Mississippi River, except New Orleans, to Great Britain.

Question 35

Parliament responded to the Boston Tea Party by

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reducing the powers of self-government in Massachusetts.

Question 36

In 1770, the Townshend Duties were ended by

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Lord North

Question 37

Under the English constitution during the eighteenth century,

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large areas of England had no direct political representation.

Question 38

English and American supporters of the English constitution felt it correctly divided power

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among the monarchy, the aristocracy, and the common people.

Question 39

In the 1760s, the revolutionary crisis in English North America began in cities because

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cities were the centers of intellectual information.

Question 40

By 1700, English colonial landowners began to rely more heavily on African slavery in part because

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of a declining birthrate in England.

Question 41

The Puritan merchants who founded the Massachusetts Bay colony

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carried out the largest single migration in the seventeenth century.