Chapter 3 Flashcards
Great Britain sought to attract which of the following to its American colonies in the eighteenth century?
Protestants from non-English and less prosperous parts of the British Isles
What was William Penn’s most fundamental principle?
Religious freedom
The English Bill of Rights of 1689
Listed Parliamentary powers over such individual rights as trial by jury
Before founding Pennsylvania, William Penn assisted a group of English Quakers to set up a colony in what became
New Jersey
Enumerated goods?
Were colonial products, such as tobacco and sugar that first had to be imported to England
Spain’s Las Siete Partidas, a series of laws touching on slavery
Gave slaves some opportunities to claim rights under the law in Spain’s American empire
The Glorious Revolution of 1688
Resulted mainly from the fears of English aristocrats that the birth of James II’s son would lead to a Catholic succession
All of the following were factors enticing migration to the British colonies EXCEPT
Cheap and safe transatlantic transportation
The separation of church and state
Existed in only a few colonies
Why did the accusations of witchcraft in Salem suddenly snowball in 1692?
The only way to avoid prosecution was to confess and name others
Which of the following was true of small farmers in 1670s Virginia?
The lack of good land, high taxes on tobacco, and falling prices reduced their prospects
The Walking Purchase of 1737
Was a deceitful deal for the Lenni-Lanape Indians
What was one of Pennsylvania’s only restrictions on religious liberty
Holding office required an oath affirming a belief in Jesus Christ, which eliminated Jews from serving
According to New England Puritans, witchcraft
Resulted from pacts that women made with the devil to obtain supernatural powers or interfere with natural processes
Which commodity drove the African slave trade in Brazil and the West Indies during the seventeenth century?
Sugar
What inspired the 1715 uprising by the Yamasee and Creek peoples against English colonists in Carolina?
High debts incurred by the Yamasee and Creek in trade with the English settlers
Who finally ended the Salem witch trials?
The Massachusetts governor
Nathaniel Bacon
Actually was socially closer to the elite than to the indentured servants who supported him
Which one of the following is true of the English West Indies in the seventeenth century?
By the end of the century, the African population far outnumbered the European population on most islands
Which of the following best sums up population diversity in colonial British America?
Great Britain originally promoted emigration to the colonies as means of ridding itself of excess population but cut back in the eighteenth century, opening the colonies to a more diverse group of settlers
The first English Navigation Act, adopted during the rule of Oliver Cromwell
Aimed to wrest control of world trade from the Dutch
During the colonial era, Philadelphia
Became home to a varied population of artisans and craftsmen
Carolina grew slowly until?
Rice as a staple crop was discovered to be extremely profitable
The biggest reason Jews left Europe was?
To escape rigid religious restrictions in German-speaking areas of Europe
Which man was once a slave, only to be freed and own slaves himself?
Anthony Johnson
What form of behavior did William Penn ban in his Pennsylvania colony?
Swearing
Which of the following was NOT a factor that made African slavery appealing to English planters in the New World?
A long English legal tradition of discriminating against dark-skinned peoples eased the legalization of slavery
Unlike slavery in American, slavery in Africa
Was more likely to be based in the household than on agricultural plantation
Slavery developed more slowly in North America than in the English West Indies because?
The high death rate among tobacco workers made it economically unappealing to pay more for a slave likely to die within a short time
What historical evidence demonstrates that blacks were being held as slaves for life by the 1640s?
Property registers list white servants with the number of years they were to work, but blacks (with higher valuations) had no terms of service associated with their names
What ironic consequence did William Penn’s generous policies, such as religious toleration and inexpensive land, have?
They contributed to the increasing reliance of Virginia and Maryland on African slave labor