Chapter 3 : Colonial America Amid Global Change

Question 1

How did William Penn treat the Lenni-Lenape Indians already living on the land deeded to him by King Charles II, which would become known as Pennsylvania?

Answer 1

He negotiated treaties with them.

Question 2

The Caribbean shipped rum, molasses, and slaves to North America in return for?

Answer 2

Salted cod and other foodstuffs

Question 3

What goods were the staple trade items sent from the East to Europe and the Americas in the eighteenth century?

Answer 3

Silk, olive oil, and wine

Question 4

Spanish authorities in Florida imposed harsh and violent punishments on Indians for trying to block which of Spain’s profit-making endeavors in the 1670s?

Answer 4

Cattle ranching

Question 5

Where did the vast majority of Americans live in the eighteenth century?

Answer 5

Rural areas

Question 6

Which globalizing industry developed its own specialized sailing vessels in the eighteenth century?

Answer 6

Slave trading

Question 7

What was the central priority of mercantilism, a commercial policy adopted by both the French and English in the seventeenth century?

Answer 7

Maintaining a favorable trade balance

Question 8

Which European immigrants helped to settle English colonial frontiers throughout North America by the mid-eighteenth century?

Answer 8

Irish and German

Question 9

What establishments became popular gathering places in eighteenth-century port cities where merchants, captains, and traders met to discuss new ventures and keep up with recent events?

Answer 9

Coffeehouses

Question 10

Which European power actually contracted its role and reach in North America in the eighteenth century?

Answer 10

The Netherlands

Question 11

What did Father Santa Ana and a Spanish general send to the Apache to signal a desire for peace in 1749?

Answer 11

Three Apache captives

Question 12

How did American merchants respond to the 1733 Molasses Act passed by Parliament to disrupt the molasses trade between France and the North American colonies?

Answer 12

They smuggled molasses into the ports anyway and bribed customs agents.

Question 13

What was the standard punishment for runaway indentured servants in the American colonies when they were caught?

Answer 13

Their contract was extended

Question 14

King James II of England and King Louis XIV of France both believed their reigns were granted by what authority?

Answer 14

Divine right

Question 15

What strategy for establishing a colonial presence in North America did France pursue more often and more successfully than Spain or England?

Answer 15

Extensive trade with a range of Indian nations

Question 16

Who ascended to the throne of England in 1689 as a result of the Glorious Revolution?

Answer 16

William and Mary

Question 17

Extensive parliamentary restrictions that limited the North American colonies’ ability to trade with the rest of the world were meant to generate wealth for England but had the unintended consequence of

Answer 17

creating wealth for North American merchants.

Question 18

Who was eligible to vote for the government under William Penn’s leadership in seventeenth-century Pennsylvania?

Answer 18

Only men who owned property

Question 19

What new crop did the Lucas family cultivate that was first imported to Europe from India in the seventeenth century and became a profitable export in South Carolina?

Answer 19

Indigo

Question 20

What two colonies united in 1702 to form the colony of New Jersey?

Answer 20

East and West Jersey

Question 21

Britain was responsible for what percentage of the traffic in African slaves between 1700 and 1808?

Answer 21

40%

Question 22

Which European superpower was at the heart of many of the continent’s wars between 1689 and 1713?

Answer 22

France

Question 23

What did farm families do with the children they could not usefully employ on the farm?

Answer 23

Bound them out to neighbors

Question 24

France imported what raw materials from its colonies, which it then manufactured into items for sale in foreign markets?

Answer 24

Fur and Lumber

Question 25

What long-established system of labor began to die out by the early eighteenth century?

Answer 25

Indentured servitude

Question 26

Before the new king and queen of England replaced it with the Church of England in 1692, what was the established religion of Maryland?

Answer 26

Catholicism

Question 27

What kind of workers and businesspeople populated Pennsylvania in the seventeenth century?

Answer 27

Farmers, artisans, and merchants

Question 28

Who succeeded Charles II to the throne in England and centralized authority both at home and in the colonies?

Answer 28

James II

Question 29

Why did many English colonists grow frustrated with the British crown in the early decades of the eighteenth century?

Answer 29

The army frequently abused the colonial militia.

Question 30

Small communities of Jews settled in which colony during the 1740s?

Answer 30

South Carolina

Question 31

The first sustained war between the French and English in North America was known as

Answer 31

King William’s War.

Question 32

What territory did England incorporate into Great Britain through the 1707 Act of Union?

Answer 32

scottland

Question 33

After receiving rights to huge tracts of land in the Middle Atlantic region of North America from King Charles II, William Penn rejected the Church of England and turned Pennsylvania into a refuge for

Answer 33

Quakers

Question 34

When did trade networks become truly global?

Answer 34

Late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries

Question 35

What external forces challenged traditional Native American gender roles and generational relations?

Answer 35

European trade practices

Question 36

In 1665 England was devastated by the Great Plague, and in 1666 London was decimated by fire, so how did both the country and the city still manage to flourish?

Answer 36

The colonies turned out to be profitable ventures.

Question 36

Why did the captain of a Spanish naval ship capture an English ship captain in 1739 and cut off his ear?

Answer 36

The Englishman was trading illegally in Spanish territory.

Question 37

What war in the South between Indians and English was the region’s most serious challenge to European dominance and was bloodier than King Philip’s War?

Answer 37

The Yamasee War

Question 38

Queen Anne’s War, which ravaged North America from 1702 until 1713, was sparked by

Answer 38

the death of Charles II without an heir.

Question 39

Which Indian tribe, defeated in war in the Carolinas by an alliance of English colonists and other Indian tribes, forfeited its lands in 1715 and joined the Iroquois Confederacy as its sixth nation?

Answer 39

Tuscarora

Question 40

Use the following passage to answer the question:

“They signified to us by a Belt of Wampum, which was sent from their old Women, that those Implored their friendship of the Christians & Indians of this Govmt., that without danger or trouble they might fetch wood & Water.
The second Belt was sent from their Children born, & those yet in the womb, Requesting that Room to sport & Play without danger of Slavery, might be allowed them.
The third Belt was sent from their young men fitt to Hunt, that privilege to leave their Towns, & seek provision for their aged, might be granted to them without fear of Death or Slavery.
The fourth was sent from the men of age, Requesting that the Wood, by a happy peace, might be as safe for them as their forts.
The fifth was sent from the whole nation, requesting peace, that thereby they might have Liberty to visit their Neighbours.
The sixth was sent from their Kings and Chiefs, Desiring a lasting peace with the Christians & Indians of this Govmt., that thereby they might be secured against those fearful apprehensions they have for these several years felt. . . .”

What central issue did Tuscarora diplomats present to British representatives at Pennsylvania in 1710?

Answer 40

Tuscaroras were victims of the trade in Indian slaves.

Question 41

The global economy that emerged in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries was fragile and prone to economic crises caused by

Answer 41

outbreaks of war.

Question 42

Why did slaveholders in the Carolinas allow slaves greater autonomy than they had in the Chesapeake or West Indies?

Answer 42

They needed the slaves for their rice-growing skills

Question 43

Slaves who had been “seasoned” had

Answer 43

regained their strength and adjusted to their new environment.

Question 44

Who in the Lucas family undertook the following tasks in running the family plantations in South Carolina: balancing the books, supervising the slaves, caring for other family members, and educating the youngest children?

Answer 44

The eldest daughter

Question 45

The farm families and villages throughout colonial Massachusetts pushed the boundaries of their territory into what area for more and better land?

Answer 45

Maine