Chapter 4

Question 1

The 1741 Panic in New York City that led to 34 executions was sparked by?

Answer 1

A series of fires

Question 2

How did colonial politics compare with british politics?

Answer 2

Colonists tended to agree with the british that owning property was related to having the right to vote

Question 3

The British concept of liberty

Answer 3

Included both formal restraints on authority and a collection of specific rights

Question 4

The task system

Answer 4

Assigned slaves daily jobs and allowed them free time upon completion of those jobs

Question 5

Neolin, a Delaware Indian and religious prophet, helped inspire ______ rebellion in 1763

Answer 5

Pontaic’s

Question 6

Property qualifications for holding office

Answer 6

Meant that the landed gentry wielded considerable power in colonial legislatures

Question 7

Deists concluded that the best form of religious devotion was to

Answer 7

Study the workings of nature

Question 8

What did the Paxton boys demand?

Answer 8

That the indians be removed from Pennsylvania

Question 9

The early South Carolina economy focused on the export of deer skins and furs to England as well as on?

Answer 9

The export of Indian slaves to the Caribbean

Question 10

Pontiac’s rebellion

Answer 10

Although named for an Ottawa warrior, owed its origins as much to the teachings of a religious prophet

Question 11

The French and Indian war began because some American colonists felt that

Answer 11

France was enroaching on land claimed by the Ohio company

Question 12

Which one of the following did NOT contribute to the expansion of the public sphere during the 18th century

Answer 12

The founding of the California missions

Question 13

What did Junipero Serra hope to do in California?

Answer 13

Convert Indians to Christianity and to settled farming

Question 14

Why was slavery less prevalent in the Northern colonies

Answer 14

The small farms of the northern colonies did not need slaves

Question 15

Which one of the following statements is NOT true of the slave trade in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world?

Answer 15

Slightly more than half of slaves from Africa were taken to mainland North America (what became the United States)

Question 16

The American Philosophical Society in its modest beginnings was called:

Answer 16

The Junto

Question 17

Georgia was established by James Oglethorpe, whose causes included improved conditions for imprisoned debtors and the abolition of:

Answer 17

Slavery

Question 18

During the eighteenth century, colonial assemblies:

Answer 18

Became more assertive

Question 19

What did the British acquire from the Netherlands in the Treaty of Utrecht of 1713?

Answer 19

The right to transport slaves from Africa to Spain’s New World colonies

Question 20

The British Country Party:

Answer 20

Sought to stop corruption in British politics

Question 21

Which of the following is true of eighteenth-century slavery in South Carolina and Georgia?

Answer 21

Plantation slaves enjoyed far more autonomy than they did in other colonies, allowing them to maintain more of their African culture

Question 22

The English finally became successful in defeating the French in the Seven Years’ War under the leadership of:

Answer 22

William Pitt

Question 23

Slave resistance in the eighteenth century:

Answer 23

Included rebellions in both northern and southern colonies that led to the deaths of several of those involved in planning the conspiracies

Question 24

What was the primary purpose of the Proclamation of 1763

Answer 24

To bring stability to the colonial frontier

Question 25

Revivalist preachers during the Great Awakening frequently:

Answer 25

Criticized commercial society

Question 26

As slave society consolidated in the Chesapeake region, what happened to free blacks?

Answer 26

They lost many of their rights

Question 27

The French in North America:

Answer 27

Were greatly outnumbered by the British on the continent

Question 28

In the eighteenth century, the Spanish empire in North America:

Answer 28

Rested economically on trading with and extracting labor from surviving Native Americans

Question 29

When brought to the New World, with regard to religion, slaves:

Answer 29

Mixed elements of Christianity with African beliefs

Question 30

In the forest regions of West Africa, before being captured slaves worshipped:

Answer 30

Aspects of nature

Question 31

Deists shared the ideas of eighteenth-century European Enlightenment thinkers, namely that:

Answer 31

Science could uncover God’s laws that governed the natural order

Question 32

Which of the following was a consequence of the Seven Years’ War?

Answer 32

Strengthened pride among American colonists about being part of the British empire

Question 33

The participants in South Carolina’s Stono Rebellion:

Answer 33

Included some who apparently had been soldiers in Africa

Question 34

“Salutary neglect” meant:

Answer 34

British governments left the colonies largely alone to govern themselves

Question 35

How did John Locke reconcile his belief in natural rights and his support for slavery?

Answer 35

He believed that the free individual in liberal thought was the propertied white man

Question 36

Which of the following was true of Georgia

Answer 36

Colonists sought self-government to gain the right to introduce slavery

Question 37

John Peter Zenger’s libel trial:

Answer 37

Probably would not have ended in his acquittal if he had attacked someone other than the colonial governor

Question 38

The language (with mixed African roots) spoken by African-American slaves on the rice plantations of South Carolina and Georgia during the eighteenth century was known as:

Answer 38

Gullah

Question 39

Who drafted the Albany Plan of Union?

Answer 39

Benjamin Franklin

Question 40

In the Chesapeake region, slavery:

Answer 40

Rapidly became the dominant labor system after 1680

Question 41

The most famous Great Awakening revivalist minister was:

Answer 41

George Whitefield

Question 42

Tobacco plantations in the Chesapeake region:

Answer 42

Helped make the Chesapeake colonies models of mercantilism

Question 43

The American version of the Enlightenment:

Answer 43

Was exemplified by Benjamin Franklin

Question 44

Which of the following is NOT true of the Great Awakening?

Answer 44

Its more subdued style of preaching appealed to a wider audience than the older, bombastic style employed by the Puritans

Question 45

Which of the following is a true statement about the Atlantic slave trade’s effect in West Africa?

Answer 45

It helped lead to the rise of militarized states in West Africa, whose large armies preyed upon their neighbors in order to capture slaves

Question 46

Which one of the following statements about slaves in the Chesapeake is FALSE?

Answer 46

Slave communities remained distinctly African in culture

Question 47

In the northern colonies, slaves:

Answer 47

Were far less important to New England than the Middle Colonies

Question 48

What did Neolin tell his people they must reject?

Answer 48

European technology and material goods

Question 49

The idea of liberalism in eighteenth-century British politics:

Answer 49

Was compatible with inequalities in wealth and well-being

Question 50

During the eighteenth century, British patriotism:

Answer 50

Celebrated individual freedom and the rule of law

Question 51

The development of rice plantations in South Carolina:

Answer 51

Led to a black majority in that colony by the 1730s

Question 52

It is estimated that between _______ percent of adult white men could vote in eighteenth-century colonial British America.

Answer 52

50-80

Question 53

Olaudah Equiano:

Answer 53

Wrote the eighteenth century’s most widely read account by a slave of a slave’s own experiences

Question 54

Which issue divided colonial governors appointed by the king and legislatures elected by colonists?

Answer 54

To deal with scarcity of gold and silver coins, legislatures supported printing paper money despite opposition from the governors

Question 55

The most successful colonial governors:

Answer 55

Used their appointive powers and control of land grants to win allies in colonial legislatures

Question 56

The assumption among ordinary people that wealth, education, and social prominence entitled leaders to public office was called:

Answer 56

Deference

Question 57

The language of British liberty:

Answer 57

Was used by humble members of society as well as by the elite

Question 58

“Republicanism” in the eighteenth-century Anglo-American political world emphasized the importance of ______ as the essence of liberty

Answer 58

Active participation in public life by property-owning citizens

Question 59

John Locke’s political philosophy stressed

Answer 59

A contract system between the people and the government

Question 60

All of the following statements are true of the Atlantic trade in the eighteenth century EXCEPT:

Answer 60

Although important, slave-grown crops actually accounted for only a small portion of the value of the trade