Chapter 5 Flashcards
Backcountry communities ________.
tended to live in isolation and were very self-sufficient
Which region was NOT considered part of the eighteenth-century Spanish borderlands?
Louisiana
The factor most responsible for the growth of the colonial population between 1700 and 1770 was ________.
the natural reproduction of colonial families
The Stono Rebellion:
saw slaves in South Carolina attempt to escape from the colony.
Although England’s lower classes were larger and worse off than those in the colonies, England had a much larger middle class (traders, professionals, and artisans) than the colonies.
False
The “middle ground” refers a pattern of creative, mutual compromises that characterized French-Indian relations in North America.
True
Which provides the strongest evidence that eighteenth-century slavery was based on racist views?
The status of a person as a slave depended entirely on skin color.
There were no significant slave rebellions during the colonial era.
False
By the mid-eighteenth century, a distinct colonial merchant class came into existence because of:
all major colonial cities were seaports, and commerce, the lifeblood of seaport economies was managed by merchants.
The Great Awakening of the 1730s and 1740s:
appealed to people of all classes, ethnic groups, and races
Regarding colonial life expectancy during the seventeenth century:
life expectancy in New England was unusually high.
Since whites outnumbered blacks in all of Britain’s mainland colonies except for South Carolina, throughout the eighteenth century slave rebellions occurred far less frequently on the mainland of North America than in the Caribbean and Brazil.
True
The first American college was:
Harvard.
The most numerous of the non-English immigrants were the:
Scotch-Irish.
Because for the most part Parliament made no effort to assert its authority in America until 1754, the colonies experienced a great deal of freedom in handling their local affairs.
True
