Chapter 5 Midterm

Question 1

All of the following are reasons the thirteen Atlantic seaboard colonies sought independence except

Answer 1

Distinctive ethic or racial structures

Question 2

The average age of the American colonists in 1775 was

Answer 2

16

Question 3

By the end of the 1700’s, what was the percentage of people living in rural areas of colonial America

Answer 3

90%

Question 4

By 1775, the ____ were the largest non-English ethic group in colonial America

Answer 4

Africans

Question 5

The most ethnically diverse region of colonial America was ______, whereas _____ was the least ethnically diverse

Answer 5

The middle colonies, New England

Question 6

All of the following conditions cause many Scots to migrate to Northern Ireland and thence to America except

Answer 6

Persecution for their catholic religion

Question 7

When it came to religion, the Scots-Irish

Answer 7

Found it to be a bond that held them together

Question 8

When several colonial legislatures attempted to restrict or halt the importation of slaves, British authorities

Answer 8

Vetoed such efforts

Question 9

By the eighteenth century, the various colonial regions had distinct economic identities; the northern colonies relied on ______, the Chesapeake colonies relied on ____, and the southern colonies relied on _____

Answer 9

Cattle and grain, tobacco, rice and indigo

Question 10

The leading industry in the American colonies was

Answer 10

Agriculture

Question 11

The triangular trade of the colonial American shopping industry

Answer 11

Involved the trading of run for African slaves

Question 12

Although manufacturing in the colonies was of only secondary importance, they did produce which of the following?

Answer 12

All of the above

Question 13

The major manufacturing enterprise in colonial America in the eighteenth century was

Answer 13

Lumbering

Question 14

One feature of the American economy that strained the relationship between the colonies an Britain was the

Answer 14

Growing desire of the Americans to trade with other nations in addition to Britain

Question 15

When the British parliament passed the Molasses Act in 1773, it intended the act to

Answer 15

Inhibit colonial trade with the French West Indies

Question 16

American colonists sought trade with countries other than Great Britain

Answer 16

To make money to but what they wanted in Britain

Question 17

English officials tried to “establish” the Church of England in as many colonies as possible because

Answer 17

The church would act as a major prop for kingly authority

Question 18

Congregationalist

Answer 18

New England

Question 19

Anglican

Answer 19

The South

Question 20

Presbyterian

Answer 20

The frontier

Question 21

By the early eighteenth century, religion in colonial America was

Answer 21

Less fervid than when the colonies were established

Question 22

Jonathan Edwards

Answer 22

Theologian

Question 23

Benjamin Franklin

Answer 23

Scientist

Question 24

Phillis Wheatley

Answer 24

Poet

Question 25

The Great Awakening

Answer 25

All of the above

Question 26

In colonial America, education was most zealously promoted

Answer 26

In New England

Question 27

Colonial schools and colleges placed their main emphasis on

Answer 27

Religion

Question 28

The first American college free from determined control was

Answer 28

The University of Pennsylvania

Question 29

The person most often called the “first civilized American” was

Answer 29

Benjamin Franklin

Question 30

All of the following are achievements of Benjamin Franklin except

Answer 30

Influential poetry

Question 31

The jury’s decision in the case of John Peter Zenger, a newspaper printer, was significant because

Answer 31

It pointed the way to open public discussion

Question 32

One political principle that colonial Americans came to cherish above most others was

Answer 32

Self-taxation through representation

Question 33

Colonial legislature were often able to bend the power of the governors to their will because

Answer 33

Colonial legislatures controlled taxes and expenditures that paid the governors’ salaries