Quiz 4: Slavery, Freedom, and the Struggle for Empire

Question 1

Middle passage

Answer 1

The middle passage that was taken through the atlantic to reach mainland North America in the colonies with slaves. Typically, it was a harsh journey that few survived. 12 million africans were transported through it.

Question 1

Atlantic slave trade

Answer 1

The systematic importation of african slaves across the atlantic to the colonies to the Americas

Question 2

Yeoman farmers

Answer 2

Smaller farmers that did the work themselves and did not employ traditional slaves.

Question 3

Stono Rebellion

Answer 3

An 1739 uprising by enslaved men in south carolina that ended up severely tightening the slave code.

Question 4

Republicanism

Answer 4

An 18th century theory that proclaimed celebrated active participation in public life as central to freedom

Question 5

Liberalism

Answer 5

Originally, a political philosophy that emphasized the protection of liberty by limiting the power of the government to interfere with the natural rights of citizens.

Question 6

Salutary neglect

Answer 6

The british policy that allowed the American colonies considerable freedoms to persue their economic and political interests in exchange for colonial obidience.

Question 7

Enlightenment

Answer 7

Revolution in thought during the eighteenth century that began in europe; it emphasized reason and science over traditional religionism.

Question 8

Deism

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Enlightenment thought applied to religion; Emphasized reason, morality, and natural law.

Question 9

Great Awakening

Answer 9

Fervent religious revival movemetn in the 1720s through the 1740s that was spread in the colonies by ministers like Jon Edwards and George Whitefield.

Question 10

Serra, Father Junipero

Answer 10

Missionary who began and directed the California mission system in the 1770s and 1780s. Serra presided over the conversion of many Indians to Christianity sometimes by force.

Question 11

Seven Years’ War

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The last and most important of four colonial wars fought between England and France for control of North America east of the Mississippi River (Also known as the French and Indian War)

Question 12

Neolin

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A Delaware prophet who brought together an idea of uniformity for the Native American people that was not existent at the time. He shamed the natives’ use of typical European household products.

Question 13

Pontiac’s War

Answer 13

A was inspired by the Delaware prophet Neolin in which allied Native American fighters from the Ohio Valley and Great Lakes successfully attacked British forts and settlements after France ceded to the British its territory east of the Mississippi River as part of the Treaty of Paris in 1763.

Question 14

Proclamation of 1763

Answer 14

Royal directive issued after the Seven Years’ War and Pontiac’s War prohibiting settlement, surveys, and land grants west of the Appalachian Mountains; caused considerable resentment among colonists.

Question 15

Albany Plan of Union

Answer 15

A failed 1754 proposal by the seven northern British colonies in anticipation of the Seven Years’ War, urging the unification of the colonies under one crown-appointed president.