apush ch 5
The person most often called "the first civilized American" was
Benjamin Franklin
The first American college free from determined control was
The University of Pennsylvania
The most ethnically diverse region of colonial America was ____, whereas ____ was the least ethnically diverse
The middle colonies, New England
As a result of the rapid population growth in colonial America during the 18th century
a momentous shift occurred in the balance of power between the colonies and the mother country
The most important economic enterprise in the American colonies was
agriculture
Although manufacturing in the colonies was of only secondary importance, they did produce which of the following?
all of the above
The Great Awakening
all of the above
By 1775, most governors of American colonies were
appointed by the king
By the mid-eighteenth century, North American colonies shared all of the following similarities except
complete democracy
The new light preachers of the Great Awakening
delivered intensely emotional sermons
All of the following are reasons the thirteen Atlantic seaboard colonies sought independence except
distinctive racial structures
When the Scots-Irish established a new community, one of the first tasks they undertook was to
erect a church
Colonial American taverns were all of the following except
frequented mainly by the lower class
In colonial America, education was most zealously promoted
in New England
When the British Parliament passed the Molasses Act in 1733, it intended the act to
inhibit colonial trade with the French West Indies
The triangular trade of the colonial American shipping industry
involved the trading of rum for African slaves
The jury's decision in the case of John Peter Zenger, a newspaper printer, was significant because
it pointed the way to open public discussion
Of the following, the least important economic activity of colonial Americans was
manufacturing
The population of the thirteen American colonies was
perhaps the most diverse in the world, although it remained predominantly Anglo-Saxon
All of the following conditions caused many Scots to migrate to Northern Ireland and thence to America except
persecution for their Catholic religion
By the mid 1700s, the number of poor people in the American colonies
remained tiny compared with the number in England
One political principle that colonial Americans came to cherish above most others was
self taxation through representation
On the eve of the American Revolution, social and economic mobility decreased, partly because
some merchants made huge profits as military suppliers
English officials tried to establish the Church of England in as many colonies as possible because
the church would act as a major prop for kingly authority
The most honored profession in early colonial society was
the ministry
In colonial elections,
the right to vote was reserved for property holders
American colonists sought trade with countries other than Great Britain
to make money to buy what they wanted in Britain
The riches created by the growing slave population in the American South
were not distributed evenly among whites
