Ch. 5

Match each denomination on the left with the region where it predominated. A. Congregationalist 1. the frontier B. Anglican 2. New England C. Presbyterian 3. the South

A-2, B-3, C-l

Match each individual on the left with his or her profession. A. Jonathan Edwards 1. poet B. Benjamin Franklin 2. scientist C. Phillis Wheatley 3. theologian 4. portrait artist

A-3, B-2, C-1

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

Africans

The person most often called the "first civilized American" was

Benjamin Franklin

The most important economic enterprise in the American colonies was

agriculture

The prevalent Scots-Irish attitude toward government was that they

cherished no love for the British or any other government

Colonial legislatures were often able to bend the governors to their will because

colonial legislatures controlled taxes and expenditures that paid the governors' salaries

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 religious structures

The Scots-Irish can best be described as

fiercely independent

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

growing desire of Americans to trade with other nations in addition to Britain

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 jury's decision in the John Peter Zenger case was significant because

it pointed the way toward open public discussion and partial freedom of the press

The attempt to introduce inoculation against smallpox was opposed by

many doctors and clergy

For most of their early history, Americans accepted the English idea that education was

reserved for an aristocratic few

Jonathan Edwards's theology and preaching emphasized

righteousness and complete dependence on God's grace

Transportation in colonial America was

slow by any of the means available

On the eve of the American Revolution, social and economic mobility decreased, partly because

some merchants made huge profits as military suppliers

As a result of the rapid population growth in colonial America during the eighteenth century,

the balance of power between the colonies and the mother country shifted

The population growth of the American colonies by 1775 is attributed mostly to

the natural fertility of all Americans

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

By the mid-eighteenth century, Britain's North American colonies shared all of the following qualities except

universal free public education

Up to the time of the American Revolution, lawyers were generally regarded as

windbags and troublemakers