Chapter 5

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

Benjamin Franklin.

In 1775, the ____ churches were the only 2 established (tax-supported) churches in colonial America.

Congregational and Anglican

An armed march in Philadelphia in 1764, protesting the Quaker oligarchy's lenient policy towards the Indians know as

March of the Paxton Boys.

With regard to governmental authority, the Scots-Irish colonists

cherished no love for the British for any other government.

The New Light preachers of the Great Awakening

delivered intensely emotional sermons.

Colonial American taverns were all of the following except

frequented mainly by the lower class.

The average age of the American colonists in 1775 was

16.

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

90 percent.

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

Africans

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 leading industry in the American colonies was

agriculture.

The Great Awakening

all of these.

By 1775, most governors of American colonies were

appointed by the king.

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 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.

All of the following contributed to the lack of development of art and artists in early colonial America except

lack of talent among the Americans.

By the early 18th century, religion in colonial America was

less fervid than when the colonies were established.

The least honored profession in early colonial society was

medicine.

The population of the 13 American colonies was

perhaps the most diverse in the world, although it remained predominantly Anglo-Saxon.

By the mid-1700s, the number of poor people in the American colonies

remained tiny compared with the number of England.

The most honored profession in early colonial society was

the ministry.

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

the natural fertility of all Americans.