Give Me Liberty! chapter 4

What % of the populations of New York and New Jersey in the 1770s was made up of slaves

10%

Which of the following did Neolin, the prophet, NOT assert during Pontiac's Rebellion

Indians must use British technology to defeat their enemies

Slaves killed 9 whites in a 1712 slave uprising in

New York City

Father Junipero Serra founded the first Catholic mission in 1769 at

San Diego

Which was NOT true of the Middle Passage

Seventy percent of slaves were destined for North America

18th century liberalism drew heavily upon the thinking of the philosopher John Locke

T

According to the English minister George Whitefield, people could participate in their own salvation through their own actions; they were not, as predominant Protestant religions had traditionally held, unable to affect their destiny

T

Britons and colonists tended to regard themselves as the freest people in the world

T

By the 1700s, the population of Spanish North America was small consisting of a few isolated urban clusters in Florida, Texas, and Mexico

T

Deism was a religious adaptation of Enlightenment thought in both Europe colonial America

T

Freedom and slavery simultaneously expanded in the course of the 18th century as both the idea of he freeborn Englishman grew and the Atlantic slave trade expanded

T

George Washington, a British soldier, was forced to surrender at Fort Necessity in Pennsylvania after he lost a third of his men in an ill-conceived effort to fight a larger French and Indian force

T

In the 18th century, only 5% of adult men in Britain could vote, but between 50-80% of adult white males in the colonies could

T

In the 18th century, the ideologies of "republicanism" and "liberalism" both underscored the importance of private property as a foundation of freedom

T

In the Ohio Valley (the "middle ground"), the Iroquois were known for their ability to play teh French and British empires against each other

T

Mexico won independence from Spain in 1821

T

Most African rulers took part in the Atlantic slave trade

T

Which was NOT an element in the Triangular Trade

Tea and luxury goods were shipped to Britain from Asia

Which was not the case for blacks on South Carolina and Georgia rice plantations

many were free blacks

During the 1700s, voting in the colonies was restricted to

men who owned property

The military outposts established by the Spanish in California and New Mexico were called

presidios

The Proclamation Line of 1763

prohibited further colonial settlement west of the Appalachian mountains

The main crop worked by the "task" system in 18th century South Carolina was

rice

The movement that sought to apply the scientific method of careful investigation based on research and experiment to politics and social life

the Enlightenment

In the 18th century, the British Constitution- the unwritten groundowrk of British freedom-cElebrated all EXCEPT

the right for all men to vote

England and Scotland were united in 1707 by the Act of Union to create

true

The Stono Rebellion in South Carolina

was a slave revolt

The Seven Years' War (called the French and Indian War in the colonies) was fought between the

British and French

Belief that God withdrew after creating the world, leaving it to functions according to scientific laws, and that study of nature, rather that worship in organized churches, is the best form of religious devotion is called

Deism

Almost all African slaves in the 18th century came from the same African tribe

F

As Britain's global power expanded, British patriotism actually declined

F

By the 18th century, northern colonies were free of slavery

F

During the 18th century, both Spain and France steadily lost interest in their North American empires

F

During the course of the 1700s, the colonies increasingly grew apart from the British empire

F

Indians who lived in the Catholic missions established by Father Junipero Serra in California generally lived happy, healthy, free, and long lives

F

The exchanged of goods amoung spanish colonists, French colonists, and Indians in North America was known as the "triangular trade"

F

The country whose trading posts ringed British mainland colonies to the North and West in the 18th century was

France

The leading promoter of the Great Awakening was

George Whitefield

Which of the following was NOT a regional pattern of colonial slavery?

In the colonial backcountry, black slaves tended to outnumber free whites

The Paxton Boys

Were Scotch-Irish farmers who set out attack Indians near Philadelphia

In Jonathan Edwards's view, what was a sinner's only hope

a "new birth" in which he/she became a devout Christian

Olaudah Equiano was

a slave who purchased his freedom, a sailor in Royal Navy, able to read and write

Which of the following was NOT a significant effect of the Seven Years' War

an easing of frontier tensions between British colonists and Indians

Which of the following was NOT a defining feature of the Great Awakening

an insistence that one's spiritual destiny-be salvation or damnation-could not be affected by one's actions in life

The view that reason alone was capable of establishing that essentials of religion, and that outdated superstitions included belief in the revealed truth of the Bible and miracles was called

arminianism

By the mid 1700s, which was NOT one of the distinct well established slave systems in Britain's mainland colonies

cotton based slavery in the Black Belt of the Deep South

which of the following is NOT a valid comparison of the eighteenth century ideas of republicanism and liberalism

each condemned material inequality as incompatible with freedom

Which of the following was NOT an important trend in colonial politics during the first half of the 1700s

elimination of property qualifications for voting and office holding

The Albany Plan of Union 1754

envisioned a council of all the colonies for their defense