US History 1
What did the German immigrants known as redemptioners do on their arrival in Pennsylvania in the eighteenth century?
Negotiated the terms for a period of servitude through which they would pay for their trip
Which of the following changes occurred in white society in the Chesapeake colonies at the same time that slavery was being forced on Africans?
A more rigid class structure with a well-defined and highly visible economic and political elite began to emerge.
Which of the following statements describes life in the Chesapeake region after 1660?
A wealthy, planter-merchant elite dominated the Chesapeake economy and owned almost half the land in Virginia
The eighteenth-century Great Awakening was the impetus for which of the following phenomena?
African Americans created of a disincentive Protestant Christianity
Which of the following statements characterizes life for slaves in the West Indies in the 1700s?
Because the price of slaves was low and the price of sugar was high, slave owners worked their slaves to death and then replaced them with new slaves
Which of the following was a consequence of Bacon's Rebellion of the 1670s?
Berkeley crushed the uprising hanging 20 rebels; planters look for less troublesome laborers an
People from which of the following groups modeled themselves after the English aristocracy in the first half of the eighteenth century?
Chesapeake landowners
The Navigation Acts, implemented in the American colonies by Britain in the mid- seventeenth century, were originally intended to
Cut the Dutch and French out of the colonial trade
As part of its mercantilist policy in the late seventeenth century, England committed which of the following actions?
Drove the Dutch from New Netherland
Which of the following statements describes the English migrants who initially settled in the Jamestown colony in the early 1600s?
Early Jamestown settlers expected to profit from gold and Indian labor
The Navigation Acts of the mid seventeenth century included which of the following stipulations?
European goods imported to the colonies had to go through English ports
Which of the following was an outcome of New England families efforts to maintain the freeholder ideal in the late eighteenth century?
Farmers abandoned traditional grain crops and adopted livestock agriculture instead
Which of the following was an outcome of the Navigation Acts in the mid seventeenth century?
French and Dutch naval fleets launched a series of devastating attacks against the English shippers
Why was William Berkeley significant in the Chesapeake region in the seventeenth century?
He advocated economic diversification and promoted trade between the colonists and the Virginia Indians.
For which of the following reasons did the 1686 Dominion of New England anger American colonists?
It invalidated the Massachusetts Bay colony's original land titles.
Which of the following statements is true of the Quaker religion in the 1660s
It taught that God imbued all men and women with an "inner light" of grace
Which of the following was the outcome of the surprise Indian attack on the Virginia colony in 1622?
James 1 revoked the Virginia Company's charter and made it a royal colony
In the mid-1700s, how were the English colonies throughout the British Atlantic empire primarily linked?
Linked through trade
Which of the following characterized the New England freehold society of the early eighteenth century?
Many relatively equal landowning families who livelihoods came from agriculture and trade
By the mid-1500s, Spain's main goal in North America was to
Monopolize Indian labor and control resources
The political conflicts that wracked colonial Pennsylvania in the middle of the eighteenth century stemmed from which of the following sources?
Rapid immigration and population growth
Which of the following describes the character of the Britain's empire in America before 1660?
The British ruled their American colonies in a haphazard and lax manner
What effect did American tobacco have in England during the early colonial period?
The English developed a huge appetite for tobacco, helping to fuel a 40 year boom in tobacco prices.
Which of the following eighteenth-century movements posed a significant challenge to traditional assumptions about race, gender, and class in American society?
The Great Awakening
Pontiac's uprising in Detroit in 1763 was a direct cause of which of the following events?
The Royal Proclamation of 1763
Which of the following events provoked a major crisis for Puritans in Massachusetts in the seventeenth century?
The annulment of Massachusetts' charter
. Which of the following developments was an outcome of the eighteenth-century consumer revolution?
The colonies became more dependent on overseas credits and markets
During the period between 1676 and 1750, how did the Virginia gentry try to reduce social discontent
The gentry urged even the smallest landholders to purchase slaves and thus support the slavery system
Which of the following statements characterized the currency problems that plagued the American colonies in the early and mid-eighteenth century?
The lack of currency in the colonies led New England states to issue paper money which English creditors increasingly refused to accept.
Which of the following was a result of the long-practiced policy of subdividing land in New England for inheritance by the mid-1700s?
The number of children conceived before marriage rose sharply
Which of the following describes the dominant approach to settlement in North Carolina in its early years?
The proprietors planned to set up a feudal type of government, but this plan failed
What specific purpose did the colonies of New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia serve for the British Empire in the eighteenth century?
Their wheat crops made them the breadbasket of the Atlantic world
For which of the following reasons did Britiains King James II create the dominion of New England in 1686?
To strengthen royal control of the American colonies
Which of the following statements best describes women s property rights in the English colonies in the eighteenth century?
When they married women passed legal ownership of all personal property to their husbands
Which of the following statements describes the relationship of typical New England women to the church in the eighteenth century?
Women and men joined churches in equal numbers but men dominated leadership
What did the British policy of salutary neglect of the American colonies in the early eighteenth century mean?
relaxing their supervision of the colonies' internal affairs while concentrating on defense and trade policies
In Maryland, the aftermath of the Glorious Revolution was characterized by
religious conflict that led to the establishment of the Church of England as the official church
The term middle passage refers to which of the following?
the slaves' perilous journey to America across the Atlantic Ocean
The Americans major objection to the Navigation Acts related to which of the following stipulations?
to export tobacco only to England unless there was a surplus
In contrast to the Spanish missionaries of the sixteenth century, the seventeenth century French Jesuits
tried to understand the Indians' values and worldview