apush book quiz 4
squatters
some one who settles on land he or she does not own or rent / Many 18th century settles est. themselves on land before it was surveyed and entered for sale, requesting the first right to purchase the land when sales begun
What made George Whitefield such a successful evangelical preacher in New England in the 1740s?
A reputation for being "almost angelical" in appearance
Which of the following colleges was founded in the mid-eighteenth century out of the religious enthusiasm spread by the Great Awakening?
Princeton
Why was the print revolution that occurred in the colonies during the early eighteenth century significant?
Printing allowed for the broad transmission of new ideas
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
The most numerous voluntary (nonslave) emigrants to British North America in the eighteenth century came from which of the following groups?
Scots-Irish
Puritan minister Cotton Mather's response to which of the following eighteenth-century crises demonstrated that Enlightenment ideas had begun to influence him?
The Boston smallpox epidemic
In New York during the first half of the eighteenth-century, settlement of the Hudson River Valley showed which of the following patterns?
The Dutch manorial system largely remained intact, with a few wealthy and powerful Dutch and English landlords dominating poor tenant families.
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 developments was an outcome of the eighteenth-century consumer revolution?
The colonies became more dependent on overseas credits and markets
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
How did the British government respond to hostilities in America in 1754?
William Pitt and Lord Halifax persuaded Prime Minister Pelham to start a war in America against the French.
How did farmwives throughout the colonies in the eighteenth century contribute to their families?
Wives acted as helpmates to their husbands and performed both domestic and agricultural tasks.
Isaac Newton
used science of math and physics to explain the movements of the planets around the sun / Principia Mathemitica
William Pitt
worked and saved Britains government from debt and collapsing
The eighteenth-century Great Awakening was the impetus for which of the following phenomena?
African Americans' creation of a distinctive Protestant Christianity
Pietism
A Christian revival movement characterized by bible study, the conversion experience, and the individual's personal relationship w God / started as a movement in Germany and became big in Britain
Which of these individuals would have most likely preferred Pietism to deism in the eighteenth century?
A Scots-Irish migrant
Which of the following consequences of the eighteenth-century Great Awakening made it historically significant?
Americans' new freedom to challenge authority within and outside the church
Which of these religious denominations successfully converted many slaves in the mid-eighteenth-century southern colonies?
Baptists
Which of the following statements describes the early Industrial Revolution and its impact on the American colonies in the eighteenth century?
Britain's new ability to produce more and cheaper goods than ever before transformed American markets and raised most colonists' standard of living
Which of the following statements describes the relationship of typical New England women to the church in the eighteenth century?
Churches were filled primarily with women but led exclusively by men
Which of the following statements describes rural life in the New England colonies during the eighteenth century?
Colonists' sense of personal worth and dignity in rural New England contrasted sharply with European peasant life
Which of the following was part of William Pitt's strategy to mobilize the American colonists for the Great War for Empire in 1756?
Committing to provide a fleet of British ships and 30,000 soldiers to North America
Which of the following problems troubled both eastern migrants and western settlers in the American colonies in the mid-1700s?
Competition for land
Which of the following features characterized the Middle Atlantic colonies of New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania in the eighteenth century?
Cultural diversity
Influenced by Enlightenment science, which of the following religious movements believed that God had created the world but allowed it to operate in accordance with the laws of nature?
Deism
Which of the following eighteenth-century Pennsylvania immigrant groups quickly lost its cultural identity by practicing intermarriage with other Protestants?
Dutch Huguenots
Which of the following statements characterizes eighteenth-century religious practice in Pennsylvania?
Each religious sect enforced moral behavior among its members
In the mid-1700s, which industrializing nation was the dominant commercial power in the Atlantic Ocean?
England
George Whitefield
English minster who transformed the local revivals of Edward into a Great Awakening
John Locke
English philosopher who stressed the the impact of environment and experience on human behavior and beliefs, arguing that the character of individuals and society was not fixed but could be changed education and rational thought
New Lights
Evangelical preachers, many of them influenced by John Wesley and George Whitefield / the decried a Christian faith that was merely intellectual and emphasized the importance of spiritual rebirth
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 statements best describes inheritance patterns in colonial New England during the mid-1700s?
Fathers had a cultural duty to provide inheritances for their children
Hostilities between French troops and Virginians led by Colonel George Washington began in 1754 at which of the following locations?
Fort Duquesne
Which of the following was a provision of the Treaty of Paris of 1763?
France lost all of her North American territory east of the Mississippi River
The group that came to be known as the Cajuns after the Great War for Empire were
French settlers expelled by the British from Nova Scotia and deported to Louisiana
Which of the following statements describes the role of money and economic exchange in eighteenth-century rural New England?
Generally, no money was exchanged between relatives and neighbors, but accounts of debts were maintained and settled every few years by cash transfers
Which of the following characterized the New England freehold society of the early eighteenth century?
Many relatively equal landowning families whose livelihoods came from agriculture and trade
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
During the Great Awakening in the 1730s and 1740s, which of the following groups challenged the authority of ministers?
New Lights
Which of the following individuals created the foundation for Enlightenment thinking?
Nicolas Copernicus
The English philosopher John Locke believed which of the following ideas?
People had natural rights such as life, liberty, and property.
How did the Pietism movement of the eighteenth century differ from Puritanism?
Pietism stressed an individual's relationship with God.
Which of the following developments created a crisis for New England Puritan society in the eighteenth century?
Population growth made freehold land scarce
The power of human reason, a world ordered by natural laws, and the progressive improvement of society are associated with which of the following movements?
The Enlightenment
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
The French and Indian War started as a result of disputed land claims regarding
The Ohio River Valley
Which of the following statements describes the religious controversy that emerged from the Great Awakening during the 1740s and 1750s?
The Old Lights prohibited traveling preachers from speaking to a congregation without its minister's permission
Which of the following statements characterizes the nature of colonial Pennsylvania during the eighteenth century?
The growing wheat trade in the mid-eighteenth century brought an influx of poor families, which increased social divisions
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
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
What made the British authorities wary of declaring war against the French in North America in 1754?
They believed the American colonists were incapable of cooperating in their own defense.
Why did the Virginia gentry fear the rise of the Baptists in the mid-eighteenth century?
They threatened to undermine the gentry's position and privilege
Tanaghrisson
a Seneca who was adopted and sent into Ohio to continue the influence of Iroquois / killed a french officer to ensure war
redemptioner
a common type of indentured servant in the middle colonies in the 18th century / unlike other indentured servants they didnt sign a contract before leaving Europe, instead they found employers after settling in America
Ben Franklin
a diest, encouraging and stressed the rational thought of the enlightenment
Jonathan Edwards
a minister who spread and popularized the revival of Christians
revival
a renewal of religious enthusiasm in a Christian congregation
Enlightenment
an 18th century philosophical movement that emphasized the use of reason to reevaluate previously accepted doctrines and traditions and the power of reason to understand and shape the world
consumer revolution
an increase in consumption in English manufactures in Britain and the Britain colonies fueled by the Industrial Rev
Old Lights
conservative ministers opposed to the passion displayed by evangelical preachers / preferred to emphasize the importance of cultivating a virtuous Christian life
Regulators
landowning protesters who organized in North & South Carolina in the 1760s and 1770s to demand that eastern-controlled government provide western districts w more courts, fair taxation, and greater representation
Pontiac
led several tribes in a war w Britain and tried to drive them out of Ohio
The 1754 Albany Congress was a significant event because it demonstrated that
neither the colonists nor the British found the other's plan acceptable
deism
the Enlightenment influenced belief that the Christian God created the universe and then left it to run according to natural laws
competency
the ability of a family to keep a household solvent and independent and to pass the ability on to the next generation
In eighteenth-century New England, the notion that parents would pay grown children for their past labors in exchange for the privilege of choosing the children's spouses was known as
the new marriage portion
tenancy
the rental of property/ to attract tenants in NY 's Hudson River Valley, Dutch and England manorial land lords granted long tenancy leases, with the rights to sell houses and barns to the next tenant
natural rights
the rights to life, liberty, and property / John Locke said authority derived from social compacts that people made to preserve their rights
household mode of production
the system of exchanging goods and labor that helped eighteenth century New England freeholders survive on ever-shrinking farms as available land became more scarce
