APUSH CH 4

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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

A type of indentured servant

redemptioner

An outburst of religious enthusiasm, often prompted by the preaching of a charismatic Baptist or Methodist minister

revival

People who settle on land they do not own

squatters

What made George Whitefield such a successful evangelical preacher in NE in the 1740s?

A reputation for being "almost angelical" in appearance

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

Landowning elites who began a series of movements in NC in 1763 (demanded fairer taxation, more representation, etc.)

Regulators

The most numerous voluntary (nonslave) emigrants to British North America in the 18th century came from which of the following groups?

Scots-Irish

Puritan minister Cotton Mather's response to which of the following 18th century crises demonstrated that Enlightenment ideas had begun to influence him?

The Boston smallpox epidemic

Pontiac's uprising in Detroit in 1763 was a direct cause of which of the following events?

The 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 18th 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 18th century contribute to their families?

Wives acted as helpmates to their husbands and performed both domestic and agricultural tasks

The 18th century Great Awakening was the imetus for which of the following phenomena?

African Americans' creation of a distinctive Protestant Christianity

Which of these individuals would have most likely preferred Pietism to deism in the 18th century?

A Scots-Irish migrant

Which of the following consequences of the 18th 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 18th century southern colonies?

Baptists

Which of the following statements describes the early Industrial Revolution and its impact on the American colonies in the 18th century?

Britian'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 NE women to the church in the 18th century?

Churches were filled primarily with women but led exclusively by men

Which of the following statements describes rural life in the NE colonies during the 18th century?

Colonists' sense of personal worth and dignity in rural NE 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 Britishships and 30K soldiers to North America

Which of the following problems troubled or both eastern migrants and Western settlers in the American colonies in the mid-70s

Competition for land

Which of the following features characterized the Middle Atlantic colonies of NY, NJ, and PA in the 18th century?

Cultural diversity

The political conflicts that wracked colonial Pennsylvania in the middle of the eighteenth century stemmed from which of the following sources?

Disagreements over the importance of economic opportunity

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 18th century PA immigrant groups quickly lost its cultural identity by practicing intermarriage with other Protestants?

Duth Huguenots

Which of the following statements characterizes 18th century religious practices Pennsylvania?

Each religious sect enforced moral behavior among its members

In the mid-1700s, which industrializing nation was the dominant commerical power in the Atlantic Ocean?

England

An 18th century philosophical movement that emphasized the use of reason

Enlightenment

Which of the following statements best describes inheritance patterns in colonial NE during the mid-1700s?

Fathers had a cultural duty to provide inheritances for their children

Hostilities between french troops and virginians Led by Col. 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 MS 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 characterized the NE freehold society of the early 18th 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 PA in the 18th 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

Followers of English minister George Whitefield, who in 1739 carried the fervent message of John Wesley, the founder of English Methodism, to America

New Lights

Which of the following individuals grade the foundation for enlightenment thinking?

Nicholas Copernicus

Conservative ministers

Old Lights

The English philosopher John Locke believed which of the following ideas?

People had natural rights such as life, liberty, and property.

A Christian revival movement characterized by Bible study, the conversion experience, and the individual's personal relationship with God

Pietism

How did the Pietism movement of the 18th century differ from Puritanism?

Pietism stressed an individual's relationship with God

Which of the following developments created a crisis for NE Puritan society in the 18th century?

Population growth made freehold land scarce

Which of the following colleges was founded in the mid 18th century out of thereligious enthusiasm spread by the Great Awakening?

Princeton

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

Which of the following statements describes the religious controversy that emerged from teh 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 PA during the 18th century?

The growing wheat trade in the mid 18th 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 VA gentry fear the rise of the Baptists in the mid 18th century?

They threatened to undermine the gentry's position and privilege

The ability of a family to keep a household solvant and independent and to pass that ability on to the next generation

competency

An increase in consumption in English manufactures in Britian and the British colonies (Industrial Revolution)

consumer revolution

The Enlightenment-influenced belief that the Christian God created the universe and then left it to run according to natural laws

deism

Which of the following statements describes the role of money exchange in 18th-century rural New England

farmers abandoned traditional grain crops and adopted livestock agriculture instead

The system of exchanging goods and labor

household mode of production

The rights to life, liberty, and property

natural rights

The 1754 Albany Congress was a significant event because it demonstrated that

neither the colonists nor the British found the other's plan acceptable

The rental of property (to attracts tenants in NY)

tenancy

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

The French and Indian War started as a result of disputed land claims regarding

the Ohio River Valley

In 18th century NE, 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 marriage portion


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