APUSH Chapter 4,5,6 Test

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Agriculture was the leading industry, involving about ___ percent of people.

90

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

Africans.

In the wake of the Proclamation of 1763

American colonist moved west, defying the proclamation.

The one valuable resource in New France was

Beavers.

During the Seven Years' War

British officials were disturbed by the lukewarm support of many colonials.

By the eighteenth century, the various colonial regions had distinct economic identities; the northern colonies relied on____, the Chesapeake colonies relied on ___, and the southern colonies relied on ____.

Cattle and grain, tobacco, rice and indigo

Which is false: A) A trader would barter rum with African chiefs for captured African slaves. B) A trader would leave New England with a cargo of rum and sail to the Gold Coast of Africa. C) A trader would travel to New England with the molasses, where it would be distilled into rum. D) The triangular trade was infamously profitable and made up most of the colonial commerce. E) A trader would travel to the West Indies with the African slaves for molasses.

D) The triangular trade was infamously profitable and made up most of the colonial commerce.

In the peace arrangements that ended the Seven Years' War

France surrendered all of its territorial claims to North America

The coureurs de bois were

French fur Trappers

The immediate reason for Bacon's Rebellion was

Indian attacks on frontier settlements.

New England colonists were outraged when British diplomats returned ____ to France in 1748.

Louisbourg

The most important manufacturing enterprise in colonial America in the eighteenth century was

Lumbering

An armed march in Philadelphia in 1764, protesting the Quaker oligarchy's lenient policy toward the Indians was known as

March of the Paxton Boys.

The soldier and explorer whose leadership earned him the title "Father of New France" was

Samuel de Champlain.

The combination of Calvinism, soil, and climate in New England resulted in the people there possessing which of the following qualities?

Self-reliance; Resourcefulness; Stubbornness, Energy

During the seventeenth century, indentured servitude solved the labor problem in many English colonies

Spain had stopped sending slaves to its New World colonies.

As a result of the rapid population growth in colonial America during the eighteenth century

a momentous shift occurred in the balance of power between the colonies and the mother country.

As a result of the Seven Years' War, Great Britain

became the dominant power in North America

The long-range purpose of the Albany Congress in 1754 was to

achieve colonial unity and common defense against the French threat.

By 1775, most governors of American colonies were

appointed by the king.

The War of Jenkins's Ear was

confined to the Caribbean Sea and Georgia

The disunity that existed in the colonies before the Seven the British government.Years' War can be attributed to all of the following except

contempt for the British Government.

During a generation of peace following the 1713 Treaty of Utrecht, Britain provided its American colonies with

decades of salutary neglect.

The New Light preachers of the Great Awakening

delivered intensely emotional sermons.

In the colonial wars before 1754, Americans

demonstrated an astonishing lack of unity.

For the American colonies, the Seven Years' War

ended the myth of British invincibility.

The Indians suffered form their association with the French in New France in all of the following ways except

exclusion from the fur business

The New England economy depended heavily on

fishing, shipbuilding, and commerce

When William Pitt became prime minister during the Seven Years' War, he

focused his military strategy on the Quebec-Montreal area.

Colonial American taverns were all of the following except

frequented mainly by the lower class.

The primary economic pursuit of early settlers in New Face was

fur trapping

As slavery spread in the South

gaps in the social structure widened.

The headright system, which made some people very wealthy, consisted of

giving the right to acquire fifty acre of land to the person paying the passage of a laborer to America.

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.

When the British Parliament passed the Molasses act in 1733, it intended to 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.

Benjamin Franklin's plan for colonial home rule was rejected by the individual colonies because

it did not seem to give enough independence to the colonies.

All of the following were consequences of the Half-Way Covenant except

it maintained the original agreement of the covenant.

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.

France had to give up its vision of a North American New France when

it was defeated by the British in 1713 and 1763.

By the early eighteenth century, religion in colonial America was

less fervid than when the colonies were established.

The reason France needed to control the Ohio Valley was to

link its Canadian holdings with those of the lower Mississippi Valley

It was typical of colonial New England adults to

marry early and have several children.

The Proclamation of 1763

prohibited colonial settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains.

Benjamin Franklin published in his Pennsylvania Gazette his most famous cartoon of the colonial era, a disjointed snake, which

promoted the idea that America, if they accepted the Albany Plan, would be cut apart and die.

During the Salem witchcraft trials, most of those accused as witches were

property-owning women

The Scots-Irish can best be described as

pugnacious, lawless, and individualistic.

The 1759 Battle of Quebec

ranks as one of the most significant victories in British and American history.

The population of the Chesapeake colonies, throughout the first half of the seventeenth century, was notable for its

scarcity of women

At the bottom of the social class in the south were the

slaves.

Transportation in colonial America was

slow by any of the means available.

With the defeat of Chief Pontiac and his alliance, the British decided to

stabilize Indian-white relations.

The clash between Britain and France for control of the North American continent sprang from their rivalry for control of

the Ohio River Valley

As a result of General Braddock's defeat a few miles from Fort Duquesne

the frontier from Pennsylvania to North Carolina was open to Indiana attack.

The most honored profession in early colonial society was

the ministry.

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

the natural fertility of all Americans.

All of the following are reasons for increased reliance on slave labor, after 1680, in colonial American except

the numbers of indentured servants continued to increase in the colonies.

The Salem witchcraft trials were

the result of unsettled social and religious conditions in rapidly evolving Massachusetts.

American colonists sought trade with countries other than Great Britain

to make money to buy what they wanted in Britain.

The early wars between France and Britain in North America were notable for the

use of primitive guerrilla warfare.

In his first military command in the French and Indian War, George Washington

was defeated at Fort Necessity but was allowed to retreat.

Urban development in the colonial South

was slow to emerge

The Great Awakening

was the first spontaneous mass movement of the American people.

The English justified taking land from the native inhabitants on the grounds that the Indians

wasted the earth.

The French wanted to control Louisiana because they

would then control the mouth of the Mississippi.

Bacon's Rebellion was supported mainly by

young men frustrated by their inability to acquire land.


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