Ch. 5
Match each denomination on the left with the region where it predominated. A. Congregationalist 1. the frontier B. Anglican 2. New England C. Presbyterian 3. the South
A-2, B-3, C-l
Match each individual on the left with his or her profession. A. Jonathan Edwards 1. poet B. Benjamin Franklin 2. scientist C. Phillis Wheatley 3. theologian 4. portrait artist
A-3, B-2, C-1
By 1775, ____ were the largest non-English ethnic group in colonial America.
Africans
The person most often called the "first civilized American" was
Benjamin Franklin
The most important economic enterprise in the American colonies was
agriculture
The prevalent Scots-Irish attitude toward government was that they
cherished no love for the British or any other government
Colonial legislatures were often able to bend the governors to their will because
colonial legislatures controlled taxes and expenditures that paid the governors' salaries
The "new light" preachers of the Great Awakening
delivered intensely emotional sermons
All of the following are reasons the thirteen Atlantic seaboard colonies sought independence except
distinctive religious structures
The Scots-Irish can best be described as
fiercely independent
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
In colonial America, education was most zealously promoted
in New England
When the British Parliament passed the Molasses Act in 1733, it intended the act to
inhibit colonial trade with the French West Indies
The jury's decision in the John Peter Zenger case was significant because
it pointed the way toward open public discussion and partial freedom of the press
The attempt to introduce inoculation against smallpox was opposed by
many doctors and clergy
For most of their early history, Americans accepted the English idea that education was
reserved for an aristocratic few
Jonathan Edwards's theology and preaching emphasized
righteousness and complete dependence on God's grace
Transportation in colonial America was
slow by any of the means available
On the eve of the American Revolution, social and economic mobility decreased, partly because
some merchants made huge profits as military suppliers
As a result of the rapid population growth in colonial America during the eighteenth century,
the balance of power between the colonies and the mother country shifted
The population growth of the American colonies by 1775 is attributed mostly to
the natural fertility of all Americans
In colonial elections,
the right to vote was reserved for property holders
American colonists sought trade with countries other than Great Britain
to make money to buy what they wanted in Britain
By the mid-eighteenth century, Britain's North American colonies shared all of the following qualities except
universal free public education
Up to the time of the American Revolution, lawyers were generally regarded as
windbags and troublemakers