Chapter 5
The South held about ___ percent of the slaves in the thirteen colonies of North America
90
By 1775, the ___ were the largest non-English ethnic group in colonial America
Africans
The Great Awakening
All of these ( undermined the prestige of the learned clergy in the colonies/ split colonial churches into several competing denominations/ led to the founding of Princeton, Dartmouth, and Rutgers college/ was the first spontaneous mass movement of the American people)
Which of the following was not considered to be a colonial naval store?
Glass
All if the following are achievements of Benjamin Franklin except
Influential property
The jury's decision in the case of John Peter Zenger, a newspaper printer, was significant because
It facilitated freedom of the press and a more rebuts public discussion of political affairs in the colonies
All of the following characterized "old light" clergymen except
They were proponents of utilizing emotionalism and theatrics in religious preaching
The first American college free from denominational control was
University of Pennsylvania
American colonists sought trade with countries other than Great Britain
because they needed markets besides Great Britain to sell their surplus goods and correct the colonies' adverse trade imbalance with Britain
What was created by the mid-1700s that helped connect the Atlantic seaboard colonies of Great Britain to each other in a more cohesive manner?
an intercolonial postal system
All of the following are true conditions of the Chesapeake, as compared to the Deep South, except
as the slave population began to rise, the development of a distinctive African American family life became impossible
The New light preachers of the Great Awakening
delivered intensely emotional sermons
The slave culture that developed in America
included the distinctive cultural contributions of native-born African Americans
The Molasses Act of 1733 was intended 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
By the early eighteenth century, religion in colonial America was
less fervid than when the colonies were established
The most honored profession in early colonial society was
ministry
To the Puritans, education was essential for
reading the bible
Transportation in colonial America was
slow by any of the means available
The population growth of the American colonies by 1775 is attributed mostly to
the natural fertility of all Americans