History 120 Powell Chapter 4
The view that reason alone was capable of establishing the essentials of religion, and that outdated superstitions included belief in the revealed truth of the Bible and miracles was called
Arminianism
Almost all African slaves in the eighteenth century came from the same African tribe.
False
During the eighteenth century, both Spain and France steadily lost interest in their North American empires
False
Indians who lived in the Catholic missions established by Father Junipero Serra in California generally lived happy, healthy, free, and long lives.
False
The eighteenth century was the height of the Atlantic slave trade, a commerce increasingly dominated by Spanish merchants and ships
False
The financial strains of the Seven Years' War would later help to spark the
French Revolution
During Pontiac's Rebellion, Neolin, the prophet, asserted all except
Indians must use British technology to defeat their enemies
The only unicameral legislature in the colonies was in Pennsylvania, largely controlled for much of the eighteenth century by
Quaker merchants
The idea that only property-owning citizens possessed "virtue" is most closely related to what political idea?
Republicanism
This was the first mainland colony to achieve a black majority population
South Carolina
Under the ____ system, individual slaves were able to cultivate crops of their own after their daily jobs.
Task
Regarding slavery, which of the following statements is not true?
The Middle Colonies needed many slaves because large farms predominated
According to the English minister George Whitefield, people could participate in their own salvation through their own actions; they were not, as predominant Protestant religions had traditionally held, unable to affect their destiny.
True
Britons and colonists tended to regard themselves as the freest people in the world.
True
By the 1700s, the population of Spanish North America was small, consisting of a few, isolated urban clusters in Florida, Texas, and New Mexico
True
Mexico won independence from Spain in 1821.
True
In Jonathan Edward's view, what was a sinner's only hope?
a "new birth" in which they became devout Christians
During the eighteenth century, more than half the Africans shipped to the New World as slaves were
carried on British vessel
Under the liberalism idea, the "social contract" extorted that
men retain their natural rights, as they predated the establishment of political authority
The military outposts established by the Spanish in California and New Mexico were called
presidios
The movement that sought to apply the scientific method of careful investigation based on research and experiment to politics and social life was called
the Enlightenment
The agreement that ended the Seven Year's War was called
the Peace of Paris
All of the following contributed to the devastation of Indian society in the present-day California area except
the introduction of British animals
By the mid-eighteenth century, distinct slave systems were entrenched in the New World. The oldest and largest was the
tobacco plantation system
The Great Awakening occurred as many ministers were concerned with
westward expansion
