US History chapt. 5 & 6

BY the end of the 1700's, what was the percentage of people living in rural ares of colonial America?

90 percent

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

Africans

In 1775, the__________ churches were the only two established (tax-supported) churches in colonial America.

Congregational and Angelican

In the peace arrangements that ended the Seven Year's War

France surrendered all of its territorial claim to North America

The Seven Year War was also known in America as

French and Indian War

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

March of the Paxton Boys

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 the rapid population growth in colonial America during the eighteenth century

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

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

achieve colonial unity and common defense against the French threat

The leading industries in the American colonies was

agriculture

The reason Britain needed to control the Ohio Valley was to

continue their westward pushing for continued economic security and supremacy of their way of life

In the colonial wars before 1754, Americans

demonstrated an astonishing lack of unity

France was finally able to join the scramble for colonies in the New World as a result of the

end of the religious wars

The primary economic pursuit of early setters in New France was

fur trapping

One feature of the American economy that strained the relationship between the colonies and Britain was the

growing the desire of Americans to trade with the other nations in addition to Britian

When the British Parliament passed the Molasses Act in 1733, it intended the 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

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

lumbering

The Proclamation of 1763

prohibited colonial settlements west of the Appalachian Mountains

When several colonial legislatures attempted to restrict or halt the importation of slaves, British authorities

vetoed such efforts