apush ch 5

The person most often called "the first civilized American" was

Benjamin Franklin

The first American college free from determined control was

The University of Pennsylvania

The most ethnically diverse region of colonial America was ____, whereas ____ was the least ethnically diverse

The middle colonies, New England

As a result of the rapid population growth in colonial America during the 18th century

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

The most important economic enterprise in the American colonies was

agriculture

Although manufacturing in the colonies was of only secondary importance, they did produce which of the following?

all of the above

The Great Awakening

all of the above

By 1775, most governors of American colonies were

appointed by the king

By the mid-eighteenth century, North American colonies shared all of the following similarities except

complete democracy

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 racial structures

When the Scots-Irish established a new community, one of the first tasks they undertook was to

erect a church

Colonial American taverns were all of the following except

frequented mainly by the lower class

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 triangular trade of the colonial American shipping industry

involved the trading of rum for African slaves

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

Of the following, the least important economic activity of colonial Americans was

manufacturing

The population of the thirteen American colonies was

perhaps the most diverse in the world, although it remained predominantly Anglo-Saxon

All of the following conditions caused many Scots to migrate to Northern Ireland and thence to America except

persecution for their Catholic religion

By the mid 1700s, the number of poor people in the American colonies

remained tiny compared with the number in England

One political principle that colonial Americans came to cherish above most others was

self taxation through representation

On the eve of the American Revolution, social and economic mobility decreased, partly because

some merchants made huge profits as military suppliers

English officials tried to establish the Church of England in as many colonies as possible because

the church would act as a major prop for kingly authority

The most honored profession in early colonial society was

the ministry

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

The riches created by the growing slave population in the American South

were not distributed evenly among whites