APUSH midterm review (test 2)

The primary purpose of the Proclamation of 1763 was to

avoid conflict with the trans- Appalachian Indians

By the 1750's, the British colonies on the North American mainland were characterized by all of the following EXCEPT -disdain for British constitutional monarchy -many religious denominations -a society without a hereditary aristocracy -a growing number of non- English settlers -acceptance of slavery as a labor system

disdain for British constitutional monarchy

The Scotch- Irish immigrants to the English colonies in North America

felt little loyalty to either the English government or the Anglican Church

In the Seventeenth Century, The Great Migration refers to the

settlement of the Puritans in Massachusetts Bay

The French colonies in Canada during the 17th and 18th centuries developed an economy dependent primarily on

the fur trade

The colonial case against John Peter Zenger is considered a landmark in the development of which freedom?

the press

The most likely cause of the increase in urban poverty in eighteenth-century America was that

when people found it more difficult to acquire property, they went to the cities looking for work

Which of the following groups was LEAST likely to respond with enthusiasm to the religious fervor of the Great Awakening in the 1730s and 1740s? -Established merchants in cities like Boston and Philadelphia -Presbyterians in the southern colonies -Backwoods famers isolated on the colonial frontier -Landless sons in New England communitites -Itinerant preachers unable to find permanent parishes for themselves

Established merchants in cities like Boston and Philadelphia

Which of the following beliefs was central to eighteenth- century Deism? -God gave the Bible to human being to guide their behavior -God created a universe governed by natural law -Christ is the Redeemer of the human race -All human beings are born in sin -God's existence has been proven by super-natural revelation

God created a universe governed by natural law

The individual who best represented the Enlightenment in colonial America was

Benjamin Franklin

Which of the following colonies established the principle that local communities have a duty under the law to establish schools? -Rhode Island -Connecticut -Georgia -Pennsylvania -Massachusetts

Massachusetts

The Stono Rebellion and the New York conspiracy trials of 1741 revealed which of the following?

Resistance to slavery

Which of the following was true of a married woman in the colonial era? -She would be sentenced to debtors' prison for debts incurred by her husband -She could vote as her husband's proxy in elections -She generally lost control of her property when she married -She was the prime beneficiary by law of her husband's estate -Her legal rights over her children were the same as those of her husband

She generally lost control of her property when she married

The French and Indians War resulted in all of the following EXCEPT: -new lands in the trans- Mississippi West were opened to the colonists -colonists began thinking for themselves as Americans rather than English or Bristish -Spain gained control of Louisiana -the treaty ending the war eliminated the French from the American colonial frontier -the myth of British invincibility was shattered

new lands in the trans- Mississippi West were opened to the colonists