Ch.5 American Pageant

The "new light" preachers of the Great Awakening

Delivered intensely emotional sermons

The jury's decision in the case of John Peter Zenger, a newspaper printer, was significant because

It pointed the way to open a public discussion

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

The south, New England

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 the mother country

The leading industry in the American colonies was

agriculture

With regard to governmental authority, the Scots-Irish colonists

cherished no love for the British or any other government

Colonial legislatures were often able to bend the power of the governors to their will because

colonial legislatures controlled taxes and expenditures that paid the governors' salaries

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

growing desire of Americans to trade with other nations in addition to Britain

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

Colonial schools and colleges placed their main emphasis on

religion

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

self-taxation through representation

As the Revolution approached, Presbyterian and Congregational ministers in general

supported the Revolutionary cause

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

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

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

vetoed such efforts

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

were not distributed evenly among whites