Chapter 5

The South held about ___ percent of the slaves in the thirteen colonies of North America

90

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

Africans

The Great Awakening

All of these ( undermined the prestige of the learned clergy in the colonies/ split colonial churches into several competing denominations/ led to the founding of Princeton, Dartmouth, and Rutgers college/ was the first spontaneous mass movement of the American people)

Which of the following was not considered to be a colonial naval store?

Glass

All if the following are achievements of Benjamin Franklin except

Influential property

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

It facilitated freedom of the press and a more rebuts public discussion of political affairs in the colonies

All of the following characterized "old light" clergymen except

They were proponents of utilizing emotionalism and theatrics in religious preaching

The first American college free from denominational control was

University of Pennsylvania

American colonists sought trade with countries other than Great Britain

because they needed markets besides Great Britain to sell their surplus goods and correct the colonies' adverse trade imbalance with Britain

What was created by the mid-1700s that helped connect the Atlantic seaboard colonies of Great Britain to each other in a more cohesive manner?

an intercolonial postal system

All of the following are true conditions of the Chesapeake, as compared to the Deep South, except

as the slave population began to rise, the development of a distinctive African American family life became impossible

The New light preachers of the Great Awakening

delivered intensely emotional sermons

The slave culture that developed in America

included the distinctive cultural contributions of native-born African Americans

The Molasses Act of 1733 was intended 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

By the early eighteenth century, religion in colonial America was

less fervid than when the colonies were established

The most honored profession in early colonial society was

ministry

To the Puritans, education was essential for

reading the bible

Transportation in colonial America was

slow by any of the means available

The population growth of the American colonies by 1775 is attributed mostly to

the natural fertility of all Americans