APUSH - Chapter 5
Which of the following represented examples of resistance by African Americans to the power and influence of the white planter elite?
"Negro spirituals;" slave religion; the New York and South Carolina slave revolts
The average age of the American colonists in 1775 was
16
The South held about ____ percent of the slaves in the thirteen colonies of North America.
90
By the end of the 1700s, what was the percentage of people living in rural areas of colonial America?
90 percent
Match each denomination on the left with the region where it predominated. A. Congregationalist B. Anglican C. Presbyterian 1. the frontier 2. New England 3. the South
A-2, B-3, C-1
Match the following description with the artist. A. John Trumbull B. Charles Wilson Peale C. Benjamin West D. John Singleton Copley 1. regarded as a Loyalist during the Revolutionary War 2. best known for his portraits of George Washington, ran a museum, stuffed birds, and practiced dentistry 3. from Connecticut and was discouraged by his father as a youth, "Connecticut is not Athens" 4. close friend of George III and official court painter, was buried in London's St. Paul's Cathedral
A-3, B-2, C-4, D-1
By 1775, the ____ were the largest non-English ethnic group in colonial America.
Africans
By 1775, which of the following communities could not be considered a city in colonial America?
Baltimore
The person most often called the "first civilized American" was
Benjamin Franklin
How did British authorities respond to efforts by colonial legislatures to restrict or halt the importation of slaves?
British leaders vetoed such efforts
In 1775, the ____ churches were the only two established (tax-supported) churches in colonial America.
Congregational and Anglican
T/F: By 1775, the black population rose to over 1 million.
False
T/F: Most of the early African immigrants gained their freedom.
False
T/F: The population of the thirteen colonies, mainly Anglo-Saxon, was the least mixed to be found anywhere in the world.
False
T/F: The triangular trade was enormously profitable and made up most of the colonial commerce.
False
Which of the following was not considered to be a colonial naval store?
Glass
Bacon's Rebellion stemmed from
Governor Berkeley's Indian policies; the frontier's resentment of the tidewater gentry
An armed march in Philadelphia in 1764, protesting the Quaker oligarchy's lenient policy toward the Indians was known as
March of the Paxton Boys
What proportion of the British merchant marine fleet was American built?
One-third
In North Carolina, spearheaded by the Scotch-Irish, a small insurrection against eastern domination of the colony's affair was known as
Regulator Movement
Although manufacturing in the colonies was of only secondary importance, they did produce which of the following?
Rum; Beaver hats; Lumber
In 1760, fearful of heavy concentrations of resentful slaves, which colonial legislature unsuccessfully sought to pass legislation that would halt the further importation of slaves?
South Carolina
All of the following are reasons the thirteen Atlantic seaboard colonies sought independence from Great Britain except
a declining population in the thirteen Atlantic seaboard colonies
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
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
The leading industry in the American colonies was
agriculture
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
By 1775, most governors of American colonies were
appointed by the king
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
By the eighteenth century, the various colonial regions had distinct economic identities; the northern colonies relied on ____, the Chesapeake colonies relied on ____, and the southern colonies relied on ____.
cattle and grain, tobacco, rice and indigo
Colonists throughout the eighteenth century universally enjoyed all of the following amusements except
celebrating Christmas
With regard to governmental authority, the Scots-Irish colonists
cherished no love for the British or any other government
Trends that sapped the spiritual vitality from many early eighteenth-century churches included
clerical intellectualism; lay liberalism
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
Which of the following were considered the most promising avenues to acquiring speedy wealth in the American colonies?
commercial ventures and land speculation
The New Light preachers of the Great Awakening
delivered intensely emotional sermons
Leaders of the Great Awakening endorsed the concepts of
divine omnipotence; predestination
The time-honored English ideal, which Americans accepted for some time, regarded education as all of the following except
essential training for citizenship
In colonial New England, education was primarily
for boys; intended for religious instruction
Colonial American taverns were all of the following except
frequented mainly by the lower class
By the mid-eighteenth century, North American colonies shared all of the following similarities except
full democratic participation by all colonists in political affairs, regardless of social and economic class
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
In contrast to the seventeenth century, by 1775, colonial Americans
had become more stratified into social classes
Slaves in colonial America
included a few who became skilled artisans and tradesmen; were mostly menial field hands
The slave culture that developed in America
included the distinctive cultural contributions of native-born African Americans
The religious doctrine of the Arminians held that
individual free will determined a person's eternal fate
All of the following are achievements of Benjamin Franklin except
influential poetry
The Molasses Act of 1733 was intended to
inhibit colonial trade with the French West Indies
Colonial immigrants laid the foundations for a new multicultural American national identity by
intermarrying with people from other ethnic groups
The triangular trade of the colonial American shipping industry
involved the trading of rum for African slaves
All of the following can be said about slave culture in the colonies except
it emerged from efforts by slave traders to suppress African speech, religion and traditions
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 robust public discussion of political affairs in the colonies
African American contributions to American culture include all of the following except
jazz music; the banjo; a unique language, Gullah, that blended English with several African languages (All of these choices are correct)
All of the following contributed to the lack of development of art and artists in early colonial America except
lack of talent among the Americans
By the early eighteenth century, religion in colonial America was
less fervid than when the colonies were established
In 1775, most of the population in the American colonies
lived east of the Allegheny Mountains; lived in rural areas; was under twenty-five years of age; was of predominantly English stock
The most important manufacturing enterprise in colonial America in the eighteenth century was
lumbering
Generally, in the eighteenth-century American colonies
most people had sufficient food to stay healthy; lotteries were a usual source of funds used for civic and church purposes
The main reason that Puritan churches were struggling in the early eighteenth century was because
parishioners found their theological doctrines too elaborate
The population of the thirteen American colonies was
perhaps the most diverse in the world, although it remained predominantly Anglo-Saxon
One of the least honored and most haphazard professions in colonial society was a
physician
The Scots-Irish can best be described as
pugnacious, lawless, and individualistic
One feature common to all of the eventually rebellious colonies was their
rapidly growing populations
To the Puritans, education was essential for
reading the Bible
Colonial schools and colleges placed their main emphasis on
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
Transportation in colonial America was
slow by any of the means available
As the Revolution approached, Presbyterian and Congregational ministers in general
supported the Revolutionary cause
Slave Christianity emphasized all of the following in their faith except
that they should be humble and obedient
The rebelliousness and inclination toward violence of the Scots-Irish was demonstrated by
the Paxton Boys in Philadelphia; the Regulator movement in North Carolina
The first American college free from denominational control was
the University of Pennsylvania
On the eve of the American Revolution, social and economic mobility in the colonies decreased for all of the following reasons except
the average size of New England farms increased dramatically
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 royal authority
The most ethnically diverse region of colonial America was ____, whereas ____ was the least ethnically diverse.
the middle colonies, New England
The most honored profession in early colonial society was
the ministry
The population growth of the American colonies by 1775 is attributed mostly to
the natural fertility of all Americans
In colonial elections
the right to vote was reserved for white male property holders
All of the following characterized "old light" clergymen except
they were proponents of utilizing emotionalism and theatrics in religious preaching
All of the following are true statements about colonial newspapers on the eve of the Revolution except
they were typically published twice a week
The Great Awakening
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 colleges
Colonial newspaper printer John Peter Zenger
was accused of seditious libel; was found innocent of the charges brought against him; printed comments accusing the royal governor of corruption
By 1775, population growth in the American colonies
was causing the population to double about every twenty-five years; was attributable more to reproduction than to immigration
Art and culture in colonial America
was generally undistinguished and unsupported by colonial patrons
Benjamin Franklin
was the author of Poor Richard's Almanack; celebrated the virtues of thrift, hard work, and common sense; was a scientist
The riches created by the growing slave population in the American South
were not distributed evenly among whites