Chapter 4 Quiz US History
(Q004) White planters in the Chesapeake created which of the following rules for free blacks?
Blacks were not allowed to legally carry guns.
(Q027) In 1762, the Indians of the Ohio Valley and Great Lakes launched a revolt against British rule called
Pontiac's Rebellion.
(Q013) The idea that only property-owning citizens possessed "virtue" is related to what political idea?
Republicanism
(Q035) Father Junípero Serra founded the first Catholic mission in 1769 at
San Diego
(Q005) The first mainland colony to achieve a black majority population was
South Carolina
(Q055) Newspaperman John Peter Zenger printed several issues targeting the governor of New York's corruption. Zenger was found not guilty of libel, as his accusations were found to be true.
True
(Q061) Britons and colonists tended to regard themselves as the freest people in the world.
True
(Q067) Most African rulers took part in the Atlantic slave trade.
True
(Q025) As a result of the Seven Years' War, a large number of French residents in Nova Scotia
moved to Louisiana, where their descendants came to be known as Cajuns.
(Q042) Prominent theologian Cotton Mather __________ during his lifetime.
owned African slaves
(Q039) The military outposts established by the Spanish in California and New Mexico were called
presidios.
(Q038) The movement that sought to apply the scientific method of careful investigation based on research and experiment to politics and social life was called
the Enlightenment.
(Q028) The agreement that ended the Seven Years' War was called
the Peace of Paris.
(Q009) Some slaves came to the colonies familiar with Christianity, but most North American slaves practiced
traditional African religions.
(Q044) What was the source of an increase in Native American tribal unity in the late 1700s?
violence directed against Indian people by white American soldiers and settlers
(Q002) Approximately what percentage of slaves carried to the New World were destined for mainland North America?
5%
(Q066) England and Scotland were united in 1707 by the Act of Union to create Great Britain.
True
(Q070) By the 1700s, the population of Spanish North America was small, consisting of a few, isolated urban clusters in Florida, Texas, and New Mexico.
True
(Q072) Mexico won independence from Spain in 1821.
True
(Q030) The Albany Plan of Union
was the attempt to create a council composed of delegates from each colony to levy taxes and settle domestic issues.
(Q041) Trade with the West Indies was central to which of the following colonial economies?
British New England
(Q052) Throughout the eighteenth century, women were not eligible to vote.
False
(Q054) The phrase "freedom of speech" originated in colonial America.
False
(Q058) The Seven Years' War was also known in the colonies as Queen Anne's War.
False
(Q064) During the eighteenth century, both Spain and France steadily lost interest in their North American empires.
False
(Q043) In the mid-eighteenth century, approximately what percentage of people living in New York City were African-Americans held as slaves?
20%
(Q006) Under the ____ system, individual slaves were able to cultivate crops of their own after their daily jobs.
Task
(Q048) A few African societies were able to opt out of the Atlantic slave trade.
True
(Q049) By 1750, the Virginian population recognized "white" and "free" as virtually identical.
True
(Q051) Slaves who seldom interacted with whites, as on rice plantations, enjoyed more autonomy than elsewhere in the colonies.
True