American History Chapter 3-4

Where did the first colonists who settled South Carolina and introduced racial slavery in the 1660s come from?

Barbados

What did the German immigrants known as redemptioners do on their arrival in Pennsylvania in the eighteenth century?

Negotiated the terms for a period of servitude through which they would pay for their trip

Which of the following changes occurred in white society in the Chesapeake colonies at the same time that slavery was being forced on Africans?

A more rigid class structure with a well-defined and highly visible economic and political elite began to emerge.

The eighteenth-century Great Awakening was the impetus for which of the following phenomena?

African Americans created of a disincentive Protestant Christianity

Which of the following statements characterizes life for slaves in the West Indies in the 1700s?

Because the price of slaves was low and the price of sugar was high, slave owners worked their slaves to death and then replaced them with new slaves

People from which of the following groups modeled themselves after the English aristocracy in the first half of the eighteenth century?

Chesapeake landowners

Which of the following problems troubled both eastern migrants and western settlers in the American colonies in the mid-1700s?

Competition for land

The Navigation Acts, implemented in the American colonies by Britain in the mid-seventeenth century, were originally intended to?

Cut the Dutch and French out of the colonial trade

Which of the following statements characterizes eighteenth-century religious practice in Pennsylvania?

Each religious sect enforced moral behavior among its members

The Navigation Acts of the mid-seventeenth century included which of the following stipulations?

European goods imported to the colonies had to go through English ports.

Which of the following was an outcome of New England families' efforts to maintain the freeholder ideal in the late eighteenth century?

Farmers abandoned traditional grain crops and adopted livestock agriculture instead

Which of the following was an outcome of the Navigation Acts in the mid-seventeenth century?

French and Dutch naval fleets launched a series of devastating attacks against English shippers

For which of the following reasons did Britain's King James II create the Dominion of New England in 1686?

He aimed to strengthen royal control of the American colonies

For which of the following reasons did the 1686 Dominion of New England anger American colonists?

It invalidated the Massachusetts Bay colony's original land titles.

Why was the Covenant Chain between New York and the Iroquois people in the eighteenth century significant?

It served as a model for relations between the British Empire and other Native American groups.

Which of the following statements is true of the Quaker religion in the 1660s?

It taught that God imbued all men and women with an "inner light" of grace.

Which of the following characterized the New England freehold society of the early eighteenth century?

Many relatively equal landowning families who livelihoods came from agriculture and trade

Which of the following statements describes the change in English economic philosophy toward the colonies beginning in the 1650s?

No longer content with a favorable balance of trade with European countries, the English government was determined to regulate trade with the colonies

Which of the following areas imported the smallest number of slaves in the early eighteenth century?

North America.

Which of the following describes the character of Britain's empire in America before 1660?

The British ruled their American colonies in a haphazard and lax manner.

In New York during the first half of the eighteenth-century, settlement of the Hudson River Valley showed which of the following patterns?

The Dutch manorial system largely remained intact with a few wealthy and powerful Dutch and English landlords dominating poor tenant families

Pontiac's uprising in Detroit in 1763 was a direct cause of which of the following events?

The Royal Proclamation of 1763

Which of the following events provoked a major crisis for Puritans in Massachusetts in the seventeenth century?

The annulment of MA's charter

Which of the following developments was an outcome of the eighteenth-century consumer revolution?

The colonies became more dependent on overseas credits and markets

During the period between 1676 and 1750, how did the Virginia gentry try to reduce social discontent?

The gentry urged even the smallest landholders to purchase slaves and thus support the slavery system

Which of the following eighteenth-century movements posed a significant challenge to traditional assumptions about race, gender, and class in American society?

The great awakening

Which of the following statements characterized the currency problems that plagued the American colonies in the early and mid-eighteenth century?

The lack of currency in the colonies led New England states to issue paper money which English creditors increasingly refused to accept.

Which of the following was a result of the long-practiced policy of subdividing land in New England for inheritance by the mid-1700s?

The number of children conceived before marriage rose sharply

What specific purpose did the colonies of New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia serve for the British Empire in the eighteenth century?

Their wheat crops made them the breadbasket of the Atlantic world

Which of the following statements best describes women's property rights in the English colonies in the eighteenth century?

When they married women passed legal ownership of all personal property to their husbands

Which of the following statements describes the relationship of typical New England women to the church in the eighteenth century?

Women and men joined churches in equal numbers but men dominated leadership

As part of its mercantilist policy in the late seventeenth century, England committed which of the following actions?

drove the Dutch from New Netherland

When the early eighteenth-century Anglo-French wars temporarily ended with the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713, Britain had?

lost control of the Iroquois and access to the western Indian trade, although it had gained control over the mouth of the Mississippi River

What did the British policy of salutary neglect of the American colonies in the early eighteenth century mean?

relaxing their supervision of the colonies' internal affairs while concentrating on defense and trade policies

In Maryland, the aftermath of the Glorious Revolution was characterized by?

religious conflict that led to the establishment of the Church of England as the official church

The Americans' major objection to the Navigation Acts related to which of the following stipulations?

required to export tobacco only to England unless there was a surplus

The term Middle Passage refers to which of the following?

the slaves' perilous journey to America across the Atlantic Ocean

In the mid-1700s, how were the English colonies throughout the British Atlantic empire primarily linked?

trade