Ch. 3 Pop Quiz

Which of the following statements characterizes the impact of the War for Spanish Succession (1702-1713) in the American Southeast?

B. The Creek nation used the European war to expand its power into northern Florida and North Carolina.

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

C. The annulment of Massachusetts' charter

The term Middle Passage refers to which of the following?

A. African slaves' perilous trans-Atlantic journey to the Americas

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

A. Drove the Dutch from New Netherland

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

A. 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?

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

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

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

Which of the following describes the process of tribalization that occurred in America in the early eighteenth century?

A. Stateless peoples' adaptation to the demands imposed on them by neighboring states

Which of the following was true for the Iroquois in New York during the period of imperial warfare in the early eighteenth century?

A. The tribe allied with France and Britain and declared their intention to remain neutral.

Which of the following was true of the Restoration Colonies of New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and the Carolinas in the 1660s?

A. They were created by Charles II as he expanded English power in America.

Which agricultural product served as the foundation for the South Atlantic System in the eighteenth century?

B. Sugar

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

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

Which of the following characterized tobacco, rice, and sugar production in eighteenth-century America?

B. Each drove the expansion of the slave trade for a time.

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

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

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

B. No longer content with a favorable balance of trade with European countries, the English government controlled trade with the colonies.

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

B. North America

Which of the following was true of slavery in the American colonies in the eighteenth century?

B. Slaves created a sophisticated culture with extended kin relationships and traditions.

Which of the following describes the significance of the Glorious Revolution of 1688 in England and America?

B. The change represented a major step toward democracy in both England and the North American colonies.

The transatlantic slave trade resulted in which of the following outcomes in the eighteenth century?

B. The emergence of polygamous marriage in many African societies

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

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

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

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

What method did Chesapeake planters use in the early eighteenth century to prevent slave revolts?

B. They bought slaves of different ethnic backgrounds to limit their ability to organize.

By the middle of the eighteenth century, Chesapeake planters displayed their dominance through

B. gentility.

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

B. the establishment of the Church of England as the official church.

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

C. 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?

C. Chesapeake landowners

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

C. Colonists were required to export their sugar and tobacco only to England.

The extent of violence perpetrated by whites against slaves in any particular geographic area depended on which of the following factors?

C. Its racial composition

Which of the following explains why Chesapeake planters treated their slaves less harshly than West Indian planters in the eighteenth century?

C. Profits on sugar were considerably higher than those made through tobacco production.

For which of the following reasons did war break out between England and Spain in the late 1730s?

C. Spain was angry over the English settlement of Georgia.

Which of the following statements characterizes African states' involvement in the Atlantic slave trade?

C. The Asante kings used the profits of slave trading to expand their political dominion.

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

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

How did South Carolina planters respond in the aftermath of the Stono Rebellion in 1739?

C. The planters decided to import fewer Africans

Which of the following statements describes the dominant approach to settlement in North Carolina in its early years?

C. The proprietors planned to set up a manorial system, but this plan failed.

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

C. Trade relationships promoted ties between the English colonies.

The British colonists in eighteenth-century North America enjoyed a significant degree of autonomy over their royal governors mainly due to

C. their control over governors' salaries.

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

D. Barbados

Which of the following statements characterizes the colonial shipbuilding industry during the early eighteenth century?

D. Colonial-built ships eventually made up about a third of the British merchant fleet.

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

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

Which of the following combinations describes wealthy Chesapeake and Southern women in the first half of the eighteenth century?

D. Genteel and deferential

Which American colony was established in the 1660s as a haven for Quakers?

D. Pennsylvania

Which of the following occurred in the aftermath of the Glorious Revolution of 1688?

D. Plymouth, Maine, and Massachusetts Bay were joined to create a new royal colony.

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

D. The British relaxed their supervision of the colonies' internal affairs while concentrating on defense and trade policies.

What spurred slaves to organize the Stono Rebellion in South Carolina in 1739?

D. The Spanish governor in Florida had promised freedom to fugitive slaves.

Which of the following occurred as a consequence of the "tobacco revolution" in Virginia and Maryland in the late seventeenth century?

D. The creation of a slave-based plantation economy

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

D. cut the Dutch and French out of the colonial trade.

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

D. won major territorial and commercial gains, including Newfoundland, Acadia, and the Hudson Bay region as well as access to the western Indian trade.