Chapter 3 and 4 College History

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' creation of a distinctive Protestant Christianity

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

All of the woman's property was legally given to the husband

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

Americans had to maintain a favorable balance of trade with England

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

Barbados

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

Chesapeake

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

Churches were filled primarily with women but led exclusively by men

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

Competition for land

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

Continuing troubles with the French and Indians to the north kept the valley sparsely populated until the eve of the American Revolution.

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

Cut out the French and Dutch from colonial trade, and ensure that only English ships transported goods

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

Each religious sect enforced moral behavior among its members

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

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

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

Husbands at the head of the household and had a job while women were inferior and did house chores

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

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

North America

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

People wanted traditional European society with a manorial system and legally established Church of England

The political conflicts that wracked colonial Pennsylvania in the middle of the eighteenth century stemmed from which of the following sources?

Quakers vs Assembly, as well as rapid immigration and population growth

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

Slave prices were low and sugar prices were high, so slave owners worked slaves to death, replacing them regularly

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

Smuggling became very common since colonists did not want to export straight to England

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

The British relaxed their supervision of internal colonial affairs, allowing them to govern themselves

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

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

The English government began to control colonial trade because they were not satisfied with the balance of trade

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 Massachusetts' 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

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

The establishment of the Church of England as the official church

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 led to issuing of paper money, which English creditors 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"

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

They drove the Dutch from New Netherland

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

They lowered taxes and encouraged small land owners to buy slaves

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

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

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

This gave Iroquois dominance over all other Indian tribes and gave NY economic and political dominance over other colonies. It also served as a model for relations between the British Empire and other Native American groups.

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

Trade relationships promoted ties between the English colonies

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

all imports and exports go on English ships and through English ports

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

obtained Newfoundland, Acadia, the Hudson Bay region, access to Albany from Indian trade, and acquired fortresses of Gibraltar and a 30 year contract to supply slaves to Spanish America

The term Middle Passage refers to which of the following?

the voyage to America across the Atlantic which took slaves in over crowded ships