chapter 4 history

What percentage of the populations of New York and New Jersey in the 1770s was made up of slaves?

10%

The Seven Years' War (called the French and Indian War in the colonies) was fought between the

British and French

Almost all African slaves in the eighteenth century came from the same African tribe.

false

As Britain's global power expanded, British patriotism actually declined.

false

Indians who lived in the Catholic missions established by Father Junípero Serra in California generally lived happy, healthy, free, and long lives.

false

The main crop worked by the "task" system in eighteenth-century South Carolina was

rice

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

In the eighteenth century, the British Constitution—the unwritten groundwork of British freedom—celebrated all EXCEPT

the right for all men to vote.

"Deism" was a religious adaptation of Enlightenment thought in both Europe and colonial America.

true

The view that reason alone was capable of establishing the essentials of religion, and that outdated superstitions included belief in the revealed truth of the Bible and miracles was called

Arminianism

Father Junípero Serra founded the first Catholic mission in 1769 at

San Diego

Which was NOT true of the Middle Passage?

Seventy percent of slaves were destined for North America.

Which was NOT an element in the Triangular Trade?

Tea and luxury goods were shipped to Britain from Asia.

According to the English minister George Whitefield, people could participate in their own salvation through their own actions| they were not, as predominant Protestant religions had traditionally held, unable to affect their destiny.

true

England and Scotland were united in 1707 by the Act of Union to create Great Britain

true

Freedom and slavery simultaneously expanded in the course of the eighteenth century as both the idea of the freeborn Englishman grew and the Atlantic slave trade expanded.

true

George Washington, a British soldier, was forced to surrender at Fort Necessity in Pennsylvania after he lost a third of his men in an ill-conceived effort to fight a larger French and Indian force.

true

In eighteenth-century Britain, the ideologies of "republicanism" and "liberalism" both underscored the importance of private property as a foundation of freedom.

true

In the Ohio Valley (the "middle ground"), the Iroquois were known for their ability to play the French and British empires against each other.

true

In the eighteenth century, only 5 percent of adult men in Britain could vote, but between 50 and 80 percent of adult white males in the colonies could vote.

true

Mexico won independence from Spain in 1821.

true

Most African rulers took part in the Atlantic slave trade.

true

The Stono Rebellion in South Carolina:

was a slave revolt

the Paxton Boys

were Scotch-Irish farmers who set out to attack Indians near Philadelphia.

Belief that God withdrew after creating the world, leaving it to function according to scientific laws, and that study of nature, rather than worship in organized churches, is the best form of religious devotion is called

Deism

Which of the following is NOT a valid comparison of the eighteenth-century ideas of "republicanism" and "liberalism"?

Each condemned material inequality as incompatible with freedom

By the eighteenth century, northern colonies were free of slavery

False

The country whose trading posts ringed British mainland colonies to the North and West in the eighteenth century was

France

The leading promoter of the Great Awakening was

George Whitefield

Which of the following was NOT a regional pattern of colonial slavery?

In the colonial backcountry, black slaves tended to outnumber free whites.

Which of the following did Neolin, the prophet, NOT assert during Pontiac's Rebellion?

Indians must use British technology to defeat their enemies.

Which was not the case for blacks on South Carolina and Georgia rice plantations?

Many were free blacks.

Slaves killed nine whites in a 1712 slave uprising in

New York City

By the mid-1700s, which was NOT one of the distinct, well-established slave systems in Britain's mainland colonies?

cotton-based slavery in the Black Belt of the Deep South

Which of the following was NOT an important trend in colonial politics during the first half of the 1700s?

elimination of property qualifications for voting and officeholding

The Albany Plan of Union of 1754

envisioned a council of all the colonies for their common defense.

Britons and colonists tended to regard themselves as the freest people in the world.

true

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

Eighteenth-century liberalism drew heavily upon the thinking of the philosopher John Locke.

true

In Jonathan Edwards's view, what was a sinner's only hope?

a "new birth" in which (s)he became a devout Christian

Olaudah Equiano was

a slave who purchased his freedom. a sailor in the Royal Navy. able to read and write. All of the possible answers are correct.

Which of the following was NOT a significant effect of the Seven Years' War?

an easing of frontier tensions between British colonists and Indians

Which of the following was NOT a defining feature of the Great Awakening?

an insistence that one's spiritual destiny—be it salvation or damnation—could not be affected by one's actions in life

During the course of the 1700s, the colonies increasingly grew apart from the British empire.

false

During the eighteenth century, both Spain and France steadily lost interest in their North American empires.

false

The exchange of goods among Spanish colonists, French colonists, and Indians in North America was known as the "triangular trade."

false

During the 1700s, voting in the colonies was restricted to

men who owned property

The military outposts established by the Spanish in California and New Mexico were called

presidios.

The Proclamation Line of 1763

prohibited further colonial settlement west of the Appalachian mountains.