Chapter 4 Review

Which of the following features characterized the Middle Atlantic colonies of New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania in the eighteenth century?

not religious orthodoxy

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

not women and men joined

Which of the following colleges was founded in the mid-eighteenth century out of the religious enthusiasm spread by the Great Awakening?

Princeton

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

Rapid immigration and population growth

The most numerous voluntary (nonslave) emigrants to British North America in the eighteenth century came from which of the following groups?

Scots-Irish

Puritan minister Cotton Mather's response to which of the following eighteenth-century crises demonstrated that Enlightenment ideas had begun to influence him?

The Boston smallpox epidemic

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

The colonies became more dependent on overseas credits and markets

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

How did the British government respond to the hostilities in America in 1754?

William Pitt and Lord Halifax persuaded Prime Minister Pelham to start a war in America against the French

Which of the following consequences of the eighteenth-century Great Awakening made it historically significant?

Americans' new freedom to challenge authority within and outside the church

Which of these religious denominations successfully converted many slaves in the mid-eighteenth-century southern colonies?

Baptists

Which of the following statements describes the early Industrial Revolution and its impact on the American colonies in the eighteenth century?

Britain's new ability to produce more and cheaper goods than ever before transformed American markets and raised most colonists' standard of living.

Which of the following describes rural life in the New England colonies during the eighteenth century?

Colonists' sense of personal worth and dignity in rural New England contrasted sharply with European peasant life

Which of the following was part of William Pitt's strategy to mobilize the American colonists for the Great War for Empire in 1756?

Committing to provide a fleet of British ships and 30,000 soldiers to North America

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

Competition for land

Influenced by Enlightenment science, which of the following religious movements believed that God had created the world but allowed it to operate in accordance with the laws of nature?

Deism

In the mid-1700s, which industrializing nation was the dominant commercial power in the Atlantic Ocean?

England

Hostilities between French troops and Virginians led by Colonel George Washington began in 1754 at which of the following locations?

Fort Duquesne

Which of the following was a provision of the Treaty of Paris of 1763?

France lost all of her North American territory east of the Mississippi River

The group that came to be known as the Cajuns after the Great War for Empire were

French settlers expelled by the British from Nova Scotia and deported to Louisiana

Which of the following statements describes the role of money and economic exchange in eighteenth-century rural New England?

Generally, no money was exchanged between relatives and neighbors, but accounts of debts were maintained and settled every few years by cash transfers

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

During the Great Awakening in the 1730s and 1740s, which of the following groups challenged the authority of ministers?

New Lights

The English philosopher John Locke believed which of the following ideas?

People had natural rights such as life, liberty, and property

How did the Pietism movement of the eighteenth century differ from Puritanism?

Pietism stressed an individual's relationship with God

Which of the following developments created a crisis for New England Puritan society in the eighteenth century?

Population growth made freehold land scarce

The power of human reason, a world ordered by natural laws, and the progressive improvement of society are associated with which of the following movements?

The Enlightenment

The 1754 Albany Congress was a significant event because it demonstrated that

neither the colonists nor the British found the other's plan acceptable

Which of the following eighteenth-century Pennsylvania immigrant groups quickly lost its cultural identity by practicing intermarriage with other Protestants?

not English Quakers; not Scots-Irish

What made the British authorities wary of declaring war against the French in North America in 1754?

not Native American tribes

What made George Whitefield such a successful evangelical preacher in New England in the 1740s?

not Puritans' vicious

Which of these individuals would have most likely preferred Pietism in deism in the eighteenth century?

not an urban artisan; not a wealthy New York merchant

In eighteenth-century New England, the notion that parents would pay grown children for their past labors in exchange for the privilege of choosing the children's spouses was known as

not common law

Which of the following statements best describes inheritance patterns in colonial New England during the mid-1700s?

not every family's

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

not maritime; not a small gentry

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

not parents helped

The French and Indian War started as a result of disputed land claims regarding

the Ohio River Valley