history 2610 chapter 4
Approximately what percentage of slaves carried to the New World were destined for mainland North America?
5 percent
During Pontiac's Rebellion, Neolin, the prophet, asserted all except
Indians must use British technology to defeat their enemies.
The first slave uprising of the eighteenth century, which occurred in ___________, included houses burned and the deaths of nine whites.
New York
In 1762, the Indians of the Ohio Valley and Great Lakes launched a revolt against British rule called
Pontiac's Rebellion.
The only unicameral legislature in the colonies was in Pennsylvania, largely controlled for much of the eighteenth century by
Quaker merchants
The idea that only property-owning citizens possessed "virtue" is most closely related to what political idea?
Republicanism
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.
This was the first mainland colony to achieve a black majority population.
South Carolina
As a result of this uprising, the state slave code was tightened and a temporary imposition of a prohibitive tax on imported slaves was established.
Stono Rebellion
Olaudah Equiano was
a slave who purchased his freedom.
As race was a line of social division, whites' distrust of free blacks in Chesapeake increased. As a result, all of the following were rules regarding free blacks except
blacks could not carry paper money.
During the eighteenth century, more than half the Africans shipped to the New World as slaves were
carried on British vessels
The policy of leaving the colonists to govern themselves was called
salutary neglect
The "Sacred Experiment" carried out near present-day San Diego
was launched by the Spanish in an effort to take control to prevent occupation by foreigners
The Albany Plan of Union
was the attempt to create a council composed of delegates from each colony to levy taxes and settle domestic issues.
The Great Awakening occurred as many ministers were concerned with
westward expansion
In eighteenth century colonial America, all of these groups were ineligible to vote as they lacked a "will of their own" except
white landholders.
The leading promoter of the Great Awakening was
George Whitefield
Which colony was founded by a group of philanthropists led by James Oglethorpe?
Georgia
The view that reason alone was capable of establishing the essentials of religion, and that outdated superstitions included belief in the revealed truth of the Bible and miracles was called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
The financial strains of the Seven Years' War would later help to spark the
French Revolution
Regarding slavery, which of the following statements is not true?
The Middle Colonies needed many slaves because large farms predominated.
In Jonathan Edwards's view, what was a sinner's only hope?
a "new birth" in which they became devout Christians
A major reason for Jews to move to Spanish North America was
escape from the Inquisition in Mexico City
Almost all African slaves in the eighteenth century came from the same African tribe.
false
By the middle of the eighteenth century, most elections were fiercely contested throughout the American colonies.
false
During the Great Awakening, most preachers explicitly condemned slavery.
false
During the eighteenth century, both Spain and France steadily lost interest in their North American empires.
false
Indians who lived in the Catholic missions established by Father Junípero Serra in California generally lived happy, healthy, free, and long lives.
false
Possibly more than any other individual, Theodore Frelinghuysen, who declared "the whole world his parish," sparked the Great Awakening.
false
Since mosquitoes bearing malaria flourished in the New World, slaves were particularly susceptible since they had not developed immunity to the disease.
false
The Seven Years' War was also known in the colonies as Queen Anne's War.
false
The eighteenth century was the height of the Atlantic slave trade, a commerce increasingly dominated by Spanish merchants and ships.
false
The exchange of goods among Spanish colonists, French colonists, and Indians in North America was known as the "triangular trade."
false
The phrase "freedom of speech" originated in colonial America.
false
Throughout the eighteenth century, women were not eligible to vote.
false
While many white men in the colonies lacked the right to vote, they influenced public life in all of the following except
formed the American party to settle tax disputes with Britain.
Benjamin Franklin is credited with all of the following except
founding a Catholic Church in Baltimore.
The trial of John Peter Zenger involved the issue of
freedom of the press
Following the Proclamation of 1763,
its ordinances were ignored and officials covered their involvement in land grabs.
Under the liberalism idea, the "social contract" extorted that
men retain their natural rights, as they predated the establishment of political authority.
As a result of the Seven Years' War, a number of French residents in Nova Scotia
moved to Louisiana, where their descendants came to be known as Cajuns.
The military outposts established by the Spanish in California and New Mexico were called
presidios
Under the ____ system, individual slaves were able to cultivate crops of their own after their daily jobs.
task
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
The agreement that ended the Seven Years' War was called
the Peace of Paris.
The effect of the Enlightenment on religion resulted in
the adoption of Deism
All of the following contributed to the devastation of Indian society in the present-day
the introduction of British animals.
In the eighteenth century, the British Constitution—the unwritten groundwork of British freedom—celebrated all except
the right for all men to vote.
By the mid-eighteenth century, distinct slave systems were entrenched in the New World. The oldest and largest was the ________________.
tobacco plantation system
Some slaves came to the colonies familiar with Christianity, but most North American slaves practiced
traditional African religions.
"Deism" was a religious adaptation of Enlightenment thought in both Europe and colonial America.
true
A few African societies were able to opt out of the Atlantic slave trade.
true
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, predestined for damnation.
true
An irony of the 1763 British victory in the Seven Years' War is that victory ultimately contributed to Britain's loss of its mainland American colonies, since, in seeking to pay for the Seven Years' War, the British government raised taxes on American colonists who protested taxation without representation.
true
As a consequence of British victory in the Seven Years' War, Britain not only won control of Canada but also gained control of India.
true
Britons and colonists tended to regard themselves as the freest people in the world.
true
By 1750, the Virginian population recognized "white" and "free" as virtually identical.
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
Colonial political offices frequently passed from generation to generation in the same family.
true
Eighteenth-century liberalism drew heavily upon the thinking of the philosopher John Locke.
true
England and Scotland were united in 1707 by the Act of Union to create Great Britain.
true
Every European empire in the New World utilized slave labor and battled for control of the slave trade.
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 the Ohio Valley (the "middle ground"), the Iroquois were known for their ability to play the French and British empires against each other.
true
Mexico won independence from Spain in 1821.
true
Most African rulers took part in the Atlantic slave trade.
true
Newspaperman John Peter Zenger printed several issues targeting the governor of New York's corruption. He was found not guilty as his accusations were found to be true.
true
Russian traders established a series of forts in an attempt to challenge the Spanish for North American territory.
true
Slaves who seldom came into contact with whites, as on rice plantations, enjoyed more autonomy than elsewhere in the colonies.
true