History Chapter 4

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

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

Approximately what percentage of slaves carried to the New World were destined for mainland North America?

5 percent

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

presidios

The idea that only property-owning citizens possessed "virtue" is most closely related to what political idea?

republicanism

The policy of leaving the colonists to govern themselves was called

salutary neglect

Under the ____ system, individual slaves were able to cultivate crops of their own after their daily jobs.

task

The effect of the Enlightenment on religion resulted in

the adoption of Desism

All of the following contributed to the devastation of Indian society in the present-day California area except

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

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

western 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

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

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 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

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

The financial strains of the Seven Years' War would later help to spark the

French Revolution

The leading promoter of the Great Awakening was

George Whitefield

Which colony was founded by a group of philanthropists led by James Oglethorpe?

Georgia

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

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

Regarding slavery, which of the following statements is not true?

The Middle Colonies needed many slaves because large farmes predominated

The agreement that ended the Seven Years' War was called

The Peace of Paris

"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

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

a "new birth" in which they became devout Christians

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

A major reason for Jews to move to Spanish North America was

escape from the Inquisition in Mexico City

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