APUSH 6, APUSH 5
The average age of the American colonists in 1775 was
16
The South held about ____ percent of the slaves in the thirteen colonies of North America.
90
By the end of the 1700s, what was the percentage of people living in rural areas of colonial America?
90 percent
Arrange the following events in chronological order
A, B, C, D
Match each denomination on the left with the region where it predominated.
A-2, B-3, C-l
Match the following description with the artist.
A-3, B-2, C-4, D-1
By 1775, the ____ were the largest non-English ethnic group in colonial America.
Africans
Which of these statements does NOT describe relations between British and colonial troops during the Seven Years' War?
All colonists freely donated money and men to the British war effort.
Although manufacturing in the colonies was of only secondary importance, the colonies did produce which of the following?
All of these
The Great Awakening
All of these
In the wake of the Proclamation of 1763
American colonists moved west, defying the Proclamation.
By 1775, which of the following communities could not be considered a city in colonial America?
Baltimore
The person most often called the "first civilized American" was
Benjamin Franklin.
How did British authorities respond to efforts by colonial legislatures to restrict or halt the importation of slaves?
British leaders vetoed such efforts.
During the Seven Years' War
British officials were disturbed by the lukewarm support of many colonials.
Identify the statement that is false.
By 1775, the black population rose to over 1 million.
In 1775, the ____ churches were the only two established (tax-supported) churches in particular colonies in America.
Congregational and Anglican
In the peace arrangements that ended the Seven Years' War
France surrendered to Great Britain all of its territorial claims to North America.
The population in Catholic New France grew very slowly because
French peasants had no economic motive to move to the colonies.
Which of the following was not considered to be a colonial naval store?
Glass
New England colonists were outraged when British diplomats returned ____ to France in 1748.
Louisbourg
An armed march in Philadelphia in 1764 by Scots-Irish colonial immigrants, protesting the Quaker oligarchy lenient policy toward the Indians was known as
March of the Paxton Boys.
Identify the statement that is false.
Most of the early African immigrants gained their freedom.
What proportion of the British merchant marine fleet was American built?
One-third
All of the following were allies on one side of the French and Indian War except
Prussia.
In North Carolina, spearheaded by the Scot s-Irish, a small insurrection against eastern domination of the colony's affair was known a
Regulator Movement.
The soldier and explorer whose leadership in establishing French colonies earned him the title "Father of New France" was
Samuel de Champlain.
In 1760, fearful of heavy concentrations of resentful slaves, which colonial legislature unsuccessfully sought to pass legislation that would halt the further importation of slaves.?
South Carolina
Identify the statement that is false.
The population of the thirteen colonies, mainly Anglo-Saxon, was the least mixed to be found anywhere in the world.
Identify the statement that is false.
The triangular trade was enormously profitable and made up most of the colonial commerce.
All of the following are reasons the thirteen Atlantic seaboard colonies sought independence from Great Britain except
a declining population in the thirteen Atlantic seaboard colonies.
As a result of the rapid population growth in colonial America during the eighteenth century
a momentous shift occurred in the balance of power between the colonies and the mother country.
With the British and American victory in the Seven Years' War
a new spirit of independence arose, as the French threat disappeared.
The long-range purpose of the Albany Congress in 1754 was to
achieve colonial unity and common defense against the French threat.
The leading industry in the American colonies was
agriculture.
Government in New France (Canada) was
almost completely autocratic.
What was created by the mid-1700s that helped connect the Atlantic seaboard colonies of Great Britain to each other in a more cohesive manner?
an intercolonial postal system
All of the following are true conditions of the Chesapeake, as compared to the Deep South, except
as the slave population began to rise, the development of a distinctive African American family life became impossible.
American colonists sought trade with countries other than Great Britain
because they needed markets besides Great Britain to sell their surplus goods and correct the colonies' adverse trade imbalance with Britain.
With the end of the Seven Years' War, the disunity, jealousy, and suspicion that had long existed in the American colonies
began to melt somewhat.
By the eighteenth century, the various colonial regions had distinct economic identities; the northern colonies relied on ____, the Chesapeake colonies relied on ____, and the southern colonies relied on ____.
cattle and grain, tobacco, rice and indigo
With regard to governmental authority, the Scots-Irish colonists
cherished no love for the British or any other government.
Colonial legislatures were often able to bend the power of the governors to their will because
colonial legislatures controlled taxes and expenditures that paid the governors' salaries.
Which of the following were considered the most promising avenues to acquiring speedy wealth in the American colonies?
commercial ventures and land speculation
French motives in the New World included the desire to
compete with Spain for an empire in America.
The War of Jenkins's Ear was
confined to the Caribbean Sea and Georgia.
The disunity that existed in the colonies before the French and Indian War can be attributed to all of the following except
contempt for the British government.
The reason Britain needed to control the Ohio Valley was to
continue its expansion west in North America and block French land-grabbing and influence.
During a generation of peace following the 1713 Treaty of Utrecht, Britain provided its American colonies with
decades of salutary neglect.
The New Light preachers of the Great Awakening
delivered intensely emotional sermons.
In the colonial wars before 1754, Americans
demonstrated an astonishing lack of unity.
For interior Indian tribes in North America, the Treaty of Paris that ended the Seven Years' War
eliminated their ability to play off rival European powers against each other.
France was finally able to join in the scramble for colonies in the New World as a result of the
end of the religious wars.
For the American colonies, the Seven Years' War
ended the myth of British invincibility.
The time-honored English ideal, which Americans accepted for some time, regarded education as all of the following except
essential training for citizenship.
The Indians suffered from their association with the French in New France in all of the following ways except
exclusion from the fur business.
In a sense, the history of the United States began with the
fall of Quebec and Montreal.
When William Pitt became prime minister during the Seven Years' War, he
focused on developing a successful military strategy in the Québec-Montréal area that ultimately routed the French in Canada.
Colonial American taverns were all of the following except
frequented mainly by the lower class.
By the mid-eighteenth century, the overwhelming majority of North American colonies shared all of the following similarities except
full democratic participation by all colonists in political affairs, regardless of social and economic class.
One feature of the American economy that strained the relationship between the colonies and Britain was the
growing desire of Americans to trade with other nations in addition to Britain
In contrast to the seventeenth century, by 1775, colonial Americans
had become more stratified into social classes.
During the early settlement of Quebec, the actions of Samuel de Champlain
included forging a pivotal alliance with the Hurons that inspired the lasting hatred of the Iroquois
The slave culture that developed in America
included the distinctive cultural contributions of native-born African Americans.
The religious doctrine of the Arminians held that
individual free will determined a person's eternal fate.
All of the following are achievements of Benjamin Franklin except
influential poetry.
The Molasses Act of 1733 was intended to
inhibit colonial trade with the French West Indies.
Colonial immigrants laid the foundations for a new multicultural American national identity by
intermarrying with people from other ethnic groups.
The triangular trade of the colonial American shipping industry
involved the trading of rum for African slaves.
Benjamin Franklin's plan for colonial home rule was rejected by the individual colonies because
it did not seem to give enough independence to the colonies.
All of the following can be said about slave culture in the colonies except
it emerged from efforts by slave traders to suppress African speech, religion and traditions
The jury's decision in the case of John Peter Zenger, a newspaper printer, was significant because
it facilitated freedom of the press and a more robust public discussion of political affairs in the colonies.
All of the following are true about the War of Jenkins's Ear except
it resulted in France allying itself with Britain.
France had to give up its vision of a North American New France when
it was defeated by the British in 1713 and 1763.
The immediate purpose of the Albany Congress of 1754 was to
keep the Iroquois tribes loyal to the British.
All of the following contributed to the lack of development of art and artists in early colonial America except
lack of talent among the Americans.
By the early eighteenth century, religion in colonial America was
less fervid than when the colonies were established.
The reason France needed to control the Ohio Valley was to
link its Canadian holdings with those of the lower Mississippi Valley.
The most important manufacturing enterprise in colonial America in the eighteenth century was
lumbering.
Colonists emerged from the French and Indian War
more confident in their military strength.
The Jesuit priests, despite their initial failure in gaining converts, played a vital role because
of their exploration and work as geographers.
The main reason that Puritan churches were struggling in the early eighteenth century was because
parishioners found their theological doctrines too elaborate.
The population of the thirteen American colonies was
perhaps the most diverse in the world, although it remained predominantly Anglo-Saxon.
One of the least honored and most haphazard professions in colonial society was a
physician.
The coureurs de bois and the voyageurs
played critical roles in recruiting local Indian tribes to develop the French fur business in New France.
The Proclamation of 1763
prohibited colonial settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains.
Benjamin Franklin published in his Pennsylvania Gazette his most famous cartoon of the colonial era, a disjointed snake, which
promoted the idea that if the colonies did not stand united against France, they would fall apart and die.
The Scots-Irish can best be described as
pugnacious, lawless, and individualistic.
One feature common to all of the eventually rebellious colonies was their
rapidly growing populations.
To the Puritans, education was essential for
reading the Bible
Colonial schools and colleges placed their main emphasis on
religion.
By the mid-1700s, the number of poor people in the American colonies
remained tiny compared with the number in England.
The outcome of the Battle of Québec in 1759
resulted in the emergence of Great Britain as the overwhelmingly dominant power in America.
One political principle that colonial Americans came to cherish above most others was
self-taxation through representation.
Transportation in colonial America was
slow by any of the means available.
The French wanted to control the interior basin of Louisiana because they
sought to block imperial encroachment by Spain in the Gulf of Mexico region.
With the military defeat of Chief Pontiac and his western Indian alliance, the British decided to
stabilize Indian-white relations.
As the Revolution approached, Presbyterian and Congregational ministers in general
supported the Revolutionary cause.
Although the fur business in New France was a lucrative government-supported industry in the 1680s and 1690s, its importance to the French government paled in comparison to
supporting the production of sugar and rum in the French Caribbean colonies.
Slave Christianity emphasized all of the following in their faith except
that they should be humble and obedient.
The Seven Years' War was also known in America as
the French and Indian War.
Chief Pontiac decided to try to drive the British out of the Ohio Valley because
the Indians were in a precarious position.
The clash between Britain and France for control of the North American continent sprang from their rivalry for control of
the Ohio River Valley.
The first American college free from denominational control was
the University of Pennsylvania.
On the eve of the American Revolution, social and economic mobility in the colonies decreased for all of the following reasons except
the average size of New England farms increased dramatically.
African American contributions to American culture include all of the following except
the banjo.
English officials tried to establish the Church of England in as many colonies as possible because
the church would act as a major prop for royal authority.
As a result of General Braddock's defeat a few miles from Fort Duquesne
the frontier from Pennsylvania to North Carolina was open to Indian attack.
The most ethnically diverse region of colonial America was ____, whereas ____ was the least ethnically diverse.
the middle colonies, New England
The most honored profession in early colonial society was
the ministry.
The population growth of the American colonies by 1775 is attributed mostly to
the natural fertility of all Americans.
In colonial elections
the right to vote was reserved for white male property holders.
All of the following are true statements about colonial newspapers on the eve of the Revolution except
they were typically published twice a week.
The early wars between France and Britain in North America were notable for the
use of primitive guerrilla warfare.
In his first military command encounter in the French and Indian War, Lieutenant Colonel George Washington
was defeated by French forces at Fort Necessity following a ten-hour siege in July 1754.
Unlike the first three Anglo-French wars, the Seven Years' War
was fought initially on the North American continent.
Art and culture in colonial America
was generally undistinguished and unsupported by colonial patrons.
From 1688 to 1763, America
was involved in every world war that convulsed Europe during this period.
The British invasion of Canada in 1756 during the Seven Years' War
was prompted, in part, by the fact that in 1756 the undeclared war in America had merged into a world conflict.
The riches created by the growing slave population in the American South
were not distributed evenly among whites.
The Proclamation of 1763 was designed mainly to
work out a fair settlement of the Indian problem and prevent another bloody Indian eruption like Pontiac's uprising.
In responding to Chief Pontiac's uprising of allied western Indian tribes, the British
engaged in a form of biological warfare against Pontiac and his allies.
All of the following characterized "old light" clergymen except
they were proponents of utilizing emotionalism and theatrics in religious preaching.
