Midterm Chapter 4

(Q016) The policy of leaving the colonists to govern themselves was called

salutary neglect

(Q024) Which of the following factors contributed to the devastation of Indian society in the present-day California area?

the resettlement of Indians in villages around the missions

(Q037) In the eighteenth century, the British Constitution--the unwritten groundwork of British freedom--celebrated

the right to a jury trial

(Q003) By the mid-eighteenth century, distinct slave systems were entrenched in the New World. The oldest and largest was the

tobacco plantation system

(Q009) Some slaves came to the colonies familiar with Christianity, but most North American slaves practiced

traditional African religions

(Q067) Most African rulers took part in the Atlantic slave trade.

true

(Q002) Approximately what percentage of slaves carried to the New World were destined for mainland North America?

5 percent

(Q026) The financial strains of the Seven Years' War would later help to spark the

French Revolution

(Q034) The leading promoter of the Great Awakening was

George Whitefield

(Q019) The trial of John Peter Zenger involved the issue of

freedom of the press

(Q029) Following the Proclamation of 1763,

its ordinances were ignored and officials covered their involvement in land grabs

(Q076) Eighteenth-century liberalism drew heavily upon the thinking of the philosopher John Locke.

true

(Q007) Which colony was founded by a group of philanthropists led by James Oglethorpe?

Georgia

(Q045) Following the Seven Years' War, what factor led to a loss of power for Native American tribes in eastern North America?

the departure of the French

(Q051) Slaves who seldom interacted with whites, as on rice plantations, enjoyed more autonomy than elsewhere in the colonies.

true

(Q023) The "Sacred Experiment" carried out near present-day San Diego

was launched by the Spanish to take control and prevent occupation by foreigners

(Q030) 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.

(Q015) Which of these groups were ineligible to vote in eighteenth century colonial America because they lacked a "will of their own"?

slaves and servants

(Q006) Under the ____ system, individual slaves were able to cultivate crops of their own after their daily jobs.

task

(Q038) 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

(Q028) The agreement that ended the Seven Years' War was called

the Peace of Paris

(Q020) The effect of the Enlightenment on religion resulted in

the adoption of the concept of deism

(Q048) A few African societies were able to opt out of the Atlantic slave trade.

true

(Q049) By 1750, the Virginian population recognized "white" and "free" as virtually identical.

true

(Q053) Colonial political offices frequently passed from generation to generation within the same family.

true

(Q055) Newspaperman John Peter Zenger printed several issues targeting the governor of New York's corruption. Zenger was found not guilty of libel, as his accusations were found to be true.

true

(Q061) Britons and colonists tended to regard themselves as the freest people in the world.

true

(Q063) "Deism" was a religious adaptation of Enlightenment thought in both Europe and colonial America.

true

(Q070) 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

(Q072) Mexico won independence from Spain in 1821.

true

(Q073) 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

(Q074) As a result of British victory in the Seven Years' War, Britain not only won control of Canada but also gained control of India.

true

(Q065) 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

(Q066) England and Scotland were united in 1707 by the Act of Union to create Great Britain.

true

(Q044) What was the source of an increase in Native American tribal unity in the late 1700s?

violence directed against Indian people by white American soldiers and settlers

(Q059) During the Great Awakening, most preachers explicitly condemned slavery.

false

(Q060) The exchange of goods among Spanish colonists, French colonists, and Indians in North America was known as the "triangular trade."

false

(Q040) The view that reason alone could establish the essentials of religion was called

Arminianism

(Q041) Trade with the West Indies was central to which of the following colonial economies?

British New England

(Q010) The first slave uprising of the eighteenth century, which occurred in ___________, included houses burned and the deaths of nine whites.

New York

(Q013) The idea that only property-owning citizens possessed "virtue" is related to what political idea?

Republicanism

(Q035) Father Junípero Serra founded the first Catholic mission in 1769 at

San Diego

(Q005) The first mainland colony to achieve a black majority population was

South Carolina

(Q011) 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

(Q036) In Jonathan Edwards's view, what was a sinner's only hope in life?

a "new birth" in which they became devout Christians

(Q031) Olaudah Equiano was

a slave who purchased his freedom

(Q004) White planters in the Chesapeake created which of the following rules for free blacks?

blacks were not allowed to legally carry guns

(Q022) A major reason for Jews to move to Spanish North America was

escape from the Inquisition

(Q046) The eighteenth century was the height of the Atlantic slave trade, a commerce increasingly dominated by Spanish merchants and ships.

false

(Q052) Throughout the eighteenth century, women were not eligible to vote.

false

(Q054) The phrase "freedom of speech" originated in colonial America.

false

(Q056) Possibly more than any other individual, Theodore Frelinghuysen, who declared "the whole world his parish," sparked the Great Awakening.

false

(Q058) The Seven Years' War was also known in the colonies as Queen Anne's War.

false

(Q062) By the middle of the eighteenth century, most elections were fiercely contested throughout the American colonies.

false

(Q064) During the eighteenth century, both Spain and France steadily lost interest in their North American empires.

false

(Q068) Almost all African slaves in the eighteenth century came from the same African tribe.

false

(Q071) Indians who lived in the Catholic missions established by Father Junípero Serra in California generally lived happy, healthy, free, and long lives.

false

(Q014) Under the ideals of liberalism, the "social contract" extorted that

men retain their natural rights because these rights predated the establishment of political authority

(Q042) Prominent theologian Cotton Mather __________ during his lifetime.

owned African slaves

(Q039) The military outposts established by the Spanish in California and New Mexico were called

presidios

(Q033) Which of the following is true regarding the Middle Passage?

ship captains sometimes threw slaves overboard, especially when they were sick

(Q021) The Great Awakening occurred because many ministers were concerned with

westward expansion