Chapter 4 History

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All of the following statements are true of the Atlantic trade in the eighteenth century EXCEPT:
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Although important, slave-grown crops actually accounted for only a small portion of the value of the trade
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As salve society consolidated in Chesapeake region, what happened to free blacks?
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The lost many of their rights
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Deists concluded that the best form of religious devotion was to:
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Study the workings of nature
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Deists shared the ideas of eighteenth-century European Enlightenment thinkers, namely that:
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Science could uncover God's laws that governed the natural order
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During the eighteenth century, British patriotism:
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Celebrated individual freedom and the rule of law
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During the eighteenth century, colonial assemblies :
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Became more assertive
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Georgia was established by James Oglethorpe, whose causes included improved conditions for imprisoned debtors and the abolition of:
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Slavery
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How did colonial politics compare with British politics?
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Colonists tended to agree with the British that owning property was related to having the right to vote.
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How did John Locke reconcile his belief in natural rights and his support for slavery?
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He believed that the free individual in liberal thought was the propertied white man.
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In the Chesapeake region, slavery:
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rapidly became the dominant labor system after 1680
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In the eighteenth century, the Spanish empire in North America:
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rested economically on trading with and extracting labor from surviving Native Americans
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In the northern colonies, slaves:
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were relatively few in number and dispersed among the white population in small holdings.
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In the portrait of Olaudah Equiano in book, Equiano holds a:
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Bible
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It is estimated that between _____ percent of adult white men could vote in eighteenth-century colonial British America.
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50 and 80
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John Locke's political philosophy stressed:
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a contract system between the people and the government.
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John Peter Zenger's libel trial:
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probably would not have ended in his acquittal if he had attacked someone other than the colonial governor.
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Neolin, a Delaware Indian and religious prophet, helped inspire _____ Rebellion in 1763.
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Pontiac's
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Olaudah Equiano:
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wrote the eighteenth century's most widely read account by a slave of a slave's own experiences.
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Pontiac's Rebellion:
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although named for an Ottawa warrior, owed its origins as much to the teachings of a religious prophet.
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Property qualifications for holding office:
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meant that the landed gentry wielded considerable power in colonial legislatures.
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Revivalist preachers during the Great Awakening frequently:
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criticized commercial society
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Slave resistance in the eighteenth century:
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included rebellions in both northern and southern colonies that led to the deaths of several of those involved in planning the conspiracies
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The 1741 panic in New York City that led to 34 executions was sparked by:
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a series of fires
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The American Philosophical Society in its modest beginnings was called
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The Junto
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The American Version of the Enlightenment:
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had no impact on religion
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The assumption among ordinary people that wealth, education, and social prominence carried with them a right to public office was called
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deference
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The British concept of liberty:
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included both formal restraints on authority and a collection of specific rights
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The British Country Party:
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sought to stop corruption in British politics
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The development of rice plantations in South Carolina
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led to a black majority in the colony by the 1730s
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The early South Carolina economy focused on the export of deerskins and furs to England as well s on
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the export of Indians slaves to the Caribbean
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The English finally became successful in defeating the French in the Seven Years' War under the leadership of:
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William Pitt
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The French and Indian War began because some American colonists felt that:
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France was encroaching on land claimed by the Ohio Company
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The French in North America
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included a significant number of Nova Scotians who relocated to southern Louisiana, creating the group known as Cajuns
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The idea of liberalism in eighteenth-century British politics:
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was compatible with inequalities in wealth and well-being
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The language (with mixed African roots) spoken by African-American slaves on the rice plantations of South Carolina and Georgia during the eighteenth century was known as:
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Gullah
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The language of British liberty:
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was used by humble members of society as well as by the elite
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The most famous great Awakening revivalist minster was:
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George Whitefield
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The most successful colonial governors
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used their appointive powers and control of land grants to win allies in colonial legislatures
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The Old Plantation, a late-eighteenth century-watercolor, depicts slave dancing. What does the portrait reveal?
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Slaves mixed both African and European-American cultures
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The participants in South Carolina's Stono Rebellion:
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included some of apparently had been soldiers in Africa
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The task system:
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assigned slaves daily jobs and allowed them free time upon completion of those jobs
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Tobacco plantations in the Chesapeake region:
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helped make the Chesapeake colony models of mercantilism
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What did Junípero Serra hope to do in California?
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Convert Indians to Christianity and to settled farming
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What did Neolin tell his people they must reject?
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European technology and material goods
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What did the British acquire from the Netherlands in the Treaty of Utrecht of 1713?
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The right to transport slaves from Africa to Spain's New World colonies
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What did the Paxton Boys demand?
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That the Indians be removed from Pennsylvania
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What was the primary purpose of the Proclamation of 1763?
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To bring stability to the colonial frontier
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Which issue divided colonial governors appointed by the king and legislatures elected by colonists?
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To deal with a scarcity of gold and silver coins, legislatures supported printing paper money despite opposition form the governors.
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Which of the following is a true statement about the Atlantic slave trade's effect in West Africa?
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It helped lead to the rise of militarized states in West Africa, whose large armies preyed upon their neighbors in order to capture slaves.
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Which of the following is NOT true of the Great Awakening?
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Its more subdued style of preaching appealed to a wider audience than the older, bombastic style employed by the Puritans.
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Which of the following is true of eighteenth century slavery in South Carolina and Georgia?
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Plantations slaves enjoyed far more autonomy than they did in other colonies, allowing them to maintain more of they African culture.
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Which of the following was a consequence of the Seven Year's War?
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It strengthened pride among American colonists about being part of the British empire
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Which of the following was true of Georgia?
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Colonists sought self-government to gain the right to introduce slavery.
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Which one of the following did NOT contribute to the expansion of the public sphere during the eighteenth century?
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the founding of the California missions
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Which one of the following statements about slaves in the Chesapeake is FLASE?
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Slave communities remained distinctly African in culture
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Which one of the following statements is NOT true of the slave trade in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world?
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Slightly more than half of slaves from Africa were taken to mainland North America (what became the United States).
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Who drafted Albany Plan of Union?
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Benjamin Franklin
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Why was slavery less prevalent in the northern colonies?
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The small farms of the northern colonies did not need slaves.
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"Republicanism" in the eighteenth-century Anglo-American political world emphasized the importance of ______ as the essence of liberty.
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active participation in public life by property-owning citizens.
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"Salutary neglect" meant:
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British governments left the colonies largely alone to govern themselves.