Chapter 5

How did the population of the colonies change during the eighteenth century?

In the eighteenth century, the majority of immigrants coming to America were Scots-Irish or

About what percentage of colonists in 1770 traced their ancestry to England?

Why was the colonial economy in the eighteenth century unique?

Why did New England's population lag behind the growth in other colonies?

How did New England families subdivide land under the policy of partible inheritance?

Why did New Englanders have only a quarter of the wealth the free colonists in the South had in 1770?

What was the dominant feature of the eighteenth-century New England economy?

Which group dominated the commercial economy of New England?

Compared with the poor in England, the least wealthy eighteenth-century New Englanders

Why were there so few slaves in New England during the eighteenth century?

The largest number of immigrants to the middle colonies were

Most of the Scots-Irish who came to the colonies were farm laborers or tenant farmers who were leaving behind

How did most redemptioners pay for their voyage across the Atlantic?

Which colony was known as ìthe best poor Man's Country in the Worldî?

Which statement characterizes slaves in the middle colonies in the eighteenth century?

What was an early Pennsylvania policy encouraging settlement?

What industry produced the most economic growth in the middle colonies, particularly in Pennsylvania?

What was a result of the comparatively high standard of living in rural Pennsylvania and the surrounding middle colonies between 1720 and 1770?

What was the dominant group in eighteenth-century Philadelphia society in terms of wealth and political power?

Poor Richard's Almanack mirrored the beliefs of its Pennsylvania readers in its glorification of

What was the defining feature of the southern colonies in the eighteenth century?

By 1770, blacks made up what percentage of the southern population?

In which southern colony did the black population outnumber the white population almost two to one?

The huge increase in the slave population in the South during the second half of the eighteenth century can be attributed to natural increase and

Who kidnapped Olaudah Equiano and sold him into slavery?

From a planter's perspective, what was one advantage to buying slaves in small groups?

Why did South Carolina planters favor slaves from the central African Congo and Angola regions?

What was the purpose of ìseasoningî slaves?

Why did Thomas Jefferson state that ìa [slave] child raised every 2 years is of more profit than the crop of the best laboring [slave] manî?

Why did southern masters prefer black slaves over white indentured servants?

What did the Stono rebellion prove about eighteenth-century slaves?

How did newly imported African slaves develop kinship relationships in the existing slave communities?

As the eighteenth century progressed, tobacco, rice, and indigo made the southern colonies

While the eighteenth-century Southern gentry privately looked down on poor whites, they publicly acknowledged them as

How did the slaveholding gentry dominate Virginia politics?

Members of the eighteenth-century Southern gentry set a cultural standard of

Although the three regions of British North America became more distinct in the latter part of the eighteenth century, they still shared what unifying experience?

What was a consequence of the increased supply of items such as tobacco and sugar in eighteenth-century colonial America?

The increasing presence of English goods in the colonial market in the eighteenth century

What was the largest group of non-Christians in eighteenth-century North America?

Which New England church was supported by taxes paid by all residents?

Prominent colonists in the plantation South and in cities such as Charleston, New York, and Philadelphia belonged to which church?

Which statement characterizes colonial deists?

How often did most eighteenth-century colonists go to church?

What was the Great Awakening?

In addition to their competition for land, colonial settlers and Indians engaged in conflicts over

Why did Spanish officials decide to build forts and missions on New Spain's northern frontier during the eighteenth century?

Why did colonial governors have difficulty gaining the trust and respect of influential colonists?

What was the status of colonial assemblies by 1720?