As part of its mercantilist policy in the late seventeenth century, England committed which of the following actions? | Drove the Dutch from New Netherland |
By the middle of the eighteenth century, Chesapeake planters displayed their dominance through | gentility |
During the period between 1676 and 1750, how did the Virginia gentry try to reduce social discontent? | The gentry urged even the smallest landholders to purchase slaves and thus support the slavery system |
For which of the following reasons did Britain’s King James II create the Dominion of New England in 1686? | He aimed to strengthen royal control of the American colonies |
For which of the following reasons did the 1686 Dominion of New England anger American colonists? | It invalidated the Massachusetts Bay colony’s original land titles |
For which of the following reasons did war break out between England and Spain in the late 1730s? | Spain was angry over the English settlement of Georgia |
How did South Carolina planters respond in the aftermath of the Stono Rebellion in 1739? | The planters decided to import fewer Africans. |
In Maryland, the aftermath of the Glorious Revolution was characterized by | the establishment of the Church of England as the official church. |
In the mid-1700s, how were the English colonies throughout the British Atlantic empire primarily linked? | Trade relationships promoted ties between the English colonies |
People from which of the following groups modeled themselves after the English aristocracy in the first half of the eighteenth century? | Chesapeake landowners |
The Americans’ major objection to the Navigation Acts related to which of the following stipulations? | The requirement that Americans maintain a favorable balance of trade with England |
The British colonists in eighteenth-century North America enjoyed a significant degree of autonomy over their royal governors mainly due to | their control over governors’ salaries |
The extent of violence perpetrated by whites against slaves in any particular geographic area depended on which of the following factors? | Its racial composition |
The Navigation Acts of the mid-seventeenth century included which of the following stipulations? | European goods imported to the colonies had to go through English ports. |
The Navigation Acts, implemented in the American colonies by Britain in the mid-seventeenth century, were originally intended to | cut the Dutch and French out of the colonial trade. |
The term Middle Passage refers to which of the following? | African slaves’ perilous trans-Atlantic journey to the Americas |
The transatlantic slave trade resulted in which of the following outcomes in the eighteenth century? | The emergence of polygamous marriage in many African societies |
What did the British policy of salutary neglect of the American colonies in the early eighteenth century mean? | The British relaxed their supervision of the colonies’ internal affairs while concentrating on defense and trade policies. |
What method did Chesapeake planters use in the early eighteenth century to prevent slave revolts? | They bought slaves of different ethnic backgrounds to limit their ability to organize. |
What spurred slaves to organize the Stono Rebellion in South Carolina in 1739? | The Spanish governor in Florida had promised freedom to fugitive slaves. |
When the early eighteenth-century Anglo-French wars temporarily ended with the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713, Britain had | won major territorial and commercial gains, including Newfoundland, Acadia, and the Hudson Bay region as well as access to the western Indian trade. |
Where did the first colonists who settled South Carolina and introduced racial slavery in the 1660s come from? | Barbados |
Which agricultural product served as the foundation for the South Atlantic System in the eighteenth century? | Sugar |
Which American colony was established in the 1660s as a haven for Quakers? | Pennsylvania |
Which of the following areas imported the smallest number of slaves in the early eighteenth century? | North America |
Which of the following changes occurred in white society in the Chesapeake colonies at the same time that slavery was being forced on Africans? | A more rigid class structure with a well-defined and highly visible economic and political elite began to emerge. |
Which of the following characterized tobacco, rice, and sugar production in eighteenth-century America? | Each drove the expansion of the slave trade for a time. |
Which of the following combinations describes wealthy Chesapeake and Southern women in the first half of the eighteenth century? | Genteel and deferential |
Which of the following describes the character of Britain’s empire in America before 1660? | The British ruled their American colonies in a haphazard and lax manner. |
Which of the following describes the process of tribalization that occurred in America in the early eighteenth century? | Stateless peoples’ adaptation to the demands imposed on them by neighboring states |
Which of the following describes the significance of the Glorious Revolution of 1688 in England and America? | The change represented a major step toward democracy in both England and the North American colonies. |
Which of the following events provoked a major crisis for Puritans in Massachusetts in the seventeenth century? | The annulment of Massachusetts’ charter |
Which of the following explains why Chesapeake planters treated their slaves less harshly than West Indian planters in the eighteenth century? | Profits on sugar were considerably higher than those made through tobacco production. |
Which of the following occurred as a consequence of the "tobacco revolution" in Virginia and Maryland in the late seventeenth century? | The creation of a slave-based plantation economy |
Which of the following occurred in the aftermath of the Glorious Revolution of 1688? | Plymouth, Maine, and Massachusetts Bay were joined to create a new royal colony |
Which of the following statements characterized the currency problems that plagued the American colonies in the early and mid-eighteenth century? | The lack of currency in the colonies led New England states to issue paper money, which English creditors increasingly refused to accept |
Which of the following statements characterizes African states’ involvement in the Atlantic slave trade? | The Asante kings used the profits of slave trading to expand their political dominion |
Which of the following statements characterizes life for slaves in the West Indies in the 1700s? | Because the price of slaves was low and the price of sugar was high, slave owners worked their slaves to death and then replaced them with new slaves |
Which of the following statements characterizes the colonial shipbuilding industry during the early eighteenth century? | Colonial-built ships eventually made up about a third of the British merchant fleet |
Which of the following statements characterizes the impact of the slave trade on Africa? | The slave trade hardened African class divisions and changed gender relations |
Which of the following statements characterizes the impact of the War for Spanish Succession (1702-1713) in the American Southeast? | The Creek nation used the European war to expand its power into northern Florida and North Carolina |
Which of the following statements describes slaves’ lives in the North American colonies in the eighteenth century? | Traditional musical instruments and forms persisted in most African American cultures |
Which of the following statements describes the change in English economic philosophy toward the colonies beginning in the 1650s? | No longer content with a favorable balance of trade with European countries, the English government controlled trade with the colonies. |
Which of the following statements describes the dominant approach to settlement in North Carolina in its early years? | The proprietors planned to set up a manorial system, but this plan failed. |
Which of the following statements is true of the Quaker religion in the 1660s? | It taught that God imbued all men and women with an "inner light" of grace |
Which of the following was an outcome of the Navigation Acts in the mid-seventeenth century? | Colonists were required to export their sugar and tobacco only to England. |
Which of the following was true for the Iroquois in New York during the period of imperial warfare in the early eighteenth century? | he tribe allied with France and Britain and declared their intention to remain neutral |
Which of the following was true of slavery in the American colonies in the eighteenth century? | Slaves created a sophisticated culture with extended kin relationships and traditions. |
Which of the following was true of the Restoration Colonies of New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and the Carolinas in the 1660s? | They were created by Charles II as he expanded English power in America. |
Why was the Covenant Chain between New York and the Iroquois people in the eighteenth century significant? | It served as a model for relations between the British Empire and other Native American groups. |