Question 1

What would be a good representation of Enlightenment principles?

Accepted Answer

A)  a minister who used emotion in his sermons 
B)  a merchant opposing free trade 
C)  a botanist who studied nature to uncover why a certain plant kept dying 
D)  a newspaper publisher who distorted the truth to attack a corrupt politician 
E)  an educated king who believed he knew best how to rule his country 
A)  a minister who used emotion in his sermons 
B)  a merchant opposing free trade 
C)  a botanist who studied nature to uncover why a certain plant kept dying 
D)  a newspaper publisher who distorted the truth to attack a corrupt politician 
E)  an educated king who believed he knew best how to rule his country

Question 2

The transatlantic slave trade was not a vital part of world commerce.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 3

Identify and give the historical significance of each of the following terms, events, and people in a paragraph or two.
-salutary neglect

Accepted Answer

The answer of Identify and give the historical significance of...

Question 4

Olaudah Equiano:

Accepted Answer

A)  wrote the eighteenth century's most widely read account by a slave of a slave's own experiences. 
B)  was popular with Europeans for telling them that their culture was far superior to that of Africans like himself. 
C)  demonstrated in his writings that he perfectly fit the stereotype that blacks were savages incapable of becoming civilized. 
D)  led several Central American slave insurrections before his death. 
E)  was one of the few children of African-American and Native American descent ever to be the chief of his Indian tribe. 
A)  wrote the eighteenth century's most widely read account by a slave of a slave's own experiences. 
B)  was popular with Europeans for telling them that their culture was far superior to that of Africans like himself. 
C)  demonstrated in his writings that he perfectly fit the stereotype that blacks were savages incapable of becoming civilized. 
D)  led several Central American slave insurrections before his death. 
E)  was one of the few children of African-American and Native American descent ever to be the chief of his Indian tribe.

Question 5

How did colonial politics compare with British politics?

Accepted Answer

A)  British politics were far more democratic, befitting the British belief in liberty and the number of proprietary and royal colonies. 
B)  Colonists tended to agree with the British that owning property was related to having the right to vote. 
C)  Most colonies, unlike Britain, at least allowed propertied women to vote. 
D)  Elections throughout the colonies were more hotly contested than British ones, with many different candidates and parties represented on the ballot. 
E)  Colonial politics proved far more corrupt until the Licentiousness Act of 1694. 
A)  British politics were far more democratic, befitting the British belief in liberty and the number of proprietary and royal colonies. 
B)  Colonists tended to agree with the British that owning property was related to having the right to vote. 
C)  Most colonies, unlike Britain, at least allowed propertied women to vote. 
D)  Elections throughout the colonies were more hotly contested than British ones, with many different candidates and parties represented on the ballot. 
E)  Colonial politics proved far more corrupt until the Licentiousness Act of 1694.

Question 6

Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
-deference

Accepted Answer

A) Jamaican fugitive slaves 
B) bearers of the good news 
C) distinct slave dialect 
D) no colonial settlement west of the Appalachians 
E) the ship voyage for slaves from Africa to the New World
F)right to provide slaves to Spanish America
G)religious traditionalists who did not support revivalism
H)courteous respect
I)Enlightenment religion
J)virtuous elite giving themselves to public service
K)controlling northern New Spain
L)slaves fought in South Carolina 
A) Jamaican fugitive slaves 
B) bearers of the good news 
C) distinct slave dialect 
D) no colonial settlement west of the Appalachians 
E) the ship voyage for slaves from Africa to the New World
F)right to provide slaves to Spanish America
G)religious traditionalists who did not support revivalism
H)courteous respect
I)Enlightenment religion
J)virtuous elite giving themselves to public service
K)controlling northern New Spain
L)slaves fought in South Carolina

Question 7

Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
-George Whitefield

Accepted Answer

A) German-born printer of a colonial weekly journal 
B) Great Awakening preacher 
C) survived the Middle Passage 
D) founded the first mission in San Diego 
E) founder of Georgia
F)British prime minister
G)Ottawa war leader
H)wrote Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
I)English Enlightenment political philosopher
J)founder of the Junto, a club for mutual improvement
K)authors of Cato's Letters
L)victim of Zenger's pen 
A) German-born printer of a colonial weekly journal 
B) Great Awakening preacher 
C) survived the Middle Passage 
D) founded the first mission in San Diego 
E) founder of Georgia
F)British prime minister
G)Ottawa war leader
H)wrote Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
I)English Enlightenment political philosopher
J)founder of the Junto, a club for mutual improvement
K)authors of Cato's Letters
L)victim of Zenger's pen

Question 8

Pontiac's Rebellion was an Indian revolt against British rule.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 9

Identify and give the historical significance of each of the following terms, events, and people in a paragraph or two.
-European Enlightenment

Accepted Answer

The answer of Identify and give the historical significance of...

Question 10

Tobacco plantations in the Chesapeake region:

Accepted Answer

A)  were so profitable that by the mid-eighteenth century their owners became the wealthiest people in British North America. 
B)  did not have any slaves on small farms. 
C)  helped make the Chesapeake colonies models of mercantilism. 
D)  were far less successful than tobacco plantations that developed in the lower southern colonies. 
E)  were known throughout the world as models of how slaves should be treated. 
A)  were so profitable that by the mid-eighteenth century their owners became the wealthiest people in British North America. 
B)  did not have any slaves on small farms. 
C)  helped make the Chesapeake colonies models of mercantilism. 
D)  were far less successful than tobacco plantations that developed in the lower southern colonies. 
E)  were known throughout the world as models of how slaves should be treated.

Question 11

Identify and give the historical significance of each of the following terms, events, and people in a paragraph or two.
-the Great Awakening

Accepted Answer

The answer of Identify and give the historical significance of...

Question 12

Recent scholarship has suggested that Olaudah Equiano may have been born in the New World rather than in Africa.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 13

Some contemporaries spoke of British America as a "rising empire" that would one day eclipse the mother country in population and wealth.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 14

Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
-Trenchard and Gordon

Accepted Answer

A) German-born printer of a colonial weekly journal 
B) Great Awakening preacher 
C) survived the Middle Passage 
D) founded the first mission in San Diego 
E) founder of Georgia
F)British prime minister
G)Ottawa war leader
H)wrote Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
I)English Enlightenment political philosopher
J)founder of the Junto, a club for mutual improvement
K)authors of Cato's Letters
L)victim of Zenger's pen 
A) German-born printer of a colonial weekly journal 
B) Great Awakening preacher 
C) survived the Middle Passage 
D) founded the first mission in San Diego 
E) founder of Georgia
F)British prime minister
G)Ottawa war leader
H)wrote Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
I)English Enlightenment political philosopher
J)founder of the Junto, a club for mutual improvement
K)authors of Cato's Letters
L)victim of Zenger's pen

Question 15

Identify and give the historical significance of each of the following terms, events, and people in a paragraph or two.
-Junípero Serra

Accepted Answer

The answer of Identify and give the historical significance of...

Question 16

As Europeans continued to settle the North American continent during the 1700s,Indians constantly struggled to maintain their independence and identities.Illustrate the common obstacles the Indian communities faced and the ways they tried to unite to overcome their hardships during the eighteenth century.Consider the Indians in California during the Spanish missionary period,the Creeks during the early settlement of Carolina,the Indians in Pennsylvania,and the Indians during and after the French and Indian War (including Pontiac's Rebellion).

Accepted Answer

The answer of As Europeans continued to settle the North...

Question 17

The British concept of liberty:

Accepted Answer

A)  allowed for unrestrained government authority, since restraints would contradict the very idea of liberty. 
B)  meant that liberty and power could be compatible. 
C)  was a constant reminder to the British that their governmental system was not the best means of preventing absolutism. 
D)  had no connections to how the British viewed their empire. 
E)  included both formal restraints on authority and a collection of specific rights. 
A)  allowed for unrestrained government authority, since restraints would contradict the very idea of liberty. 
B)  meant that liberty and power could be compatible. 
C)  was a constant reminder to the British that their governmental system was not the best means of preventing absolutism. 
D)  had no connections to how the British viewed their empire. 
E)  included both formal restraints on authority and a collection of specific rights.

Question 18

Who drafted the Albany Plan of Union?

Accepted Answer

A)  George Washington 
B)  Benjamin Franklin 
C)  William Pitt 
D)  John Peter Zenger 
E)  Thomas Jefferson 
A)  George Washington 
B)  Benjamin Franklin 
C)  William Pitt 
D)  John Peter Zenger 
E)  Thomas Jefferson

Question 19

Match the person or term with the with the correct description.
-James Oglethorpe

Accepted Answer

A) German-born printer of a colonial weekly journal 
B) Great Awakening preacher 
C) survived the Middle Passage 
D) founded the first mission in San Diego 
E) founder of Georgia
F)British prime minister
G)Ottawa war leader
H)wrote Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
I)English Enlightenment political philosopher
J)founder of the Junto, a club for mutual improvement
K)authors of Cato's Letters
L)victim of Zenger's pen 
A) German-born printer of a colonial weekly journal 
B) Great Awakening preacher 
C) survived the Middle Passage 
D) founded the first mission in San Diego 
E) founder of Georgia
F)British prime minister
G)Ottawa war leader
H)wrote Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
I)English Enlightenment political philosopher
J)founder of the Junto, a club for mutual improvement
K)authors of Cato's Letters
L)victim of Zenger's pen

Question 20

The French and Indian War began because some American colonists felt that:

Accepted Answer

A)  the Indians along the frontier finally had to be subdued. 
B)  France was encroaching on land claimed by the Ohio Company. 
C)  they had to aid the English, who were fighting Napoleon in Europe. 
D)  taxes were too high, so they solicited help from both the French and the Indians. 
E)  French Jesuits were converting too many Indians to Catholicism, endangering the Protestant majority on the North American continent. 
A)  the Indians along the frontier finally had to be subdued. 
B)  France was encroaching on land claimed by the Ohio Company. 
C)  they had to aid the English, who were fighting Napoleon in Europe. 
D)  taxes were too high, so they solicited help from both the French and the Indians. 
E)  French Jesuits were converting too many Indians to Catholicism, endangering the Protestant majority on the North American continent.

Exam 4: Slavery,Freedom,and the Struggle for Empire to 1763

What would be a good representation of Enlightenment principles?

The transatlantic slave trade was not a vital part of world commerce.

Identify and give the historical significance of each of the following terms, events, and people in a paragraph or two. -salutary neglect

Olaudah Equiano:

How did colonial politics compare with British politics?

Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -deference

Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -George Whitefield

Pontiac's Rebellion was an Indian revolt against British rule.

Identify and give the historical significance of each of the following terms, events, and people in a paragraph or two. -European Enlightenment

Tobacco plantations in the Chesapeake region:

Identify and give the historical significance of each of the following terms, events, and people in a paragraph or two. -the Great Awakening

Recent scholarship has suggested that Olaudah Equiano may have been born in the New World rather than in Africa.

Some contemporaries spoke of British America as a "rising empire" that would one day eclipse the mother country in population and wealth.

Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -Trenchard and Gordon

Identify and give the historical significance of each of the following terms, events, and people in a paragraph or two. -Junípero Serra

The British concept of liberty:

Who drafted the Albany Plan of Union?

Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -James Oglethorpe

The French and Indian War began because some American colonists felt that:

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