Exam 4: Provincial America and the Struggle for a Continent, 1720-1763

Zabdiel Boylston

The Mid-Atlantic colonies were pluralistic societies from the start.

When the British fought the Spanish and French in the era 1740 to 1763, most slaves and eastern land Indians

During the course of the eighteenth century, those who held high political office increasingly came from the lower social status.

The task system was practiced by Carolina rice planters.

In the 1759 siege of Quebec, British General ____ was killed along with his French counterpart, General Montcalm.

The Mohawks' Chief ____________________ declared the Covenant Chain between New York and the Iroquois League broken due to the blatant encroachments of New Yorkers on Mohawk lands.

The most prosperous family farms in colonial America were found in

By 1750, the richest men in British North America were

Baptists and Methodists expected their ministers to attend college.

Native American villages outside the French alliance were called ____________________ by the French.

Many Chesapeake planters turned to wheat as a second crop.

After taking over the ____________________ in 1729, Benjamin Franklin turned it into the best-edited and most widely read newspaper in America.

Describe the Enlightenment and its impact and reception in North America.

Benjamin Franklin's "Snake Cartoon" was meant to stress unity among the colonies during the French and Indian War.

The Shepherd's Tent in New London to train awakened preachers was founded by

Of the mainland colonies, only ____________________ did not have already a strong assembly when the first royal governors arrived.

Describe the outbreak of the French and Indian War.

The War of Jenkins's Ear was fought between the

The Cherokee were the only Native Americans to openly welcome the British settlers into the backcountry.