Exam 4: Provincial America and the Struggle for a Continent

Benjamin Franklin's profession was as a

The possession of a(n)____________________ gave Africans real protection against malaria.

____________________,governor of Massachusetts from 1741-1756,used military and judicial appointment to establish a majority in the colonial assembly.

The concept that a wife's legal existence was "covered" by her husband and that he alone could make binding choices was called ____________________.

Even the poorest colonial families refused to accept English social norms.

Political factions were most likely to develop in the

IDENTIFICATIONS -Redemptioners

The "country" constitutions of the southern colonies relied on elaborate royal patronage to achieve political stability.

By 1750,the richest men in British North America were

Colonial slaves considered the nation of ____________________ as the best hope for their liberty.

IDENTIFICATIONS -George Whitefield

____________________ was the pidgin African language that is the basis of modern black English.

In Virginia and South Carolina,the ____________________ was developed as a political system of ritualized mutual flattery between the governor and colonial assembly.

The author of A Faithful Narrative of the Surprising Work of God was

Colonists usually viewed men who held positions of power as

The rise of which profession helped to spread the Enlightenment?

In 1775,Boston was the largest city in the colonies.

The Great Awakening of the 1740s refers to

____________________ was the governor of Georgia who invaded Florida in 1740 in retaliation to a dispute with Spanish authorities.

William Pitt,who became Britain's war minister in 1757,believed that coercion was the only way to deal with the colonies.